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See the latest development of prime office rentals worldwide, published by the research team of Jones Lang LaSalle. Source: http://www.joneslanglasalle.com/GMP/en-gb/Pages/Global-Market-Perspective-Charts.aspx
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In the first quarter of 2012 compared with the fourth quarter of 2011, the household saving rate and the household investment rate remained almost stable in both the euro area (EA17) and the EU27. In the euro area, household disposable income increased by 0.2% in real terms, after falling by 0.5% in the previous quarter. These data come from a detailed set of seasonally adjusted quarterly European sector accounts released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union and the European Central Bank (ECB). Household saving rate nearly stable in both zones In the first quarter of 2012, the gross saving rate of households was 11.6% in the EU27, compared with 11.5% in the fourth quarter of 2011. In the euro area, the household saving rate was 13.3% in the first quarter of 2012, unchanged compared with the previous quarter.
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Alex Vesely, (left) the brother of Jitka Vesel spoke of his sister's murder as Jonathan E. Lowy of the Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence listened. The Brady Center announced at a news conference that it has filed a lawsuit for wrongful death against Armslist.com, an Internet gun web site, on behalf of the family of Jitka Vesel, who was murdered by a stalker. They stood before a photo of Jitka's friend Theresa O'Rourke (left) and Jitka. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times
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A national gun-control group sued an Internet gun advertiser Wednesday on behalf of the family of a woman shot to death by a stalker.
The Brady Center filed the lawsuit against armslist.com in Cook County Circuit Court, claiming the website facilitates illegal gun sales to unlawful buyers with no background checks and no questions asked.
The website showcased the handgun used in the killing of Jitka Vesel last year in Oak Brook, officials say. Vesel's former boyfriend, Dmitry Smirnov, is serving a life sentence for the murder.
"It makes me angry that some murderous guy could go buy a gun on the Internet," said Vesel's brother, Alex Vasely.
The lawsuit is a "first of its kind" against a gun website, according to Brady Center attorney Jonathan Lowy.
The site lets users search for sellers in all 50 states, allowing them to evade laws requiring private sellers to deal only with gun buyers from the same state, the lawsuit said.
The Brady Center provided examples of private sellers who placed ads on the website saying they would ship guns out of state.
The lawsuit seeks compensation for Vesel's brother, who was named as a special administrator for his sister's estate.
"To prevent a further tragedy like that, I will do whatever it takes," he said.
In the Vesel case, Smirnov saw a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson advertised on armslist.com, officials said.
Smirnov — a resident of Vancouver, Canada — arranged with Benedict Ladera to buy the weapon outside a casino in Washington state.
During the private sale, Smirnov told Ladera he was from Canada and needed a gun because he was robbed. Ladera later pleaded guilty to the illegal transfer of a firearm to an out-of-state resident and was sentenced to a year in prison.
Smirnov had lived with Vesel briefly in 2008 after they met on the Internet. They broke up, and he moved back to his home in Vancouver. Three years later, he ambushed her in the parking lot of the Czechoslovak Heritage Museum where she was volunteering to prepare a celebration to honor the late Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.
Smirnov later explained to a judge that he shot Vesel on April 13, 2011, because "you can't just expect to just dump someone like that."
Armslist.com was also in the news in a mass killing in Brookfield, Wis., in November.
The website advertised a .40-caliber handgun that a private seller sold to Radcliff Haughton. He used the gun to kill three women including his wife, and wounded four others, in a spa before turning the gun on himself, authorities said.
Afterward, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett sent a letter to armslist.com calling for greater self-regulation for online purchases of firearms.
Barrett noted that federally licensed gun dealers are required by federal law to conduct background checks, but private sellers aren't.
EBay and Craigslist no longer advertise guns. But Armslist.com and other websites provide a market for private sellers and their customers, the mayor noted.
His letter pointed out that a 2011 investigation by New York City found that 62 percent of online sellers — including 54 percent of those on armslist.com — were willing to sell firearms to buyers who said they were unable to pass a background check.
Under federal law, private sellers must refuse potential buyers who they suspect are prohibited from purchasing a gun because of a felony conviction or a mental illness.
Although the lawsuit claims that armslist.com allows users to circumvent gun laws, the site does have a disclaimer that says: "Always comply with local, state, federal, and international law. ARMSLIST does not become involved in transactions between parties. Review our PRIVACY POLICY and TERMS OF USE for more information. Report Illegal Firearms Activity to 1-800-ATF-GUNS."
Some sellers using the site have posted similar warnings.
One of them, a private seller from Illinois, has an ad this week for an AR-15 assault rifle. He included this message with the ad: "If your local area does not allow the sale of assault rifles, I WILL NOT sell it to you. I don't make the rules, if you have a problem with that I advise that you write mayor Rahm Emanuel and express your frustrations."
Representatives of Armslist.com could not be reached for comment.


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Dinosaurs were, by far, the most diverse and amazing animals that ever walked the earth. Some dinosaurs were as big as trees Others were smaller than a chicken Some had big sharp teeth Some had hundreds of tiny flat teeth And some had feathers while others had scales. Because of this diversity, dinosaurs were the most successful land dwelling animals that ever lived. They lived everywhere on the earth in every type of environment They adapted to almost any condition. They are the first creatures that lived on earth.
