60. What the Apostle means by the rod is shown by his invective against fornication, 1 Cor. v. 1 ff. his denunciation of incest, his reprehension of pride, because they were puffed up who ought rather to be mourning, and lastly, his sentence on the guilty person, that he should be excluded from communion, and delivered to the adversary, not for the destruction of the soul but of the flesh. For as the Lord did not give power to Satan over the soul of holy Job, but allowed him to afflict his body, Job ii. 6. so here, too, the sinner is delivered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the serpent might lick the dust Mic. vii. 17. of his flesh, but not hurt his soul.