Necked
A stiff-necked people. Obstinate and self-willed. In the
Psalms we read, “Speak not with a stiff
neck” (lxxv. 5); and in Jeremiah xvii. 23, “They obeyed not, but
made their necks stiff;” and Isaiah (xlviii. 4) says, “Thy neck is an
iron sinew.” The allusion is to a wilful horse, ox, or ass, which will
not answer to the reins.
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