1
Those who endure persecution without renouncing the faith are to be honored, but honor does not create a separate civil ownership in the assembly.
2
A confessor's endurance may bear upon spiritual esteem; it does not remove the need for examination before office.
3
Apostasy is first a matter of covenantal and ecclesiastical standing. The historical Fetha also preserves penal rules from older legal systems; this reconstruction records that provenance rather than treating coercive belief as timeless Torah.
4
Return through repentance shall be distinguished from political expediency or forced confession.
5
No person shall fabricate accusations of apostasy merely to seize property or eliminate an enemy.