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Gregory Thaumaturgus · Canonical Epistle

Canon X

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And they who keep the commandment ought to keep it without any sordid covetousness, demanding neither recompense,141 nor reward,142 nor fee,143 nor anything else that bears the name of acknowledgment.

Notes

  1. 141

    menutra, the price of information.

  2. 142

    sostra, the reward for bringing back a runaway slave.

  3. 143

    heuretra, the reward of discovery.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.