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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
The Apostle speaks as if to say: have you really not had your fill, having spent so much time in worldly pleasures? Did you not live in the same impurity as the pagans? And then he names certain types of impurity.
Oecumenius
"For we have spent." Whether we have abundantly operated the will of the Gentiles in our past life: that is, we have lived in a Gentile manner, walking according to the customs of the Gentiles. Therefore, the Gentiles now marvel at this. "For we have spent." As if Peter were saying: But what? Is it not enough for you that for such a long time you have indulged in lust? Have you not lived in a similarly reckless manner as the Gentiles? And what those filthiness and obscenities were, he specifically mentions, confusing them. …
Clement of Alexandria
"For," says Peter, "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." We have as a limit the cross of the Lord, by which we are fenced and hedged about from our former sins. …
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