2Th 3:15 | RWP | e4.org | Not as an enemy ( μη ως εχθρον ). This is always the problem in such ostracism as discipline, however necessary it is at times. Few things in our churches are more difficult of wise execution than the discipline of erring members. The word εχθρος is an adjective, hateful, from εχθος , hate. It can be passive, hated , as in , but is usually active hostile , enemy, foe.

‏ 2 Thessalonians 3:15

Not as an enemy ( μη ως εχθρον ). This is always the problem in such ostracism as discipline, however necessary it is at times. Few things in our churches are more difficult of wise execution than the discipline of erring members. The word εχθρος is an adjective, hateful, from εχθος, hate. It can be passive,

hated, as in Ro 11:28, but is usually active

hostile, enemy, foe.