Council,  Canon

  1 Intro  |           of received canons in the Greek Orthodox Church. In 1800,
  2 Intro  |           by a paraphrase in modern Greek along with a commentary
  3 Intro  |       faithfully transmitted in the Greek manuscript tradition. This
  4 Intro  |             certain exceptions, the Greek text of the canons of the
  5 Intro  |           signs of being based on a Greek text earlier than those
  6 Intro  |            of Latin translations of Greek terms found in these versions
  7 Intro  |            very close to the oldest Greek editions we have. At the
  8   1    |        Council of Nicaea written in Greek in the fifth century by
  9   1    |         canons, whether in Latin or Greek, composed in the fourth
 10   1”,11|            of the demons, and swore Greek oaths, are to be excommunicated
 11   1”,14|             is one derived from the Greek verb catecho (altered to “
 12   1”,14|            their breath (or, as the Greek has it, “mystically”) and
 13   1”,18|           their very name (i.e., in Greek the word deacon signifies
 14   1”,18|          English); for deacon (as a Greek word) really means servant.
 15   2”,6 |        their case to “peramatic” (a Greek word with a signification
 16   2”,6 |         designated “hyperhorial” (a Greek word meaning about the same
 17   2”,7 |   designation may be based upon the Greek word aristos, meaning “best,”
 18   3    |            the flesh, a Theotoke (a Greek word meaning “she who has
 19   3    |        human personality (called in Greek ensarcosis and enanthropesis
 20   4”,14|             heretic, or a Jew, or a Greek, unless they first promise
 21   4”,14|         either with a Jew or with a Greek, with one, in other words,
 22   4”,17|      monoecia (which word meant, in Greek, “lone habitations”). Country
 23   4”,18|           civil, laws themselves of Greek[104] as well as of Orthodox
 24   4”,18|           is what is denoted by the Greek word corresponding to the
 25   5    |             ii), in five written in Greek. It was attended by Fathers
 26   7    |             surnamed Rhinotmetus (a Greek word meaning “with the nose
 27   7”,1 |           hands in refashioning the Greek myths and recounting to
 28   7”,1 |           may be true, although the Greek text of the Canon does not
 29   7”,1 |             but instead employs the Greek word signifying “repose,”
 30   7”,16|      original, but according to the Greek translation of it), because
 31   7”,28|           say in English, though in Greek the same idea is expressed
 32   7”,41|              It is derived from the Greek word for desert eremia,
 33   7”,41|           desert eremia, whence the Greek word in question is eremites,
 34   7”,50|             though but two words in Greek, meaning, approximately, “
 35   7”,60|         these ruinous practices and Greek “rackets,” we decree that
 36   7”,60|         such ruinous, devilish, and Greek “rackets.” If, however,
 37   7”,60|            divination and following Greek customs, and bringing wizards[
 38   7”,61|             on the other hand, were Greek festivals. The Vota, referring
 39   7”,61|              derived from bromos, a Greek word signifying a peal as
 40   7”,61|          these are called in modern Greek, being a kind of earthen
 41   7”,64|        Wishing to show that if such Greek customs when observed by
 42   7”,70|              must not resort to the Greek customs, nor moreover must
 43   7”,70|             law wont to adopt these Greek customs, and would let themselves
 44   7”,78|       boiling fine flour (called in Greek semidalis) and giving thereof
 45   7”,85|       harlots, and prostitutes (the Greek language making no distinction
 46   7”,90|            term is also applied (in Greek) to the foetus destroyed
 47   7”,93|               As for those who take Greek oaths, the Canon makes them
 48   7”,93|  excommunication.~ ~Interpretation.~Greek customs ought to be hated
 49   7”,99|             of this Canon is in the Greek edition.)~ ~Concord.~Inasmuch
 50   8”,1 |           according to Zonaras, the Greek word for “unwavering” denotes
 51   8”,16|             silkworms are called in Greek seres after the Seres, or
 52   8”,23|             injury to the soul (the Greek name of which is psyche,
 53   8”,23|           of acrostic, Caraj (or in Greek, Karai). For the letter
 54   8”,23|          the pronoun “touto” in the Greek text of the Canon, translated
 55   8”,23|          and a temple is called (in Greek) “jeron.” Others, however,
 56   8”,23|             derived from Hebrew and Greek, precisely as the word antimensium
 57   8”,23|         antimensium is derived from Greek and Latin. But in that case
 58   8”,23|            word coessential (or, in Greek, homoousian) was the cause
 59   8”,23|             world began (or, as the Greek idiom has it, “from the
 60   8”,23|            name of which animals in Greek is cynes). Having gained
 61   8”,23|           56] The noun “diocese” in Greek is one of many different
 62   8”,23|        perfect familiarity with the Greek language, which, of course,
 63   8”,23|         perhaps a corruption of the Greek word aristus, signifying “
 64   8”,23|            hand (called aristeri in Greek) and would not receive anything
