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John Gill's Exposition on Romans 1:27
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the women, etc..] The very sin of “sodomy” is here designed, so called from Sodom, the place where we first hear of it, (<011905>Genesis 19:5), the men of which place, because they burned in their lust one towards another, as these Gentiles are said to do, God rained upon them fire and brimstone from heaven: an exceeding great sin this is, contrary to nature, dishonourable to human nature, and scandalous to a people and nation among whom it prevails, as it did very much in the Gentile world, and among their greatest philosophers; even those that were most noted for moral virtue are charged with it, as Socrates, Plato, Zeno, and others f12: it is a sin which generally prevails where idolatry and infidelity do, as among the Pagans of old, and among the Papists and Mahometans now; and never was it so rife in this nation as since the schemes of deism and infidelity have found such a reception among us. Thus God, because men dishonour him with their evil principles and practices, leaves them to reproach their own nature, and dishonour their own bodies: men with men working that which is unseemly; and of which nothing like it is to be observed in the brutal world: receiving in themselves the recompence of their error, which was meet: God punishes sin with sin; for as the Jews say f13, as “one commandment draws on another, so one transgression draws on another; for the reward of the commandment is the commandment, hryb[ hryb[ rkçw and the reward of transgression is transgression.”
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