Ephesians 4:18
cHaving the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through dthe ignorance that is in them, because of the 7blindness of their heart:
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
ἐσκοτισμένοι τῇ διανοίᾳ, ὄντες ἀπηλλοτριωμένοι τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ διὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν τὴν οὖσαν ἐν αὐτοῖς, διὰ τὴν πώρωσιν τῆς καρδίας αὐτῶν·
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c:
Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Galatians 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Ephesians 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
1 Thessalonians 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
d:
Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
1 Peter 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
7:
Or, hardness.
the mind as reasoning and discoursing, and so their ratiocinations and discourses themselves.
as to spiritual things.
not only strangers to it, (for so are those creatures which are not capable of it), but estranged from it; implying, that in Adam originally they were not so.
a spiritual life; that life which God commands, and approves, and whereby God lives in believers, and they live in him, Gal 2:19,20; and that both as to the principle of life, and the operations of it.
that ignorance which is naturally in them is the cause of their alienation from the life of God, which begins in light and knowledge.
or rather hardness: the Greek word signifies a callum or brawniness in the flesh, which is usual in the hands of labourers. Either this is set down as another cause of their estrangement from the life of God, or as the cause of their ignorance, which, though in part it be natural to them, yet is increased to further degrees by their own hardness and obstinacy, shutting their eyes voluntarily against the light.