ACC ~ Ephesians 4 v19a

GIVING THEMSELVES UP TO LICENTIOUSNESS. AMBROSIASTER: They have lost their moral compass through lack of hope in a future life. Living now as if they had no future, they pollute their own lives with the foulest behaviors. They refuse to submit themselves to the most elementary requirement of faith, which brings their pleasure-seeking into accountability in relation to the future life. It is this future life that these people declare to be ridiculous. Hence they pretend to have a right to debauch themselves. They covet the goods of others with ravenous greed, as though there were no life whatever after this little space. EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 4.19.

THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CALLOUSNESS. CHRYSOSTOM: If the cause of their licentiousness is ignorance, why reproach them? Why not just inform them? For the one who is ignorant should not justly be punished or reproached but taught what he does not know. But how quickly Paul takes away from them this easy excuse: “They have become callous and given themselves up to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of uncleanness.” … He shows here that the cause of their hardening was their own voluntary way of life. Their way of life arose freely out of their own laxity and lack of remorse. HOMILY ON EPHESIANS 13.4.17-19.

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