Ephesians 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them… But there is another sort of ignorance which is not an ignorance of an empty understanding, but of a depraved heart; such an ignorance as does not only consist in a bare privation, but in a corrupt disposition; where the understanding is like that sort of blind serpents, whose blindness is attended with much venom and malignity. This was such a blindness as struck the Sodomites; there was darkness in their eyes, and withal villany in their hearts. (Dr. South.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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: |
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