1 TIMOTHY 5:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.”
As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear — the public rebuke (apochēsis) of unrepentant elders serves both correction and deterrent (phobos): the community witnesses the consequences of continued transgression. Ecclesiastical discipline functions as pedagogy.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 5:20
Do not, he says, hastily cut them off, but carefully enquire into all the circumstances, and when you have thoroughly informed yourself, then proceed against the offender with rigor, that others may take warning. For as it is wrong to condemn hastily and rashly, so not to punish manifest offenses is to open the way to others, and embolden them to offend. “Rebuke,” he says, to show that it is not to be done lightly, but with severity. For thus others will be deterred. How is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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