“Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”
All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts — even Jewish believers shared this bondage to the epithymiai tēs sarkos ('desires of the flesh') and dianoia ('thoughts'), the entire human race under judgment, phusei tekna orgēs ('by nature children of wrath').
Church Fathers on Ephesians 2:3
There is, we know, a corporal, and there is also a spiritual, dying. Of the first it is no crime to partake, nor is there any peril in it, inasmuch as there is no blame attached to it, for it is a matter of nature, not of deliberate choice. It had its origin in the transgression of the first-created man, and thenceforward in its issue it passed into a nature, and, at all events, will quickly be brought to a termination; whereas this spiritual dying, being a matter of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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