Professing themselves to be wise (φασκοντες εινα σοφο). Σοφο is predicate nominative with εινα in indirect discourse agreeing with…

Profe ing themselves to be wise. This was the common boast of the philosophers of antiquity. The very word by which they chose to…

They became fools. — They were made fools. It is not merely that they expose their real folly, but that folly is itself judiciall…

The way to be a fool is to pretend to be wise. A short cut to wisdom is the confession of folly. The near way to folly is the profession of wisdom.…

Despite the knowledge of God conveyed to them through the creation, people failed to act on it. They “neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks …

While they were thinking, etc. It is commonly inferred from this passage that Paul alludes here to those philosophers who uniquel…

Professing themselves to be wise

The learned men among the Gentiles first called themselves (s…

The apostle begins to show that all humankind needs the salvation of the gospel, because no one could obtain the favor of God or escape his wrath b…

1. After showing that the truth about God was known by the Gentiles, he now states that they were guilty of the sins of ungodline and injust…