p. 9 | Delivered Unto Satan

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 24, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 51.

Delivered Unto Satan

No. 449. Delivered unto Satan.

WILL you explain 1 Tim. 1:20? J. MCK.

Alford translates: "Among whom is Hymanæus and Alexander; whom I delivered over unto Satan, that they may be taught by chastisement not to blaspheme." The text evidently refers to church discipline, which was carried out through the apostle when he was at Ephesus. Compare 1 Cor. 5:1-5, 11-13; 2 Thess. 3:6, 14, and others. When men pursue the course spoken of in 1 Tim. 1:19 they take themselves off from the ground where they can claim God's blessing. The discipline, or chastisement, whatever it was, seems not to have been effectual in their case. See 2 Tim. 2:17; 4:14. What the apostle did was doubtless to declare the Lord's sentence.