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The scope or design of the apostle in writing to the Romans appears to have been, to answer the unbelieving, and to teach the believing Jew; to confirm the Christian and to convert the idolatrous Gentile; and to show the Gentile convert as equal with the Jewish, in respect of his religious condition, and his rank in the Divine favour. These several designs are brought into on view, by opposing or arguing with the infidel or unbelieving Jew, in favour of the Christian or believing Gentile. The way of a sinner's acceptance with God, or justification in his sight, merely by grace, through faith in the righteousness of Christ, without distinction of nations, is plainly stated. This doctrine is cleared from the objections raised by Judaizing Christians, who were for making terms of acceptance with God by a mixture of the law and the gospel, and for shutting out the Gentiles from any share in the blessings of salvation brought in by the Messiah. In the conclusion, holiness is further enforced by practical exhortations.
The apostle's commission. (1-7) Prays for the saints at Rome, and expresses his desire to see them. (8-15) The gospel way of justification by faith, for Jews and Gentiles. (16,17) The sins of the Gentiles set forth. (18-32)
Verses 1-7 The doctrine of which the apostle Paul wrote, set forth the fulfilment of the promises by the prophets. It spoke of the Son of God, even Jesus the Saviour, the promised Messiah, who came from David as to his human nature, but was also declared to be the Son of God, by the Divine power which raised him from the dead. The Christian profession does not consist in a notional knowledge or a bare assent, much less in perverse disputings, but in obedience. And all those, and those only, are brought to obedience of the faith, who are effectually called of Jesus Christ. Here is, 1. The privilege of Christians; they are beloved of God, and are members of that body which is beloved. 2. The duty of Christians; to be holy, hereunto are they called, called to be saints. These the apostle saluted, by wishing them grace to sanctify their souls, and peace to comfort their hearts, as springing from the free mercy of God, the reconciled Father of all believers, and coming to them through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Verses 8-15 We must show love for our friends, not only by praying for them, but by praising God for them. As in our purposes, so in our desires, we must remember to say, If the Lord will, Jas. 4:15 . Our journeys are made prosperous or otherwise, according to the will of God. We should readily impart to others what God has trusted to us, rejoicing to make others joyful, especially taking pleasure in communing with those who believe the same things with us. If redeemed by the blood, and converted by the grace of the Lord Jesus, we are altogether his; and for his sake we are debtors to all men, to do all the good we can. Such services are our duty.
Verses 16-17 In these verses the apostle opens the design of the whole epistle, in which he brings forward a charge of sinfulness against all flesh; declares the only method of deliverance from condemnation, by faith in the mercy of God, through Jesus Christ; and then builds upon it purity of heart, grateful obedience, and earnest desires to improve in all those Christian graces and tempers, which nothing but a lively faith in Christ can bring forth. God is a just and holy God, and we are guilty sinners. It is necessary that we have a righteousness to appear in before him: there is such a righteousness brought in by the Messiah, and made known in the gospel; a gracious method of acceptance, notwithstanding the guilt of our sins. It is the righteousness of Christ, who is God, coming from a satisfaction of infinite value. Faith is all in all, both in the beginning and progress of Christian life. It is not from faith to works, as if faith put us into a justified state, and then works kept us in it; but it is all along from faith to faith; it is faith pressing forward, and gaining the victory over unbelief.
Verses 18-25 The apostle begins to show that all mankind need the salvation of the gospel, because none could obtain the favour of God, or escape his wrath by their own works. For no man can plead that he has fulfilled all his obligations to God and to his neighbour; nor can any truly say that he has fully acted up to the light afforded him. The sinfulness of man is described as ungodliness against the laws of the first table, and unrighteousness against those of the second. The cause of that sinfulness is holding the truth in unrighteousness. All, more or less, do what they know to be wrong, and omit what they know to be right, so that the plea of ignorance cannot be allowed from any. Our Creator's invisible power and Godhead are so clearly shown in the works he has made, that even idolaters and wicked Gentiles are left without excuse. They foolishly followed idolatry; and rational creatures changed the worship of the glorious Creator, for that of brutes, reptiles, and senseless images. They wandered from God, till all traces of true religion must have been lost, had not the revelation of the gospel prevented it. For whatever may be pretended, as to the sufficiency of man's reason to discover Divine truth and moral obligation, or to govern the practice aright, facts cannot be denied. And these plainly show that men have dishonoured God by the most absurd idolatries and superstitions; and have degraded themselves by the vilest affections and most abominable deeds.
Verses 26-32 In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's words was shown: "Light was come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he that doeth evil hateth the light." The truth was not to their taste. And we all know how soon a man will contrive, against the strongest evidence, to reason himself out of the belief of what he dislikes. But a man cannot be brought to greater slavery than to be given up to his own lusts. As the Gentiles did not like to keep God in their knowledge, they committed crimes wholly against reason and their own welfare. The nature of man, whether pagan or Christian, is still the same; and the charges of the apostle apply more or less to the state and character of men at all times, till they are brought to full submission to the faith of Christ, and renewed by Divine power. There never yet was a man, who had not reason to lament his strong corruptions, and his secret dislike to the will of God. Therefore this chapter is a call to self-examination, the end of which should be, a deep conviction of sin, and of the necessity of deliverance from a state of condemnation.
Romans 1:1-17 . INTRODUCTION.
2. Which he had promised afore . . . in the holy scriptures--Though the Roman Church was Gentile by nation as it consisted mostly of proselytes to the Jewish faith to this Epistle), they are here reminded that in embracing Christ they had not cast off, but only the more profoundly yielded themselves to, Moses and the prophets ( Acts 13:32 Acts 13:33 ).
