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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: ἀμετανόητος

(Strong's #279 — Adjective — ametanoetos — am-et-an-o'-ay-tos )

lit., "without change of mind" (a, negative, metanoeo, "to change one's mind," meta, signifying "change," nous, "the mind"), is used in Romans 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 Romans 11:29 ," "without repentance."

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Impenitent'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​i/impenitent.html. 1940.
 
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