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1 4 | CITY OF NICE, IN BITHYNIA. CANON I. ~IF any one in sickness
2 4 | found worthy, such men the Canon admits to ~the clergy.~ ~
3 4 | ANCIENT EPITOME(1) OF CANON I.~ ~Eunuchs may be received
4 4 | castrate ~themselves, this canon provides as to what is to
5 4 | Ancient Church .... This canon of Nice, ~and those in the
6 4 | Second ~Council of Arles(canon vii.) were aimed against
7 4 | practice condemned in this canon. "If ~anyone shall anywhere
8 4 | The Nicene fathers in this canon make no new enactment but
9 4 | from the wording of this canon. For there ~can be no doubt
10 4 | had in mind some earlier canon when they ~said, "such men
11 4 | they ~said, "such men the canon admits to the clergy." Not, ~
12 4 | set forth and well-known canon" admits such to the clergy.
13 4 | the clergy. But no other canon ~then existed in which this
14 4 | occurred except apostolical canon ~xxi. which therefore we
15 5 | ON THE USE OF THE WORD "CANON."~(Bright: Notes on the
16 5 | it, On the New ~Testament Canon, p. 498 if. The original
17 5 | the baptismal creed ~"the canon of truth"(i. 9, 4): Polycrates(
18 5 | ib. v. 28) calls it "the canon of faith;" the Council of ~
19 5 | significant absoluteness of "the canon"(ib. vii. 30). ~Eusebius
20 5 | Eusebius himself mentions "the canon of truth" in iv. 23, and "
21 5 | truth" in iv. 23, and "the ~canon of the preaching" in iii.
22 5 | speaks of "the ~transmitted canon of true religion"(Epist.
23 5 | Nicene Creed itself ~a "canon," ii. 27. Clement of Alexandria
24 5 | Alexandria uses the phrase "canon of ~truth" for a standard
25 5 | between the two Testaments "a canon for the Church," ~Strom.
26 5 | speaks of "the ecclesiastical canon" ~which recognized no other
27 5 | Judaizers, ~called "The Churches Canon"(Euseb. vi. 13); and Cornelius
28 5 | to Fabius, speaks of the "canon" as to what we call ~confirmation(
29 5 | and Dionysius of the "canon" as to ~reception of converts
30 5 | Nicene Council in ~this canon refers to a standing "canon"
31 5 | canon refers to a standing "canon" of discipline(comp. Nic.
32 5 | described in the second canon of Constantinople(see ~below),
33 5 | decree of this Council ~a "canon"(Athan. Apol. c. Ari. 25);
34 5 | derivation, see "the holy canon" in the first canon of the
35 5 | holy canon" in the first canon of the Council of ~Antioch,
36 5 | of a penitentiary "to the canon of the church;" see also ~
37 5 | canonical singers." ~Laodicea, canon xv. The same notion of definiteness
38 5 | appeared to restrict the term ~Canon to matters of discipline,
39 6 | CANON II.~ ~FORASMUCH as, either
40 6 | contrary to the Ecclesiastical ~canon, so that men just converted
41 6 | NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON II.~ ~Those who have come
42 6 | by the very text of this canon, that it was already ~forbidden
43 6 | seventy-ninth) ~apostolical canon; and according to that,
44 6 | that of S. Ambrose. The canon of ~Nicaea does not seem
45 6 | justified by the apostolical canon, which says, at the close: "
46 6 | The expression of the canon ~of Nicaea, yukikon ti ~
47 6 | guilty of crime; but the canon is framed, and ought to
48 6 | the general sense of the canon, and of this passage in ~
49 6 | that the last ~words of the canon may be understood as well
50 7 | CANON III.~ ~THE great Synod has
51 7 | NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON III.~ ~No one shall have
52 7 | sammlungen confesses that this ~canon shews that the practice
53 7 | is very terrain that the canon of Nice forbids such spiritual
54 7 | his mother," etc.~ ~This canon is found in the Corpus Juris
55 8 | CANON IV.~ ~IT is by all means
56 8 | NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON IV.~ ~A bishop is to be
57 8 | ZONARAS.~The present Canon might seem to be opposed
58 8 | be opposed to the first canon of the ~Holy Apostles, for
59 8 | contradictory; for the Apostolical canon by ordination ~( keirotonian )
60 8 | hands, but the present canon by constitution ~( katastasin )
61 8 | according to the apostolical canon, he ~consecrates with imposition
62 8 | keirotonia of election. The canon is akin to the 1st ~Apostolic
63 8 | akin to the 1st ~Apostolic canon which, as the canonists
64 8 | considered under the next canon.~ ~Meletius was probably
65 8 | probably the occasion of this canon. It may be ~remembered that
66 8 | occasioned a schism. This ~canon was intended to prevent
67 8 | as to whether the fourth canon speaks only of ~the choice
68 8 | which completes it.~ ~This canon has been interpreted in
69 8 | tried to prove that ~this canon of Nice took away from the
70 8 | affirming that this fourth canon of Nice takes ~away from
71 8 | Latins then interpreted the canon of Nice as though it said
72 8 | Eglise, P. ~II. 1. 2.~ ~This canon is found in the Corpus Juris
73 9 | CANON V.~ ~CONCERNING those, whether
74 9 | let the provision of the ~canon be observed by the bishops
75 9 | NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON V.~ ~Such as have been excommunicated
76 9 | his translation of ~the canon shows. It does not change
77 9 | the whole ~sense of the canon: the Prisca has not ew ~
78 9 | erroneous form that the canon has passed into the Corpus
79 9 | Corpus jurisc ~an.~ ~This canon is found in the Corpus Juris
80 9 | Causa XI, Quaest. III., Canon lxxiij., and the latter
81 10| CANON VI.~ ~LET the ancient customs
82 10| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON VI.~ ~The Bishop of Alexandria
83 10| subject to the notes on a canon which seems really to ~deal
84 10| the words found ~in the canon before us.~ ~HAMMOND, W.
85 10| object and intention of this canon seems clearly to have been,
86 10| The first half of the canon enacts merely that what
87 10| of the first words of the canon is as follows: "This ancient ~
88 10| provinces named in this canon, Egypt, Libya, and Pentapolis,
89 10| beyond a doubt that in this canon there is a question about
90 10| metropolitans that the ~Sixth Canon of Nice confers on the Bishop
91 10| is shown by the ~Second Canon of Constantinople to be
92 11| translation of this [VI.] canon by Rufinus has been especially
93 11| gist of the meaning of the ~canon. One thing is certain: the
94 11| Greek wording and made ~the Canon read thus: "It is of ancient
95 11| evinced by the fact that the canon was actually quoted in this
96 11| of Nice, that this sixth canon confirms the ~rights of
97 12| CANON VII.~ ~SINCE custom and
98 12| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON VII.~ ~Let the Bishop of
99 12| passing of this ~seventh canon. It is very hard to determine
100 12| bishop of Jerusalem.~ ~(Canon Venables, Dict. Christ.
101 12| presented ~by the Nicene canon does not appear to have
102 13| CANON VIII.~ ~CONCERNING those
103 13| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON VIII.~ ~If those called
104 13| supposes that this eighth canon orders a re-~ordination.~ ~ ~
105 13| villages," contrary to canon,--then they certainly were
106 13| gathered from the fifty-seventh canon of ~Laodicea.~ ~From this
107 13| of ~Laodicea.~ ~From this canon two conclusions may be drawn,
108 13| rank of a chorepiscopus in Canon viii. This canon shows that
109 13| chorepiscopus in Canon viii. This canon shows that they ~should
110 13| must be given to the tenth canon of ~Antioch, which directs
111 13| limits prescribed by the canon; that in cases of necessity,
112 13| bishop being contrary to ~canon xix. of the same council,
113 13| same council, moreover the canon does not say the ~chorepiscopus
114 13| the bishop of the city (canon x.). The ~Council of Neocaesarea
115 13| the seventy disciples (in ~Canon XIV.) has shown the chorepiscopi
116 13| admits in commenting on Canon xiii. of Ancyra.~ ~Whether
117 14| CANON IX.~ ~IF any presbyters
118 14| acting in ~violation of the canon have laid hands upon them,
119 14| their confession, such the canon does not admit; for the
120 14| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON IX.~ ~Whoever are ordained
121 14| and that ~consequently our canon refers to the bishops as
122 14| induced, in opposition to the canon, to ordain such persons,"
123 14| persons," allude to ~the ninth canon of the Synod of Neocaesarea.
