{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140471.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140471.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140471.htm","text":"She who has left her husband is an adulteress if she has come to another, according to the holy and divine Basil, who has gathered this most excellently from the prophet Jeremiah: \u201cIf a woman has become another man\u2019s, her husband shall not return to her, but being defiled she shall remain defiled;\u201d and again, \u201cHe who has an adulteress is senseless and impious.\u201d If therefore she appears to have departed from her husband without reason, he is deserving of pardon and she of punishment. And pardon shall be given to him that he may be in communion with the Church. But he who leaves the wife lawfully given him, and shall take another is guilty of adultery by the sentence of the Lord. And it has been decreed by our Fathers that they who are such must be \u201cweepers\u201d for a year, \u201chearers\u201d for two years, \u201cprostrators\u201d for three years, and in the seventh year to stand with the faithful and thus be counted worthy of the Oblation [if with tears they do penance].\np. 403 Notes.\nAncient Epitome of Canon LXXXVII.\nShe who goes from her husband to another man is an adulteress. And he who from his wife goes to another woman is an adulterer according to the word of the Lord.\nCompare with this canon lviij. of St. Basil.\nThe words in brackets are found in Beveridge, but were lacking in Hervetus\u2019s text.\nHere discipline is relaxed; formerly an adulteress did fifteen years\u2019 penance. See Can. Bas., 58. No wonder if in 200 years\u2019 time from St. Basil, the severity of discipline was abated.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Ca...","type":"page"}