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 XLV. (Greek xlviii.)
Concerning those who are sick and cannot answer for themselves.
That the sick are to be baptized who cannot answer for themselves if their [servants] shall have spoken at their own proper peril a testimony of the good will [of the sick man].
(Greek Canon xlix.)
Concerning players who are doing penance and are converted to the Lord.29 Found only in the Greek.
That to players and actors and other persons of that kind, as also to apostates when they are converted30 In the Greek “doing penance.” and return to God, grace or reconciliation is not to be denied.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon XLV.
That he who cannot answer for himself on account of illness is to be baptized when he shall have given evidence of his desire.
A repentant actor is to be received to penance.
This canon is made up of Canons xxxij. and xxxiij. of the Synod of Hippo, a.d. 393.
Johnson.
“Apostates,” i.e., those who elsewhere are called Lapsi; those who had done sacrifice through the violence of torment in time of persecution, professing in the meantime that their consciences did not consent to what their hands did.