Rom. 1:30. Inventive in evil,
For they were not content with the evil done before; from which it is again evident that they sinned not out of impulse, but deliberately and of their own disposition.
Rom. 1:30. Disobedient to parents,
Against nature itself, he says, they rose up.
Rom. 1:31. Senseless,
And rightly so. For how could those who did not obey their parents understand anything?
Rom. 1:31. faithless,
That is, they are not steadfast in agreements.
Rom. 1:31. Unloving, implacable, unmerciful.
The root of all evils is the very cooling of love: for from this it follows that one does not make peace with another, one does not love another, one does not show mercy to another. About this Christ also said: "Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of many will grow cold" (Matt. 24:12). Nature itself unites us with one another, as it does other animals; but people have not understood this.
Rom. 1:32. They know the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death; yet they not only do them, but also approve of those who practice them.
Having demonstrated that the pagans were filled with every vice because they did not wish to know God, he now proves that they deserve no excuse. They cannot say: we did not know what is good; for they knew that God is righteous. This means they do evil voluntarily, and, what is even worse, they approve of those who do it, that is, they patronize evil — which is an incurable disease.