Hardened-heart imagery uses hard heart, stiff neck, iron sinew, adamant stone, or seared conscience language to picture stubborn moral resistance to God’s word.
Hardened-heart imagery uses hard heart, stiff neck, iron sinew, adamant stone, or seared conscience language to picture stubborn moral resistance to God’s word.
A moral-resistance motif in which hardening, stiff-neckedness, iron sinew, adamant stone, dull heart, or seared conscience language signifies stubborn unbelief, covenant rebellion, judicial hardening, or conscience damaged by hypocrisy.
These examples show how Hardened Heart, Stiff Neck, and Seared Conscience Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
he hardened Pharaoh’s heart
Hardened-heart imagery introduces Pharaoh’s resistance within God’s judgment purposes.
he hardened his heart
Pharaoh’s self-hardening depicts stubborn refusal after relief from judgment.
be no more stiffnecked
Stiff-neck imagery calls Israel to stop resisting the LORD like an unyielding animal.
stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart
Stiff neck and hard heart combine to portray royal rebellion against the LORD.
Harden not your heart
Hard-heart language warns worshipers not to repeat wilderness unbelief.
he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief
Hardened-heart imagery contrasts reverent fear with stubborn disaster.
thy neck is an iron sinew
Iron-neck imagery exposes Israel’s obstinate resistance.
they made their hearts as an adamant stone
Adamant-stone imagery pictures refusal to hear the law and prophetic words.
the hardness of their hearts
Hardness imagery describes hostile resistance to mercy and Sabbath truth.
conscience seared with a hot iron
Seared-conscience imagery portrays moral insensibility caused by hypocritical falsehood.
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