Lord’s Day 35, Chapter 4: God is a Jealous God (4)

Once more the apostle repeats the phrase, "God gave them over," in verse 28. In this verse there is an expressed comparison between the sin committed and the punishment inflicted. The apostle designs to show how proper the punishment of God was, seeing it was entirely in harmony with the very nature of the sin they committed: "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." As the sin, so is the...