124 14| with the canons.~ ~This canon occurs twice in the Corpus
125 15| CANON X.~ ~IF any who have lapsed
126 15| shall not ~prejudice the canon of the Church for when they
127 15| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON X.~ ~Whoso had lapsed are
128 15| it.~ ~HEFELE.~The tenth canon differs from the ninth,
129 15| for, as the ~preceding canon states, the Church requires
130 15| to signify eliger.~ ~This canon is found in Corpus Juris
131 16| CANON XI.~ ~CONCERNING those who
132 16| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON XI.~ ~As many as fell without
133 16| see the notes to Ancyra, Canon V. where ~the matter is
134 16| in his comment on this ~canon, says, "they are ordered
135 17| Definitions of Faith, etc. Note to Canon XI. of Nice.)~"In the Primitive
136 17| mentioned in the eleventh canon, the ~fourth, which is not
137 17| the first mentioned in the Canon), who were called ~the akowmenoi ,
138 17| Council of Chalons in 813 (canon xxxiij.), ~says: 'Some assert
139 18| CANON XII.~ ~As many as were called
140 18| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON XII.~ ~Those who endured
141 18| apostatize.~ ~BRIGHT.~This canon (which in the Prisca and
142 18| version stands as ~part of canon 11) deals, like it, with
143 18| recognized in the fifth canon of Ancyra and the ~sixteenth
144 18| signify: the fourth Ancyrene ~canon speaks of lapsi who partook
145 19| CANON XIII.~ ~CONCERNING the departing,
146 19| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON XIII.~ ~The dying are to
147 19| ancient ~versions of the canon.] Balsamon and Zonaras also
148 19| Zonaras also understand the ~canon as I have done, as is evident
149 19| Arabic Paraphrase gives the ~canon this title: "Concerning
150 19| granted to ~him."~ ~This canon is found in the Corpus Juris
151 20| found than the present ~canon, which provides that even
152 20| 1647) in 1092 all ~cite a Canon, which they ascribe to a
153 21| CANON XIV.~ ~CONCERNING catechumens
154 21| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON XIV.~ ~If any of the catechumens
155 21| clear from the ~present canon there were two kinds of
156 21| very ~forced explanation of canon five of Neocaesarea. The
157 22| CANON XV.~ ~ON account of the
158 22| places contrary to the ~Canon, must wholly be done away;
159 22| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON XV.~Neither bishop, presbyter,
160 22| renewed, in its twenty-first canon, the prohibition ~passed
161 22| the rule of Nice.~ ~This canon is found in the Corpus Juris
162 23| subsequent ~adultery.(1) Canon XIV. of the Apostolic Canons
163 23| accordance with the Apostolic Canon(no. xiv.). In this manner,
164 23| noticed that the Nicene Canon does not forbid Provincial ~
165 24| CANON XVI.~ ~NEITHER presbyters,
166 24| regarding the ecclesiastical Canon, shall recklessly remove
167 24| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON XVI.~ ~Such presbyters or
168 24| cancelled.~ ~"Parish" in this canon, as so often elsewhere,
169 24| This ~decree agrees with canon xv. of the Apostolical canons,
170 24| not celebrate the liturgy. Canon xvj. of the ~same Apostolical
171 24| same explanation of the ~canon.~ ~This canon is found in
172 24| explanation of the ~canon.~ ~This canon is found in the Corpus Juris
173 24| I. Dist. ~LXXI., c. iij.~CANON XVII.~ ~FORASMUCH as many
174 24| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON XVII.~ ~If anyone shall
175 24| VAN ESPEN.~Although the canon expresses only these two
176 24| the translation of this canon sent by ~the Orientals to
177 24| the true intent of the canon; for in this version no
178 24| of filthy lucre.~ ~This Canon is found in the Corpus Juris
179 25| First Council of Nice in Canon VII. deposed from the ~clergy
180 25| general terms of the earlier canon, "ut non liceat clericis
181 25| While, again, ~the Nicaean canon requires the immediate deposition
182 25| practice, the Apostolical canon enjoins ~that such deposition
183 26| CANON XVIII.~ ~IT has come to
184 26| presbyters, whereas neither canon nor custom permits that
185 26| for that is contrary to canon and order. And if, ~after
186 26| diaconate.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON XVIII.~ ~Deacons must abide
187 26| all this is contrary to canon, and to decent ~order.~ ~
188 26| excesses of deacons this canon condemns, at least indirectly.
