Verse 15
Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Who show — To themselves, to other men, and, in a sense, to God himself.
The work of the law — The substance, though not the letter, of it.
Written on their hearts — By the same hand which wrote the commandments on the tables of stone.
Their conscience — There is none of all its faculties which the soul has less in its power than this.
Bearing witness — In a trial there are the plaintiff, the defendant, and the witnesses. Conscience and sin itself are witnesses against the heathens. Their thoughts sometimes excuse, sometimes condemn, them.
Among themselves — Alternately, like plaintiff and defendant.
Accusing or even defending them — The very manner of speaking shows that they have far more room to accuse than to defend.
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