...the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments." Eph. iv. 1 8, "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated...ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness, hardness, callousness, (TW{W(7;y) of their heart." Answer 2. As this is agreeable to the word of God,...

...for darkness; sweet for bitter, and bitter " for sweet." The sacred writers speak of the Gentiles, as having " the understanding darkened, being alienated...God, through the ignorance that is in " them, because of the hardness of their hearts; who, " being past feeling, have given themselves over unto " lasciviousness,...

...neither discern the way of salvation, nor the path of duty. They are "alienated from the life of God " through the ignorance that is in them, because " of the blindness of their heart." The Christian believer is made sensible both of the objective and subjective darkness in which the...

...apostle— All the gentiles had their " understanding darkened, being aliena*6 ted from the life of God, through the " ignorance that is in them, because of " the blindness of their heart." To man in this state of ignorance, what could be so suitable as a prophet ? And what pr«phet like...

...this charge, brought against the Gentiles in general, that they " walk in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated...in them, because of the blindness of their heart;" and that " being past feeling, they have given themselves over unto lasciviousnesa, to work all uncleauneas...

...knowledge, after the image of him that created him :" the devil's image is blindness and ignorance; " Having the understanding darkened, being alienated...in them, because of the blindness of their heart." God's image is created in true holiness, Eph. iv. 24; the devil's image is nothing but sin. God's image...

...effects of the fall are also described in this manner. " There is no light in them." fia. viii. 20. " Having the understanding darkened, being alienated...in them, because of the blindness of their heart." Efh. iv. 8. " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; for they are foolishness...

...in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as '* other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds, .* having the understanding darkened, being alienated...in them : because of the blindness of their heart : ' Who being past feeling, have given themselves .over * to lasciviousness, to work uncleanness witn...

...and utterly expire at last. Whatever this life in Adam was, it is expressly called the life of God : Having the understanding darkened, being alienated...that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts," Eph, iv. 18. This life in Adam was spiritual and divine; the Holy Ghost entered into him,...

...Gentiles in general. They became vain in their imaginations, and their Joolish heart was darkened. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated...God, through the ignorance that is in them, because' of the blinancss of their heart."\ And he asserts the same of the Jews. That their blindness, respecting...