And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Ver. 27. Leaving the natural] As at this day in the Levant, sodomy is held no sin. The Turkish pashas have many wives, but more catamites, a which are their serious loves. (Blount's Voyage.)
Burned in their lust] Gr. εξεκαυσθησαν, "were scalded." Some men put off all manhood, become dogs, worse than dogs. Hence Deuteronomy 23:18; "The price of a dog," that is, of a sodomite, as Junius and Deodatus expound it.
a A boy kept for unnatural purposes. ŒD