Day 3964 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.
Acts 28:27 NIV A resilient resistance Such is what allows for the formation of a callous heart otherwise defined as a hardened heart, as is indeed quite the same as the hardened hands which themselves are referred to being as such thanks to the calluses which form upon them. Callus and callous are in basically every way the exact same thing, even down to being all but identical in spelling, in formation, in feeling even. For both are formed due to repeated friction, pressure or irritation which inspires the flesh involved to harden itself so as to in a way protect itself. A protection sought from that which it understands as posing risk of further injury, pain or similar misery. Problem is that the difference is that a callus you can see, you can feel, you can run your fingertips along the inside of a human hand and feel the hardened, slightly bumpy and/or rough patches that have built up into this toughened exterior due to the years of such manual labor as lifting heavy loads or sweep...