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Among whom also we all; we apostles and believers of the Jews. Either Paul by a coenosis reckons himself among them, though not guilty with them; or rather, though he were not an idolater as the Ephesians, yet he had been a blasphemer, and a persecutor, 1Ti_1:13; and though he were blameless as to the righteousness of the law, Phi_3:6, yet that was only as to his outward conversation, and still he might fulfil the desires of a fleshly mind.
Had our conversation; walked in the same way after the course of the world, &c.
In the lusts of our flesh: flesh is here taken more generally for depraved natures, the whole principle of corruption in man.
Fulfilling the desires of the flesh; the inferior and sensitive faculties of the soul, as appears by the opposition of the flesh to the mind.
And of the mind; the superior and rational powers, to denote the depravation of the whole man even in his best part, and which seems to have rectitude left in it: to the former belongs the filthiness of the flesh, to the latter that of the spirit, 2Co_7:1: see Rom_8:7 Gal_5:19-21.
And were by nature; not merely by custom or imitation, but by nature as now constituted since the fall.
The children of wrath, by a Hebraism, for obnoxious to wrath; as sons of death, 1Sa_26:16, for worthy of or liable to death.