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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Lest there be any fornicator: or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright." And wherein was Esau a "fornicator"? He does not say that Esau was a fornicator. "Lest there be any fornicator," he says, then, "follow after holiness: lest there be any, as Esau, profane": that is, gluttonous, without self-control, worldly, selling away things spiritual. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
He does not say that Esau was a fornicator, but stop here: "lest there be any fornicator among you." For although he hints that some among them were vile, he does not wish to expose them, but feigns ignorance so that they might be corrected. Then again he said: "or profane person,... like Esau," that is, insatiable, worldly, one who defiles and tramples upon what is spiritual; for he gave away, and moreover for "one morsel of food," the privilege of the birthright given to him by God (Gen. 25). …
Oecumenius
"that no one is sexually immoral." He did not say sexually immoral, referring to Esau, but it is placed in opposition to what preceded, "Pursue holiness." The defiled is indeed placed as if it refers to Esau; however, he called him a glutton, because he had sold away God's gift, namely the birthright, for a single meal. For it is written in the book of Genesis: "And the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field: but Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
692. – Then when he says, Lest there be any one immoral [fornicator] or profane, as Esau, he warns them to avoid sins contrary to holiness, to which are specifically opposed carnal sins, such as gluttony and lust, which are completed in carnal delight, by which the mind is defiled. Therefore, they defile the mind and the flesh. …
Bonaventure
The tenth plague was the death of the firstborn, by which the carnal are struck, like Esau. For the Apostle says: "Lest anyone among you be a fornicator, like Esau, and lose his birthright." Carnal concupiscence took from us our noble generation, by which we would all be born innocent and heirs of paradise, and it makes us be born in death and guilt and the loss of the birthright.
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