It occurs in the papyri for legal instruction . Here the present passive participle retains the accusative of the thing. That is done towards God , but never without punishment , Paul means to say. That very thing, not something different. The precise meaning turns on the context, here plainly the physical and moral decay or rottenness that follows sins of the flesh as all men know.
Nature writes in one's body the penalty of sin as every doctor knows.
Plato used aiwnios for perpetual. It is curious how prone we are to give in and to give out in doing the good which somehow becomes prosy or insipid to us. Cf. ekluw , old verb to loosen out. As we have occasion at any time. For the obvious reason that they belong to the same family with necessary responsibility.