Council,  Canon

  1   1     |            and on earth; who for us men and our salvation descended,
  2   1”,2  |      otherwise urgently demanded by men, have been done contrary
  3   1”,2  |       ecclesiastical Canon, so that men who have but recently come
  4   1”,3  |        Basil.)~ ~Interpretation.[3]~Men in holy orders and clergymen
  5   1”,3  |             power of sexual love of men for women, which has been
  6   1”,3  |            which has been placed in men’s bodies, in defiance, he
  7   1”,3  |           the mingling of bodies of men with bodies of women, regardless
  8   1”,6  |  ecclesiastical Canon, two or three men object on account of a private
  9   1”,9  |           after they confessed, the men, acting contrary to the
 10   1”,19 |            deposed. But as to these men who have never received
 11   1”,19 |         have asserted as concerning men must also be observed in
 12   2”,6  |                    6.~ Because many men, in a spirit of enmity and
 13   2”,6  |            examination, nor are all men to be allowed to bring accusations
 14   2”,6  |       stated as follows. Since many men wishing to confound the
 15   3”,4  |           just and right that these men too should be deposed from
 16   3”,8  |        Christ, the Liberator of all men, has given us as a free
 17   3”,8  |          which the liberator of all men Jesus Christ has graciously
 18   4     |   Alexandria after Cyril. For these men, having fallen into the
 19   4     |             substances, while these men boldly confused the two
 20   4”,3  |            of the Clergy hire other men’s estates for the sake of
 21   4”,3  |             the families of secular men, whose estates they undertake
 22   4”,4  |            of his owner, lest other men seeing the monks engaged
 23   4”,7  |          LXXXIII only deposes these men from office, whereas this
 24   4”,16 |             to the Lord God, or any men likewise have become monks,
 25   4”,16 |             if the agreements which men make with one another are
 26   4”,18 |      conspiracy is a combination of men leagued together and with
 27   4”,18 |           hand, is a combination of men leagued together and with
 28   4”,18 |       latter says: “more than forty men who have bound themselves
 29   4”,28 |       custom, and then ordain those men on whom the voters have
 30   4”,30 |            humane as regarded these men, advised the Council not
 31   7     |            the assembly of the holy men have delivered this chapter
 32   7     |          for word as follows: “Some men who are painfully ignorant
 33   7     |            Sixth Council.’ Let such men become conscious of the
 34   7”,1  |     succinctly speaking, of all the men who have distinguished themselves
 35   7”,1  | God-imparted dogmas of all the Holy Men who have shone in the Church
 36   7”,3  |            a multitude of not a few men — therefore we concur in
 37   7”,3  |         seemed best to us for these men to be dismissed from every
 38   7”,12 |         even as I try to please all men in everything, without seeking
 39   7”,13 |             marriage ties of sacred men become stronger, and we
 40   7”,16 |   connection did not pertain to the men serving as ministers to
 41   7”,16 |         look ye out among you seven men of a good reputation, full
 42   7”,16 |         split apart in choosing the men! that the Apostles were
 43   7”,16 |        these seven deacons by name, men full of Holy Spirit, and
 44   7”,19 |        additional benefit. But such men must not teach with their
 45   7”,21 |               We command that those men be deposed from office,
 46   7”,23 |            go to those places where men race horses, or to look
 47   7”,28 |          altar, unless performed by men under a fast, are not to
 48   7”,41 |           round cities, mixing with men and women, and discrediting
 49   7”,41 |          Canon decrees that if such men are willing to cut off their
 50   7”,45 |            the building at all. But men who are leading the solitary
 51   7”,45 |           now made, whether they be men or women, must be subjected
 52   7”,45 |          whether the delinquents be men or women.~ ~Concord.~St.
 53   7”,46 |      neither any woman sleep in the men’s quarters in a Monastery,
 54   7”,46 |           monks, and conversely for men to sleep in a convent of
 55   7”,46 |          fire of desire both in the men and in the women; and it
 56   7”,48 |          that is to say) to worldly men,[175] to manage them, that
 57   7”,50 |       wriggles performed whether by men or by women on the stage.
 58   7”,53 |            a result of this silence men’s nature was confused by
 59   7”,59 | accompanying them, with which these men too who feign themselves
 60   7”,60 |       consult soothsayers,[184] and men calling themselves hecantontarchs,[
 61   7”,60 |          those who tell fortunes of men and what they are to get
 62   7”,60 |            and were deluded by such men, they are to be more leniently
 63   7”,61 |             ceremonies performed by men or women in the name of
 64   7”,61 |        woman put on any that befits men. But neither shall anybody
 65   7”,61 |             festivals and dances by men or women in honor of the
 66   7”,61 |          addition that neither must men wear women’s clothing, nor
 67   7”,61 |         women’s clothing, nor women men’s clothing. But neither
 68   7”,61 |      prohibits a woman from wearing men’s clothing, and a man from
 69   7”,69 |             their own or along with men.~ “For it is a shame for
 70   7”,69 |          and the writings of modern men, who is preparing women
 71   7”,70 |         more foolish of the learned men among the Athenians used
 72   7”,76 |           how can the mind of those men who are bathing together
 73   7”,86 |            by our Fathers that such men shall serve a year as weepers,
 74   7”,87 |      interrupted in order to enable men to water their animals (
 75   7”,90 |             practicing coition with men, in order to escape detection
 76   7”,90 |             murderers all women (or men) who furnish such means,
 77   7”,93 |        canonizes eleven years those men who without any great necessity
 78   7”,93 |       Balsamon says, not only these men, but also Christians who
 79   7”,95 |       easily led astray, as much of men as of women,[248] and while
 80   7”,95 |              Book I, ch. 3, command men not to exercise undue care
 81   7”,99 |           Concord.~Inasmuch as some men were wont to paint or draw
 82   7”,99 |          bathing or being kissed by men, and other such shameful
 83   7”,100|             we nowise welcome those men who make certain receptacles
 84   7”,100|           antidoron. But since some men, on the pretense of reverence,
 85   8”,1  |         holy Fathers. For all those men, having been guided by the
 86   8”,5  |          alien to God and alienates men from God, and from every
 87   8”,5  |             assert that among those men the God is no Lord, in accordance
 88   8”,7  |          divine Apostle said: “Some men’s sins are plainly evident, . . .
 89   8”,7  |              whereas those of other men follow inferentially” (1
 90   8”,12 |          clergymen or farmers,[276] men, that is to say, who are
 91   8”,13 |  institutions have been pillaged by men, including both bishoprics
 92   8”,13 |           but if not, in case those men who now have them in their
 93   8”,15 |          outside of it, for want of men, let there be concessions.~(
 94   8”,16 |       accordingly, I say, let these men be corrected with a penance,
 95   8”,16 |            ever since the beginning men in holy orders have been
 96   8”,18 |           of them, as long as these men are there the women are
 97   8”,19 |        extent that even some of the men and women called reverent,
 98   8”,19 |         says that inasmuch as these men have been so overcome by
 99   8”,20 |         follow a solitary life, the men must retire to a monastery
100   8”,20 |           retire to a monastery for men, and the women must enter
101   8”,20 |             being conveyed from the men’s quarters to those of the
102   8”,20 |             monastery, within which men and women lived in the same
103   8”,20 |           If, nevertheless, certain men and women, who are relatives
104   8”,20 |             the case may be let the men go apart to monasteries
105   8”,20 |            apart to monasteries for men and let the women go to
106   8”,20 |          tribes of Israel to mourn, men separately and women separately,
107   8”,20 |        separately” at the fact that men and women cannot live together
108   8”,23 |          amusement it is proper for men and women to eat in mixed
109   8”,23 |       God-bearing[290] and reverent men and women, in order that
110   8”,23 |            class them among married men, or among unmarried and
111   8”,23 |          among unmarried and virgin men, or in a middle group between
112   8”,23 |        middle group between married men and virgin men; on which
113   8”,23 |      between married men and virgin men; on which account he says:~“
114   8”,23 |         appeal than that enjoyed by men living with a lawful wife.
115   8”,23 |         double desire is aroused in men living with such girls,
116   8”,23 |          ascetic ordinance 4), such men are so overcome by their
117   8”,23 |           like frenzied and drunken men. According to the same Chrysostom (
118   8”,23 |        scandalize the common run of men, without any show of virtue,
119   8”,23 |           we have said in regard to men keeping subintroductae women,
120   8”,23 |            who keep beardless young men in their house as subintroducti
121   8”,23 |         from living with such young men. In fact he says verbatim:~ “
122   8”,23 |        avoid association with young men as you would a flame. For
123   8”,23 |          enemy having burnt up many men with a desire for such young
124   8”,23 |             a desire for such young men, consigned them to the everlasting
125   8”,23 |            those keeping such young men (as the same Basil says
126   8”,23 |         face of the beardless young men and receive a seed of desire
127   8”,23 |           result of beardless young men. For many great lavras (
128   8”,23 |          out, and the souls of many men have been swallowed up by
129   8”,23 |        embarrassment with all other men high as well as low” (Title
130   8”,23 |             God does not ordain all men, but He does act through
131   8”,23 |             He does act through all men, even though they themselves
132   8”,23 |             Symeon ibidem) “to such men, who, whether they sinned
133   8”,23 |             sides. For just as some men, being unable to endure
134   8”,23 |        ought to be respected by all men, while the private declarations
135   8”,23 |           in order to prevent other men from blaming him and becoming
136   8”,23 |            naked body to be seen by men. Secondly, for the other
137   8”,23 |           together with unbelieving men, to which it was not perfectly
138   8”,23 |          for a thousand years, many men have imagined that after
139   8”,23 |          and bodily pleasure; these men were followers of Cerinthus,
140   8”,23 |        pauperized, and scorned many men of this belief, and assembled
141   8”,23 |            and the latter sent some men and they ordained him Bishop
142   8”,23 |       should be dissolved, and that men should abstain from foods
143   8”,23 |           substances of the rest of men have, except for the total
144   8”,23 |        nature, while God wishes all men to be saved, and everyone
145   8”,23 |          consider it reasonable for men to remain in the ministry
146   8”,23 |          word Acephali, or headless men, in allusion to the fact
147   8”,23 |            name monks they are lone men, or solitaries (in that
148   8”,23 |           slaves, but even enlisted men, that is to say, soldiers,
149   8”,23 |           Constantinople. All these men, however, are wandering
150   8”,23 |          grievous than God is above men. St. Basil, in fact, in
151   8”,23 |            barbarians or disorderly men, provided that her former
152   8”,23 |          whole households, exciting men to murders and disturbances
153   8”,23 |             that women betrothed to men but seized by other men
154   8”,23 |             men but seized by other men shall be given to their
155   8”,23 |           at the hands of the other men. Canon XXII of Basil also
156   8”,23 |              just as it is in other men); and again at other times
157   8”,23 |            of Nomocanons that these men were representing the Pope
158   8”,23 |           better, prefers unmarried men, or, more explicitly speaking,
159   8”,23 |           does not want the married men, not because it has any
160   8”,23 |            wives, whether they were men in holy orders or married
161   8”,23 |            far more imperative that men should keep these days who
162   8”,23 |           own promises,” which such men in holy orders had made
163   8”,23 |             are trying to teach old men before you have even grown
164   8”,23 |    invitation to emulate these good men and imitate their good works.”
