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Colossians 3:7

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

"In the which ye also," he saith, "walked aforetime," and (afterward) became obedient. He points them out as still in them, and praises them, saying, "But now do ye also put away all these, anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking."

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Theophylact of Ohrid

This word is not without praise, because now they no longer live in lusts; but there was a time when they did live so, for they were pagans.

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Western Saints

Thomas Aquinas

The other reason they have for avoiding these sins is that once they did live that way; and so Paul says, in these you once walked, from bad to worse. He gives them this reason, first, because of what Peter says: "Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry" (1 Pet. 4:3). …

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