θεόν.83 Sometimes the change from τὸν θεόν to θεόν is clearly without importance, according with certain well-known grammatical principles (such as Granville Sharp’s “rule”), as in Luke 20:37 (ὡς λέγει κύριον τὸν θεὸν Ἀβραὰμ καὶ θεὸν Ἰσαὰκ καὶ θεὸν Ἰακώβ) where the God of Abraham cannot be considered in any sense distinct from the God of Isaac and Jacob (see Acts 7:32). Yet in Romans 1:21 the same change cannot be deemed insignificant. Those who clearly perceived, through the visible