Romans 1:30
Backbiters, haters of God, *despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
καταλάλους, θεοστυγεῖς, ὑβριστάς, ὑπερηφάνους, ἀλαζόνας, ἐφευρετὰς κακῶν, γονεῦσιν ἀπειθεῖς,
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despiteful-contemptuous.
the original word hath a passive termination, and therefore some read it, hated of God. But words passive are sometimes actively taken: see 2Pe 1:3. And the apostle here intendeth a catalogue of the Gentiles’ sins, whereof this was one: see Psa 81:15.
or, injurious.
they were not contented with old usual evils, but they invented new; whether we refer this to evils of pain, or evils of sin, we may find examples thereof amongst the heathen. Phalaris propounded a reward to him that could devise a new torment; and Sardanapalus offered rewards to such as could find out new venereal pleasures.
either natural or political.