Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 1:27

27. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one towards another; men with men working that which is unseemly, , and receiving in themselves that recompence of their errour which was meet .

This was the Sin of the Sodomites of old, for which they were destroyed, Gen. 19.5. vid. Levit. 18.22.

How meet was it that they who had forsaken the Author of Nature, should be given up not to keep the Order of Nature: That they who had changed the Glory of God into the similitude of Beasts, should be left to do those things which Beasts themselves abhor'd. God only concurred as a Just Judge in Punishing foregoing with following Sins, vid. ver. 25.

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