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Ephesians 4:18

James Moffatt - New Testament

their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them —

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For the heart of this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them.

not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God —

(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

Once you were estranged yourselves, your hearts hostile to him in evildoing; but now he has reconciled you by dying in his mortal body,

but he who hates his brother is in darkness, he walks in darkness and does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes.

In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all;

To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper,

Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.

and are persuaded that you are a guide to the blind, a light to darkened souls,

Then glancing round him in anger and vexation at their obstinacy he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and his hand was quite restored.

Besides, their minds were dulled, for to this very day, when the Old Testament is read aloud, the same veil hangs. Veiled from them the fact that the glory fades in Christ!

Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers —

Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it —

None of the Powers of this world understands it (if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory).

And as with us so with you. You were dead in the trespasses and sins

can deal gently with those who err through ignorance, since he himself is beset with weakness —

but the second tent is entered only once a year by the high priest alone — and it must not be without blood, which he presents on behalf of himself and the errors of the People.

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;




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