Правило 77 Василия Великого
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He who leaves a wife who was legally married to him and takes another, according to the saying of the Lord, is subject to the guilt of adultery (Matthew 19:9). The rules of our fathers stipulated that such people should cry for one summer, listen for two summers, fall down for three, and stand with the faithful for the seventh summer, and thus they will be rewarded with holy communion, if they repent with tears.
(Ap. 48; Trul. 87, 93; Ankir. 20; Carth. 102; Basil the Great. 9, 21, 35, 48, 58; Timothy Alex. 15).
See, among other things, the interpretation of 48 Ap. rules. In this rule, Saint Basil mentions a long-standing injunction (τών πατέρων ήμών, our fathers), according to which everyone who, having left his lawful wife, takes another, was subjected to seven years of penance, and Saint Basil subjects him, on the basis of the words of the Lord (Matthew 19:9), to fifteen years of penance, as adulterer.
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