Правило 7 (8) Григория Неокесарийского
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Those who were numbered with the barbarians, and with them, during their captivity, participated in the attack, forgetting that they were Pontians and Christians, and becoming embittered to the point that they killed their fellow tribesmen either with a tree or by strangulation, they also showed the paths or houses to the ignorant barbarians: such should be blocked from entering even the rank of listeners, until something is desired about them, together the holy fathers have come together, and before them the Holy Spirit.
(Ankyr. 9; Basil Vel. 11, 13; Gregory of Nyssa. 5).
This rule deals with state traitors who went over to the side of the enemy and support him against their own, even moreover, fighting against their own as true enemies.
Regarding such Christians who have stained themselves with such atrocities, the rule prescribes that they should not be allowed to stand even with second-degree penitents, i.e. between those listening, but should be between those crying, i.e. stand outside St. church and with tears ask the faithful entering the church to pray to God for the remission of their sins, and they must remain at this stage of repentance until the council of bishops decides what punishment they will be subjected to. At the conclusion of this rule, the Holy Spirit is remembered, Who will inspire the bishops when they are at the council, and instruct them how they should judge such criminals, to which Zonara, in his interpretation of this rule, notes that by this St. the father shows that everything that, in general reasoning, is arranged by the bishops, or the faithful in general, is inspired by the Holy Spirit to those who confer.
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