Jude 1:23

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And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

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Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017

In the meantime take into account the situation of each person and make every effort to save everyone. Save some by gently and mildly recalling them to a better state of mind, others, however, through the use of fear, snatching them, as it were, from a fire. (Erasmus) It is a characteristic of the just not to hate anything in sinners other than their sins; and to love those people themselves. (St. Augustine Contra Adimantum17.5)

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

In the same way "the bed is ordered to be shaken up "so that there may be no recollection of effusion in sleep,

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

What if, even here, you should conceive to reply that communion is indeed denied to sinners, very especially such as had been "polluted by the flesh"

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