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Romani 1:22

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Romani 1:22 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise
The learned men among the Gentiles first called themselves (sofoi) , "Sophi", wise men: and afterwards, to cover their wretched pride and vanity, (filosofoi) , "Philosophers", lovers of wisdom; but notwithstanding all their arrogance, their large pretensions to wisdom, and boast of it

they became fools;
they appeared to be so; they showed themselves to be such in those very things they prided themselves with the knowledge of: as, for instance, Socrates, after he had asserted the unity of God, and is said to die a martyr for the truth; yet one of the last actions of his life was sacrificing a cock to Aesculapius, at least he desired his friend Crito to do it.

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Romani 1:22 In-Context

20 poiché le perfezioni invisibili di lui, la sua eterna potenza e divinità, si vedon chiaramente sin dalla creazione del mondo, essendo intese per mezzo delle opere sue;
21 ond’è che essi sono inescusabili, perché, pur avendo conosciuto Iddio, non l’hanno glorificato come Dio, né l’hanno ringraziato; ma si son dati a vani ragionamenti, e l’insensato loro cuore s’è ottenebrato.
22 Dicendosi savi, son divenuti stolti,
23 e hanno mutato la gloria dell’incorruttibile Iddio in immagini simili a quelle dell’uomo corruttibile, e d’uccelli e di quadrupedi e di rettili.
24 Per questo, Iddio li ha abbandonati, nelle concupiscenze de’ loro cuori, alla impurità, perché vituperassero fra loro i loro corpi;
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