3, 4. Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord--the grand burden of this "Gospel of God."
made of the seed of David--as, according to "the holy scriptures," He behooved to be.
according to the flesh--that is, in His human nature (compare Romans 9:5 , John 1:14 ); implying, of course, that He had another nature, of which the apostle immediately proceeds to speak.
4. And declared--literally, "marked off," "defined," "determined," that is, "shown," or "proved."
to be the Son of God--Observe how studiously the language changes here. He "was MADE [says the apostle] of the seed of David, according to the flesh" ( Romans 1:3 ); but He was not made, He was only "declared [or proved] to BE the Son of God." So John 1:1 John 1:14 , "In the beginning WAS the Word . . . and the Word was MADE flesh"; and Isaiah 9:6 , "Unto us a Child is BORN, unto us a Son is GIVEN." Thus the Sonship of Christ is in no proper sense a born relationship to the Father, as some, otherwise sound divines, conceive of it. By His birth in the flesh, that Sonship, which was essential and uncreated, merely effloresced into palpable manifestation.
with power--This may either be connected with "declared," and then the meaning will be "powerfully declared" [LUTHER, BEZA, BENGEL, FRITZSCHE, ALFORD, &c.]; or (as in our version, and as we think rightly) with "the Son of God," and then the sense is, "declared to be the Son of God" in possession of that "power" which belonged to Him as the only-begotten of the Father, no longer shrouded as in the days of His flesh, but "by His resurrection from the dead" gloriously displayed and henceforth to be for ever exerted in this nature of ours [Vulgate, CALVIN, HODGE, PHILIPPI, MEHRING, &c.].
according to the spirit of holiness--If "according to the flesh" means here, "in His human nature," this uncommon expression must mean "in His other nature," which we have seen to be that "of the Son of God"--an eternal, uncreated nature. This is here styled the "spirit," as an impalpable and immaterial nature ( John 4:24 ), and "the spirit of holiness," probably in absolute contrast with that "likeness, of sinful flesh" which He assumed. One is apt to wonder that if this be the meaning, it was not expressed more simply. But if the apostle had said "He was declared to be the Son of God according to the Holy Spirit," the reader would have thought he meant "the Holy Ghost"; and it seems to have been just to avoid this misapprehension that he used the rare expression, "the spirit of holiness."
5. By whom--as the ordained channel.
we have received grace--the whole "grace that bringeth salvation" ( Titus 2:11 ).
and apostleship--for the publication of that "grace," and the organization of as many as receive it into churches of visible discipleship. (We prefer thus taking them as two distinct things, and not, with some good interpreters, as one--"the grace of apostleship").
for obedience to the faith--rather, "for the obedience of faith"--that is, in order to men's yielding themselves to the belief of God's saving message, which is the highest of all obedience.
for his name--that He might be glorified.
6. Among whom are ye also--that is, along with others; for the apostle ascribes nothing special to the Church of Rome (compare 1 Corinthians 14:36 ) [BENGEL].
of Christ Jesus--that is, either called "by Him" ( John 5:25 ), or the called "belonging to Him"; "Christ's called ones." Perhaps this latter sense is best supported, but one hardly knows which to prefer.
7. beloved of God--(Compare Deuteronomy 33:12 , Colossians 3:12 ).
and peace--the peace which Christ made through the blood of His cross ( Colossians 1:20 ), and which reflects into the believing bosom "the peace of God which passeth all understanding" ( Philippians 4:7 ).
from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ--"Nothing speaks more decisively for the divinity of Christ than these juxtapositions of Christ with the eternal God, which run through the whole language of Scripture, and the derivation of purely divine influences from Him also. The name of no man can be placed by the side of the Almighty. He only, in whom the Word of the Father who is Himself God became flesh, may be named beside Him; for men are commanded to honor Him even as they honor the Father ( John 5:23 )" [OLSHAUSEN].
8. your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world--This was quite practicable through the frequent visits paid to the capital from all the provinces; and the apostle, having an eye to the influence they would exercise upon others, as well as their own blessedness, given thanks for such faith to "his God through Jesus Christ," as being the source, according to his theology of faith, as of all grace in men.
9. For God . . . whom I serve--the word denotes religious service.
with my spirit--from my inmost soul.
in the gospel of his Son--to which Paul's whole religious life and official activity were consecrated.
is my witness, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers--so for the Ephesians ( Ephesians 1:15 Ephesians 1:15 ); so for the Philippians ( Philippians 1:3 Philippians 1:4 ); so for the Colossians ( Colossians 1:3 Colossians 1:4 ); so for the Thessalonians ( 1 Thessalonians 1:2 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ). What catholic love, what all-absorbing spirituality, what impassioned devotion to the glory of Christ among men!
10. Making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come to you--Though long anxious to visit the capital, he met with a number of providential hindrances ( Romans 1:13 , Romans 15:22 ; and nearly a quarter of a century elapsed, after his conversion, ere his desire was accomplished, and that only as "a prisoner of Jesus Christ." Thus taught that his whole future was in the hands of God, he makes it his continual prayer that at length the obstacles to a happy and prosperous meeting might be removed.
11, 12. For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift--not any supernatural gift, as the next clause shows, and compare 1 Corinthians 1:7 .
to the end that ye may be established.
12. That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me--"Not wishing to "lord it over their faith," but rather to be a "helper of their joy," the apostle corrects his former expressions: my desire is to instruct you and do you good, that is, for us to instruct and do one another good: in giving I shall also receive" [JOWETT]. "Nor is he insincere in so speaking, for there is none so poor in the Church of Christ who may not impart to us something of value: it is only our malignity and pride that hinder us from gathering such fruit from every quarter" [CALVIN]. How "widely different is the apostolic style from that of the court of Papal Rome!" [BENGEL].
13. oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, but was let--hindered.
hitherto--chiefly by his desire to go first to places where Christ was not known ( Romans 15:20-24 ).
that I might have some fruit--of my ministry
among you also, even as among other Gentiles--The GENTILE origin of the Church at Rome is here so explicitly stated, that those who conclude, merely from the Jewish strain of the argument, that they must have been mostly Israelites, decide in opposition to the apostle himself. (But to this Epistle.)
14, 15. I am debtor both to the Greeks--cultivated
and to the Barbarians--rude.
15. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also--He feels himself under an all-subduing obligation to carry the gospel to all classes of mankind, as adapted to and ordained equally for all ( 1 Corinthians 9:16 ).
16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel--(The words, "of Christ," which follow here, are not found in the oldest and best manuscripts). This language implies that it required some courage to bring to "the mistress of the world" what "to the Jews was a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness" ( 1 Corinthians 1:23 ). But its inherent glory, as God's life-giving message to a dying world, so filled his soul, that, like his blessed Master, he "despised the shame."
for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth--Here and in Romans 1:17 the apostle announces the great theme of his ensuing argument; SALVATION, the one overwhelming necessity of perishing men; this revealed IN THE GOSPEL MESSAGE; and that message so owned and honored of God as to carry, in the proclamation of it, GOD'S OWN POWER TO SAVE EVERY SOUL THAT EMBRACES IT, Greek and Barbarian, wise and unwise alike.
17. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed--that is (as the whole argument of the Epistle shows), GOD'S JUSTIFYING RIGHTEOUSNESS.
from faith to faith--a difficult clause. Most interpreters (judging from the sense of such phrases elsewhere) take it to mean, "from one degree of faith to another." But this agrees ill with the apostle's design, which has nothing to do with the progressive stages of faith, but solely with faith itself as the appointed way of receiving God's "righteousness." We prefer, therefore, to understand it thus: "The righteousness of God is in the gospel message, revealed (to be) from (or 'by') faith to (or 'for') faith," that is, "in order to be by faith received." (So substantially, MELVILLE, MEYER, STUART, BLOOMFIELD, &c.).
as it is written--( Habakkuk 2:4 ).
The just shall live by faith--This golden maxim of the Old Testament is thrice quoted in the New Testament--here; Galatians 3:11 , Hebrews 10:38 --showing that the gospel way of "LIFE BY FAITH," so far from disturbing, only continued and developed the ancient method.
On the foregoing verses, Note (1) What manner of persons ought the ministers of Christ to be, according to the pattern here set up: absolutely subject and officially dedicated to the Lord Jesus; separated unto the gospel of God, which contemplates the subjugation of all nations to the faith of Christ: debtors to all classes, the refined and the rude, to bring the gospel to them all alike, all shame in the presence of the one, as well as pride before the other, sinking before the glory which they feel to be in their message; yearning over all faithful churches, not lording it over them, but rejoicing in their prosperity, and finding refreshment and strength in their fellowship! (2) The peculiar features of the gospel here brought prominently forward should be the devout study of all who preach it, and guide the views and the taste of all who are privileged statedly to hear it: that it is "the gospel of God," as a message from heaven, yet not absolutely new, but on the contrary, only the fulfilment of Old Testament promise, that not only is Christ the great theme of it, but Christ in the very nature of God as His own Son, and in the nature of men as partaker of their flesh--the Son of God now in resurrection--power and invested with authority to dispense all grace to men, and all gifts for the establishment and edification of the Church, Christ the righteousness provided of God for the justification of all that believe in His name; and that in this glorious Gospel, when preached as such, there resides the very power of God to save Jew and Gentile alike who embrace it. (3) While Christ is to be regarded as the ordained Channel of all grace from God to men ( Romans 1:8 ), let none imagine that His proper divinity is in any respect compromised by this arrangement, since He is here expressly associated with "God the Father," in prayer for "grace and peace" (including all spiritual blessings) to rest upon this Church ( Romans 1:7 ). (4) While this Epistle teaches, in conformity with the teaching of our Lord Himself, that all salvation is suspended upon faith, this is but half a truth, and will certainly minister to self-righteousness, if dissociated from another feature of the same truth, here explicitly taught, that this faith in God's own gift--for which accordingly in the case of the Roman believers, he "thanks his God through Jesus Christ" ( Romans 1:8 ). (5) Christian fellowship, as indeed all real fellowship, is a mutual benefit; and as it is not possible for the most eminent saints and servants of Christ to impart any refreshment and profit to the meanest of their brethren without experiencing a rich return into their bosoms, so just in proportion to their humility and love will they feel their need of it and rejoice in it.
Romans 1:18 . WHY THIS DIVINELY PROVIDED RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NEEDED BY ALL MEN.
18. For the wrath of God--His holy displeasure and righteous vengeance against sin.
is revealed from heaven--in the consciences of men, and attested by innumerable outward evidences of a moral government.
against all ungodliness--that is, their whole irreligiousness, or their living without any conscious reference to God, and proper feelings towards Him.
and unrighteousness of men--that is, all their deviations from moral rectitude in heart, speech, and behavior. (So these terms must be distinguished when used together, though, when standing alone, either of them includes the other).
Romans 1:18-32 . THIS WRATH OF GOD, REVEALED AGAINST ALL INIQUITY, OVERHANGS THE WHOLE HEATHEN WORLD.
