Brought up as he had been to consider the ecclesiastical authorities of Jerusalem as representing the Divine voice, he would feel that this excommunication cut him off from fellowship with all good men, and from the sources of a hopeful and godly life.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
And, when prayers, entreaties, remonstrances, have all been tried and have failed, how sternly will the church proceed to the last extremity,-excommunication!
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
But if he could exist under the bann of excommunication, so could she.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann