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Fornication is commonly reported among you; and such fornication as is not heard among the Heathens, that the son should take the wife of his father. And you are inflated; but should you not rather sit in grief that he who hath wrought this work might be put away from you ?
But I, while distant from you in body, am near you in spirit, and now judge, as if near you, him who hath done this; that in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha all of you be assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and you deliver this (man) to Satana for the destruction of his body, that in spirit he may be saved in the day of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.
VIII. 5:6
MY brethren, your boasting is not seemly. Know you not that a little leaven the whole mass leaveneth ? Purge from you the old leaven, that you may be a new mass; so that you may be (as) unleavened bread. For our Pascha is the Meshiha, who hath been slain for us. Therefore, let us perform the festival, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of wickedness and animosity, but with the unleavened bread of purity and of holiness.
I have written to you by epistle, not to be mixed with fornicators; but I do not say with fornicators who are in this world, nor speak I concerning the covetous,6 or the rapacious, or the servers of idols; otherwise you would be obligated from the world also to go forth. But this which I have written to you, Be not mixed, (is,) If any one who is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous,7 or a worshipper of idols, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or rapacious, with one who is such as he not to eat bread. For what had I to judge those who are without? But you judge those who are within; but those who are without, Aloha judgeth: and put away the wicked one from among you.
6 Or, the oppressive.
7 An oppressor.
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