Council,  Canon

  1   1”,11 |           remorseful shall pass three years among audients as believers,
  2   1”,11 |              believers, and for seven years they shall do penance as
  3   1”,11 |     succumbents. In addition, for two years they shall commune without
  4   1”,11 |             be obliged to spend three years with the so-called “listeners” (
  5   1”,11 |                apparently by mistake) years they shall be succumbent;
  6   1”,11 |            come forward.” And for two years they shall join in prayer
  7   1”,11 |              communion) until the two years are ended.[20]~ All those
  8   1”,11 |              divine mysteries for six years, according to c. VI of Ancyra.
  9   1”,11 |      repentance over a period of four years, shall be allowed the benefit
 10   1”,11 |              excommunicated for three years, and after eight more years
 11   1”,11 |           years, and after eight more years are to be allowed to commune.[
 12   1”,12 |           them be succumbents for ten years after devoting three years
 13   1”,12 |            years after devoting three years to “listening” (as audients).
 14   1”,12 |            after they have done three years in the place assigned to “
 15   1”,12 |      listeners,” let them do also ten years more in the place assigned
 16   1”,12 |           they fulfill the said three years with “listeners,” they may
 17   1”,12 |            let them fulfill all three years of “listening,” and the
 18   1”,12 |        listening,” and the entire ten years of succumbency.[24]~ Canons
 19   1”,14 |              them off with only three years’ listening and to allow
 20   1”,14 |               them to stand for three years in the ranks of the second
 21   1”,14 |               church, and after three years have passed for them to
 22   1”,19 |              ordained such when forty years old (as does also c. 14
 23   1”,19 |     fornication for a period of seven years, though it does not deprive
 24   4”,3  |             born until the fourteenth years of their age), or a curator,
 25   4”,3  |        fourteenth to the twenty-fifth years of their age), and unless
 26   4”,15 |             if she is less than forty years old. Yet even if she is
 27   4”,15 |              Yet even if she is forty years old, again, it forbids her
 28   4”,17 |           without coercion for thirty years or more. But if during a
 29   4”,17 |             during a period of thirty years there has arisen or should
 30   4”,17 |       authority for as many as thirty years in good faith and without
 31   4”,17 |              the course of the thirty years there had arisen any dispute
 32   4”,17 |              and holding it for three years straight, without its being
 33   7”,14 |          ordained before he is thirty years old, though the man be thoroughly
 34   7”,14 |           baptized when He was thirty years old, and then He began teaching.
 35   7”,14 |              before he is twenty-five years old, nor a Deaconess before
 36   7”,14 |         Deaconess before she is forty years old.~(c. XIX of the 1st;
 37   7”,14 |              began to be about thirty years of age,” says Luke, 3:23).
 38   7”,15 |             if he is less than twenty years old. If anyone should be
 39   7”,15 |            without having reached the years decreed, let him be deposed
 40   7”,15 |           when he is less than twenty years of age. If anyone has been
 41   7”,15 |              to ordain him when eight years of age was omitted when
 42   7”,24 |           them for a period of thirty years without resorting to force.
 43   7”,24 |           force. But if within thirty years there has been, or should
 44   7”,39 |              who is not less than ten years old, the test for this resting
 45   7”,39 |           into the number under sixty years old if she has been the
 46   7”,39 |            when she is at least forty years old, the Church having by
 47   7”,39 |             monk be not less than ten years old; but, nevertheless,
 48   7”,39 |             to increase the number of years for him (in proportion,
 49   7”,39 |             over sixteen or seventeen years may be admitted to the battalion
 50   7”,39 |              the sixteen or seventeen years of St. Basil to ten years,
 51   7”,39 |             years of St. Basil to ten years, because the Apostle prescribes
 52   7”,39 |            she is not less than sixty years old, while the Fathers of
 53   7”,39 |           deaconess when she is forty years old, in their c. XV,[169]
 54   7”,40 |               and to submit for three years straight to the Prior of
 55   7”,40 |               every respect for three years, they must be examined by
 56   7”,43 |           fornicator, i.e., for seven years, in accordance with the
 57   7”,53 |         sisters — shall incur a seven years’ canon (or penance), after
 58   7”,53 |      canonized (i.e., penanced) seven years. St. Basil, however, in
 59   7”,53 |               of adulterers, i.e., 15 years. See also in the teaching
 60   7”,60 |           them incur the canon of six years. The same penalty ought
 61   7”,60 |            from the Mysteries for six years who consult soothsayers,[
 62   7”,60 |               above canonizes for six years also those who drag bears[
 63   7”,60 |             Ancyra canonize them five years in their c. XXIV, while
 64   7”,86 |          serve a year as weepers, two years as listeners, three years
 65   7”,86 |             years as listeners, three years as kneelers, and during
 66   7”,86 |              from Communion for seven years,[224] passing two of them
 67   7”,90 |            for life, but only for ten years. Drugs for procuring abortion,
 68   7”,92 |          should return from war after years whose wife has got married
 69   7”,92 |               of his having been many years in foreign lands, he, I
 70   7”,93 |             however, canonizes eleven years those men who without any
 71   7”,93 |        abstain from Communion for ten years. But in his c. LXXXII the
 72   7”,93 |              oath, he is penanced six years; but if he violated it without
 73   7”,93 |              he is sentenced to seven years’ penance. In his c. XXVIII,
 74   7”,101| compromisingly allowed a reduction of years and of penances for their
 75   7”,101|          custom, the entire number of years, that is to say, and the
 76   8”,23 |               Council, prescribed two years. Justinian Novel 144 also
 77   8”,23 |               144 also prescribed two years for Samaritans joining the
 78   8”,23 |          retain their beauty for many years, because of their remaining
 79   8”,23 |             fact they get to be forty years old and nevertheless appear
 80   8”,23 |               too has to fast for two years in identically the same
 81   8”,23 |              form, which is the three years of “listening,” and the
 82   8”,23 |               listening,” and the ten years of succumbency (or “kneeling”).
