Council,  Canon

  1 Intro  |          for the knowledge of the law and institutions of early
  2 Intro  |     constitute the core of Church Law in the Christian East, even
  3 Intro  |           of the Western Church's law during the first millennium
  4 Intro  |          Eastern Church's written law. Although it was not the
  5 Intro  |   substitute a written, universal law for the already existing
  6 Intro  |        already existing customary law with its local variants,
  7 Intro  |        scales in favor of written law. In the first place, the
  8 Intro  |           predominance of written law. During the first centuries
  9 Intro  |         giving the force of state law to the decisions of the
 10 Intro  |  existence of a body of canonical law.5 This evolution was later
 11 Intro  |           the extent that written law (canons and imperial laws)
 12 Intro  |     principle of Byzantine church law. Appealing to custom remains
 13 Intro  |          to marriage and monastic law. No council issued regulations
 14 Intro  | consciously referring to the case law of his time. At the same
 15 Intro  |        for the historian of canon law. Nonetheless, even more
 16 Intro  |        taken in the field of case law.19 We have to wait till
 17 Intro  |      expression of Orthodox canon law, such an attitude is a manifest
 18 Intro  | historical core of Orthodox canon law. This appears to be even
 19 Intro  |   Orthodox practitioners of canon law, since the canons' stipulations
 20 Intro  |        the core of all legitimate law still in force.47~ The point
 21 Intro  |          technical terms in canon law had not yet been rigidly
 22 Intro  |      automatically apply to canon law principles of interpretation
 23 Intro  |           by specialists in civil law. For example, we would really
 24 Intro  |         we, then consider it as a law in the proper sense, which
 25 Intro  |      adage is applicable to canon law: Non ex regula ius sumatur
 26   1”,9 |          not only unchargeable at law, but also entirely unimpeachable
 27   1”,13|       exit, the old and canonical Law shall be kept even now,
 28   1”,13|          of the old and canonical law (which appears to be c.
 29   1”,14|         accordingly, whatever the law says to them, it is speaking
 30   1”,14|         them as to persons in the law, according to the Apostolic
 31   2”,6 |       Canon pursuant to the civil law adds that provision that
 32   3”,8 |        secular and civil form and law, undertook to show authority
 33   3”,8 |        with a form, i.e., a civil law or royal decree, contrary
 34   3”,8 |       holy Council for that civil law to remain invalid and ineffective.[
 35   7”,3 |    misdeeds and violations of the law, whether they happen to
 36   7”,15|          I. Inasmuch as the civil law bids like to be judged by
 37   7”,21|          insensible and break the law more impudently than ever.~ ~ ~
 38   7”,39|  seventeenth year, and makes it a law for her to be enrolled in
 39   7”,45|     proceeding forward makes it a law that even with the foresight
 40   7”,69|         talk, but to obey, as the law directs. If they wish to
 41   7”,69|          talk but to obey, as the law directs. If they wish to
 42   7”,70|           civil laws (i.e., civil law) must not resort to the
 43   7”,70|           were being taught civil law wont to adopt these Greek
 44   7”,70|      midst or at the end of their law course. Anyone doing such
 45   7”,81| suggesting beforehand through the law the true lamb to us, Christ
 46   7”,81|       truth in fulfillment of the Law. Since, therefore, that
 47   7”,81|  regarding those old types of the Law, we honor and value them,
 48   7”,87|         declared a holiday by the law in order to allow the slave
 49   7”,97|           because even in the old Law a betrothal had the force
 50   8”,1 |      anything to the words of the Law, nor to take anything out
 51   8”,6 |    commandment is a lamp; and the law is a light and reproof with
 52   8”,6 |  furthermore, the commandment and law of God are a lamp and a
 53   8”,7 |         written and the unwritten law they must thus prevail.
 54   8”,23|         are forced to violate the law with respect to what is
 55   8”,23|       Constantine made a contrary law to the effect that all former
 56   8”,23|       have effect as an unwritten law even in civil matters, and
 57   8”,23|      having validity in lieu of a law, yet this is not the case
 58   8”,23|         which there is no written law and in regard to those matters
 59   8”,23|           conflict with a written law, or a Canon: and this is
 60   8”,23|    because He laid this down as a law, but because He condescended
 61   8”,23|       Apostle (sc. St. Paul), “no law is applicable to a righteous
 62   8”,23|        Orthodox. For whatever the law says, the Council necessarily
 63   8”,23|           be a gross violation of law for that Council to dare
 64   8”,23|           is a gross violation of law and is under an anathema,
 65   8”,23|    mandatorily prescribes it as a law to abbots and exarchs of
 66   8”,23|         brotherhood; and that the law will not recognize the relationship
 67   8”,23|           29: “It has been made a law by the Emperors preceding
 68   8”,23|        and in accordance with the law, than to change your mind
 69   8”,23|           37, says that the civil law punishes conspiracies and
 70   8”,23|    Emperor, actuated by the civil law, added the recommendation
 71   8”,23|          requirement of the civil law, and not of the divine Canons (
 72   8”,23|           but did not make this a law; on the contrary, in fact,
 73   8”,23|           not that he made this a law, but because he made a concession
 74   8”,23|           to conform with the old law saying, “Be ye ready: for
 75   8”,23|          to conform, not with the law, but with the lawgiver Himself,
 76   8”,23|         it, is a violation of the law, and is in fact a counter
 77   8”,23|          and is in fact a counter law enacted in defiance of the
 78   8”,23|      general name, and not by any law, that subdeacons, anagnosts,
 79   8”,23|        are obviously breaking the law. For the divine Apostles
 80   8”,23|        two days is laid down as a law by Christ Himself, who said: “
 81   8”,23|      first miracle, it was made a law for blood and water to be
 82   8”,23|         Emperor Theodosius made a law (before the Fourth and the
 83   8”,23|          the Churches by making a law that women should not be
 84   8”,23|         punished severely, as the law commands in Title II of
 85   8”,23|       thirteenth ordinance of the law prescribes that anyone making
 86   8”,23|        judge, as Book VIII of the law, Title I, ordinance 35 (
 87   8”,23|        employed by those teaching law when they were disputing
 88   8”,23|       which prefigured in the old law the four Evangelists, but,
 89   8”,23|         is a transgression of the law, there can be no necessity.
 90   8”,23|      their greatness. Because the law which forbids every oath
 91   8”,23|        the express command of His law. ‘I commanded,’ He will
 92   8”,23|           the transgressor of the law concerning oaths were ten
 93   8”,23|          conflict with the divine law ought to be annulled, and
 94   8”,23|          this fact from an innate law of consciousness that is
 95   8”,23|        the Gospel, but of the old Law, as Pope Gregory II says
 96   8”,23|         St. Germanus (for the old Law had the two Cherubim, which
 97   8”,23|          a god). Not only the old Law, but also the custom of
 98   8”,23|     symbols consisting of the old Law and the Prophets. This is
 99   8”,23|          that having a shadow the Law did not furnish a veritable
100   8”,23|         to be punished by the old Law with the death penalty,
101   8”,23|        however, that according to law and Blastaris, what is called