{"id":137,"date":"2022-10-04T20:55:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=137"},"modified":"2023-01-27T20:41:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:41:09","slug":"rb-28","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palni.org\/ruleofbenedict\/chapter\/rb-28\/","title":{"raw":"28. Those, Though Often Corrected, Who Are Unwilling to Change","rendered":"28. Those, Though Often Corrected, Who Are Unwilling to Change"},"content":{"raw":"<a id=\"28.1\"><\/a>If any brother has been frequently corrected for some fault and even excommunicated, but still has not changed, let a more stinging punishment come to bear on him: that is, proceed to punish him with the rod.\r\n\r\n<sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>If, even then, he does not correct it, or perhaps, God forbid, carried away with pride, he even wants to defend his deeds, then let the abbot act as a wise physician. <sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>If he has applied compresses, if also the oil of encouragement, if the medicine of the Holy Scriptures, and if at last the cauterizing fire of excommunication or strokes of the rod, <sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>and if even then he sees that his diligence achieves nothing, let him then make use of something greater: prayer for the brother, both his own and that of all the brothers, <sup>5\u00a0<\/sup>so that the Lord, who can do all things, may work a cure for the sick brother.\r\n\r\n<sup>6\u00a0<\/sup>If even in this way he is not healed, let the abbot only then use the instrument for amputation, as the Apostle says:\r\n<blockquote><em>Remove the evil one from your midst.\u00a0(1 Cor 5:13)<\/em><\/blockquote>\r\n<sup>7\u00a0<\/sup>And again:\r\n<blockquote><em>If the unbeliever departs, let him depart. 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