Magisterium, Synod of Laodicea

The Canons of the Synod Held in the City of…

The holy synod which assembled at Laodicea in Phrygia Pacatiana, from divers regions of Asia set forth the ecclesiastical definitions which are hereu

Excursus on the Choir Offices of the Early Church.

Canon XIX.

Excursus on the Worship of the Early Church.

Canon XX.

Canon XXI.

Canon XXII.

Excursus on the Vestments of the Early Church.

Canon XXIII.

Canon XXIV.

Excursus on the Minor Orders of the Early Church.

Canon IV.

They who are of the sacerdotal order ought not to lend and receive usury, nor what is called hemioliæ.

Notes.

Ancient Epitome of Canon IV.

A priest is not to receive usury nor hemioliæ.

The same rule is laid down in the seventeenth Canon of Nice. For a treatment of the whole subject of usury see excursus to that canon.

Dionysius Exiguus and Isidore have numbered this canon v., and our fifth they have as iv.

This canon is found in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian’s Decretum, Pars I., Dist. XLVI., can. ix.