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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
The Apostle calls "conformity" the being carried along by present circumstances. For even now some foolish people say that one must adapt to circumstances. But since surrendering oneself to the will of circumstances is frivolous, the Apostle commands that whether they had held to this until now in knowledge or in ignorance, from henceforth they should conform themselves to Him Who called them, Who is truly Holy, and themselves become holy.
Oecumenius
As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, in your ignorance: but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written: "Be holy, for I am holy." [Lev. 19:2] Conforming [Συσχηματιζειν], however, means to shape and adapt oneself to the present circumstances. This is also what some foolish people now say: Conform yourself to affairs and business. …
Clement of Alexandria
And Peter in his epistle says the same: "So that your faith and hope may be in God, because you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth," "as obedient children, not behaving after the fashion of the lusts in which in your ignorance you formerly indulged; but as he who has called you is holy, so also must you be holy in all your conduct; as it is written, Be ye holy for I am holy."
Western Saints
Bede
As children of obedience, etc. Rightly he wishes them to be children of obedience, whom he had called elect in the preface to the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.
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