Правило 2 Дионисия Александрийского

Regarding women who are in purification, whether it is permissible for them to enter the house of God in such a state, I consider it unnecessary to ask. For I do not think that even if they were faithful and pious, being in such a state, they would dare either to begin the holy meal or to touch the body and blood of Christ. For even the woman who had been bleeding for twelve years, for the sake of healing, touched not Him, but only the excrement. Pray, no matter what state someone is in, and no matter how disposed they are, remember the Lord, and ask for help; it is not forbidden to eat. But to approach that which is the holy of holies, let those who are not entirely pure in soul and body be forbidden. (Trul. 69; Laod. 19, 44; Timothy Alex. 6, 7). We are talking about women who have ordinary monthly cleansing, and the rule forbids them to enter the church while they remain in this state, all the more forbids them to receive communion until they are completely clean in body. We left the word αφεδρον untranslated (in Serbian), since it, strictly speaking, does not mean only monthly cleansing (ή των εμμήνων ρυσις, sanguinis menstrui fluxus), but, according to Zonara’s interpretation of this rule, this word is borrowed from the Hebrew life, namely: Jewish women, when they have a monthly purification, live separately, do not communicate with anyone for seven days, which is where the word εν άφέδρω comes from, showing that women in such a state live separately from “sitting” (άπο της έδρας) with others, as unclean (ως άκαθάρτους) 122 . In Byzantine legislation on ecclesiastical issues, there was a law that had a connection with the prescription of this rule, namely, that a wife who had been delivered from her pregnancy could receive communion only after forty days had passed, from the time of her release from the burden, i.e. when she becomes clean in body; As for newborns, it is required that, if there is no threat of illness, they should be baptized on the eighth day, and when death is threatened, baptism can take place before the end of eight days 123. On infant baptism, see our interpretation of the 14th rule of I Om. Council, as well as the origin of this custom, and the interpretation of the 72nd Carthaginian rule. You might be interested in: