14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.



15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.



Ver. 15. Yet count him not, &c.] If there be but aliquid Christi, anything of Christ to be discerned in him.



But admonish him as a brother] Conscience is a nice and sullen dame; man a cross, crabbed creature, and will hardly be wrought upon by a stoic sourness, or an imperious boisterousness; but must be gently handled, and fairly admonished. Gentle showers comfort the earth, when dashing storms drown the seed.