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Had our conversation (ἀνεστράφημεν)
See on the kindred noun conversation, 1Pe 1:15. Rev., more simply, lived.
Fulfilling (ποιοῦντες)
Rev., doing. The verb implies carrying out or accomplishing, so that the A.V. is more nearly correct. See on Rom 7:15; see on Joh 3:21.
Desires (θελήματα)
Lit., willings. See on Col 3:12.
Mind (διανοιῶν)
More strictly, thoughts. See on Mar 12:30; see on Luk 1:51.
By nature children of wrath
See on Eph 2:2. Children (τέκνα) emphasizes the connection by birth; see on Joh 1:12. Wrath (ὀργῆς) is God's holy hatred of sin; His essential, necessary antagonism to everything evil, Rom 1:18. By nature (φύσει) accords with children, implying what; is innate. That man is born with a sinful nature, and that God and sin are essentially antagonistic, are conceded on all hands: but that unconscious human beings come into the world under the blaze of God's indignation, hardly consists with Christ's assertion that to little children belongs the kingdom of heaven. It is true that there is a birth-principle of evil, which, if suffered to develop, will bring upon itself the wrath of God. Whether Paul means more than this I do not know.
Others (οἱ λοιποί)
Rev., correctly, the rest.