A. D. 60. ROM. I. 24, 25. A. D. 60. Lord; and the Lord for the body. Flee fornication, 1 Cor. vi. 13. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body, 18. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour, 1 Thess. iv. 4. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart, 2 Tim. ii. 20-22. d And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet, ver. 27. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination, Lev. xviii. 22. the children of wrath, even as others, | body is not for fornication, but for the Eph. ii. 3. Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God, 1 Thess. iv. 5. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death, James i. 14, 15. From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God, iv. 1-4. As obedient children, not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance, 1 Pet. i. 14. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul, ii. 11. That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries, iv. 2, 3. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error, 2 Pet. ii. 18. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world, 1 John ii. 15, 16. How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts, Jude 18. VER. 25. Οἵτινες μετήλλαξαν τὴν ἀλήθειαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ψεύδει, καὶ ἐσεβάσθησαν καὶ ἐλάτρευσαν τῇ κτίσει παρὰ τὸν κτίσαντα, ὅς ἐστιν εὐλογητὸς εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. Αμήν. Who a changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, a who is blessed for ever. Amen. a For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, ver. 18. For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 1 Thess. i. 9. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the Meats for the belly, and the true God, and eternal life, 1 John v. belly for meats: but God shall de- 20. stroy both it and them. Now the He feedeth on ashes: a deceived 528 A. D. 60. ROM. 1. 25, 26. heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? Isa. xliv. 20. Every man is brutish in his knowledge every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish, Jer. x. 14, 15. This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood, xiii. 25. O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit, xvi. 19. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked, Amos ii. 4. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy, Jon. ii. 8. What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Hab. ii. 18. c No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon, Matt. vi. 24. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me, x. 37. Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, Tim. iii. 4. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world, 1 John ii. 15, 16. Whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ A. D. 60. came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen, Rom. ix. 5. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen, and amen, Psal. lxxii. 19. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for Every day will I ever and ever. bless thee; and 1 will praise thy name for ever and ever, cxlv. 1, 2. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not, 2 Cor. xi. 31. Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen, Eph. iii. 21. According to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust, 1 Tim. Now unto the King eternal, i. 11. immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen, 17. VER. 26. Διὰ τοῦτο παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὁ Θεὸς εἰς πάθη ἀτιμίας· αἵ τε γὰρ θήλειαι αὐτῶν μετήλλαξαν τὴν φυσικὴν χρῆσιν εἰς τὴν παρὰ φύσιν a For this cause God gave them up unto bvile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: a Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves, ver. 24. b And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them, Gen. xix. 5. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto : it is confusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you, Lev. xviii. 22-28. There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, nor the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: For even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God, Deut. xxiii. 17, 18. Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him, Judg. xix. 22. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 1 Cor. vi. 9. Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness, Eph. iv. 19. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret, v. 12. For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, 1 Tim. i. 10. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire, Jude 7. VER. 27. Ομοίως τε καὶ οἱ ἄῤῥενες, ἀφέντες τὴν φυσικὴν χρῆσιν τῆς θηλείας, ἐξεκαύθησαν ἐν τῇ ὀρέξει αὑτῶν εἰς ἀλλήλους, ἄρσενες ἐν ἄρσεσι τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην κατεργαζόμενοι, καὶ τὴν ἀντιμισθίαν, ἣν ἔδει, τῆς πλάνης αὐτῶν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἀπολαμβάνοντες. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men VOL. II. A. D. 60. working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves a that recompense of their error which was meet. 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. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own bearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves, ver. 23, 24. VER. 28. Καὶ καθὼς οὐκ ἐδοκίμασαν τὸν Θεὸν ἔχειν ἐν ἐπιγνώσει, παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὁ Θεὸς εἰς ἀδόκιμον νοῦν, ποιεῖν τὰ μὴ καθήκοντα. tain Cad in their knowledge, God gave And even a as they did not like to rethem over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; a For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, ver. 18. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened, 21. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? Job xxi. 14, 15. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction, Prov. i. 7. How long. ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 22. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord, 29. And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! v. 12, 13. Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it? xvii. 16. For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge, Jer. iv. 22. Thine habitation is in the : 2 M midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD, ix. 6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children, Hos. iv. 6. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you, Acts xvii. 23. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter, 32. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God, Rom. viii. 7, 8. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame, 1 Cor. xv. 34. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we A. D. 60. were of old, andthe earth standing out of the water and in the water, 2 Pet. iii. 5. Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them, Jer. vi. 30. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates, 2 Cor. xiii. 5—7. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith, 2 Tim. iii. 8. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate, Tit. i. 16. VER. 29. Πεπληρωμένους πάσῃ ἀδικίᾳ, πορνεία, πονηρία, πλεονεξία, κακία· μεστοὺς φθόνου, φόνου, ἔριδος, δόλου, κακοηθείας· a See on Matt. vii. ver. 11. clause 1. b A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends, Prov. xvi. 28. Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth, xxvi. 20. For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you, such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults, 2 Cor. xii. 20. Being a filled with all unrighteouspreach not ourselves, but Christ Je-ness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, sus the Lord; and ourselves your ser- maliciousness; full of envy, murder, devants for Jesus' sake. For God, who bate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. iv. 4-6. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ, x. 5. In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 Thess. i. 8. And with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that a Backbiters, bhaters of God, despitethey all might be damned who be-ful, proud, boasters, d'inventors of evil lieved not the truth, but had pleasure things, disobedient to parents, in unrighteousness, ii. 10-12. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens VER. SO. Ψιθυριστὰς, καταλάλους, Θεοστυγεῖς, ὑβριστὰς, υπερηφάνους, ἀλαζόνας, ἐφευροτὰς κακῶν, γονεῦσιν ἀπειθεῖς, C a The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue, Prov. xxv. 3. b Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God, Rom. viii. 7, 8. And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee, Numb. x. 35. And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face, Deut. vii. 10. And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD, 2 Chron. xix. 2. The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever, Psal. lxxxi. 15. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death, Prov. viii. 36. The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil, John vii. 7. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father, xv. 23, 24. For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another, Tit. iii. 3. e Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, Rom. ii. 17. Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? 23. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith, iii. 27. Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee? 2 Chron. xxv. 19. For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth, Psal. x. 3. They that trust in their | wealth, and boast themselves in the A. D. 60. multitude of their riches, xlix. 6. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually, lii. 1. How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? xciv. 4. Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods, xcvii. 7. For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought, Acts v. 36. Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, 2 Cor. x. 15. Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God, 2 Thess. ii. 4. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! James iii. 5. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil, iv. 16. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them' who live in error, 2 Pet. ii. 18. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage, Jude 16. d Thou answeredest them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions, Psal. xcix. 8. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions, cvi. 39. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions, Eccl. vii. 29. e See ou Matt. xv. ver. 4. clauses 2, 3. VER. 31. ̓Ασυνέτους, ἀσυνθέτους, ἀστόργους, ἀστ πόνδους, ἀνελεήμονας. |