18. who hold--rather, "hold down," "hinder," or "keep back."
the truth in unrighteousness--The apostle, though he began this verse with a comprehensive proposition regarding men in general, takes up in the end of it only one of the two great divisions of mankind, to whom he meant to apply it; thus gently sliding into his argument. But before enumerating their actual iniquities, he goes back to the origin of them all, their stifling the light which still remained to them. As darkness overspreads the mind, so impotence takes possession of the heart, when the "still small voice" of conscience is first disregarded, next thwarted, and then systematically deadened. Thus "the truth" which God left with and in men, instead of having free scope and developing itself, as it otherwise would, was obstructed (compare Matthew 6:22 Matthew 6:23 , Ephesians 4:17 Ephesians 4:18 ).
19. Because that which may be--rather, "which is."
known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them--The sense of this pregnant statement the apostle proceeds to unfold in Romans 1:20 .
20. For the invisible things of him from--or "since"
the creation of the world are clearly seen--the mind brightly beholding what the eye cannot discern.
being understood by the things that are made--Thus, the outward creation is not the parent but the interpreter of our faith in God. That faith has its primary sources within our own breast ( Romans 1:19 ); but it becomes an intelligible and articulate conviction only through what we observe around us ("by the things which are made," Romans 1:20 ). And thus are the inner and the outer revelation of God the complement of each other, making up between them one universal and immovable conviction that God is. (With this striking apostolic statement agree the latest conclusions of the most profound speculative students of Theism).
even his eternal power and Godhead--both that there is an Eternal Power, and that this is not a mere blind force, or pantheistic "spirit of nature," but the power of a living Godhead.
so that they are without excuse--all their degeneracy being a voluntary departure from truth thus brightly revealed to the unsophisticated spirit.
21. Because that, when they knew God--that is, while still retaining some real knowledge of Him, and ere they sank down into the state next to be described.
they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful--neither yielded the adoration due to Himself, nor rendered the gratitude which His beneficence demanded.
but became vain--(compare Jeremiah 2:5 ).
in their imaginations--thoughts, notions, speculations, regarding God; compare Matthew 15:19 , Luke 2:35 , 1 Corinthians 3:20 , Greek.
and their foolish--"senseless," "stupid."
heart--that is, their whole inner man.
was darkened--How instructively is the downward progress of the human soul here traced!
22, 23. Professing themselves--"boasting," or "pretending to be"
wise, they became fools--"It is the invariable property of error in morals and religion, that men take credit to themselves for it and extol it as wisdom. So the heathen" ( 1 Corinthians 1:21 ) [THOLUCK].
23. And changed--or "exchanged."
the glory of the uncorruptible God into--or "for"
an image . . . like to corruptible man--The allusion here is doubtless to the Greek worship, and the apostle may have had in his mind those exquisite chisellings of the human form which lay so profusely beneath and around him as he stood on Mars' Hill; and "beheld their devotions." degradation of the living God, there was found "a lower deep" still.
and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and to creeping things--referring now to the Egyptian and Oriental worship. In the face of these plain declarations of the descent of man's religious belief from loftier to ever lower and more debasing conceptions of the Supreme Being, there are expositors of this very Epistle (as REICHE and JOWETT), who, believing neither in any fall from primeval innocence, nor in the noble traces of that innocence which lingered even after the fall and were only by degrees obliterated by wilful violence to the dictates of conscience, maintain that man's religious history has been all along a struggle to rise, from the lowest forms of nature worship, suited to the childhood of our race, into that which is more rational and spiritual.
24. Wherefore God also--in righteous retribution.
gave them up--This divine abandonment of men is here strikingly traced in three successive stages, at each of which the same word is used ( Romans 1:24 Romans 1:26 ; and Romans 1:28 , where the word is rendered "gave over"). "As they deserted God, God in turn deserted them; not giving them divine (that is, supernatural) laws, and suffering them to corrupt those which were human; not sending them prophets, and allowing the philosophers to run into absurdities. He let them do what they pleased, even what was in the last degree vile, that those who had not honored God, might dishonor themselves" [GROTIUS].
25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie--that is, the truth concerning God into idol falsehood.
and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator--Professing merely to worship the Creator by means of the creature, they soon came to lose sight of the Creator in the creature. How aggravated is the guilt of the Church of Rome, which, under the same flimsy pretext, does shamelessly what the heathen are here condemned for doing, and with light which the heathen never had!
who is blessed for ever! Amen--By this doxology the apostle instinctively relieves the horror which the penning of such things excited within his breast; an example to such as are called to expose like dishonor done to the blessed God.
26, 27. For this cause God gave them
for even their women--that sex whose priceless jewel and fairest ornament is modesty, and which, when that is once lost, not only becomes more shameless than the other sex, but lives henceforth only to drag the other sex down to its level.
did change, &c.--The practices here referred to, though too abundantly attested by classic authors, cannot be further illustrated, without trenching on things which "ought not to be named among us as become the saints." But observe how vice is here seen consuming and exhausting itself. When the passions, scourged by violent and continued indulgence in natural vices, became impotent to yield the craved enjoyment, resort was had to artificial stimulants by the practice of unnatural and monstrous vices. How early these were in full career, in the history of the world, the case of Sodom affectingly shows; and because of such abominations, centuries after that, the land of Canaan "spued out" its old inhabitants. Long before this chapter was penned, the Lesbians and others throughout refined Greece had been luxuriating in such debasements; and as for the Romans, TACITUS, speaking of the emperor Tiberius, tells us that new words had then to be coined to express the newly invented stimulants to jaded passion. No wonder that, thus sick and dying as was this poor humanity of ours under the highest earthly culture, its many-voiced cry for the balm in Gilead, and the Physician there, "Come over and help us," pierced the hearts of the missionaries of the Cross, and made them "not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ!"