 83   8”,23 |              the requirement of three years’ succumbency. But to those
 84   8”,23 |               ordered to keep all the years. For this reason divine
 85   8”,23 |             asking for a multitude of years, but for correction of the
 86   8”,23 |                even for more than ten years, until the wounded one has
 87   8”,23 |              with a greater number of years, while other Canons prescribe
 88   8”,23 |         prescribe a smaller number of years for the same offenses. The
 89   8”,23 |               judged by the number of years, but by the disposition
 90   8”,23 |             repentance, the number of years of penance is prescribed
 91   8”,23 |               to reduce the number of years of penance the penitent
 92   8”,23 |       Paulicians, who sprang up a few years after Paul. See also the
 93   8”,23 |          women in question were forty years old when they were ordained,
 94   8”,23 |              and bound for a thousand years, and that the righteous
 95   8”,23 |               as kings for a thousand years, many men have imagined
 96   8”,23 |               as kings for a thousand years together with Christ, and
 97   8”,23 |            that during those thousand years they are to enjoy every
 98   8”,23 |              33). As for the thousand years referred to by St. John,
 99   8”,23 |               describable in terms of years, nor food and drink, as
100   8”,23 |              the contrary, a thousand years are to be understood, according
101   8”,23 |      persecuting the Church for forty years, until there remained but
102   8”,23 |           change your mind after many years of virginity and be introduced
103   8”,23 |              himself on them for many years, according to Title VI of
104   8”,23 |              to be punished with four years as fornicators. Canon XXX
105   8”,23 |              excommunicates for three years those who seize women by
106   8”,23 |                but a goodly number of years before the Fifth Council
107   8”,23 |            the past period of fifteen years of the preceding Indiction
108   8”,23 |         present Council ten or eleven years passed in point of fact,
109   8”,23 |              was purified when thirty years old, and so how is it that
110   8”,23 |             over sixteen or seventeen years of age, the present Council,
111   8”,23 |             are not judged till later years. But if sins are judged
112   8”,23 |        confessing their sins when six years old, and boys when eight
113   8”,23 |              old, and boys when eight years old, “because iniquity increased” (
114   8”,23 |             and evil when over twenty years old. “And the Lord’s anger
115   8”,23 |             out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see
116   8”,23 |               they become twenty-five years old, except only in case
117   8”,23 |             truth, with the advancing years of our period, children
118   8”,23 |        Council did not stand upon ten years as the limit, but gave the
119   8”,23 |           should try it out for three years, in its c. V, herein, behold,
120   8”,23 |              that again the number of years becomes nearly enough to
121   8”,23 |             coincide with the sixteen years specified by St. Basil,
122   8”,23 |               thereof (allowing three years, that is to say, for trial),
123   8”,23 |             to increase the number of years in regard to those about
124   8”,23 |          husband, needs all the sixty years to complete a more satisfactory
125   8”,23 |             to be ordained when sixty years old. And the reason is that
126   8”,23 |           were enrolled after so many years, i.e., at such an advanced
127   8”,23 |             be ordained after so many years, whose marriage after ordination
128   8”,23 |           unless she had become sixty years old. “This is the cause
129   8”,23 |        children and became over sixty years old, in accordance with
130   8”,23 |                C. reduced these sixty years of deaconesses to forty,
131   8”,23 |               be ordained until forty years of age, irrespectively,
132   8”,23 |             though the woman is forty years old and of firm belief,
133   8”,23 |               as murderesses — twenty years, that is to say, according
134   8”,23 |         concession” because the seven years are the penance provided
135   8”,23 |        adulterers. But inasmuch seven years is the penance provided
136   8”,23 |              and his wife waits three years with fortitude for him (
137   8”,23 |            war no matter for how many years, his wife must wail for
138   8”,23 |     Chrysostom, at least four hundred years, as becomes plain also from
139   8”,23 |          custom” is meant the term of years and the various penances,
140   8”,23 |          whereby sinners add to these years and penances a hatred of
141   8”,23 |           expected to result from the years and penances alone. Both
142   8”,23 |     Euchologia printed only a hundred years ago! 3) It becomes evident
143   8”,23 |        without first undergoing three years' trial and test, according