67. Quest. Of the vnnaturall sinnes of the heathen.
26. For this cause God gaue them vp, &c. 1. Aretius taketh this to be but an 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 further explanation of that which the Apostle had spoken of before: but it is rather an 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 an exaggeration rather, and amplifications for it is more to be giuen ouer, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 vnto passions, then 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, vnto the lusts of the heart: for they differ in three things, 1. the passion here signifieth a 〈◊〉 defeate of the minde, which could not be remooued, whereas the lust of the heart was not yet perfected, Faius. 2. by the lust is signified their vncleane desires, but here the Apostle also speaketh of their vncleane acts, Pareus: 3. and before the Apostle touched such vncleannes, as defiled the bodie: but now they are giuen o∣uer vnto such vile affections as also defile the mind, deprauing it of the vse of reason, Tolet.
Page 772. How the women did change the naturall vse, may seeme strange: Theophylact thin∣keth it was obscaenum aliquid, quod nec dici fas est, some obscene thing, that is not to be vt∣tered. Lyranus, so also Tolet, and before them Ambrose and Anselmo, vnderstand it de com∣mistione foeminarum inter se, of the commixtion of women among themselues, as the men were defiled betweene themselues. But rather here the naturall vse is to be referred vnto the organe and instrument of generation: when the women did prostitute themselues, the •en exercising praeposterum & sterilem venerem, preposterous and sterilous venerie, Osiand. Sodomiticos concubitus, or they companied with men, as Sodomites, Pareus: and as Augu∣stine saith, when the males abused ex parte corporis, quae non ad generandum instituta est, that part of the bodie in the female, which was not appointed for generation: so the Syrian translator, re quae non est ex natura vsae sunt, they vsed the thing both which was not of na∣ture, &c.
3. So likewise the men with men wrought filthines: actiuely, in forcing vpon other vn∣naturall acts of vncleannes: and passiuely, in suffering others to doe it: this was the sinne of Sodome, for the which they were destroied. Socrates is noted among the Philosophers for masculine venerie, which Plato condemneth. And the Apostle may seeme to haue spe∣ciall relation here vnto the abominable vncleannes of the Romanes, and specially 〈◊〉, who was a monstrous beast for such sinnes against nature, Pareus. Chrysostome〈◊〉 ele∣gantly sheweth, how whereas by Gods ordinance, in lawfull copulation by mariage, two became one flesh, both sexes were ioned together in one: by this Sodomiticall vn•••nnes, the same flesh is diuided into two, the men with men working vncleannes with women, and so serue in stead of two sexes.
