Letter 144: You ask why the Apostle placed the drunkard and the reviler in the same list as adulterers and fornicators [1...
Why did the Apostle rank the drunkard and the reviler with those who have committed the greatest sins? You asked how the Apostle ranked the drunkard and the reviler with the adulterers and the fornicators. I say then that if he had said they would pay the same penalty as those, one would need to seek a solution. But since he said they would fall from the Kingdom alike as those, know that exclusion from the Kingdom is the common punishment, even if the degree of punishment varies.
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Latin / Greek Original
ΡΟΑ΄. – ΑΝΔΡΟΝΙΚΩ
Ὡς ἐπισεύεσθαι χρὴ τὸν ἀδελφὸν.
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