[2] A rebuke can be given in person by a bishop or by an ecclesiastical court.
[2] In the Church of Scotland a rebuke was necessary for moral offenders to "purge their scandal".
This involved standing or sitting before the congregation for up to three Sundays and enduring a rant by the minister.
There was sometimes a special repentance stool near the pulpit for this purpose.
[3] Reproof was historically a censure available before culminating in a rebuke.