Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Ver. 19. Who being past feeling] Under a dead and dedolent disposition, being desperately sinful. Some there are of cauterized consciences, that, like devils, will have nothing to do with God, because loth to be tormented before their time. They feeling such horrible hard hearts, and privy to such notorious sins, they cast away souls and all for lust, and so perish woefully, because they lived wickedly; having through custom in evil contracted such a hardness, as neither ministry, nor misery, nor miracle, nor mercy could possibly mollify. As ducklings dive at any little thing thrown by a man at them, yet shrink not at the heaven's great thunder; so is it with these, till at length they become like the smith's dog, whom neither the hammers above him nor the sparks of fire falling round about him can awake.
Have given themselves over] They make it their felicity to pass their time lasciviously, as though they were born (as Boccas saith of himself) per l'amore dalle dame, for the love of women.