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Canon XXXVII. It Is Not Lawful to Receive Portions Sent from the Feasts of Jews or Heretics, nor to Feast Together with Them · Canon XLI. None of the Priesthood nor of the Clergy May Go on a Journey, Without the Bidding of the Bishop

Canon CIV. (Greek CVII.)

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Of these who ask from the Emperor that secular judges may take cognizance of their causes.

It seemed good that whoever should seek from the Emperor, that secular judges should take cognizance of his business, should be deprived of his office; if however, he had asked from the Emperor an episcopal trial, no objection should be made.

Notes.

Ancient Epitome of Canon CIV.

Let not him be a bishop who from the Emperor seeks a public judgment.

This canon is Canon X. of Carthage, a.d. 407.

Johnson.

See Canon Ant., 12.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Volume 14, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1890–1900). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.