To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
The principles of natural and public law. When, however, he condemns the man "to be delivered unto Satan".
that he also said, "For the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord".
That "such a man must be surrendered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh; ".
For, in fact, they suspect the Apostle Paul of having, in the second (Epistle) to the Corinthians, granted pardon to the self-same fornicator whom in the first he has publicly sentenced to be "surrendered to Satan, for the destruction of the flesh"