 65   8”,23|          Note that just as the (the Greek word meaning the same thing
 66   8”,23|            another Creed (called in Greek “Symbol of Faith”) is as
 67   8”,23|           is one word as written in Greek, is a general and universal
 68   8”,23|       silver plaques, on the one in Greek, and on the other in Latin,
 69   8”,23|      courageously and gallantly our Greek representatives repudiated
 70   8”,23|           to St. Matthew written in Greek by Barnabas himself with
 71   8”,23|           on Good Friday (called in Greek “Great Friday”), according
 72   8”,23|          entirely impassive, or, in Greek, apathes, on which account
 73   8”,23|           with the custom called in Greek adelphopoeia). For these
 74   8”,23|             solitaries (in that the Greek word, monachos, means lone
 75   8”,23|          inhabited earth (called in Greek the “oecumene”). These Papists
 76   8”,23|       treason (or what is called in Greek cathosiosis, i.e., a violation
 77   8”,23|       speaking of the corresponding Greek word “Panagiotatos”) “in
 78   8”,23|          inhabited earth (called in Greek the “Oikoumene,” or, according
 79   8”,23|             nevertheless called (in Greek) lords of the inhabited
 80   8”,23|        semeioma, as it is called in Greek) prohibited clergymen from
 81   8”,23|             abbreviated form of the Greek word Kyrios, meaning, approximately,
 82   8”,23|    Dionysius calls “select” (or, in Greek, eccritoi).~ ~  [148] Attached
 83   8”,23|             more usually called, in Greek, antidora), but must be
 84   8”,23|            it denotes. For zeon, in Greek, signifies boiling water.
 85   8”,23|          the preparative (called in Greek proscomide, or proskomide,
 86   8”,23|        golden-seal edict (called in Greek chrysoboullon), though he
 87   8”,23|     equivalent to the corresponding Greek word, most persons try to
 88   8”,23|           the “Devil” in English, a Greek word which in reality means “
 89   8”,23|            to the more intelligible Greek word hedone, whence we have
 90   8”,23|            the once-married (or, in Greek, monogamous) widows. So
 91   8”,23|          the monk takes up (cf. the Greek word “apalabon,” meaning “
 92   8”,23|        common name for monks in the Greek vernacular), and that they
 93   8”,23|           was unacquainted with the Greek language, according to Letter
 94   8”,23|             called Tessaracostae in Greek), thus typifying in Himself
 95   8”,23|       English “the evil eye,” or in Greek baskaniai of eyes. Others
 96   8”,23|       called the Kalanda (in modern Greek), playing games, dancing
 97   8”,23|            calls, the corresponding Greek term being derived from
 98   8”,23|         derived from this word call Greek klo, kalo, as a learned
 99   8”,23|             of the Octateuch). This Greek custom of augury is still
100   8”,23|            May, since this too is a Greek custom and also a heathen
101   8”,23|     abolishing all such Satanic and Greek “rackets.” For Christians
102   8”,23|             the name is derived (in Greek, that is to say, the corresponding
103   8”,23|           to say, the corresponding Greek term is derived from the
104   8”,23| enteromanteis (i.e., haruspices) in Greek, according to Photius and
105   8”,23|          part on Sundays (called in Greek “the Lord’s days”). In connection
106   8”,23|             word perfumes (which in Greek is aromata), others have
107   8”,23|          word edibles (which in the Greek is bromata), as Zonaras
108   8”,23|           the Theotoke a locheia in Greek (for which we substitute
109   8”,23|        highly specific terms of the Greek language in this connection,
110   8”,23|       enough be substituted for the Greek term “locheia” in this case.)~ ~  [
111   8”,23|           chanted everywhere in the Greek tongue. Hence it was too
112   8”,23|            in Armenian, but only in Greek. Accordingly, even to this
113   8”,23|     ceremony chant the Trisagion in Greek, and not in Latin, out of
114   8”,23|         strong” stands for the same Greek word as is here rendered “
115   8”,23|           cease their fast” (or, in Greek, “aponestizesthai”) is meant
116   8”,23|         called “penitences” (or, in Greek, “metanoeae”), but that
117   8”,23|             because they renounced (Greek apotasso) their appetites
118   8”,23|            not bread at all, in the Greek sense of the term, because
119   8”,23|            icon is derived from the Greek eoikenai, meaning to “look
120   8”,23|        recalls the original. But in Greek the word icon means simply
121   8”,23|         books, etc. Accordingly, in Greek, one may use it in the sense
122   8”,23|          thing. For, in the ancient Greek language, the main verb
123   8”,23|             the full meaning of the Greek word in English we should
124   8”,23|            the word worship (or its Greek equivalent latreia) properly
125   8”,23|         been reprinted recently (in Greek).~ ~  [272] As concerns
126   8”,23|            thing. The corresponding Greek noun (perpereia) is derived
127   8”,23|            could not understand the Greek word at all and were only
128   8”,23|        taken pains to translate the Greek word perperevetai here by
129   8”,23|             men unfamiliar with the Greek tongue, which to them is