dnfidfytsOcu, to dishonour) Honour is its opposite, 1 Thess. iv. 4. Man ought not to debase himself, 1 Cor. vi. 13, etc. — b eavrd/g ,l among their ownselves ), by fornication, effeminacy, and other ’vices. They themselves furnish the materials of their own punishment, and are at the cost of it. How justly ! they , who dishonour God , inflict punishment on their ownselves . -Joh. Cluverus.
25. Tr\v dXijkiav, the truth) which commands us to worship God AS God. — b rtf) ypeud*/ [into a lie — Engl, vers.] (exchanged) for a lie) the price paid for [mythology] idol worship ; b, the Lat. cum. — iafide6r\<fcx,v, they worshipped) implying internal worship. — iXarpsvtfav, they served) implying external worship. — <rapd) in pre- ference to, more than, ch. xiv. 5 [vyis pav nap ijf&epav].
26. IldOr) dr //4 tag, lusts of dishonour) [vile affections — Engl, vers.] See Gerheri lib. unerkannte siinden (unknown sins), T. i., cap. 92 ; Yon der geheimen Unzucht (on secret vices). The writings of the heathen are full of such things. — dn fiiag, dishonour). Honour is its opposite, 1 Thess. iv. 4. — br\\siui women ) In stig- matizing sins, we must often call a spade a spade. Those gener- ally demand from others a preposterous modesty [in speech], who are without chastity [in acts]. Paul, at the beginning of this epistle, thus writes more plainly to Rome, which he had not yet visited, than on any former occasion anywhere. The dignity and earnestness of the judicial style [which he employs], from the propriety of its language, does not offend modesty. — ypriav, use) supply of themselves ; but it is elliptical ; the reason is found, 1 Cor. xi. 9 ; we must use, not enjoy. Herein is seen the gravity of style in the sacred writings.
27. ’EEexaufytrav, were all in a flame) [burned] with an abominable fire (rrupdas/, viz., of lust.) — rr\\ d(Syjnio<s{)vr\v, that which is unseemly) against which the conformation of the body and its members reclaims. — ?jv Uei) which it was meet [or proper ], by a natural consequence. — rSjg rrXdn\g, of their error) by which they wandered away from God. — d^oXa^dvovrsg), the antithetic word used to express the punishment of the Gentiles ; as dnohdau, that of the Jews, ii. 6. In both words, dno has the same force.
1 So, late corrections in D ; G Orig. 1, 260, e. — Yulg. and Rec. Text. But ABCA and Memph. Version read dvrdig. — Ed.