John Calvin Commentary Romans 1:27

John Calvin Commentary

Romans 1:27

1509–1564
Protestant
John Calvin
John Calvin

John Calvin Commentary

Romans 1:27

1509–1564
Protestant
SCRIPTURE

"and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due." — Romans 1:27 (ASV)

Such a reward for their error as was meet. They indeed deserved to be blinded, so that they would forget themselves and not see anything befitting them—those who, through their own wickedness, closed their eyes to the light God offered them, so that they might not behold His glory. In short, those who were not ashamed to extinguish, as much as they could, the glory of God—which alone gives us light—deserved to become blind at noonday.