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Don`t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
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The Goal is Restoration
Commentators universally agree that the goal of church discipline is not to punish or defeat someone, but to lovingly restore an erring 'brother.' The aim is their spiritual welfare and repentance. As John Calvin notes, the intent is to bring a wandering person back to the flock, not to drive them away permanently as an enemy.
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2 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother (2 Thessalonians 3:15). This shows the true spirit in which disci…
Not as an enemy (μη ως εχθρον). This is always the problem in such ostracism as discipline, however necessary it is at times. Few …
19th Century
Anglican
Yet—The original is simply And, which is much more beautiful, implying that this very withdrawal from brotherly fellowshi…
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Baptist
This kind of Christian discipline ought to be carried out still, in reference not only to this one case of busybodies, but to all other cases. When…
Paul now describes specifically how the Thessalonian Christians should deal with loafers who disobey his instructions. First, they are urged to kee…
16th Century
Protestant
Regard him not as an enemy. He immediately adds a softening of this rigor, for, as he elsewhere commands, we must take care that the offen…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yet count him not as an enemy As an enemy of Christ, and the Christian religion, as the Jews and Pagans were; or as an en…
Those who have received the gospel are to live according to the gospel. Those who could work, and would not, were not to be maintained in idleness.…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Apostle showed by his own example what he taught them: that they should not be burdensome but should work. Here, he shows…
