SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:28
Y como a ellos no les pareci tener a Dios en cuenta, Dios los entreg a perverso entendimiento, para que hicieran lo que no conviene,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Romans 1:28
Verse 28. They did not like to retain God] It would, perhaps, be more literal to translate ouk edokimasan, THEY DID NOT SEARCH to retain God in their knowledge. They did not examine the evidences before them (ver. 19, 20) of his being and attributes; therefore God gave them over to a REPROBATE mind, eiv adokimon noun, to an UNSEARCHING or undiscerning mind; for it is the same word in both places. They did not reflect on the proofs they had of the Divine nature, and God abandoned them to the operations of a mind incapable of reflection. How men of such powers and learning, as many of the Greek and Roman philosophers and poets really were, could reason so inconsecutively concerning things moral and Divine is truly astonishing. But here we see the hand of a just and avenging God; they abused their powers, and God deprived them of the right use of these powers.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 28. And even as they did not like , etc..] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 26-32 - In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's word was shown: "Light was come into the world, but men loved darknes rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he that doet evil hateth the light." The truth was not to their taste. And we all know how soon a man will contrive, against the strongest evidence, to reason himself out of the belief of what he dislikes. But a man cannot be brought to greater slavery than to be given up to his own lusts. A the Gentiles did not like to keep God in their knowledge, the committed crimes wholly against reason and their own welfare. The nature of man, whether pagan or Christian, is still the same; and the charges of the apostle apply more or less to the state and character of men at all times, till they are brought to full submission to the fait of Christ, and renewed by Divine power. There never yet was a man, wh had not reason to lament his strong corruptions, and his secret dislik to the will of God. Therefore this chapter is a call to self-examination, the end of which should be, a deep conviction of sin and of the necessity of deliverance from a state of condemnation __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ καθως 2531 ADV ουκ 3756 PRT-N εδοκιμασαν 1381 5656 V-AAI-3P τον 3588 T-ASM θεον 2316 N-ASM εχειν 2192 5721 V-PAN εν 1722 PREP επιγνωσει 1922 N-DSF παρεδωκεν 3860 5656 V-AAI-3S αυτους 846 P-APM ο 3588 T-NSM θεος 2316 N-NSM εις 1519 PREP αδοκιμον 96 A-ASM νουν 3563 N-ASM ποιειν 4160 5721 V-PAN τα 3588 T-APN μη 3361 PRT-N καθηκοντα 2520 5901 V-PQP-APN
Robertson's NT Word Studies
1:28 {And even as they refused} (kai kaqws ouk edokimasan). "And even as they rejected" after trial just as dokimazw is used of testing coins. They tested God at first and turned aside from him. {Knowledge} (epignwsei). Full knowledge (epi additional, gnwsis). 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 me kaqekonta), 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).
