Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Romans 1:23
And changed the glory of the (h) uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
(h) For the true God they substituted another.
And changed the glory of the (h) uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
(h) For the true God they substituted another.
Verse 23. _THEY CHANGED THE GLORY_, c.] The finest representation of their deities was in the _human_ figure and on such representative figures the sculptors spent all their skill; hence the HERCULES...
AND CHANGED - This does not mean that they literally “transmuted” God himself; but that in their views they exchanged him; or they changed him “as an object of worship” for idols. They produced, of co...
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CHANGED. Greek. _allasso._ see Acts 6:14. GLORY. Greek. _doxa._ See p. 1511. UNCORRUPTIBLE. Greek. _aphthartos._ Here; 1 Corinthians 9:25; 1 Corinthians 15:52. 1Ti 1:17....
_into an image made like to_ Lit. IN THE RESEMBLANCE OF THE LIKENESS OF; i.e. "_so as to appear in_a form like man, bird, beast, snake, and insect." Deity, and its prerogatives, were so degraded as to...
ἬΛΛΑΞΑΝ. Cf. Psalms 106 (105) 20; cf. _infra_ 25. The consequence of their false conception is a false religion, substituting inferior objects of worship for the one true object. The construction is a...
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...
ΉΛΛΑΞΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΛΛΆΣΣΩ (G236) обмениваться. Они поменяли одно на другое (Hodge), ΔΌΞΑ (G1391) слава, великолепие, величие (TDNT; TLNT; EDNT). Речь идет о проявлении величия Бога (Cranfie...
AND CHANGED THE GLORY— As their folly was evident in a variety of other vices, in which the philosophers of heathen nations joined with the people in general, so, particularly, in the early and almost...
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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. AND CHANGED THE GLORY OF THE UNCORRUPTIBLE GOD I...
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CHANGED] i.e. exchanged. GLORY] i.e. the manifested power and goodness of God. INTO] RV 'for.' MAN] as in Greece and Rome, where even immorality was ascribed to the gods. BIRDS, etc.] as in Egypt....
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INTO AN IMAGE MADE LIKE TO. — _For the likeness of the image of mortal man._ This anthropomorphism applies more especially to the religions of Greece and Rome. Representations of the Deity under the f...
Relying upon their own wisdom, they wandered further and further from true wisdom, falling into the contradiction of supposing that the eternal and immutable Essence of God could be represented by the...
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“ _Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of corruptible man, and of birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things....
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...
23._And changed_, _etc. _Having feigned such a God as they could comprehend according to their carnal reason, they were very far from acknowledging the true God: but devised a fictitious and a new god...
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...
AND CHANGED THE GLORY OF THE INCORRUPTIBLE GOD,.... God is incorruptible and immortal in his nature, and so is opposed to all corruptible creatures and things: he has a glory which is essential to him...
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Ver. 23. _Made like to corruptible man_] God made...
_“Because that when they knew God_ The writings of Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, Cicero, and other philosophers, which still remain, together with the quotations made by Just. Martyr and Clem. Alexandrin...
CHANGED; exchanged the one only living and true God for images of birds, beasts, and reptiles. The doing of what persons know to be wrong blinds their minds, hardens their hearts, and makes them more...
The result of deliberate folly:...
AND CHANGED THE GLORY OF THE UNCORRUPTIBLE GOD IN TO AN IMAGE MADE LIKE TO CORRUPTIBLE MAN, AND TO BIRDS, AND FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS, AND CREEPING THINGS....
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...
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__ Romans 1:23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. The end result of 'human wisd...
18-25 The apostle begins to show that all mankind need the salvation of the gospel, because none could obtain the favour of God, or escape his wrath by their own works. For no man can plead that he h...
CHANGED THE GLORY OF THE UNCORRUPTIBLE GOD; you have the same phrase, PSALMS 106:20 JEREMIAH 2:11; and from thence it is borrowed. INTO AN IMAGE MADE LIKE TO CORRUPTIBLE MAN, &C.: the apostle proeeede...
and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. [Vaunting their wisdom, these wicked ones mad...
Origen Against Celsus Book VII Thus we may see how those who accounted themselves wise gave proofs of great folly, when, alter such grand arguments delivered in the schools on God and on things appre...
Romans 1:23 and G2532 changed G236 (G5656) glory G1391 incorruptible G862 God G2316 into G1722 image G1504 like...
‘And changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.' So by setting up his idols man changed the...
MAN'S REBELLION AGAINST GOD COMES TO ITS INEVITABLE FRUITION (1:21-25). Paul now demonstrates how man's refusal to know God results in man's fall into gross sin. We have already been told about the un...
Romans 1:23. AND CHANGED. Comp. the strikingly similar passage, Psalms 106:20. ‘Exchanged' is the meaning, as in Romans 1:25, where, however, a stronger word is used. THE GLORY, etc. God's majesty, p...
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Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures.)_ Paul had not seen the R...
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...
INSTEAD OF WORSHIPING THE IMMORTAL GOD. Nature clearly shows there is an immortal God who is the Creator. When they made themselves _blind_ to God, they began worshiping false gods and made images of...
_Who changed the truth of God into a lie._ THE TRUTH OF GOD EXCHANGED INTO A LIE ἐν, signifies the workshop, or matrix, where the exchange took place. Everything, of course, effected in and coming o...
_Professing themselves to be wise they became fools._ THE FOLLIES OF THE WISE Futility of thought has reached the character of folly. What, in fact, is polytheism, except a sort of permanent hallucin...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:23 Idolatry is the most basic sin. In addition to the IMAGES housed in great temples, Roman families commonly kept images of “house gods” in their homes. People today still dev...
_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 12:2; 1 Peter 4:3; Acts 17:29; Deuteronomy 4:15;...
And changed — With the utmost folly. Here are three degrees of ungodliness and of punishment: the first is described, Romans 1:21; the second, Romans 1:25; the third, in Romans 1:28, and following ver...