165   8”,23 |         true, it is plain that such men used to be elevated to the
166   8”,23 |          theaters, since these make men perfect adulterers (page
167   8”,23 |           matter of logic that such men can neither chant sanctifications
168   8”,23 |         Canon. But neither can such men accept accountings and become
169   8”,23 |          and strife between erudite men of the Spirit on account
170   8”,23 |             house or place in which men assembled and prayed as
171   8”,23 |          saying, Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt,
172   8”,23 |      English by the word wisdom) in men is gray hair and agedness, “
173   8”,23 |            wisdom is gray hair unto men” (Wisd. Sol. 4:9); and by
174   8”,23 |            are wise, neither do old men know how to judge; but it
175   8”,23 |         Canon, “young and beardless men” became monks as soon as
176   8”,23 |         later Fathers on account of men’s weakness (or even negligence).
177   8”,23 |           be turned over to worldly men, not, however, in order
178   8”,23 |          that it is also harmful to men’s souls, and ruinous to
179   8”,23 |         they saw clouds shaped like men with swords in their hands,
180   8”,23 |      sorcerers and witches, and all men and women who go to sorcerers
181   8”,23 |        employ as a means of drawing men into love. Such women are
182   8”,23 |            in his possession. Those men or those women who prepare
183   8”,23 |            fact I must say that the men wear masks and various false
184   8”,23 |           sometimes women even wear men’s clothing, and all of them
185   8”,23 |    especially in the islands, where men and women place water and
186   8”,23 |        Christians of today, whether men or women, young or old,
187   8”,23 |           is an invention of carnal men; wherefore it ought by all
188   8”,23 |      addition, take those women, or men, who go to the tombs of
189   8”,23 |             provides excommunicates men for a week in case they
190   8”,23 |            to which the majority of men are accustomed by obliging
191   8”,23 |      commandments to be kept by all men. As respects the first allegation,
192   8”,23 | consciousness that is common to all men, that man by the name of
193   8”,23 |            after death the souls of men enter birds and cattle and
194   8”,23 |          times like beardless young men; and those who singe the
195   8”,23 |             not to appear to be old men. This same excommunication
196   8”,23 |          and in this way to attract men beholding them to their
197   8”,23 |         order to please the eyes of men, just as is written: “And
198   8”,23 |             window” (ibid.). So all men and all women who do such
199   8”,23 |            who look like very young men and handsome bridegrooms
200   8”,23 |           of women. For God forbids men of the laity in general
201   8”,23 |              and not a woman. Those men who shave their beard are
202   8”,23 |           to be out of harmony with men.” The innovation of shaving
203   8”,23 |             a large number of other men like him in a council called
204   8”,23 |             tongs was the fact some men, either feigning to be Christians,
205   8”,23 |           Patriarch said that these men ought to be deposed from
206   8”,23 |        transgressors of the Canons. Men unsacred and monks ought
207   8”,23 |         been sensually seen by many men and women with the veritable
208   8”,23 |         since they appeared to many men and women like human beings.
209   8”,23 |       visible to the eyes of worthy men and women.” And divine St.
210   8”,23 |           shape of Angels, of young men, just as they appeared to
211   8”,23 |          large number of individual men is to be preferred to the
212   8”,23 |             and divinations — those men, I say, ought to be most
213   8”,23 |              Accordingly, let these men take pains to rectify them,
214   8”,23 |             be given to priests and men consecrated to God, such
215   8”,23 |            to “churchly,’’ or poor, men, such as farmers are. Hence
216   8”,23 |          translated into English by men unfamiliar with the Greek
217   8”,23 |        ought to be tried and tested men and modest and well advanced