Ex. V, 2. And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
Job XXI, 14. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Jer. V, 23. But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
Rom. I, 28. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29. Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30. Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31. Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32. Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
(2.) The understanding darkened.
Deut. XXXII, 18. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.