“And 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;”
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. The third giving over: God abandoned those who rejected the knowledge of God to a depraved mind (adokimos nous). Unable to discern good from evil, they pursue what is absolutely forbidden. This represents the final stage of spiritual degradation—moral blindness.
Church Fathers on Romans 1:28
Lest he should seem to be hinting at them by delaying in his discourse so long over the unnatural sin, he next passes on to other kinds of sins also, and for this cause he carries on the whole of his discourse as of other persons. And as he always does when discoursing with believers about sins, and wishing to show that they are to be avoided, he brings the Gentiles in, and says, “Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the other Gentiles which know not God.” 1…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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