27. and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet--alluding to the many physical and moral ways in which, under the righteous government of God, vice was made self-avenging.
28-31. gave them over--or "up"
to do those things which are not convenient--in the old sense of that word, that is, "not becoming," "indecorous," "shameful."
30. haters of God--The word usually signifies "God-hated," which some here prefer, in the sense of "abhorred of the Lord"; expressing the detestableness of their character in His sight (compare Proverbs 22:14 , Psalms 73:20 ). But the active sense of the word, adopted in our version and by the majority of expositors, though rarer, agrees perhaps better with the context.
32. Who knowing--from the voice of conscience, Romans 2:14 Romans 2:15
the judgment of God--the stern law of divine procedure.
that they which commit such things are worthy of death--here used in its widest known sense, as the uttermost of divine vengeance against sin: see Acts 28:4 .
not only do the same--which they might do under the pressure of temptation and in the heat of passion.
but have pleasure in them that do them--deliberately set their seal to such actions by encouraging and applauding the doing of them in others. This is the climax of our apostle's charges against the heathen; and certainly, if the things are in themselves as black as possible, this settled and unblushing satisfaction at the practice of them, apart from all the blinding effects of present passion, must be regarded as the darkest feature of human depravity.
On this section, Note (1) "The wrath of God" against sin has all the dread reality of a "revelation from heaven" sounding in the consciences of men, in the self-inflicted miseries of the wicked, and in the vengeance which God's moral government, sooner or later, takes upon all who outrage it; so this "wrath of God" is not confined to high-handed crimes, or the grosser manifestations of human depravity, but is "revealed" against all violations of divine law of whatever nature--"against all ungodliness" as well as "unrighteousness of men," against all disregard of God in the conduct of life as well as against all deviations from moral rectitude; and therefore, since no child of Adam can plead guiltless either of "ungodliness" or of "unrighteousness," to a greater or less extent, it follows that every human being is involved in the awful sweep of "the wrath of God" ( Romans 1:18 ). The apostle places this terrible truth in the forefront of his argument on justification by faith, that upon the basis of universal condemnation he might rear the edifice of a free, world-wide salvation; nor can the Gospel be scripturally preached or embraced, save as the good news of salvation to those that are all equally "lost." (2) We must not magnify the supernatural revelation which God has been pleased to make of Himself, through Abraham's family to the human race, at the expense of that older, and, in itself, lustrous revelation which He has made to the whole family of man through the medium of their own nature and the creation around them. Without the latter, the former would have been impossible, and those who have not been favored with the former will be without excuse, if they are deaf to the voice and blind to the glory of the latter ( Romans 1:19 Romans 1:20 ). (3) Wilful resistance of light has a retributive tendency to blunt the moral perceptions and weaken the capacity to apprehend and approve of truth and goodness; and thus is the soul prepared to surrender itself, to an indefinite extent, to error and sin ( Romans 1:21 , &c.). (4) Pride of wisdom, as it is a convincing evidence of the want of it, so it makes the attainment of it impossible ( Romans 1:22 ; and compare Matthew 11:25 , 1 Corinthians 3:18-20 ). (5) As idolatry, even in its most plausible forms, is the fruit of unworthy views of the Godhead, so its natural effect is to vitiate and debase still further the religious conceptions; nor is there any depth of degradation too low and too revolting for men's ideas of the Godhead to sink to, if only their natural temperament and the circumstances they are placed in be favorable to their unrestrained development ( Romans 1:23 Romans 1:25 ). The apostle had Greece and Egypt in his eye when he penned this description. But all the paganisms of the East at this day attest its accuracy, from the more elaborate idolatry of India and the simpler and more stupid idolatry of China down to the childish rudiments of nature worship prevalent among the savage tribes. Alas! Christendom itself furnishes a melancholy illustration of this truth; the constant use of material images in the Church of Rome and the materialistic and sensuous character of its entire service (to say nothing of the less offensive but more stupid service of the Greek Church,) debasing the religious ideas of millions of nominal Christians, and lowering the whole character and tone of Christianity as represented within their immense pale. (6) Moral corruption invariably follows religious debasement. The grossness of pagan idolatry is only equalled by the revolting character and frightful extent of the immoralities which it fostered and consecrated ( Romans 1:24 Romans 1:26 Romans 1:27 ). And so strikingly is this to be seen in all its essential features in the East at this day, that (as HODGE says) the missionaries have frequently been accused by the natives of having forged the whole of the latter part of this chapter, as they could not believe that so accurate a description of themselves could have been written eighteen centuries ago. The kingdoms of Israel and Judah furnish a striking illustration of the inseparable connection between religion and morals. Israel corrupted and debased the worship of Jehovah, and the sins with which they were charged were mostly of the grosser kind--intemperance and sensuality: the people of Judah, remaining faithful to the pure worship, were for a long time charged mostly with formality and hypocrisy; and only as they fell into the idolatries of the heathen around them, did they sink into their vices. And may not a like distinction be observed between the two great divisions of Christendom, the Popish and the Protestant? To test this, we must not look to Popery, surrounded with, and more or less influenced by, the presence and power of Protestantism; nor to Protestantism under every sort of disadvantage, internal and external. But look at Romanism where it has unrestrained liberty to develop its true character, and see whether impurity does not there taint society to its core, pervading alike the highest and the lowest classes; and then look at Protestantism where it enjoys the same advantages, and see whether it be not marked by a comparatively high standard of social virtue. (7) To take pleasure in what is sinful and vicious for its own sake, and knowing it to be such, is the last and lowest stage of human recklessness ( Romans 1:32 ). But (8) this knowledge can never be wholly extinguished in the breast of men. So long as reason remains to them, there is still a small voice in the worst of men, protesting, in the name of the Power that implanted it, "that they which do such things are worthy of death" ( Romans 1:32 ).


