XXXI.  A woman whose husband has gone away and disappeared, and who marries another, before she has evidence of his death, commits adultery.  Clerics who are guilty of the sin unto death St. Basil on Isaiah iv. calls sins wilfully committed after full knowledge “sins unto death.”  But in the same commentary he applies the same designation to sins which lead to hell.  The sense to be applied to the phrase in Canon xxxii. is to be learnt, according to the Ben. note, from Canons lxix. and lxx., where a less punishment is assigned to mere wilful sins unto death than in Canon xxxii. are degraded from their order, but not excluded from the communion of the laity.  Thou shalt not punish twice for the same fault. Nahum i. 9, LXX.