“Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,”
Slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents. The catalogue continues, now emphasizing sins against God and social order. God-haters (theostygēs) and insolent toward human authority represent the rebellion that begins with rejection of God's authority. Disobedience to parents represents the breakdown of the most foundational human relationship and social structure.
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