Sear
Sear
occurs in Scripture only in the rendering of the word to brand (“sear with a hot iron”), in a tropical sense of the conscience (1Ti 4:2). To sear the flesh is to cauterize or burn it, and thus deprive it of the power of sensation. In 1Ti 4:2 the term denotes the effect of habitual sin, by which the conscience becomes so stupefied as to be insensible to the most enormous guilt and the most fearful threatenings of punishment. See burning.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Sear
ser: In 1Ti 4:2 for (, kausteriazo), burn with a hot iron (compare cauterize), the King James Version having their conscience seared with a hot iron, and the Revised Version margin. Seared in this connection means made insensible, like the surface of a deep burn after healing. The verb, however, probably means brand (so the Revised Version (British and American)). Criminals are branded on their forehead, so that all men may know their infamy. The consciences of certain men are branded just as truly, so that there is an inward consciousness of hypocrisy. See the commentaries