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24. Wherefore God also--in righteous retribution.
gave them up--This divine abandonment of men is here strikingly traced
in three successive stages, at each of which the same word is used
(Ro 1:24, 26;
and
Ro 1:28,
where the word is rendered "gave
over"). "As they deserted God, God in turn deserted them; not giving
them divine (that is, supernatural) laws, and suffering them to corrupt
those which were human; not sending them prophets, and allowing the
philosophers to run into absurdities. He let them do what they pleased,
even what was in the last degree vile, that those who had not honored
God, might dishonor themselves" [GROTIUS].
JFB.
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