![Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed.... I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature; not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to evil....](/assets/img/quote-photos/given-the-sin-of-impiety-through-which-they-the-romans-sinned-against-the-divin.jpg)
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