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Ephesians 4:19

Ephesians 4:19
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Who being past feeling,.... Their consciences being cauterized or seared as with a red hot iron, which is the consequence of judicial hardness; so that they have lost all sense of sin, and do not feel…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Who being past feeling - Wholly hardened in sin. There is a total want of all emotion on moral subjects. This is an accurate description of the state of a sinner. He has no “feeling,” no emotion. He…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

5. Who being past feeling - Οιτινες απηλγηκοτες. The verb απαλγειν signifies,

1. To throw off all sense of shame, and to be utterly devoid of pain, for committing unrighteous acts.

2. To be desperate,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ephesians 4:17-32

The apostle having gone through his exhortation to mutual love, unity, and concord, in the foregoing verses, there follows in these an exhortation to Christian purity and holiness of heart and life,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

who being past feeling The Gr. relative pronoun indicates a certain conditionality; almost as if it were, "as being thosewho." But the shade is too slight for translation. "Past feeling" :lit.,…