Council,  Canon

 1   1”,18|          from sitting down in the Bema before the Prelate makes
 2   1”,18|         divine service within the Bema sit down before the presbyters
 3   7”,44|      adorned to approach the holy Bema of the church in a convent (
 4   7”,56|        not be offered in the holy Bema on the holy Table, in agreement
 5   7”,68|          Interpretation.~The holy Bema is consecrated to those
 6   7”,68|           monks to enter the Holy Bema who are not guilty of any
 7   7”,68|           ought to enter the Holy Bema for the purpose of lighting
 8   7”,68|           cannot go into the Holy Bema, according to what Balsamon
 9   7”,76|    clergymen admitted to the Holy Bema, or monks and ascetics,
10   7”,89|        priests make into the Holy Bema during Saturday vespers;
11   7”,98|      within the space of the holy Bema wherein is situated the
12   7”,98|           parts of it in the holy Bema to the priests (just as
13   7”,98|          the sanctuary, or sacred Bema, of the church. Hence the
14   7”,98|         roasting that meat in the Bema, the Canon ought necessarily
15   7”,98|          and cheese into the holy Bema. See also the Interpretation
16   8”,23|           divine Mysteries in the Bema, but only that service which
17   8”,23|          is performed outside the Bema. For these Injunctions say,
18   8”,23| Deaconesses enjoyed a rank in the Bema (or Sanctuary), but that
19   8”,23|    removed their service from the Bema, yet he himself again in
20   8”,23|         share or privilege in the Bema, but who perform many ecclesiastical
21   8”,23|          the Fathers to enter the Bema or to perform any such services,
22   8”,23|          that were outside of the Bema, were often called servants,
23   8”,23|          anyone from entering the Bema and to put out the catechumens
24   8”,23|        the lights attached to the Bema, the chandelier, and the
25   8”,23|           before the doors of the Bema they receive communion from
26   8”,23|          to sit with them) on the Bema (or Sanctuary). St. Chrysostom,
27   8”,23|          the Eucharist within the Bema, or even to waft incense
28   8”,23|          conducted outside of the Bema, or rather to say the honor
29   8”,23|           commune within the Holy Bema (though the Canon of Basil
30   8”,23|         of the honor of the great Bema (i.e., Julian), going to
31   8”,23|      gifts to God inside the Holy Bema and expected to commune
32   8”,23|        ordered to stay out of the Bema. Thereafter even when the
33   8”,23|      gifts to God inside the Holy Bema, but immediately stepped
34   8”,23|         not to commune inside the Bema. See also Nicephorus Callistus,
35   8”,23|         laymen come into the Holy Bema, which, failing to distinguish
36   8”,23|          laymen even to enter the Bema, how much more unlawful
37   8”,23|        Maundy Thursday inside the Bema! So, for the love of God,
38   8”,23|    emperor may commune within the Bema only at the time when he
39   8”,23|          nun in front of the Holy Bema, and that they sawed her