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The Greek is ἄθεος, lit. 'without God,' and so translated in Eph. 2:
12. It is used as a description of Gentiles as such by nature, and true of all the heathen world in their ignorance of God: not, as the term is now used, namely, one who wilfully refuses to acknowledge God's
existence.