Правило 39 Василия Великого

She who lives with an adulterer is an adulterer throughout the entire period of cohabitation. (Ap. 48; Trul. 87, 93, 98; Ankyr. 20; Carth. 102; Basil Vel. 21, 34, 37, 58, 77). In the original, the rule reads: Ή τψ μοιχφ σοζώσα, μοιχαλίς εστί πάντα τόν χρόυου (quae vivit cum adultero, est toto tempore adultera). According to Balsamon’s interpretation of this rule 80, it should not be understood here that every woman, without exception, is an adulteress who lives with an adulterer, for, for example, the legal wife of an adulterer, although she lives with him, is still not subject to any penance for this; Here. we must mean a married wife who cheated on her lawful husband by having an affair with an adulterer. One of these women, after the death of her legal husband, wanted to marry this adulterer, and Saint Basil responded to this with an injunction that such a woman should not be allowed to do this and that she should remain under penance as long as she lives with the adulterer, even if she endured a fifteen-year penance for adultery, for only those who, in essence, withstand the penance imposed on them and receive forgiveness, who cease to do evil, and those who continue to do evil must forever remain under penance, even if it has been endured for a thousand times. You might be interested in: