Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. Limitation of the prohibition, alluded to in . As in dissolute Corinth to 'company with no fornicators,' etc., would be almost to company with none in the (unbelieving) world, ye need not 'altogether' forego contact (cf. ). As "fornicators" sin against themselves, so "extortioners" against their neighbours, and "idolaters" against God. The attempt to get "out of the world," in violation of God's will (), led to monasticism and its evils.

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