“For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:”
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry — the indictment of pre-Christian behavior catalogs vices characteristic of pagan society: aselgeia (debauchery), epithymia (lust), methe (drunkenness), kōmoi (carousing), potai (drinking parties), and eidōlōtreia (idolatry). The 'enough time' (hikanos, sufficient) suggests that the era of such behavior should be behind believers.
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