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of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
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Verse 20. I have delivered to Satan; whom I have excommunicated, that they may learn not to blaspheme, or speak against the truth of the faith. Theophylact.—The devil frequently, at that time, took possession of, or afflicted the excommunicated with diseases and other temporal evils. S. Chrysostom.
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