Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
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Gill's Exposition
Without understanding,.... Of God, of his nature and worship, of things divine and even moral, being given up to a reprobate mind:
covenant breakers; had no regard to private or public contracts:…
Barnes' Notes
Without understanding - Inconsiderate, or foolish; see Rom 1:21-22. Covenant breakers - Perfidious; false to their contracts. Without natural affections - This expression denotes the lack of…
Adam Clarke
Without understanding - Ασυνετους, from α, negative, and συνετος, knowing; persons incapable of comprehending what was spoken; destitute of capacity for spiritual things.
Covenant-breakers -…
In this last part of the chapter the apostle applies what he had said particularly to the Gentile world, in which we may observe,
I. The means and helps they had to come to the knowledge of God.…
Cambridge Bible
without understanding, covenant-breakers The Gr. words are almost identical in form and sound. On "without understanding" see note on Rom 1:21, where "foolish" represents the same Greek word; an…
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