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.
人擁有關於造物主的真理，但他們“行不義阻擋真理”（18節），其中被翻譯為“持有hold”的動詞（katechō）或“壓制suppress”（ESV），意思是抓住、限制或阻止他們掌握的真理53，但將其用於自己的目的，而不是臣服於上帝。罪人竭盡全力反對他們周圍和自己心中的證據，免得他們迴轉歸向主。
