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Canon 96 (De haereticis)

OF THE SAME, CONCERNING HERETICS 96

Question. Whether one who by chance is found somewhere with heretics or with Greeks or Jews must eat with or greet them.

Response. The greeting, that is to say the common one, the Lord in no way

forbade, saying: "If you greet your friends only, what more are you doing? Do not also the gentiles do this?" But concerning eating with them, we have a command of the apostle as to those with whom one must refrain from this, saying: "I wrote to you in the letter not to associate 199 with fornicators, and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous or swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of this world; but now I have written to you, if anyone called a brother is a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or a swindler, not to eat with such a person."

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Canon 96 (De haereticis)

ΤΟΥ ΑΥΤΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΑΙΡΕΤΙΚΩΝ ϟϛ

Ἐρώτησις. Εἰ δεῖ μετὰ αἱρετικῶν ἢ μετὰ ἑλλήνων ἢ ἰουδαίων κατὰ συντυχίαν εὑρεθέντα που συνεσθίειν ἢ ἀσπάζεσθαι αὐτούς.

Ἀπόκρισις. Τὸν μὲν ἀσπασμόν, τοῦτον δηλονότι τὸν κοινόν, ἐπ' οὐδενὸς ὁ κύριος

ἀπηγόρευσεν, εἰπών· «Ἐὰν ἀσπάσησθε τοὺς φίλους ἡμῶν μόνους, τί περισσὸν ποιῆτε; οὐχὶ καὶ οἱ ἐ-θνικοὶ τοῦτο ποιοῦσι;» Περὶ δὲ τοῦ συνεσθίειν ἔχομεν παραγγελίαν τοῦ ἀποστόλου ἐπὶ τίνων χρὴ παραιτεῖσθαι τοῦτο, εἰπόντος· «Ἔγραψα ἡμῖν ἐν τῆ ἐπιστολῇ μὴ συνανα 199 μίγνυσθαι πόρνοις, καὶ οὐ πάντως τοῖς πόρνοις τοῦ κόσμου τούτου, ἢ πλεονέκταις ἢ ἅρπαξιν ἢ εἰδωλολάτραις, ἐπεὶ ὀφείλετε ἄρα ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου ἐξελθεῖν· νῦν δὲ ἔγραψα ὑμῖν, ἐάν τις ἀδελφὸς ὀνομαζόμενος ἢ πόρνος ἢ πλεονέκτης ἢ εἰδωλολάτρης ἢ λοίδορος ἢ μέθυσος ἢ ἅρπαξ ἐστί, τῷ τοιούτῳ μὴ συνεσθίειν».