Commentary on Romans

For he who is ashamed is as yet healable; but when such an impudence is contracted through
a sinful habit, that vices, and not virtues, please us, and are approved, there is no more any hope
of reformation. Such, then, is the interpretation I give; for I see that the Apostle meant here to
condemn something more grievous and more wicked than the very doing of vices: what that is I
know not, except we refer to that which is the summit of all wickedness, — that is, when wretched
men, having cast away all shame, undertake the patronage of vices in opposition to the righteousness
of God.