Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 2:3

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past, in the lusts of our flesh , fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind , and were by nature the children of wrath aswell as others.

We Apostles and Believers of the Iews. 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, 1 Tim. 1.13. and though he were blameless as to the Righteousness of the Law, Phil. 3.6. yet that was onely as to his outward conversation, and still he might fulfill the desires of a fleshly mind.

Walked in the same way after the course of the world, &c.

Flesh is here taken more generally for depraved Natures, the whole principle of Corruption in man.

The inferiour and sensitive faculties of the Soul, as appears by the opposition of the Flesh to the Mind.

The Superiour 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, 2 Cor. 7.1. see Rom. 8.7. Gal. 5.19, 20, 21.

Not merely by custome or imitation, but by Nature as now constituted since the Fall.

By an Hebraism for Obnoxious to Wrath, as Sons of Death, 1 Sam. 26.16. for worthy of, or liable to Death.

Marginal references: Tit. 3.3.; Gr. The Wills.; Psal. 51.5 Rom. 5.12, 14.