The Canons of the CCXVII Blessed Fathers who…
The Canons of the CCXVII Blessed Fathers who assembled at Carthage.
The Canons of the 217 Blessed Fathers who…
The Canons of the 217 Blessed Fathers who assembled at Carthage.
If any cleric is ordained he ought to be admonished to observe the constitutions.
That if any bishop is accused the cause should be brought before the primate of his own province.
Canon LXXXIII. (Greek lxxxvi.)
Canon LXXXIV. (Greek lxxxvii.)
Canon LXXXV. (Greek lxxxviii.)
Of making peace between the Churches of Rome and Alexandria.
Canon CVII. (Greek cx. continued.)
Canon CIX. (Greek cxij. continued.)
That infants are baptized for the remission of sins.
Canon CXII. (Greek cxiij. continued.)
Canon CXXVII. (Greek cxxviii.)
Canon CXXXII. (Greek cxxxiii.)
Canon CXXXIII. (Greek cxxxiv.)
Canon CXXXIV. (Continuation of cxxxv. in the Greek.)
Canon CXXXV. (Not numbered in the Greek.)
Canon CXXXVI. (Not numbered in the Greek but with a new heading.)
Canon XVI.
That no bishop, presbyter or deacon should be a “conductor;” and that Readers should take wives; and that the clergy should abstain from usury; and at what age they or virgins should be consecrated.
Likewise it seemed good that bishops, presbyters, and deacons should not be “conductors” or “procurators;” nor seek their food by any base and vile business, for they should remember how it is written, “No man fighting for God cumbereth himself with worldly affairs.”
Also it seemed good that Readers when they come to years of puberty, should be compelled either to take wives or else to profess continence.
Likewise it seemed good that if a clergyman had lent money he should get it back again, but if kind (speciem) he should receive back the same kind as he gave.
And that younger than twenty-five years deacons should not be ordained, nor virgins consecrated.
And that readers should not salute the people.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of XVI.
A bishop, presbyter, and deacon may not be a “conductor” or a “procurator.” A reader when he comes to puberty must contract marriage or profess continence.
A cleric who has lent to someone, what he gave let him receive, or as much.
Let not him be a deacon, who is made a deacon being under twenty-five.
And let not readers salute the people.
This canon is made up of Canons xv., xviij., and xxj., and added to these Canon j. of the same Second Series of the synod of Hippo, a.d. 393.
Johnson.
Zonaras says this was never observed anywhere but in Africa. See Can. Afr. 19 (27).
Du Pin turns the Latin, saluto, by “addressing his speech to the people.”