A heretic; in New Testament usage, sectarist, attaching himself to a factious party that rejected sound doctrine and a godly life.

The first and second admonition; Matthew 18:15-17; Romans 16:17-18. Kind, watchful, and efficient discipline should ever be maintained in Christian churches. Efforts, not by pains and penalties, but by sound argument and kind persuasion, should first be made to reclaim offenders. If all is unavailing, Christians should separate themselves from them, and thus bear open testimony against their transgressions; but they should never feel unkindly towards them, or seek to injure them. Persecutions, prisons, inquisitions, fires, and tortures are measures instigated by the devil and pursued by his adherents, not by the friends of Jesus Christ.

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Old Testament