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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Lest he should seem to be hinting at them by delaying in his discourse so long over the unnatural sin, he next passes on to other kinds of sins also, and for this cause he carries on the whole of his discourse as of other persons. And as he always does when discoursing with believers about sins, and wishing to show that they are to be avoided, he brings the Gentiles in, and says, "Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the other Gentiles which know not God." (1 Thess. iv. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Here, for the third time, he repeats the same thought and uses the same word, saying: "gave over." As the cause of their being abandoned by God, he everywhere presents the impiety of people, as he does now as well. "And even as they did not care to retain God in their knowledge, He gave them over" to passions. The offense they committed against God, he says, was not a sin of ignorance, but an intentional one. …
Justin Martyr
But if all nations are blessed in Christ, and we of all nations believe in Him, then He is indeed the Christ, and we are those blessed by Him. God formerly gave the sun as an object of worship, as it is written, but no one ever was seen to endure death on account of his faith in the sun; but for the name of Jesus you may see men of every nation who have endured and do endure all sufferings, rather than deny Him.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says and as they liked not, he shows that they fell under a penalty of justice. First, he shows that previous sin brought them to these sins; second, he enumerates the differences among these sins, at being filled with all iniquity. He mentions the preceding sin when he says and as they liked not to have God in their knowledge. …
Bonaventure
Certain things are sins in such a way that they are also the punishment of sin. In a special manner, those are called sins and punishments of sin which have joined to them sorrow and sadness, such as envy, sloth, and the like. Less specially, those are so called which have joined to them either the mere depravation of nature or disgrace, as are those with respect to which the sinner is said to be given over to a reprobate mind. …
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