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Who (οἵτινες)
Explanatory and classifying: men of the class which.
Being past feeling (ἀπηλγηκοτες)
Only here in the New Testament. Lit, the verb means to cease from feeling pain. Hence to be apathetic.
Have given themselves over (παρέδωκαν)
See on Mat 4:12; see on Mat 11:27; see on Mat 26:2; see on Mar 4:29; see on Luk 1:2; see on 1Pe 2:23. The verb is frequently used of Christ giving Himself for the world. Rom 4:25; Gal 2:20; Eph 5:5, Eph 5:25. It indicates a complete surrender. Meyer says, “with frightful emphasis.” Where men persistently give themselves up to evil, God gives them up to its power. See Rom 1:24.
Lasciviousness (ἀσελγείᾷ)
See on Mar 7:22.
To work (εἰς ἐργασίαν)
Lit., to a working. In Act 19:25, used of a trade. Not precisely in this sense here, yet with a shade of it. They gave themselves up as to the prosecution of a business. The εἰς unto is very forcible.
With greediness (ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ)
The noun commonly rendered covetousness: in an eager grasping after more and more uncleanness. Not with, but in, as the state of mind in which they wrought evil.