“And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”
In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Men's deviation from natural relations and mutual lust represent the same descent into unnatural desire. Received in themselves the due penalty (antimisthia) suggests that the consequences of these acts are embedded within the acts themselves: physical, emotional, and spiritual corruption.
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