2009年7月4日 星期六

The Rule of St. Benedict - Chapter 28. Those Who Refuse To Amend After Frequent Reproofs

(1) If a brother has been reproved frequently for any fault, or if he has even been excommunicated, yet does not amend, let him receive a sharper punishment: that is, let him feel the strokes of the rod.
(2) But if even then he does not reform, or perhaps becomes proud and would actually defend his conduct, which God forbid, the abbot should follow the procedure of a wise physician.
(3) After he has applied compresses, the ointment of encouragement, the medicine of divine Scripture, and finally the cauterizing iron of excommunication and stokes of the rod,
(4) and if he then perceives that his earnest efforts are unavailing, let him apply an even better remedy: he and all the brothers should pray for him
(5) so that the Lord, who can do all things, may bring about the health of the sick brother.
(6) Yet if even this procedure does not heal him, then finally, the abbot must use the knife and amputate. For the Apostle says: "Banish the evil one from your midst," (1 Cor 5:13);
(7) and again, "If the unbeliever departs, let him depart," (1 Cor 7:15),
(8) lest one diseased sheep infect the whole flock.

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