189 26| easily the meaning of the canon it must be ~remembered that
190 26| viij. . . . The present canon does not take away from ~
191 26| alien to the context of the ~canon.~ ~"Let them receive the
192 26| Balsamon observes.~ ~From this canon we see that the Nicene,
193 26| that the wording of the canon shews ~"that the Nicene
194 26| is included in what the canon ~says, but the doctrinal
195 26| necessarily contained in the ~canon is that "the body of Christ
196 26| by ~the priest.(2)~ ~This canon is found in the Corpus Juris
197 27| CANON XIX.~ ~CONCERNING the Paulianists
198 27| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON XIX.~ ~Paulianists must
199 27| application of the words oros in Canon ~xvii., and wrisen , in
200 27| xvii., and wrisen , in Canon vi. It has been a pure ~
201 27| to understand it ~of some canon previously passed, whether
202 27| of Arles in its ~eighth canon. "If anyone shall come from
203 28| this the ~wording of the canon of Chalcedon is but an echo(
204 28| Chalcedon is but an echo(Canon xv). "A ~woman shall not
205 28| commonly known as the XII Canon of the Fourth ~Council of
206 28| called presbutides (Vide Canon xi); and the first ~council
207 28| 441, in its twenty-sixth canon forbids the ~appointment
208 29| CANON XX.~ ~FORASMUCH as there
209 29| NOTES.~ ~ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON XX.~ ~On Lord's days and
210 29| our Lord assured. This ~canon, as Beveridge observes,
211 29| Pentecost and Easter.~ ~This canon is found in the Corpus Juris
212 30| to act thus, he quoted a canon of the Council of Nicaea,
213 30| judices in partibus." The canon quoted ~by the Pope does
214 30| affirmed; ~it was the fifth canon of the Council of Sardica(
215 30| bishops, not finding the canon quoted by the Pope either
216 31| THE COUNCIL OF NICE.~ ~ ~CANON I. (1)~Insane persons and
217 31| should not be ordained.~ ~CANON II.~Bond servants are not
218 31| are not to be ordained.~ ~CANON III.~Neophytes in the faith
219 31| those who ~ordained them.~ ~CANON IV.~The cohabitation of
220 31| suspicion of scandal.(2)~ ~CANON V.~Of the election of a
221 31| confirmation of the election.~ ~CANON VI.~That those excommunicated
222 31| archbishop or patriarch.~ ~CANON VII.~That provincial Councils
223 31| bishops of the ~province.~ ~CANON VIII.~Of the patriarchs
224 31| of their jurisdiction.~ ~CANON IX.~Of one who solicits
225 31| consent of the archbishop.~ ~CANON X.~How the bishop of Jerusalem
226 31| which he is subject.~ ~CANON XI.~Of those who force themselves
227 31| election or examination.~ ~CANON XII.~Of the bishop who ordains
228 31| it, crept into ~orders.~ ~CANON XIII.~Of one who of his
229 31| own church to another.~ ~CANON XIV.~No one shall become
230 31| license is required.~ ~CANON XV.~That clerics or religious
231 31| cast from their ~grade.~ ~CANON XVI.~Of the honour to be
232 31| presbyter by the ~deacons.~ ~CANON XVII.~Of the system and
233 31| heresy of Paul of Samosata. CANON XVIII.~Of the system and
234 31| heresy the Novatians.~ ~CANON XIX.~Of the system and manner
235 31| such as are convalescent.~ ~CANON XX.~Of avoiding the conversation
236 31| have not avoided such.~ ~CANON XXI.~Of incestuous marriages
237 31| is said of separation.]~ ~CANON XXII.~Of sponsors in baptism.~ ~
238 31| females, and men males.~ ~CANON XXIII.~Of the prohibited
239 31| receiving them in baptism.~ ~CANON XXIV.~Of him who has married
240 31| punishment.~ ~Part of the canon. If he be a priest he is
241 31| ought to retain the first.~ ~CANON XXV.~That no one should
242 31| as are ~doing penance.~ ~CANON XXVI.~Clerics are forbidden
243 31| witness-giving in criminal ~causes.~ ~CANON XXVII.~Of avoiding the excommunicate,
244 31| avoid the excommunicated.~ ~CANON XXVIII.~How anger, indignation,
245 31| excommunicating others.~ ~CANON XXIX.~Of not kneeling in
246 31| not kneeling in prayer.~ ~CANON XXX.~Of giving[only] names
247 31| they come to the faith.~ ~CANON XXXI.~Of the system and
248 31| Arius and of other like.~ ~CANON XXXII.~Of the system of
