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Admonition (or "being admonished") is the lightest punishment under Scots law.It occurs when an offender who has been found guilty or who has pleaded guilty, is not given a fine, but instead receives a lesser penalty in the form of a verbal warning (admonished), due to a minor infringement of the law; the conviction is still recorded.
Admonish and warn them. (Titus 3:10) As a final resort, bring the matter up to the whole church. (Matthew 18:17) Remove their membership, and avoid them. (Romans 16:17) Be ready to forgive them when repentance occurs. (2 Corinthians 2:7) Purpose of discipline. To maintain the standards of the church to a watching world. (Matthew 5:13-16)
To admonish the sinners; To bear patiently those who wrong oneself; To forgive offenses; To comfort the afflicted; To pray for the living and the dead [6] Master of Alkmaar, The Seven Works of Mercy, c. 1504, polyptych (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum)
In the Society of Jesus, an Admonitor is an advisor to the Superior General whose responsibility it is to warn (or admonish) the General honestly and confidentially about "what in him he thinks would be for the greater service and glory of God" [Const. N°770].
Missing from the code, however, is a definition of what actions constitute "defamation" or "insult". [88] From 1990 to 2005, the Thai court system only saw four or five lèse-majesté cases a year. From January 2006 to May 2011, however, more than 400 cases came to trial. [ 89 ]
Quixotism as a term or a quality appeared after the publication of Don Quixote in 1605. Don Quixote, the hero of this novel, written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, dreams up a romantic ideal world which he believes to be real, and acts on this idealism, which most famously leads him into imaginary fights with windmills that he regards as giants, leading to the related metaphor ...
More importantly, that is plainly contradictory to the definition of a principle, which is not a principle at all if you decline to apply it when it's inconvenient.
The verse is widely used to oppose ordination of women as clergy, and to oppose certain other positions of ministry and leadership for women in large segments of Christianity.