Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
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Gill's Exposition
Who being past feeling,.... Their consciences being cauterized or seared as with a red hot iron, which is the consequence of judicial hardness; so that they have lost all sense of sin, and do not feel…
Barnes' Notes
Who being past feeling - Wholly hardened in sin. There is a total want of all emotion on moral subjects. This is an accurate description of the state of a sinner. He has no “feeling,” no emotion. He…
Adam Clarke
5. Who being past feeling - Οιτινες απηλγηκοτες. The verb απαλγειν signifies,
1. To throw off all sense of shame, and to be utterly devoid of pain, for committing unrighteous acts.
2. To be desperate,…
The apostle having gone through his exhortation to mutual love, unity, and concord, in the foregoing verses, there follows in these an exhortation to Christian purity and holiness of heart and life,…
Cambridge Bible
who being past feeling The Gr. relative pronoun indicates a certain conditionality; almost as if it were, "as being thosewho." But the shade is too slight for translation. "Past feeling" :lit.,…
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