“Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.”
Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed — the result: apēlgeō ('lost sensitivity,' abandoned shame), paradidōmi ('given themselves over') to aselgeia ('sensuality,' licentiousness), the ergon akatharsias ('work of uncleanness') en pleonexia ('in greed,' covetousness).
Church Fathers on Ephesians 4:19
These words are not addressed to the Ephesians only, but are now addressed also to you; and that, not from me, but from Paul; or rather, neither from me nor from Paul, but from the grace of the Spirit. And we then ought so to feel, as though that grace itself were uttering them. And now hear what it says. “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, being darkened in their understanding,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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