Men have the truth about the Creator, but they “hold the truth in unrighteousness” (v. 18), where the verb translated as “hold” (katechō) or “suppress” (ESV) means to seize, restrain, or hold back from making progress.53 They take hold of the truth, but use it for their own purposes rather than surrender to God. Sinners strive against the evidence all around them and in their own minds, lest they turn back to the Lord.
Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley, Reformed Systematic Theology: Revelation and God, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019), 208.
人拥有关于造物主的真理，但他们“行不义阻挡真理”（18节），其中被翻译为“持有hold”的动词（katechō）或“压制suppress”（ESV），意思是抓住、限制或阻止他们掌握的真理53，但将其用于自己的目的，而不是臣服于上帝。罪人竭尽全力反对他们周围和自己心中的证据，免得他们回转归向主。
