"Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God
gave
them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
convenient."
LEST he should seem to be hinting at them by delaying in his
discourse so long over the unnatural sin, he next passes on to other
kinds of sins also, and for this cause he carries on the whole of his
discourse as of other persons. And as he always does when
discoursing with believers about sins, and wishing to show that they
are to be avoided, he brings the Gentiles in, and says, "Not in the
lust of concupiscence, even as the other Gentiles which know not
God." (1 Thess. iv. 5.) And again: "sorrow not, even as others
which
have no hope." (ib. 13.) And so here too he shows that it was to
them
the sins belonged, and deprives them of all excuse. For he says, that
their daring deeds came not of ignorance, but of practice.