When the claims of God are revealed to the mind, it must necessarily yield to them, or strengthen itself in sin. It must, as it were, gird itself up, and struggle to resist the claims of duty. This strengthening self in sin under light is the particular form of sin which we call impenitence.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "When the claims of God are revealed to the mind, it must necessarily yield to them, or strengthen itself in sin. It must, as it were, gird itself up, and struggle to resist the claims of duty. This strengthening self in sin under light is the particular form of sin which we call impenitence." in the context of "Charles Grandison Finney, Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878), p. 369" to mean that wisdom is timeless.