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For whilst He punishes the guilty with death, He Himself is justified [is manifested as just]. This Royal rule is acknowledged even among the Gentiles. — on) viz. that. — npa<s<sovng' <7rpu<s<sov<n) [those that commit or practise.'] This verb, which is repeated after the interposition of cro/oD<r/i/ [Jo], accurately expresses the wantonness of profligate men, which is altogether opposed to divine justice, noioixuv) — they do such things , even with the affec- tions, and with the reason. The same distinction between these two verbs occurs,1 ch. ii. 3. — Zavarov, of death) Lev. xviii. 24, etc. ; Acts xxviii. 4. From time to time every extremely wicked generation of men is extirpated, and posterity is entirely propagated from those, whose conduct has not been so immoral. — dXXa, xcciy but also.) It is a worse thing, euvsvdoxsiv, , to approve [of the evil] ; for he, who perpetrates what is evil, is led away by his own desire, not without an argument of condemnation against himself, or even against others, — (Comp, thou that judgest , ii. 1), and at the same time shows his approbation of the law. — ■ Comp, with this, ch. vii. 16 ; but he who, ffui/sudoxs?, or approves , with the heart and with the tongue [that which is evil], has as the fruit of wickedness, wickedness itself ; he feeds upon it ; he adds to the heap of his own guilt the guilt of others, and inflames others to the commission of sin. He is a worse man, who destroys both himself and others, than he who destroys him- self alone. This is truly a reprobate mind. — db6xi[iov and trunvdo- xovd/ are conjugate forms. — See ver. 28, note. The judging , in ch. ii. 1, is the antithesis to the approving here. The Gentiles not only do these things, but also approve of them. The Jew judges indeed, thereby expressing disapproval ; but yet he does them. — roTg <7rpaff<rov<n, them that do them) themselves, and others. — Comp. Is. iii. 9.
1 TToiia to do or make, npaaoco, to commit or practise. — Ed.