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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
"They count it pleasure to revel in daily luxury," that is, in daily gratification of the throat they place their true goal, their true and beloved prudence and pleasure. The order of the following discourse is as follows: shameless and defilers; "their heart is trained in covetousness," that is, skilled in covetousness; sons of cursing; feasting together with you; having eyes full of lust and unceasing sin; they entice unstable souls, whom Paul also called "women laden with sins" (2 Tim. …
Oecumenius
Spots and blemishes party in their errors against you, having eyes full of adultery, and who cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. "Spots and blemishes." The order is taken as follows: Spots and blemishes (Σπίλοι καὶ μῶμοι) are the heart of those who are exercised in plunder, that is, exercised through plunder, accursed children, assaulting you, having eyes full of adultery, and who cannot cease from sin: they entice unstable souls, which Paul also called women burdened with sins. (2 Tim. …
Western Saints
Bede
Thinking of the delights of the day as impurities and stains. Pleasure is taken both in a good and an evil sense. In the good sense, it is called the paradise of delight, and as it is sung in the psalm: And they shall drink from the torrent of Your pleasure (Psalm 35). In an evil sense, as Solomon says: For youth and pleasure are vain (Ecclesiastes 11). But it is also used indifferently, according to what Sarah said: After I am old, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure? (Genesis 18). …
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