Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Romans: Chapter 1]
forever. Amen} (\hos estin eulog•tos. Am•n\). One of Paul's
doxologies which may come at any moment when he is greatly
stirred, as in 9:5. \Eulog•tos\ is verbal of \euloge•\.
1:26 {Unto vile passions} (\eis path• atimias\). Unto passions of
dishonour. \Pathos\, old word from \pasch•\, to experience,
originally meant any feeling whether good or bad, but in N.T.
always in bad sense as here, 1Th 4:5; Col 3:5 (only N.T.
examples). {That which is against nature} (\t•n para phusin\).
The degradation of sex is what Paul here notes as one of the
results of heathenism (the loss of God in the life of man). They
passed by the Creator.
1:27 {Turned} (\exekauth•san\). First aorist passive indicative,
causative aorist, of \ekkai•\, old verb, to burn out, to set on
fire, to inflame with anger or lust. Here only in N.T. {Lust}
(\orexei\). Only here in N.T. {Unseemliness} (\asch•mosun•n\).
Old word from \asch•mon\ (deformed). In N.T. only here and Re
16:15. {Recompense} (\antimisthian\). See on ¯2Co 6:13 for only
other N.T. instance of this late Pauline word, there in good
sense, here in bad. {Which was due} (\h•n edei\). Imperfect
active for obligation still on them coming down from the past.
This debt will be paid in full (\apolambanontes\, pay back as in
Lu 6:34, and due as in Lu 23:41). Nature will attend to that
in their own bodies and souls.
1:28 {And even as they refused} (\kai kath•s ouk edokimasan\).
"And even as they rejected" after trial just as \dokimaz•\ is
used of testing coins. They tested God at first and turned aside
from him. {Knowledge} (\epign•sei\). Full knowledge (\epi\
additional, \gn•sis\). They had a dim memory that was a
caricature. {Unto a reprobate mind} (\eis adokimon noun\). Play
on \ouk edokimasan\. They rejected God and God rejected their
mental attitude and gave them over (verses 24,26,28). See this
adjective already in 1Co 9:27; 2Co 13:5-7. Like an old
abandoned building, the home of bats and snakes, left "to do
those things which are not fitting" (\poiein ta m• kath•konta\),
like the night clubs of modern cities, the dives and dens of the
underworld, without God and in the darkness of unrestrained
animal impulses. This was a technical term with Stoics (II Macc.
6:4).
1:29 {Being called with} (\pepl•r•menous\). Perfect passive
participle of the common verb \pl•ro•\, state of completion,
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