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==What do these passages mean?==
==What do these passages mean?==


Gordon Fee states the following:
Gordon Fee states the following in respect of 1 Cor. 5:5:


:Most likely, the language means to turn the person back out into Satan’s sphere.  In contrast to the gathered community of believers who experience the Spirit and power of the Lord Jesus in edifying gifts and loving concern for one another, this man is to be put back out into the world, where Satan and his “principalities and powers” still hold sway over people’s lives to destroy them.  
:Most likely, the language means to turn the person back out into Satan’s sphere.  In contrast to the gathered community of believers who experience the Spirit and power of the Lord Jesus in edifying gifts and loving concern for one another, this man is to be put back out into the world, where Satan and his “principalities and powers” still hold sway over people’s lives to destroy them.