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Chicago fashion designer Maria Pinto has partnered with the Field Museum to display her own designs alongside the museum's own artifacts. | Al Podgorski~Sun-Times Media
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"Museums have always been part of my respite," fashion designer Maria Pinto said while walking to the Field Museum's conservation laboratory, where items are examined, documented, photographed and prepared.
These days, museums are also part of her resume. Opening Sept. 14, the exhibit "Fashion and the Field Museum Collection: Maria Pinto" features 25 Field Museum artifacts alongside eight of Pinto's designs.
The exhibition grew out of a lecture in 2010.
Alaka Wali, the museum's John Nuveen curator and director of the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change, approached Pinto about speaking to the women's board.
The discussion featured Pinto's designs alongside body-related museum artifacts — chosen by Pinto not because of any scientific reasoning, but simply because each inspired her.
The discussion was a success and spurred Wali to work toward something more permanent.
Two years later, Pinto heads inside the conservation laboratory to inspect artifacts before they get installed in her exhibit.
She gestures to details on a Sudanese ceremonial sword, its baby crocodile case sheathing the weapon as if swallowing it from blade tip to handle.
Pinto plans to display the sword alongside a crocodile-skin armor vest from Cameroon, an ancient Japanese gauntlet and a hippo-skin shield from Ethiopia.
"We're spoiled as designers these days," Pinto said about readily available materials, "but these cultures used what they had, and created such beauty."
Pinto said she took great pains in choosing each piece in the show.
She dug through the museum's collections — all securely stored in a giant vault — and photographed items she enjoyed.
As part of her editing process, she storyboarded them like a fashion collection.
"If it was up to me, we'd have 300 pieces," Pinto said, her chestnut eyes lighting up.
"Editing was so hard. I can't always explain what I chose. It was subconscious."
The armor display will also contain one of Pinto's creations — a deep emerald green alpaca jacket with horn buttons from her fall 2009 collection.
The coat to a women's suit, the jacket emulates a cavalry frock with buttons stacked in a long, precise vertical row.
"I've always considered what we wear as a kind of armor," Pinto said. "Because of that I'm attracted to things that are literally armor."
"The craftsmanship in Maria's work is amazing, even under a microscope," said conservationist Shelley Paine, who inspects each object and keeps it safe while on display for 10 long months.
"We all have that piece [of Pinto's] we want to run away with," she added with a grin.
While Pinto's work is a natural fit for the history museum, the exhibition style is wholly unique.
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Add dramatic dim lighting (also a
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There's an artifact from every content except Europe, and many are on display for the first time.
As for what Pinto hopes viewers get out of it: "I want them to say 'This is very different from what I've seen at the Field.' " And, markedly, from the fashion world.
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Madeline Nusser is a local freelance writer.


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Lots of interesting folk attending CP's funeral
So Iranian FM Salehi is going to Riyadh for the funeral. Not only does
this come right after the plot to kill the saudi ambassador but it comes
in the general tension over the two over bahrain, where there were offers
by Iranians to come visit (dependant on certain conditions). Also comes
days after official announcement of US withdrawal
Iran's Salehi due in Saudi Arabia
Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:39AM GMT
Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has left Tehran for the Saudi
capital of Riyadh to attend the funeral of the late Saudi Arabian Crown
Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz.
Salehi left Tehran for Riyadh early Tuesday afternoon, heading a
delegation to attend Abdul Aziz's funeral, IRIB reported.
The funeral procession is slated to be held later Tuesday in the presence
of senior officials of countries.
On Sunday, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered condolences to
Saudi Arabian King Abdullah over the demise of Saudi crown prince.
In a message, President Ahmadinejad said he hoped that God would grant the
bereaved family the patience to bear the loss.
Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, who was next in line to the
Saudi throne, died at the age of 81 at a New York hospital on Saturday.
Bin Abdul Aziz had served as the defense minister of the Saudi kingdom for
the past five decades.
In July, the ailing Saudi crown prince underwent an operation in a New
York hospital.
Iranian FM Leaves for Saudi Arabia
14:03 | 2011-10-25
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi left Tehran for a
several-hour visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
Today, Riyadh is witnessing a funeral procession for the deceased Saudi
Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdel-Aziz.
Salehi was due to pay a visit to Lebanon today, but he postponed the trip
in a bid to attend the funeral ceremony in Saudi Arabia.
Sources in Lebanon said Salehi put off his visit to Lebanon until he
returns from Saudi Arabia.
Speaking to the state-run National News Agency, Lebanon's Foreign Minister
Adnan Mansour confirmed that Salehi's two-day trip to Beirut had been
postponed rather than canceled, attributing the development to "urgent
Salehi was due to meet with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, Prime
Minister Najib Mikati and Mansour during his visit to Lebanon Monday and
The Iranian Embassy in Beirut said the trip was cancelled due to the
absence of Suleiman and Mikati from the country.
