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English term or phrase:
press our sins, and lay them heavy upon the heart
English answer:
exert pressure on our sins and feel them as heavy burdens on our hearts
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Yvonne Gallagher
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English term
press our sins, and lay them heavy upon the heart
English
Art/Literary
Religion
Christian meditation
Serious meditation of our sins by the Word is a special means to make men repent. Meditation is a settled exercise of the mind for a further inquiry of the truth. Four things in meditation —
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4. It labours to affect the heart. Meditation musters up all weapons, and gathers all forces of arguments for to ***press our sins, and lay them heavy upon the heart***. Meditation, having bundled up all items against the soul, and brought in all hills of account, fastens sin upon the soul, makes the soul feel it, so that it must needs be convinced without any evasion. It is with the Word as it is with a salve. II a man have ever so good a salve, it will not heal if it be constantly taken on and off. Only if it be let lie on will the salve heal the wound.
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/fenner/the_use_and_benefit...
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4. It labours to affect the heart. Meditation musters up all weapons, and gathers all forces of arguments for to ***press our sins, and lay them heavy upon the heart***. Meditation, having bundled up all items against the soul, and brought in all hills of account, fastens sin upon the soul, makes the soul feel it, so that it must needs be convinced without any evasion. It is with the Word as it is with a salve. II a man have ever so good a salve, it will not heal if it be constantly taken on and off. Only if it be let lie on will the salve heal the wound.
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/fenner/the_use_and_benefit...
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Yvonne Gallagher
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English
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Ireland
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Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK) 
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exert pressure on our sins and feel them as heavy burdens on our hearts
Some commentators would say "fasten the sins upon the soul" = attach them but you could also say IMPRESS (Stamp) them on the soul so that you can really feel them and examine them in order to consider our ways of living and avoid sinning and temptation to sin
The sins are burdens you must be able to feel so that you can do something about them
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/press
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Note added at 33 mins (2021-05-11 10:32:36 GMT)
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"press" can also be read as "suppress" exert pressure to vanquish or stamp our our sins
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Note added at 34 mins (2021-05-11 10:34:01 GMT)
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"stamp out"= crush/subdue
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Note added at 3 days 2 hrs (2021-05-14 12:20:54 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to have helped
The sins are burdens you must be able to feel so that you can do something about them
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/press
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Note added at 33 mins (2021-05-11 10:32:36 GMT)
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"press" can also be read as "suppress" exert pressure to vanquish or stamp our our sins
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Note added at 34 mins (2021-05-11 10:34:01 GMT)
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"stamp out"= crush/subdue
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Note added at 3 days 2 hrs (2021-05-14 12:20:54 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to have helped
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Robert Forstag
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United States
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Native in: English
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English term (edited):
to press our sins, and lay them heavy upon the heart
to make it impossible for us to avoid awareness of our sins
Plainly and simply, and without merely repeating the language of the original, this is what the words mean.
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Inescapably bring to mind our sins so that we deeply grasp their gravity
Set the burden of sin on our hearts so that true conviction lets us feel and know our offenses.
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AllegroTrans
: Whilst this is not wrong I don't think it's the basic explanation wanted by the asker, who is not a native EN-speaker
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Yvonne Gallagher
: I have to agree with AT. Asker is looking for a full explanation to help her translate out of English
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