those who have been baptized or ordained by such persons cannot be either of the faithful or of the Clergy.

LXIX. If any Bishop, Presbyter, or Deacon, or Reader, or Singer, does not fast the holy Quadragesimal fast of Easter, or the fourth day, or the day of Preparation [i. e. Wednesday or Friday], let him be deposed, unless he be hindered by some bodily infirmity. If he be a Layman, let him be excommunicated.

LXX. If any Bishop, Presbyter, or Deacon, or any one of the list of Clergy, keeps fast or festival with the Jews, or receives from them any of the gifts of their feasts, as unleavened bread, or any such things, let him be deposed. If he be a Layman, let him be excommunicated.

LXXI. If any Christian brings oil into a temple of the heathen or into a synagogue of the Jews at their feasts, or lights lamps, let him be excommunicated.

LXXII. If any Clergyman or Layman takes away wax or oil from the holy Church, let him be excommunicated.

LXXIII. Let no one convert to his own use any vessel of gold or silver, or any veil which has been sanctified, for it is contrary to law; and if any one be detected doing so, let him be excommunicated.

LXXIV. If any Bishop has been accused of anything by men worthy of credit, he must be summoned by the Bishops; and if he appears, and confesses, or is convicted, a suitable punishment must be inflicted upon him. But if when he is summoned he does not attend, let him be summoned a second time, two Bishops being sent to him, for that purpose. If even then he will not attend, let him be summoned a third time, two Bishops being again sent to him. But if even then he shall disregard

the summons and not come, let the Synod pronounce such sentence against him as appears right, that he may not seem to profit by avoiding judgment.

LXXV. An heretic is not to be received as witness against a Bishop, neither only one believer; for, "in the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word shall be established."

LXXVI. A Bishop must not out of favor to a brother or a son, or any other relation, ordain whom he will to the Episcopal dignity; for it is not right to make heirs of the Bishopric, giving the things of God to human affections. Ne her is it fitting to subject the Church of God to heirs. But if any one shall do so let the ordination be void, and the ordainer himself be punished with excommunication.

LXXVII. If any one be deprived of an eye, or lame of a leg, but in other respects be worthy of a Bishopric, he may be ordained, for the effect of the body does not defile a man, but the pollution of the soul.

LXXVIII. But if a man be deaf or blind, he may not be made a bishop, not indeed as if he were thus defiled, but that the affairs of the Church may not be hindered.

LXXIX. If any one has a devil, let him not be made a Clergyman, neither let him pray with the faithful; but if he be freed, let him be received into Communion, and if he is worthy he may be ordained.

LXXX. It is not allowed that a man who has come over from an heathen life, and been baptized, or who has been converted from an evil course of living, should be immediately made a Bishop, for it is not right that he who has not been tried himself should be a teacher of others. Unless indeed this be done upon a special manifestation of Divine grace in his favor.

LXXXI. We have said that a Bishop or Presbyter must not give himself to the management of public affairs, but devote himself to ecclesiastical business. Let him then be persuaded to do so, or let him be deposed, for no man can serve two masters, according to the Lord's declaration.

LXXXII. We do not allow any servants to be promoted to the Clergy without the consent of their masters, to the troubling of their houses. But if any servant should appear worthy of the honor, as our Onesimus appeared, and his masters agree and liberate him, and send him out of their house, he may be ordained.

LXXIII. If a Bishop, Presbyter, or Deacon, shall serve in the army, and wish to retain both the Roman magistracy, and the Priestly office, let him be deposed; for the things of Cæsar belong to Cæsar, and those of God to God.

LXXXIV. Whosoever shall insult the King or a ruler, contrary to what is right, let him suffer punishment. If he be a Clergyman, let him be deposed; if a Layman, excommunicated.

LXXXV. Let the following books be counted venerable and sacred by all of us, both Clergy and Laity. Of the Old Testament, five books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy; of Joshua the Son of Nun, one; of the Judges, one; of Ruth, one; of the Kings, four; of the Chronicles, two; of Ezra, two; of Esther, one; of the Maccabees, three; of Job, one; of the Psalter, one; of Solomon, three, viz. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs; of the Prophets, twelve; of Isaiah, one; of Jeremiah, one; of Ezekiel, one; of Daniel, one. But besides these Canonical books, you are recommended to teach your young persons the Wisdom of the very learned Sirach.

Our own books, that is, those of the New Testament, are the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; fourteen Epistles of Paul; two Epistles of Peter; three of John; one of James; and one of Jude. Two Epistles of Clemens, and the Constitutions of me Clemens, addressed to you Bishops in eight books, which are not to be published to all on account of the mystical things in them. And the Acts of us the Apostles.