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And even as they refused (kai kathōs ouk edokimasan). “And even as they rejected” after trial just as dokimazō is used of testing coins. They tested God at first and turned aside from him.
Knowledge (epignōsei). Full knowledge (epi additional, gnōsis). They had a dim memory that was a caricature.
Unto a reprobate mind (eis adokimon noun). Play on ouk edokimasan. They rejected God and God rejected their mental attitude and gave them over (Rom 1:24, Rom 1:26, Rom 1:28). See this adjective already in 1Co 9:27; 2Co 13:5-7. Like an old abandoned building, the home of bats and snakes, left “to do those things which are not fitting” (poiein ta mē kathēkonta), like the night clubs of modern cities, the dives and dens of the underworld, without God and in the darkness of unrestrained animal impulses. This was a technical term with Stoics (2 Maccabees 6:4).