In the first part of this chapter, God reaffirms the need for what we would call a quarantine. Those who were unclean were to get away from people until they were clean again. This simple precaution would keep sickness from running rampant through the general population. In the New Testament, we see the like in the early church when Paul commands that the unrepentant person claiming to be a Christian is put out of the church. The idea is the same, if sin is left untreated in the church it will spread.
Yes, I do understand that this can lead to abuse. However, saying that church discipline should never take place because of abuse is like saying no rapist should stand trial because we know that there have been people who go to jail who were innocent.
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