Sleiman and Mikati are traveling to Saudi Arabia today to offer
condolences over the death of the Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz
On 10/25/11 6:06 AM, Benjamin Preisler wrote:
still combine
Afghan president leaves Kabul to attend Saudi price's funeral
Excerpt from report by private Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press news
Kabul, 25 October: The Afghan president has left for Riyadh [capital of
Saudi Arabia] to attend the funeral of Saudi Crown Prince [Sultan Bin
Abd-al-Aziz al-Sa'ud].
President Karzai went to the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, to attend
the late Crown Prince Sultan's funeral on Tuesday.
A statement which Afghan Islamic Press [AIP] received from the Afghan
presidential palace says that a large number of world leaders would
participate in Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abd-al-Aziz's funeral and he
would be buried in Riyadh this afternoon, 25 October.
[Passage omitted: a number of leaders arrived in Riyadh; the Afghan
foreign minister is accompanying the president; the prince died in New
York on 22 October]
Source: Afghan Islamic Press news agency, Peshawar, in Pashto 0729 gmt
25 Oct 11
BBC Mon SA1 SAsPol sa/qhk
On 10/25/2011 12:04 PM, Benjamin Preisler wrote:
Wow so this is turning into quite the affair. We've got Rifaat
al-Asaad, Tantawi, Salehi, Mikati, Biden, and Zardari all rolling into
town for the CP's funeral. Rifaat and Salehi stand out to me although
this is Tantawi's first trip abroad so that's significant too. When
else're you going to get all these dudes in the same room outside the
UN? Reminds me of old Soviet state funerals. Originals not in English.
Syrian president's exiled uncle in Riyadh
October 25, 2011
Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's exiled uncle has arrived
in Riyadh to offer his condolences over the death of Saudi Crown
Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz, Saudi news agency SPA said Tuesday.
"Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has
arrived in Riyadh to offer his condolences to King Abdullah bin Abdul
Aziz," said SPA.
The announcement comes as ties soured between the conservative Sunni
kingdom and Syria, where the United Nations says more than 3,000
people, mostly civilians, have been killed since mid-March in the
regime's crackdown on dissent.
King Abdullah on August 8 recalled the Saudi ambassador in Damascus
for consultations and called on the Syrian authorities to "halt the
death machine... before it's too late."
Rifaat, who now lives in London, was forced into exile in 1984
following a power struggle with Assad's late father, Hafez.
Rifaat, who then led an elite troop, is accused of playing a major
role in a 1982 massacre in Hama, bombing the town in central Syria
indiscriminately to put down an uprising by the Sunni Muslim
An estimated 20,000 people were killed in the Hama massacre.
Syrian Vice President Faruq al-Sharaa will represent Bashar at the
funeral, reported Al-Watan daily which is close to the the regime.
-AFP/NOW Lebanon
Egyptian military ruler to attend Saudi prince's funeral
October 25, 2011
Egypt's military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi was headed to
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to attend the funeral of Crown Prince Sultan
bin Abdul Aziz, the official MENA news agency reported.
It is Tantawi's first trip abroad since he took power in February when
a popular uprising ousted Hosni Mubarak.
The body of Prince Sultan, who died Saturday in a New York hospital,
was repatriated to Riyadh late Monday for a subdued funeral, in line
with strict Islamic traditions applied in the ultra-conservative
Tantawi is accompanied on his trip by members of the Supreme Council
of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which he heads, and Electricity Minister
Hassan Yunis.
-AFP/NOW Lebanon
Iran foreignian minister to attend Saudi prince's funeral
October 25, 2011
Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, will attend the funeral
Tuesday of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz, the
website of Iranian state television reported.
"Mr Salehi will leave Tehran for Riyadh, leading a high-ranking
delegation, to attend the funeral of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul
Aziz," Hassan Ghashghavi, a deputy foreign minister, told the
The body of Prince Sultan, who died Saturday in a New York hospital,
was repatriated to Riyadh late Monday for a subdued funeral, in line
with strict Islamic traditions applied in the ultra-conservative
The funeral was to be attended by US Vice President Joe Biden,
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib
Razak and other foreign dignitaries.
Tensions have heightened between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the past two
weeks, since US allegations that Iranian officials tried to organize
the assassination of the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
Although Tehran has rubbished the accusations, Riyadh has taken them
seriously and stated it was pondering "a suitable response."
Even before the plot claims, the ties between the two regional rivals
were strained over Saudi Arabia's military assistance to Bahrain to
put down pro-democracy protests by Shia demonstrators.
-AFP/NOW Lebanon
Mikati heads to Saudi Arabia for Crown Prince's funeral
October 25, 2011
Prime Minister Najib Mikati traveled to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to
take part in the funeral of late Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel
Aziz, the National News Agency reported.
Mikati will be accompanied by an official delegation that includes
ministers Mohammad Safadi, Adnan Mansour, Walid Daouq, Ahmad Karami
and Ghazi Aridi, the report added.
The crown prince, aged around 86, who had served as the kingdom's
defense chief for nearly five decades, had been in the United States
since mid-June for medical treatment. He died on Saturday morning.
-NOW Lebanon
Sudanese leader to attend funeral of Saudi crown prince 25 October
Text of report by state-owned Sudanese radio on 25 October
The president of the republic, FM Umar al-Bashir, will on Tuesday [25
October] take part in the funeral of the late Crown Prince Sultan Bin
Abd-al-Aziz al-Sa'ud in Saudi Arabia, which will take place today. The
president of the republic will offer his condolences to the Custodian
of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdallah Bin Abd-al-Aziz.
Source: Republic of Sudan Radio, Omdurman, in Arabic 0700 gmt 25 Oct
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