Prefatory Note.

  The Canons of the Holy and Altogether August Apostles. 

 I.

 II.

 III.

 IV.

 The Epistle of the Same Athanasius Taken from the XXXIX. Festal Epistle.

 The Epistle of St. Athanasius to Ruffinian.

 The Second Canonical Epistle of the Same.

 The Third Epistle of the Same to the Same.

 From an Epistle of the Same to the Blessed Amphilochius on the Difference of Meats.

 Of the Same to Diodorus Bishop of Tarsus, concerning a Man who had taken Two Sisters to Wife.

 Of the Same to Gregory a Presbyter, that He Should Separate from a Woman who Dwelt with Him.

 Of the Same to the Chorepiscopi, that No Ordinations Should Be Made Contrary to the Canons.

 Of the Same to His Suffragans that They Should Not Ordain for Money.

 VI.

 VII.

 VIII.

 IX.

 X.

 The Commonitory of the Same which Ammon Received on Account of Lycus.

 Of the Same to Agatho the Bishop.

 Of the Same to Menas the Bishop.

 The Narrative of the Same concerning Those Called Cathari.

 XI.

 Of the Same to the Bishops of Libya and Pentapolis.

  XII. 

X.

 The Prosphonesus of Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria, When the Holy Epiphanies Happened to Fall on a Sunday.   1  Johnson gives the date as about a.d. 385. These are annotated only by Balsamon.

Canon I.

Because the fast of Epiphany chances to fall on a Lord’s day, let us take a few dates, and so break our fast, and honour the Lord’s day, and shew our dislike of heresy, and yet not wholly neglect the fast which should be observed on this day; eating no more till our evening assembly at three afternoon.

1 Johnson gives the date as about a.d. 385. These are annotated only by Balsamon.