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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And if any man obeyeth not our word by this Epistle." He has not said, He that disobeys, disobeys me, but "note that man." This is no slight chastisement. "Have no company with him." Then again he says, "that he may be ashamed." And he does not permit them to proceed farther. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Some read: "our word" (λόγω ημών), with the letter ή, which is why they understood it thus: if anyone does not obey my word, Paul's, as if spoken through this epistle, mark that person and treat him as one excommunicated. But Saint John read: "your" (υμών) and gave us to understand this passage thus: if anyone does not obey us who speak to him that which you have learned through this my epistle. You see what benefit there is from his being excommunicated? It is precisely a shaming. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says "and if any man," he commands that they be corrected, and first, he shows the order in which they should be punished; second, he shows the effect of the punishment, at "that he may be ashamed"; third, the goal, at "yet do not esteem." In order therefore he sets out first the sin, second its manifestation, and third its punishment. …
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