Verse 1
1. Therefore Inasmuch as, according to the above previous verse, the most depraved know their guilt.
O man Whether Jew or Gentile, including all of mankind who impenitently claim exemption from condemnation because there lies a worse class below them.
Whosoever thou art Whether heathen philosopher or Jewish rabbi.
That judgest That usest thy knowledge in condemning others rather than in repenting for thyself. Wrongly doest thou assume the judgment seat rather than the criminal box.
Doest the same things In nature if not in degree. The apostle relies upon the response of every man’s conscience for the proof of this charge. Dividing human sins into sins of unlawful love and unlawful hate, every lustful thought indulged is as truly, though not as deeply, damning as self-abuse, and every malicious purpose is of the nature, though not of the degree, of murder.
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