Verse 2
‘Through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded (or ‘seared’) in their own conscience as with a hot iron,’
The ‘seducing spirits and doctrines of demons’ come through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies. The reason that they have believed lies is because they are hypocrites, that is because their hearts are not genuine. Paul is not pulling his punches. It is as though their consciences have been cauterised from truth with a hot iron. Or alternatively the idea may be that because of their lying words their conscience has been branded with the word ‘Liar’. They have been branded as slaves of sin because of their spiritual dishonesty.
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