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Often including the intellect as well as the affections and will; as conversely the "mind" often includes the feeling and will as well as the intellect. , "their foolish heart was darkened." , "the eyes of your understanding (the Vaticanus manuscript; but the Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus manuscripts 'heart') being enlightened." Thus, the Scripture implies that the heart and the head act and react on one another; and in men's unbelief it is the will that perverts the intellectual perceptions. , "if any man be willing to (Greek) do, he shall know." "Willingness to obey" is the key to spiritual knowledge. See ; , "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart," i.e. "moral understanding".