Amen. Sin is indeed the consequence of this abandonment, but the only cause of it is human perversity. They themselves furnish the materials of their own punishment, and are at the cost of it. Wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness. As they again prevail even among Christians, wherever this apostasy spreads through unbelief, they must verify even in Christendom their heathen nature, and, along with the likewise essentially heathen πλεονεξία, pre-eminently exclude from the salvation of the Messiah (Ephesians 5:5 f.; Colossians 3:5; 1 Corinthians 6:9 f.). (Juvenal. Если люди постоянно отступают от Бога, то и Он отступается от них (ср. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves, Wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness. Поелику же гнев Господень всегда праведен, отсюда следует, что ему предшествовало то, что и сделало их достойными осуждения. God, for these ends, still preserved among them some common rectitude, and certain bonds of humanity. Соединяя же похоти человеческого сердца с нечистотой, апостол намекает на то, какие порождения производит сердце наше, ежели однажды предоставить его собственному произволу. Wherefore God also gave them up— There are three degrees of ungodliness and of punishment described in these verses: the first in Romans 1:21-24.; the second in Romans 1:25-27.; the third in the 28th and following verses. 1:26-27, NASB). Sexual perversion and immorality became commonplace, and it could all be justified as ‘worship’ because it was regularly connected with the Temple. To uncleanness through, [ en (G1722), rather, 'in'] the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves, [ en (Greek #1722) heautois (Greek #1438)] - or, according to the preferable reading [ en (Greek #1722) autois (Greek #846)], 'with each other;' But the sense is the same. Another infamous sin charged upon the Heathens; namely, the sin of uncleanness; yea, base, unnatural uncleanness, and pollutions of the most odious kinds. αὐτ.] Gave them up. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. Amen. ii. Гал. καρδ., we must reject as insufficient the privative interpretation(487), that became current after Augustine and Oecumenius, which Calovius has adopted in part, and Rückert entirely. God, however, is not on this account cruel, nor are we innocent, inasmuch as Paul plainly shows, that we are not delivered up into his power, except when we deserve such a punishment. Uncleanness — Ungodliness and uncleanness are frequently joined, 1 Thessalonians 4:5 as are the knowledge of God and purity. 15:2; 24:20; Пс. Romans 1:24,26,28: it seems to be taken out of Psalms 81:12. 1. Unmentionable perversions, masochism, sadism, and other degenerate practices were among the types of behavior to which God handed over the pre-Christian world. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness,.... Not by putting any into them, but by leaving them to the pollution of their nature; by withdrawing his providential restraints from them, and by giving them up to judicial hardness: through the lusts of their own hearts. Only by the most faithful adherence to God's truth in Christ, as revealed in the Bible, can it ever be possible to avoid a repetition of the historic moral catastrophe which debauched the pre-Christian era. We cannot leave this passage without repeating the emphasis upon the truth that the reprobacy of the pre-Christian world was essentially an apostasy, wherein the people exchanged the truth of God for a lie. Greek. Ибо никогда бы люди, подражая зверям, не впали в столь постыдные похоти, если бы воля Божия не была по отношению к ним противна и враждебна. 4:7), которая зарождается в сердце, а затем распространяется по телу. Если и в настоящее время гнев никогда не карает необдуманно и неправедно, но всегда придерживается правил справедливости, то отсюда явствует, сколь несомненно нависает над всеми заслуженная ими смерть. And this is confirmed by the old and probably genuine reading αὐτοῖς, which has been altered to ἑαυτοῖς from imagining that ‘they’ was the subject to ἀτιμάζεσθαι. The last is preferable. Romans 1:24–27 24 Therefore s God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to t the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for u a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, v who is blessed forever! Gave them up. 4:17; Мф. Our bodies are Christ's members, the Holy Ghost's temples; let us therefore glorify God with our bodies on earth, which shall be subjects capable of glory with himself in heaven. This divine abandonment of men is here strikingly traced in three successive stages, at each of which the same word is used (Romans 1:24; Romans 1:26; Romans 1:28, where the word is rendered "gave over"). The Greek word here is akatharsia, which literally means: "the contents of a grave." Analogous are even heathen sayings, such as Aesch. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness. In the lusts of their hearts. The vices of unchastity, which moreover are still here referred to quite generally (it is otherwise in Romans 1:26 f.), and not specially as unnatural, according to their disgraceful nature, in whatever forms they may have been practised, are specifically heathen (in fact, even partially belonging to the heathen cultus), as a consequence of apostasy from the true God (comp 1 Thessalonians 4:5). 7:38-42; 14:16). 24. He had had enough of their refusal to listen to Him, and so He allowed them to follow the desires of their own debased minds. This may mean either (1) the purpose, or (2) the result, or (3) wherein the uncleanness consisted. "Heathenism left its stamp on the bodies of men and women". It is the opposite of holiness and is often associated with sexual sin (see Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5). τ. σώμ. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Greek Scripture. "Man is not ‘a virtue-machine,'" says Meyer, "when God rewards virtue with virtue; neither is he ‘a sin machine,' when God punishes sin with sin." Поэтому и пользуется апостол словом «предал», по обычному словоупотреблению Писания, и слово это весьма сильно искажают те, кто думает, что лишь по попущению Божию впадаем мы в различные грехи. Compare note on 1 Thessalonians 1:9. : Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: One of the key expressions in this paragraph is found in this verse-the lusts (epithumia) of their hearts. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree As the apostle argues the possibility of bringing the Jews into a Gospel church state, from the power of God; so here the probability of it, or the easiness and likelihood of its being performed, from the ingrafting of the … It is indeed certain, that he not only permits men to fall into sin, by allowing them to do so, and by conniving at them; but that he also, by his equitable judgment, so arranges things, that they are led and carried into such madness by their own lusts, as well as by the devil. To construct παρέδωκεν with ἐν ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις, as Beza and others do, gives indeed a good sense, He gave them up to their desires unto uncleanness, i.e., so that they became unclean, but is opposed to the constant usage of the New Testament, in as much as παραδίδωμι never occurs in construction with ἐν. In a word, idolatrous worship consistently produced in people the kind of conduct that might be expected of beasts; but a far lower form of degradation is the subject of these verses, "the uncleanness" here mentioned being a reference to such conduct as no beast was ever guilty of. 0. Romans 1:24. This seems a better supported reading than ‘themselves’; but the notion is of reciprocal dishonor. Διό , wherefore ) One punishment of sin arises from its physical consequences, Romans 1:27 , note, [that recompense of their error, which] was meet; another, moreover, from retributive justice, as in this passage.— ἐν ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις , in the lusts ) ἐν , not ἐις . Потому, однако, ни Бог не является жестоким, ни мы невинными, что, как открыто утверждает апостол: не иначе предаемся мы во власть сатане, как будучи достойными сей кары. This does not imply, that he exerted any positive influence in inducing them to sin, any more than it would if we should seek, by argument and entreaty, to restrain a headstrong youth, and when neither would prevail, should leave him to act out his propensities. It came to mean rot or filth or decay or even dirt. By these evidences then he now proves the apostasy and defection of men: for the Lord indeed does so punish those, who alienate themselves from his goodness, that he casts them headlong into various courses which lead to perdition and ruin. Observe, 2. In other places this word is associated with sexual sin as well as materialism (see how it is used in Galatians 5:16; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Timothy 2:22). Another example of the same thing is the case of Balaam who, when he would have turned back from a wrong course, was commanded of God, "Go with the men" (Numbers 22:22). 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