IGNORANCE

IGNORANCE. → General scriptures concerning Job 8:9; 11:7,8,12; 28:12,13,20,21; 36:26,29; 37:5,15,16,19,23; Ps 139:6; Pr 7:6-23; 8:5; 9:14-18; 19:2; 20:24; 22:3; 27:1,12; 30:4; Ec 3:11; 6:11,12; 7:23,24; 8:6,7,17; 9:12; 11:5; Jer 10:23; Joh 13:7; Ac 1:7; 17:23,30; Ro 8:24-26; 1Co 2:7-10; 3:19; 13:9,12; Jas 1:5,6 → See KNOWLEDGE → See WISDOM → SINS OF Ge 20:1-7; Le 4:1-35; 5:4-19; 22:14; Nu 15:22-29; Eze 3:18; 33:6,8; 45:20; Ho 4:6; Lu 12:48; 23:34; Joh 16:2; Ac 3:14,15,17; 1Co 2:8; Ga 1:13-16; Eph 4:18,19; 1Ti 1:12,13 → INSTANCES OF PUNISHMENT OF SINS OF
* Pharaoh Ge 12:11-17
* Abimelech Ge 20:1-18

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ignorance. Ignorance, n. want of knowledge, unskillfulness

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Ig″no‐rance (?), n. [[F., fr. L. ignorantia.]] 1. 1. The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.
Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak. 2. 2. (Theol.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. Book of Common Prayer.
Invincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God.