1 Corinthians 5:3 (WEB)
For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.
Fathers and councils · 5
Eusebius of Caesarea
“But I called together the more diligently those who were in the city, as if I were with them; being, so to speak, ‘absent in body but present in spirit.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 3.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And take heed, dearly beloved, that ye neither write to them, nor receive letters from them; but desire rather, brethren and fellow-ministers, as being present in spirit with our Council, to assent to our judgments by your subscriptions, to the end that concord may be preserved by all our fellow-ministers everywhere.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 3.
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Tertullian
“If we also, in our diverse provinces, (but) present mutually in spirit, observe those very solemnities, whose then celebration our present discourse has been defending, that is the sacramental law.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. v. 3; Col. ii. 5.
Read the whole comment“Therefore he has trifled both with his own “spirit,” and with “the angel of the Church,” and with “the power of the Lord,” if he rescinded what by their counsel he had formally pronounced.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. v. 3.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…him that hath so done this deed, to deliver him unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. v. 3, 5.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 13.
Cited together in Defence Against the Arians I.3.
Cited together in Defence Against the Arians I.3.
Cited together in Defence Against the Arians I.3.
Cited together in Defence Against the Arians I.3.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 13.
Cited together in Church History VII.11.
Cited together in Church History VII.11.
Cited together in Defence Against the Arians I.3.
Cited together in Church History VII.11.
Cited together in Defence Against the Arians I.3.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 13.