(only in Rom. 2:5) means impenitent. For all that, the change of words has not merely intellectualized the concept of šûḇh. In fact the predominantly intellectual understanding of metanoia as change of mind plays very little part in the NT. Rather the decision by the whole man to turn round is stressed. It is clear that we are concerned neither with a purely outward turning nor with a merely intellectual change of ideas. 2. The closest link with the prophetic call to repentance is undoubtedly found