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Excommunication in the Church
Luther is saying here that excommunication ought to exist in the church. Those who are in open sin, i think your translation called it, obstinate in em. That that excommunication involves e withholding from them the sacrament em and other he says, fellowship of the church until they mend their ways. I've been in cases where merely having a very poisonous individual am at the church meant that the preaching of the word and the sacraments were all distracted by their presence there.