I quite admit, that, according to the Creator’s law, the
man was an offender “who had his father’s wife.” He followed, no doubt, the
principles of natural and public law.
When, however, he condemns the man “to be delivered unto Satan,” he
becomes the herald of an avenging God.
It does not matter that he also said, “For the destruction of the flesh,
that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord,” since both in the destruction
of the flesh and in the saving of the spirit there is, on His part, judicial
process; and when he bade “the wicked person be put away from the midst of
them,” he only mentioned what is a very frequently recurring sentence of the
Creator. “Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are
unleavened.” (Tertullian, "The Five Books Against Marcion," Book 5,
chapter 7 [ANF 3:443])
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