Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Romans 1 SERIES: Vs.26-27

 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 heartsthere 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.