Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
1 Corinthians 5:5
To deliver such one unto Satan. Not only this one, but all such
persons. To deliver unto Satan is to excommunicate; to extradite from
the kingdom of God to the prince of this world. The expression is used
in 1 Timothy 1:20.
For the destruction of the flesh. Fleshly desires had caused the
sin. These must be destroyed. The humiliation of excommunication, the
sense of one's lost condition, was well adapted to bring a repentance.
Some have held that this meant to send some painful disease
miraculously. I believe that the Latin fathers and Beza are right in
understanding that it refers to the mortification of the offender, cast
out, shunned by the church as a dead body. This person is ordered to be
restored, having repented, and no mention is made of disease, in
2 Corinthians 2:7.
That the spirit may be saved. This is the object of all true
discipline. If carried out, as in the early church, it was well
calculated to bring to repentance. It was effective in this instance,
as we learn from 2 Corinthians 2:6.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Corinthians 5:5
2 Corinthians 2:8
2 Thessalonians 3:15
1 Timothy 1:20
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