“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:”
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. The second giving over: those who suppress God's truth are abandoned to desires contrary to nature (para physin). The specific mention of women's sexual relations marks a departure from Jewish Levitical polemic, suggesting Paul views all sexual deviation from the created design as symptomatic of deeper idolatry and rebellion.
Church Fathers on Romans 1:26
All these affections then were vile, but chiefly the mad lust after males; for the soul is more the sufferer in sins, and more dishonored, than the body in diseases. But behold how here too, as in the case of the doctrines, he deprives them of excuse, by saying of the women, that “they changed the natural use.” For no one, he means, can say that it was by being hindered of legitimate intercourse that they came to this pass, or that it was from having no means to fulfil their…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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