Commas do not appear in the Greek manuscripts, so their placement is a matter of judgement on the basis of the apparent meaning of the text.

It is true that putting the comma after "men" can produce a more general understanding of "men" in English: With the comma, we might understand (1) the wrath of God is revealed against all men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness; vs. without the comma, (2) the wrath of God is revealed against those men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.

But, for argument's sake, let's suppose that number (2) is the meaning Paul intends to convey. We shall then ask, which men are those? And we need only turn to ch. 3, beginning with v. 9 [NASB updated]:

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What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; as it is written, "There is none righteous, not even one; There is none who understands, There is none who seeks for God; All have turned aside, togther they have become useless; There is none who does good, not even one." "Their throat is an open grave, With their tongues they keep deceiving," "The poison of asps is under their lips"; "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness"; "Their feet are swift to shed blood, Destruction and misery are in their paths, And the path of peace they have not known." "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God; because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law [comes] the knowledge of sin.

Of course, it isn't true that each individual is guilty of every particular deed Paul mentions: all are not murderers any more than all men trade the natural use of the woman to lie with men. But the effect is rather as James writes, that "whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one [point], he is guilty of all" (Jas. 1:10).

Last edited by CovenantInBlood; Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:00 AM.
Kyle

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.