are stages or steps to church discipline, the final step of which is excommunication. But when a person is excommunicated from fellowship in the church and is considered by the church as being in the same state as an unbeliever, even that is designed to reclaim and to recover that person, to see him restored to fellowship. Similarly, when Paul handed Hymenaeus and Alexander over to Satan, he still held out hope that through such a disciplinary process they would come to their senses and be restored