Re: Boink the Step-Mother? – Look Out Below (1 Cor 5:5)
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:21 pm
Maybe. And the syntax is also difficult, so that really doesn't help. And Paul says that as this one is handed over to Satan it is "for the destruction of the flesh in order that the spirit will be saved in the day of the Lord". Whose spirit will be saved? The one whose flesh is destroyed? Or the collective spirit of the Corinthian community perhaps?iskander wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:13 pmWho can tell what " destruction of the flesh" may have meant for Paul?, but it is likely that Paul may have meant that the 'sinner' will not be resuscitated, his death will be eternal.Stefan Kristensen wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:04 pmI think it also most likely means excommunication, but there seems to be more to it. A curse being involved seems plausible as far as I can see from this thread. But I still think the phrase "destruction of the flesh" is strange. Many commentators simply believe that Paul is saying that he must be excommunicated and this automatically means that he is going to be executed by the authorities. But that really doesn't make sense to me.iskander wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:00 pm It is an excommunication. The individual is cut-off from the community; In the Hebrew Bible, to "cut off" (Hebrew: כרת karath), is a form of punishment which may mean killing or excluding from the people.[2][3] The Book of Numbers states that anyone who sins deliberately or high-handedly is to be cut-off from the community:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareth
It became weapon of the punitive arsenal of the RCC in medieval times.
Paul is , perhaps, the first documented case of excommunication latae sententiae ,( 1 Cor 5: 1-8) Et dicuntur homines tradi Satanae, cum a tota ecclesia separantur.
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