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

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To Amphilochius, the Canons.LX. The woman who has professed virginity <strong>and</strong> broken her promise will complete thetime appointed in the case of adultery in her continence. 2837 The same rule will be observedin the case of men who have professed a solitary life <strong>and</strong> who lapse.LXI. The thief, if he have repented of his own accord <strong>and</strong> charged himself, shall onlybe prohibited from partaking of the sacrament for a year; if he be convicted, for two years.The period shall be divided between kneeling <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ing. Then let him be held worthyof communion.LXII. He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the sametime as adulterers.LXIII. He who confesses his iniquity in the case of brutes shall observe the same timein penance.LXIV. Perjurers shall be excommunicated for ten years; weeping for two, hearing forthree, kneeling for four, <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ing only during one year; then they shall be held worthyof communion.LXV. He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, <strong>and</strong>shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.LXVI. The tomb breaker shall be excommunicated for ten years, weeping for two,hearing for three, kneeling for four, st<strong>and</strong>ing for one, then he shall be admitted.LXVII. Incest with a sister shall incur penance for the same time as murder.LXVIII. The union of kindred within the prohibited degrees of marriage, if detected ashaving taken place in acts of sin, shall receive the punishment of adultery. 2838LXIX. The Reader who has intercourse with his betrothed before marriage, shall be allowedto read after a year’s suspension, remaining without advancement. If he has had257In canone autem 77 eum qui legitiman uxorem dimittit, et aliam ducit, adulterum quidem esse ex Domini sententiatestatur, sed tamen ex canonibus Patrum annos septem decernit, non quindecim, ut in adulterio cum aliena uxorecommisso. Secum ergo non pugnat cum fornicationi nunc annos quatuor, nunc septem, adulterio nunc septem,nunc quindecim indicit. Eamdem in sententiam videtur accipiendus canon quartus epistolæ Sancti GregoriiNysseni ad Letoium. Nam cum fornicationi novem annos, adulterio decem et octo imponit, gravior illa intelligendafornicatio, quam conjugatur cum soluta committit. Hinc ilium adulterium videri fatetur his qui accuratius examinant.2837 cf. Can. xviii. Augustine (De Bono Viduitatis, n. 14) represents breaches of the vows of chastity as graveroffenses than breaches of the vows of wedlock. The rendering of τῆ ὀικονομί& 139· τῆς καθ᾽ ἑαυτὴν ζωῆς bycontinency is illustrated in the Ben. note by Hermas ii. 4 as well as by <strong>Basil</strong>, Canon xiv <strong>and</strong> xliv.2838 This Canon is thus interpreted by Aristenus, Matrimonium cum propinqua legibus prohibitum eademac adulterium pœna castigatur: et cum diversæ sint adulterorum pœnœ sic etiam pro ratione propinquitatis totares temperabitur. Hinc duas sorores ducenti vii. anni pœnitentiœ irrogantur, ut in adulterio cum muliere liberacommisso. non xv. ut in graviore adulterio, or does it mean that incestuous fornication shall be treated as adultery?724

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