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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Then making it yet more awful, he saith, "with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ;" that is, either that Christ is able to give you such grace as that you should have power to deliver him to the devil; or that He is Himself together with you passing that sentence against him. And he said not, "Give up" such an one to Satan, but "deliver;" opening unto him the doors of repentance, and delivering up such an one as it were to a schoolmaster. And again it is, "such an one:" he no where can endure to make mention of his name. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
That is, to hand over so that Satan would exhaust him with illness. For since lust is born from the satiation of the body, the apostle wants to punish this body so that the spirit, that is, the soul, would be saved. This should not, however, be understood as though the soul alone were saved, but one must acknowledge that with the salvation of the soul the body too will be saved. …
Clement of Alexandria
These are trained through previous judgments. Therefore he adds, "For this cause was the Gospel preached also to the dead"-to us, namely, who were at one time unbelievers. "That they might be judged according to men," he says, "in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. Because, that is, they have fallen away from faith; whilst they are still in the flesh they are judged according to preceding judgments, that they might repent. …
Western Saints
Jerome
Paul has delivered over to Satan those who had already blasphemed of their own free will.
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, you are to deliver, he delivers the sentence of condemnation, in regard to which he does three things. First, he assigns the punishment when he says: you are to deliver this man to Satan. This can be understood in two ways. First, that just as the Lord gave the apostles power over unclean spirits to cast them out (Matt 10:8), so by the same power they could command the unclean spirits to torment in the body those whom they judged deserved it. …
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