Verse 10
10. And now comes a most cutting antithesis. Of the dignities and glories above them they know not, and such they hold in contempt; but the sensual animalities below them they do, like brutes, naturally understand, and with those they are in deep sympathy.
These The finger of apostolic rebuke pointing at them. They know not In their animality they ignore the pure God above them, the glories of the heavenly world, the moral governmental order on earth, which faintly copies the government of God. These they appreciate not, and deny their existence, or mention them only with ridicule.
What they know From the fleshly impulses within.
As brute beasts Just as animals understand the dictates of their sexual and sensual nature.
Corrupt themselves Sinking both their intellectual and bodily systems into debasement, disease, and death, temporal and eternal.
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