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Church Discipline: Old Testament Pattern

We learn from Leviticus 22:1-7 "that ‘leprosy’ or ‘the running issue’ excluded even a son of Aaron from the camp; the period of his exclusion depending on the time during which the disease was manifest. ‘Leprosy’ and ‘the running issue’ were both breakings out of the flesh, breakings out which were manifest to others, though manifested differently. They typify those outbreaks of the flesh in the Christian, which are too flagrant to be hid from others. The appointed discipline for these, now as of old, is temporary exclusion from the camp (1Corinthians 5:13)"