Правило 32 Василия Великого

Those of the clergy who have committed mortal sin are demoted from their rank, but are not deprived of communion with the laity. For you cannot avenge one thing twice (Nahum. 1:9). (Ap. 25, 29, 30; I Om. 9; Trul. 4, 21; Neokes. 1, 8; Carth. 27; Basil the Great. 3, 51, 70, 82). In this rule, Saint Basil repeats the decree of 25 Ap. rules that for a known crime clergy should be deposed from their degree, however, at the same time, not excommunicated from holy communion, on the basis of the general canonical principle on the punishment of sacred persons, which we talked about in the interpretations of 5 and 25 Ap. rules and to which Basil the Great also refers in his present rule. In this rule, Saint Basil designates the subject crime of the cleric as a sin leading to death (τήν πρός θάνατον άμαρτίαν, peccatum ad mortem, sive mortale). This is what the Holy Scripture also calls some sins, distinguishing them from sins that do not lead to death (1 John 5:16–17). Interpreting this, Zonara says that a sin leading to death is a sin brought to execution, and not to death - that sin that someone intended, but was not carried out 76. Based on this, one can judge what sins St. had in mind. Vasily in this rule, and, comparing what Vasily prescribes in rules 69 and 70 about various sins of clergy, for which less severe punishments are prescribed there, one must think that in this (32) rule he means grave sins, for which he already prescribes the final ejection of those caught in such a sin. One should not, however, think that Vasily here has in mind the most serious sins that clergy can commit, for for such sins clergy are not only expelled, but also excommunicated from worldly church communion, for example, for simony (see Ap. 29, 30). You might be interested in: