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Fetha Negest — Judgment of the Kings — CHAPTER 51 — HAIR, CIRCUMCISION, CONFESSION, AND CANONICAL

Work ID: 6a9dd03c8912631918278ce0 · Chapter ID: 6a9dd03e133d399e95b38fbe · Canonical title: Fetha Negest — Judgment of the Kings

1

Rules concerning hair, dress, and bodily custom belong primarily to ecclesiastical discipline unless some independent civil injury is shown.

Passage ID 6a9dd04bba05698628b59b16 · English · translation

2

Circumcision shall not be confused with the ground of covenantal justification in the Besorah tradition; ethnic and household practice must be distinguished from claims of spiritual necessity.

Passage ID 6a9dd04bba05698628b59b17 · English · translation

3

Confession concerns acknowledgment of sin for repentance and reconciliation. It shall not be used as a commercial instrument or as a license for abuse.

Passage ID 6a9dd04bba05698628b59b18 · English · translation

4

A chief ecclesiastical authority may adapt administrative rules where the received canons permit, but cannot by mere will reverse the foundational confession or make injustice righteous.

Passage ID 6a9dd04bba05698628b59b19 · English · translation

5

Rules may be added, suspended, or adapted only within the scope of the authority that created them.

Passage ID 6a9dd04bba05698628b59b1a · English · translation

6

No later administrative rule shall be silently rewritten as though it were ancient Torah.

Passage ID 6a9dd04bba05698628b59b1b · English · translation

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