Romans 1:29

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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Ambrosiaster

AD 400
Paul put wickedness at the head of the list, because he thought that evil and covetousness depended on it. He then added malice, from which flows envy, murder, strife and deceit. After this he put malignity, which generates gossip and slander. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Being filled with all iniquity. He passeth to many other sins and crimes of the heathens. (Witham)

John Chrysostom

AD 407
Notice how everything here is intensive— ”filled” and “with all.” Having named maliciousness in general, Paul goes on to discuss the particulars, and these too he mentions in excess—”full of envy,” etc.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
See how everything here is intensitive. For he says, being filled, and with all, and having named maliciousness in general, he also further pursues the particulars, and these too in excess, saying, Full of envy, murder, for the latter of these comes from the former, as was shown in Abel's case and Joseph's, and then after saying, debate, deceit, malignity,

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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