{Not as an enemy} (m(8820)h(9373) echthron). 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
echthros is an adjective, hateful, from echthos, hate. It can
be passive, {hated}, as in  Ro 11:28 , but is usually active
{hostile}, enemy, foe.