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NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works - Holy Bible Institute

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To Amphilochius, concerning the Canons.publish the canon in these terms, that action may be taken without peril, <strong>and</strong> authoritygiven to answers to questions of this kind.XLVIII. The woman who has been ab<strong>and</strong>oned by her husb<strong>and</strong>, ought, in my judgment,to remain as she is. The Lord said, “If any one leave 2720 his wife, saving for the cause offornication, he causeth her to commit adultery;” 2721 thus, by calling her adulteress, He excludesher from intercourse with another man. For how can the man being guilty, as havingcaused adultery, <strong>and</strong> the woman, go without blame, when she is called adulteress by theLord for having intercourse with another man?XLIX. Suffering violation should not be a cause of condemnation. So the slave girl, ifshe has been forced by her own master, is free from blame.L. There is no law as to trigamy: a third marriage is not contracted by law. We lookupon such things as the defilements of the Church. But we do not subject them to publiccondemnation, as being better than unrestrained fornication. 27222720 καταλίπῃ for ἀπολύσῃ.2721 Matt. v. 22.2722 cf. however Canon iv., where trigamy is called polygamy or at best a limited fornication, <strong>and</strong> those guiltyof it subjected to exclusion from the Eucharist.685

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