Theophylact of Ohrid, on Rom 1:23

“And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping things.”

“He who changes, before changing, has in himself something different. They too, then, had knowledge, but they destroyed it, and, having desired to have something different in place of what they had, they lost even what they had. They rendered the glory of the incorruptible God not to a man, but to an image of corruptible man, and, what is worse than this, they descended to creeping things, even to their images. To such a degree had they lost their minds! The knowledge that ought to have been held concerning the Being who incomparably surpasses all things, they applied to an object incomparably more contemptible than all things. And the "glory" of God consists in knowing that God created all things, provides for all things, and the rest that is fitting to Him. Who exactly erred in what has been said? The wisest of men, the Egyptians; for they worshipped even images of creeping things.”

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