Scrolls & Secrets
Why Corinth Boasted Over a Scandal Rome Outlawed
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A man is sleeping with his stepmother, Roman law explicitly forbids it, and the Corinthian church is throwing a party to celebrate their tolerance of it. In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul fires off one of the most shocking disciplinary commands in the entire New Testament — ordering a congregation to formally expel one of their own and hand him over to Satan — not as punishment, but as a desperate act of…