Commentary of Charles Spurgeon, Adam Clarke & Matthew Henry
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their
women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
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 recompence of their error
which was meet.
Vs.26,27
For this cause God gave them up, etc. - Their
system of idolatry necessarily produced all kinds of impurity. How
could it be otherwise, when the highest objects of their worship were
adulterers, fornicators, and prostitutes of the most infamous kind, such
as Jupiter, Apollo, Mars, Venus, etc.?
Of the abominable evils with
which the apostle charges the Gentiles in this and the following verse I
could produce a multitude of proofs from their own writings; but it is
needless to make the subject plainer than the apostle has left it.
To uncleanness and vile affections -Man
being in honor, and refusing to understand the God that made him, thus
becomes worse than the beasts that perish, Ps. 49:20.----through the lusts of their own hearts—there all the fault is to
be laid.
--Those who dishonored God were given up to dishonor themselves. The crying iniquity of
Sodom and Gomorrah, for which God rained hell from heaven upon them, became not
only commonly practiced, but avowed, in the pagan nations.
Receiving in themselves that recompense, etc. - Both the women and men enervated their bodies.
A man
cannot be delivered up to a greater slavery than to be given up to his own
lusts.