And even as they did not like
This accounts for the justness of the divine procedure in leaving
them to commit such scandalous iniquities; that since they had
some knowledge of God by the light of nature, and yet did not
care
to retain God in [their] knowledge;
or to own and acknowledge him as God, to worship and glorify him
as such; but took every method to erase this knowledge out of
their minds, and keep it from others:
God gave them over to a reprobate mind;
a vain empty mind, worthless, good for nothing devoid of all true
knowledge and judgment; incapable of approving what is truly
good, or of disapproving that which is evil; a mind that has lost
all conscience of things, and is disapproved of by God, and all
good men:
to do those things which are not convenient;
which are neither agreeably to the light of nature, nor
convenient to, or becoming the honour of human nature; things
which the brutes themselves, who are destitute of reason, do not
do.