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Impenitent

Impenitent lit., "without change of mind" (a, negative, metanoeo, "to change one's mind," meta, signifying "change," nous, "the mind"), is used in Rom 2:5, "impenitent" (or "unrepentant"). Moulton and Milligan...

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Impenitent <1,,279, ametanoetos>

lit., "without change of mind" (a, negative, metanoeo, "to change one's mind," meta, signifying "change," nous, "the mind"), is used in Rom 2:5, "impenitent" (or "unrepentant"). Moulton and Milligan show from the papyri writings that the word is also used "in a Passive sense, 'not affected by change of mind,' like ametameletos in Rom 11:29," "without repentance."

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