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Blindness. Used metaphorically to describe the state of man by nature under the influence of Satan, 2 Cor. 4:4; also a professing Christian who hates his brother, 1 John 2:11; also the state of Israel in their heartless profession, Matt. 23:16-26; and the judicial blindness on Israel. John 12:40. In Rom. 11:7, 25; 2 Cor. 3:14; Eph. 4:18, it is rather 'obdurateness or hardness,' from πωρόω,'to harden.'