ACC ~ Romans 1 v27

MEN CONSUMED WITH PASSION FOR ONE ANOTHER. CYPRIAN: If you were able … to direct your eyes into secret places, to unfasten the locked doors of sleeping chambers and to open these hidden recesses to the perception of sight, you would behold that being carried on by the unchaste which a chaste countenance could not behold. You would see what it is an indignity even to see. … Men with frenzied lusts rush against men. Things are done which cannot even give pleasure to those who do them. TO DONATUS 9.

CHANGING THE NATURAL USE. AMBROSIASTER: It is clear that, because they changed the truth of God into a lie, they changed the natural use (of sexuality) into that use by which they were dishonored and were condemned to the second death. For since Satan cannot make another law, having no power to do so, it must be said that they changed to another order and by doing things which were not allowed, fell into sin.

Paul says that the due penalty comes from contempt of God, and that it is wickedness and obscenity. For this is the prime cause of sin. What is worse, what is more harmful than that sin which deceives even the devil and binds man to death? COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

SEVERIAN: Paul did not say this lightly, but because he had heard that there was a homosexual community at Rome. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

ABANDONING THE UNITY OF THE SEXES. CHRYSOSTOM: This is clear proof of the ultimate degree of corruption, when both sexes are abandoned. Both he who was called to be the leader of the woman and she who was told to become a helper to the man now behave as enemies to one another. Notice how deliberately Paul measures his words. For he does not say that they were enamored of one another but that they were consumed by lust for one another! You see that the whole of desire comes from an excess which cannot contain itself within its proper limits. For everything which transgresses God’s appointed laws lusts after monstrous things which are not normal.

The normal desire for sexual intercourse united the sexes to one another, but by taking this away and turning it into something else, the devil divided the sexes from each other and forced what was one to become two, in opposition to the law of God. … The devil was bent on destroying the human race, not only by preventing them from copulating lawfully but by stirring them up to war and subversion against each other.

Paul goes straight to the source of sexual evil: ungodliness which comes from twisted teaching and lawlessness which is its reward. For since it seemed that the ungodly would not believe him if he spoke of hell and punishment but they might even scorn him, Paul simply states that the punishment came from the lust itself. But if they still fail to perceive it, do not be surprised. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 4.

UNBRIDLED LUST KNOWS NO LIMIT. PELAGIUS: Once lust is unbridled, it knows no limit. In the order of nature, those who forgot God did not understand themselves either. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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