JMNT(i)
3 For the time having gone by [
is]
sufficient (= you have spent enough time, in the past,)
to have accomplished (to have worked down and effected)
the thing desired by (or: the intention of)
the multitudes (the nations; the swarms of ethnic groups living together; the non-Jews; the Gentiles),
having gone from place to place in indecent and licentious debaucheries (deeds of loose conduct),
in rushing passions and over-desires, in excesses bubbling over with wine, in carousing and festive processions, in drinking parties, and in forbidden (i.e., illegal in respect to the natural laws of reason, conscience and common decency)
idolatries (or: being a servant to or worshiping external forms or appearances, phantoms of the mind, unsubstantial or reflected images, or conveyed impressions),
4 within which they, repeatedly speaking abusively, slanderously, injuriously and giving a false image [
about you, as well as about other folks]
, are constantly struck with surprise, thinking it strange and foreign that you folks are not always running together with [
them]
, as a mob, into the same flooding (pouring forth)
of unhealthiness and lack of safety (or: dissoluteness of a course devoid of salvation).