Daniel Whedon 22. Wise In discarding the primitive belief in God the first proud pretenders claimed credit for great worldly wisdom. Fools As the idolatrous and depraving results showed. When the Psalmist said, The fool saith in his heart there is no God, we have the same profession of superiority over the poor pietists who worship the Creator, and the same fact of the being a fool. And precisely as this proud destitution of the religious sentiment grows, either atheism or idol-worship is asserted.... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:22
22. Wise In discarding the primitive belief in God the first proud pretenders claimed credit for great worldly wisdom. Fools As the idolatrous and depraving results showed. When the Psalmist said, The fool saith in his heart there is no God, we have the same profession of superiority over the poor pietists who worship the Creator, and the same fact of the being a fool. And precisely as this proud destitution of the religious sentiment grows, either atheism or idol-worship is asserted.... read more