...sorrows, they grope, at a venture, after the path of life ; but grope, alas ! in vain ; " having the understanding darkened ; being alienated from the...in them, because of the blindness of their heart." (Eph. iv. 18.) Of this intellectual darkness the inseparable companion is an erring conscience. Although...

...to the interesting science of divinity. In their case, that apostolical saying is true, " Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from 'the...that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts." Eph. 4. 18. As they do not love to retain God in their knowledge, they rack their minds to...

...such souls, says, that they "have their understandings darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts," Eph. iv. 18. On this account, the same holy apostle exhorts us, in the most pressing manner,...

...darkness of the understanding to the blindness of the heart. He represents all unrenewed men, " as having their understanding darkened, being alienated from...in them, because of the blindness of their heart" While sinners" remain under the entire dominion of a wicked heart, they are altogether blind to the...

...the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life...is in them, because of the blindness of their heart : who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness...

...from the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as the unconverted Gentiles walk, in TEXT. 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life...is in them, because of the blindness of their heart : 1 9 Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness...

.... A dreadful sound is in his ears : in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.— Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life...in them, because of the blindness of their heart.- But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt....

...Gentiles is thus described, Eph. ir. 17—19, As walking in the vanity of tlieir miuds, having the understanding darkened, " being alienated from the...that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts, who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lascivionsoess, to work all uncleanness...

...the edification of itself in love. 316 s1r gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life...God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart: 19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lasciviousness,...

...represents sinners, "as having their understand ing darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart." It appears from these passages oi scripture, that the peculiar ignorance of sinners, in respect to...