Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 1:26
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Romans1:26
26. 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 .
i. e. For their Idolatry and Uncleanness both, for now their Idolatry is aggravated by the Uncleanness accompanying it.
Gr. Affections of dishonour, i. e. the most dishonourable and shameful Affections; for as we are Exhorted, 1 Thess. 4.4.5. to possess our Vessels in Honour, that is, to with-hold our Body from Uncleanness; so they that give up themselves to Uncleanness, dishonour themselves and their own Bodyes▪ vid. 1 Cor. 6.18. if they, as this Scripture tells us, that commit Fornication, dishonour their own Bodyes; then much more do they that practise the unnatural Uncleanness hereafter mentioned.
i. e. [non-Latin text not transcribed], so Clem. Alexandr. Ad praeposteros & Sodomiticos concubitus sese maribus prostituerunt. See Paraeus, a filthy practise not to be named, Eph. 5.3.
Marginal references: Eph. 5.12.
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