ISB ~ 1 Corinthians 5 v5

deliver this man to Satan:A call to action for the Corinthians, who must execute Paul’s ritual curse upon the offender by driving him out of the Church and into the province of Satan. The anticipated destruction of the sinner’s body is an extreme form of remedial punishment that Paul expects will benefit his spirit (1 Tim 1:20). The hidden assumption is that earthly and physical life is a blessing from God cut short by the curse of biological death (Gen 3:19). Similar chastisements befell other Corinthians who failed to discern Christ’s presence in the Eucharist (1 Cor 11:29-32). • The man is separated from the community of the faithful and from the sacraments of the Church, by which things a man is protected from the assaults of Satan (St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on 1 Corinthians 5, 1).