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In The Ministry of the New Testament and the Teaching and Fellowship of the Apostle, Lee identifies the word "quarantine" as the action of those who are dealing with one who is guilty of "gross sin" and he gets there by connecting Paul's word in 1 Cor. 5:13 to Leviticus 13:45-46 by means of the Greek word for "remove" utilized in the Septuagint version of Leviticus. (For the record, I'm not opening my Septuagint just now to double check that and just accepting this claim at face value. Further, checking the Leviticus citation, there is clearly a typo and it should be Leviticus 13:4-5 or perhaps 13:4-6.)

Not to say such a connection of 1 Cor. 5:13 to Leviticus 13:4-6 is quite a stretch (since it appears to be based upon the single Greek word) but even so, the act of "quarantine" defined in Leviticus 13:4-6 is only for a limited period of time and, to the extent that we have made this connection, this is NOT a connection for any purpose other than the case of "gross sin". The extension of this tenuous connection to the "turning away" instruction repeated on account of opinion-based sectarianism (which is but one problem, not three as Lee discusses in this title) is simply not justified by anything.

In other words, *IF* a "quarantine" might be justified on account of "gross sin," this is still not the same thing as the "turning way" on account of opinionated schismactics. And where a "quarantine" would be applied, it would only be for a limited period of time and not open-ended.

Ironically, I think in retrospect we can all know how the "quarantine" for "gross sin" should have been applied during the days of the Leviticus LS training. Moreover, I think it's fairly clear how many did indeed "turn away" from the ones who have taught concerning the heretical division.

Very interesting.