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2 - The Imperatives of Denunciatio: Disclosing Others' Sins to Disciplinary Authorities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2013

Edwin Craun
Affiliation:
Professor of English Emeritus, Washington and Lee University
Mary C. Flannery
Affiliation:
University of Lausanne
Katie L. Walter
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
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Si autem peccaverit in te frater tuus, vade, et corripe eum inter te et ipsum solum; si te audierit, lucratus eris fratrem tuum; si autem te non audierit, adhibe tecum adhuc unum, vel duos, ut in ore duorum, vel trium testium stet omne verbum. Quod si non audierit eos, dic ecclesiae. Si autem ecclesiam non audierit, sit tibi sicut ethnicus et publicanus.

[If your brother shall offend against you, go and rebuke him, between you and him alone. If he shall hear you, you shall gain your brother. And, if he will not hear you, take with you one or two more, that in the mouth of two of three witnesses, every word may stand. And, if he will not hear them, tell the church. And, if he will not hear the church, let him be to you as the heathen and publican.]

(Matthew 18:15–17)

This lex evangelica (Gospel law, revealed law) or precept, as both pastoral writers and canonists term it, seems to establish a simple four-step procedure for dealing with sin within Christian communities: one-on-one admonition; if that fails to correct the sinner, admonition with witnesses; if that fails, divulging the sin to the church; if that fails, expulsion.

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2013

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