“In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,”
So when you are gathered together in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present — assembly 'in the name of our Lord Jesus' (en tō onomati kyriou Iēsou) and with Paul's spiritual presence, Christ's 'power' (dynamis) will be manifest in corporate judgment. The church's gathering and Christ's presence are inseparable.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 5:4
“For I verily being absent in body, but present in spirit.” Mark his energy. He suffers them not even to wait for his presence, nor to receive him first and then pass the sentence of binding: but as if on the point of expelling some contagion before that it have spread itself into the rest of the body, he hastens to restrain it. And therefore he subjoins the clause, “I have judged already, as though I were present.” These things moreover he said, not only to urge them unto…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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