<p>2:24 The Jews were so sensitive to honouring God&rsquo;s Name that they wouldn&rsquo;t even pronounce it. And yet their hypocrisy led to it being blasphemed world-wide. This is Paul&rsquo;s point- that hypocrisy is as bad a sin as the crudest, most widely spread blasphemy.&nbsp;</p><p><i>For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written</i>- In Is. 52:5, where God says that Judah in Babylon had caused His Name to be blasphemed, but (the prophesy continues) because of that He would reveal His Name to His people as it is in His Son, and they would ultimately accept Him and thus the blasphemy of God&rsquo;s Name would cease. Yet Paul is writing in Romans to Jewish Christians. Clearly they had not really grasped Christ as intended.</p>