94. And that we may know that this person
was baptized, he added: “I wrote to you in my epistle to
have no company with fornicators, not altogether with fornicators of
this world.” 1 Cor. v. 9. And farther
on he adds: “But now I write unto you not to keep company
if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an
idolator.” 1 Cor. v. 11. Those whom
he has joined together under one penalty, he willed to attain together
to forgiveness. “If any be such,” he says,
“with him not to eat.” 1 Cor. v. 11. How
severe he is with the obstinate, how indulgent to those who seek.
Against those rises up in arms the injury done to Christ, whilst the
calling upon Christ aids these.