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LX. <strong>The</strong> woman who has professed virginity <strong>and</strong> broken her promise will complete the<br />

time appointed in the case of adultery in her continence. 2837 <strong>The</strong> same rule will be observed<br />

in the case of men who have professed a solitary life <strong>and</strong> who lapse.<br />

LXI. <strong>The</strong> thief, if he have repented of his own accord <strong>and</strong> charged himself, shall only<br />

be prohibited from partaking of the sacrament for a year; if he be convicted, for two years.<br />

<strong>The</strong> period shall be divided between kneeling <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ing. <strong>The</strong>n let him be held worthy<br />

of communion.<br />

LXII. He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same<br />

time as adulterers.<br />

LXIII. He who confesses his iniquity in the case of brutes shall observe the same time<br />

in penance.<br />

LXIV. Perjurers shall be excommunicated for ten years; weeping for two, hearing for<br />

three, kneeling for four, <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ing only during one year; then they shall be held worthy<br />

of communion.<br />

LXV. He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, <strong>and</strong><br />

shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.<br />

LXVI. <strong>The</strong> tomb breaker shall be excommunicated for ten years, weeping for two,<br />

hearing for three, kneeling for four, st<strong>and</strong>ing for one, then he shall be admitted.<br />

LXVII. Incest with a sister shall incur penance for the same time as murder.<br />

LXVIII. <strong>The</strong> union of kindred within the prohibited degrees of marriage, if detected as<br />

having taken place in acts of sin, shall receive the punishment of adultery. 2838<br />

LXIX. <strong>The</strong> Reader who has intercourse with his betrothed before marriage, shall be allowed<br />

to read after a year’s suspension, remaining without advancement. If he has had<br />

In canone autem 77 eum qui legitiman uxorem dimittit, et aliam ducit, adulterum quidem esse ex Domini sententia<br />

testatur, sed tamen ex canonibus Patrum annos septem decernit, non quindecim, ut in adulterio cum aliena uxore<br />

commisso. Secum ergo non pugnat cum fornicationi nunc annos quatuor, nunc septem, adulterio nunc septem,<br />

nunc quindecim indicit. Eamdem in sententiam videtur accipiendus canon quartus epistolæ Sancti Gregorii<br />

Nysseni ad Letoium. Nam cum fornicationi novem annos, adulterio decem et octo imponit, gravior illa intelligenda<br />

fornicatio, quam conjugatur cum soluta committit. Hinc ilium adulterium videri fatetur his qui accuratius exam-<br />

inant.<br />

To Amphilochius, the Canons.<br />

2837 cf. Can. xviii. Augustine (De Bono Viduitatis, n. 14) represents breaches of the vows of chastity as graver<br />

offenses than breaches of the vows of wedlock. <strong>The</strong> rendering of τῆ ὀικονομί& 139· τῆς καθ᾽ ἑαυτὴν ζωῆς by<br />

continency is illustrated in the Ben. note by Hermas ii. 4 as well as by Basil, Canon xiv <strong>and</strong> xliv.<br />

2838 This Canon is thus interpreted by Aristenus, Matrimonium cum propinqua legibus prohibitum eadem<br />

ac adulterium pœna castigatur: et cum diversæ sint adulterorum pœnœ sic etiam pro ratione propinquitatis tota<br />

res temperabitur. Hinc duas sorores ducenti vii. anni pœnitentiœ irrogantur, ut in adulterio cum muliere libera<br />

commisso. non xv. ut in graviore adulterio, or does it mean that incestuous fornication shall be treated as adultery?<br />

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