249 31| afterwards ~come back.~ ~CANON XXXIII.~Of the place of
250 31| bishop of ~Seleucia. ~ ~CANON XXXIV.~ Of the honour to
251 31| the Synod ~of Greece.~ ~CANON XXXV.~Of not holding a provincial
252 31| metropolitans of Antioch.~ ~CANON XXXVI.~Of the creation of
253 31| in the Synod of Greece.~ ~CANON XXXVII.~Of the election
254 31| patriarch of Antioch.~ ~CANON XXXVIII.~That the ordination
255 31| strangers is forbidden. CANON XXXIX.~Of the care and power
256 31| by the Synod.(1)~ ~[I add Canon XXXVII. of Echellensis's
257 31| subject him to anathema.(2)~ ~CANON XL.~Of the provincial synod
258 31| as oppose the ~decree.~ ~CANON XLI.~Of the synod of Archbishops,
259 31| subject to ~the patriarch.~ ~CANON XLII.~Of a cleric or monk
260 31| present himself for trial.~ ~CANON XLIII.~What the patriarch
261 31| deacon, as the case may be.~ ~CANON XLIV.~How an archbishop
262 31| his suffragan bishops.~ ~CANON XLV.~Of the receiving of
263 31| against his patriarch.~ ~CANON XLVI.~How a patriarch should
264 31| against an Archbishop.~ ~CANON XLVII.~Of those excommunicated
265 31| be absolved by another.~ ~CANON XLVIII.~No bishop shall
266 31| choose his own successor.~ ~CANON XLIX.~No simoniacal ordinations
267 31| ordinations shall be made.~ ~CANON L.~There shall be but one
268 31| convicted of manifest crime.~ ~CANON LI.~Bishops shall not allow
269 31| incompatibility of temper"].CANON LII.~Usury and the base
270 31| fellowship with Jews.~ ~CANON LIII.~Marriages with infidels
271 31| infidels to be avoided.~ ~CANON LIV.~Of the election of
272 31| villages, and monasteries.~ ~CANON LV.~How a chorepiscopus
273 31| under his jurisdiction.~ ~CANON LVI.~Of how the presbyters
274 31| monastery should go thrice.~ ~CANON LVII.~Of the rank in sitting
275 31| due the archpresbyter.~ ~CANON LVIII.~Of the honour flue
276 31| about ~with the bishop.~ ~CANON LIX.~How all the grades
277 31| described and set forth.~ ~CANON LX.~Of how men are to be
278 31| they should be examined.~ ~CANON LXI.~Of the honour due to
279 31| themselves in their way.~ ~CANON LXII.~The number of presbyters
280 31| church and to its means.~ ~CANON LXIII.~Of the Ecclesiastical
281 31| church's possessions.~ ~CANON LXIV.~Of the offices said
282 31| who rule that church.~ ~CANON LXV.~Of the order to be
283 31| the office of exequies.~ ~CANON LXVI.~Of taking a second
284 31| will notice that by this canon a husband is deposed ~or
285 31| curious that ~in the parallel canon in the collection of Echellensis,
286 31| codices and editions this canon is lacking ~altogether,
287 31| taking its ~place. As this canon is of considerable length,
288 31| synod excommunicate him.~ ~CANON LXVII.~Of having two wives
289 31| leaving the ~infidel man.] ~ ~CANON LXVIII.~Of giving in marriage
290 31| contrary to her wish.~ ~CANON LXIX.~Of one of the faithful
291 31| admitting him ~to penance.~ ~CANON LXX.~Of the hospital to
292 31| the ability of ~each."]~ ~CANON LXXI.~Of the placing a bishop
293 31| which is enthronization.~ ~CANON LXXII.~No one is allowed
294 31| blame attaching to him.~ ~CANON LXXIII.~The laity shall
295 31| lawful for a ~superior.~ ~CANON LXXIV.~How sisters, widows,
296 31| their duties and utility.~ ~CANON LXXV.~How one seeking election
297 31| except on account of crime.~ ~CANON LXXVI.~Of the distinctive
298 31| conversation of ~monks and nuns.~ ~CANON LXXVII.~That a bishop convicted
299 31| not be ~excommunicated.~ ~CANON LXXVIII.~Of presbyters and
300 31| only, and which twice.~ ~CANON LXXIX.~Each one of the faithful
301 31| must be excommunicated.~ ~CANON LXXX.~Of the election of
302 32| Council of Nicaea in its third canon gave a law upon ~celibacy
303 32| upon celibacy in that third canon; he thought it to be so,
304 32| mother, sister, etc.--the canon does not say a word about
305 32| Apostolic ~canons, the fourth canon of Gangra, and the thirteenth
306 33| else has ~been enacted by canon or other decree, he will
307 35| remained faithful to Victor's canon, and Great Britain still
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