Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Romans 1:26
Into that which is against nature— Many horrible illustrations of this may be seen in Bos's Exercitations on the place.
Into that which is against nature— Many horrible illustrations of this may be seen in Bos's Exercitations on the place.
Verse 26. _FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP_, c.] Their system of idolatry necessarily produced all kinds of _impurity_. How could it be otherwise, when the highest objects of their worship were adult...
FOR THIS CAUSE - On account of what had just been specified; to wit, that they did not glorify him as God, that they were unthankful, that they became polytheists and idolaters. In the previous verses...
2. THE NEED OF SALVATION DEMONSTRATED. The Whole World Guilty and Lost. Chapter 1:18-3:20. CHAPTER 1:18-32. _ 1. Wrath Revealed from Heaven. 18._ 2. Gentile Knowledge of God. 19-20. 3. Turning f...
Mankind is in a ruinous plight: GOD'S ANGER, which is His righteousness reacting against wrong, rests upon the race. ROMANS 1:18_ A_. The Divine wrath is being revealed from heaven in action against...
A CALL, A GOSPEL AND A TASK (Romans 1:1-7)...
Because of this God abandoned them to dishonourable passions, for their women exchanged the natural relationship, for the relationship which is against nature; and so did the men, for they gave up the...
FOR THIS CAUSE. Because of (App-104.Romans 1:2; Romans 1:2) this. VILE AFFECTIONS. passions of infamy (Greek. _atimia._ Here, Romans 9:21;...
_For this cause_ Resuming Romans 1:24. _vile affections_ Lit. PASSIONS OF DISGRACE; stamped with essential degradation. (Far different is the Greek, where (in E. V.) the same word "vile" appears, in P...
ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ. Wilful rejection of GOD’S self-revelation undermines self-respect, purity, and the whole sphere of duty. ΠΆΘΗ�. The gen. is descriptive—shameful passion. The thought of misuse is included...
Romans 1:18-32. (18) This power and condition revealed in the Gospel meets the need of man; for in the actual state of man we can see that his life lies under GOD’s wrath. Man has by unrighteous actio...
ΔΙΑ ΤΟΎΤΟ (G1223; G3778) по этой причине, приводит причину описанного далее суда. ΠΑΡΈΔΩΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΔΊΩΜΙ (G3860) обращаться к кому-л. (_см._ Romans 1:24). ΠΆΘΟΣ (G3806) страсть или...
_TEXT_ Romans 1:26-32. For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: Romans 1:27 and likewise also the men, leaving the...
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP (SEE THE NOTE AT ROMANS 1:24...
_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_ 25 There may be an allusion here to the prevalent custom of worshiping the Roman emperor. It has often occurred that, when men have attained to great eminence, they have dema...
AFFECTIONS] RV 'passions.'...
THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL AND THE NEED OF THE WORLD. THE GUILT OF THE HEATHEN In his salutation the apostle emphasises his commission, and the greatness of the Person whose servant he is and who is the...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ABOUT THE FIRST CHRISTIANS IN ROME Rome was the most important city in the world at the tim...
(24-32) Hence they fell into a still lower depth; for, in anger at their perversion of the truth, God refrained from checking their downward course. He left them to follow their own evil bent. Their i...
CHAPTER 5 MAN GIVEN UP TO HIS OWN WAY: THE HEATHEN Romans 1:24 WHEREFORE God gave them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, so as to dishonour their bodies among themselves. There is...
f. With the second παρέδωκεν the Apostle proceeds to a further stage in this judicial abandonment of men, which is at the same time a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against them. It issues...
FROM GROSS SINS OF THE FLESH Romans 1:24 Few men knew as much as did Paul of the unutterableness of human need. In terrible words he enumerates its various aspects. Truth would enter human hearts fro...
Bringing the first and seventh verses together, we find the called apostle writing to the called saints. As for himself, Paul declared, first, that he was debtor, because a gift had been bestowed on...
_God delivered them up. Not by being author of their sins, but by withdrawing his grace, and so permitting them, in punishment of their pride, to fall into those shameful sins. (Challoner)_...
“ _For this cause God gave them up unto dishonoring passions: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of t...
FOURTH PASSAGE (1:18-32). THE WRATH OF GOD ON THE GENTILES. According to Paul's usual style, the first verse contains summarily all the ideas developed in the following piece. The study of the verse...
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; (19) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them;...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
26._God therefore gave them up_, _etc. _After having introduced as it were an intervening clause, he returns to what he had before stated respecting the judgment of God: and he brings, as the first ex...
There is no epistle in which the apostle places his apostleship on more positive and formal ground than in this; for at Rome he had no claim in virtue of his labours. He had never seen the Romans. He...
FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP UNTO VILE AFFECTIONS,.... Because of their idolatrous practices, God left them to very dishonourable actions, sodomitical ones, both among the men and women: FOR EVEN...
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: Ver. 26. _Into that which is against nature_] So against natur...
_For this cause_ To punish them for their inexcusable neglect, or contempt rather, of the ever-blessed God; and for all their idolatries and impieties; _God gave them up unto vile affections_ Abandone...
THIS CAUSE; because of their wickedness in not worshipping him and in worshipping idols....
The depths of immorality and godlessness:...
FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP INTO VILE AFFECTIONS; FOR EVEN THEIR WOMEN DID CHANGE THE NATURAL USE INTO THAT WHICH IS AGAINST NATURE;...
The salutation (unusually long) occupies seven verses, - laying down distinctly, as it does, the complete foundation of that Gospel of which Paul was a messenger - thus introducing him with the Gospel...
ROMANS 1:26-32 1. What is the basic problem of man as Paul sees it in chapter one? a. Is it idolatry? b. Failure to worship God? c. Something more basic? 2. Which sin really came first? a. Fooli...
__ Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 'Vile passions' -passions that proceed out of. diseased...
26-32 In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's words was shown: "Light was come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he...
OLBGrk; FOR THIS CAUSE; i.e. for their idolatry and uncleanness both, for now their idolatry is aggravated by the uncleanness accompanying it. VILE AFFECTIONS; Gr. affections of dishonour, i.e. the mo...
For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature :...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II amorem puerorum repellens, eum appellate bestiam, quod frenum mordentes, qui se voluptatibus dedunt, libidinosi, quadrupedum coeunt more, et filios semina...
Romans 1:26 For G1223 this G5124 God G2316 gave G3860 them G846 up G3860 (G5656) to G1519 vile...
‘For this reason God gave them up to vile passions, for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature,' Thus it was as a result of idolatrous worship, and what accompanied it,...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF KNOWING GOD BUT REFUSING TO COUNTENANCE HIM AS GOD (1:26-27). As a result of worshipping ‘suggestive' images which over-exaggerated the sexual parts, and indulging in nature worsh...
DOCTRINAL PART. 1. UNIVERSAL NEED. Having asserted that the gospel is God's power unto salvation to every one that believeth, whether Jew or Greek, the Apostle proceeds to show that all men are sinne...
1. THE SINFULNESS OF THE GENTILES. This fearful yet truthful description of the moral decay of the Gentile world is not introduced abruptly. In Romans 1:17 the Apostle had declared that righteousness...
Romans 1:26. FOR THIS CAUSE; namely, because of the apostasy described in Romans 1:25. But as that passage repeats in another form the thought of Romans 1:23, so this verse takes up anew the thought o...
UNTO VILE PASSIONS (εις παθη ατιμιας). Unto passions of dishonour. Παθος, old word from πασχω, to experience, originally meant any feeling whether good or bad, but in N.T. always in bad sense as her...
Romans 1:18 The Natural History of Paganism. I. St. Paul's first proposition is, that from the first the heathen knew enough of God from His works to render them without excuse for not worshipping H...
CONTENTS: Words of comfort to the church at Rome. The universe a revelation of the power and deity of God. The deplorable condition of a lost world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul. CONCLUSION: God has...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,_ in the sense he himself illustrates to the Corinthians. Ye are not your own; ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your s...
BECAUSE MEN DO THIS. That is, because men make themselves and others blind to Truth. EVEN THE WOMEN. They committed unnatural acts (such as lesbianism) with _other women._ IN THE SAME WAY THE MEN. The...
_For this cause God gave them up to vile affections._ HUMAN DEPRAVITY I. The cause of all this gross ignorance and corruption is assigned in Romans 1:28. “They did not like to retain God in their kn...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:26 Not only homosexual acts but also homosexual PASSIONS or desires are DISHONORABLE before God. Just as idolatry is unnatural (contrary to what God intended), so too homosexua...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 1:22.—Here begins a dark picture of heathenism, but fully verified from the writings of what has been called the most brilliant age of the most intellectual nations of the worl...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 1:1 I. INTRODUCTORY. ROMANS 1:1 A. _Salutation_ with long interposed parenthesis, suggested by "gospel of God." The parenthesis, expressing thoughts of which the writer's mind is...
This time let us turn in our Bibles to Romans, chapter 1. Paul opens his epistle to the Romans declaring: Paul, a bond slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God...
1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10; Deuteronomy 23:17; Deuteronomy 23:18;...
Therefore God gave them up to vile affections — To which the heathen Romans were then abandoned to the last degree; and none more than the emperors themselves....
Does this verse mean that homosexuals should not be heterosexual because it is unnatural to them? PROBLEM: According to some homosexuals, when Paul spoke against what is “unnatural” in Romans 1:26, he...