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Can. 11. Περὶ τοῦ μὴ δεῖν τὰς λεγομένας πρεσβύτιδας ἤτοι προκαθημένας ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ καθίστασθαι.

Can. 13. Περὶ τοῦ μὴ τοῖς ὄχλοις ἐπιτρέπειν τὰς ἐκλογὰς ποιεῖσθαι τῶν μελλόντων καθίστασθαι εἰς ἱερατεῖον.

Can. 28. "Οτι οὐ δεῖ ἐν τοῖς κυριακοῖς ἢ ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλη σίαις ἀγάπας ποιεῖν καὶ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐσθίειν καὶ ἀκούβιτα στρωννύειν.

Can. 29. "Οτι οὐ δεῖ Χριστιανοὺς ἰουδαΐζειν καὶ ἐν τῷ σαββάτῳ σχολάζειν, ἀλλὰ ἐργάζεσθαι αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ το αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ, τὴν δὲ κυριακὴν προτιμῶντας εἴγε δύναιντο σχολάζειν ὡς Χριστιανοί.

Can. 3. Τον μέντοι Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπίσκοπον ἔχειν τὰ πρεσβεῖα τῆς τιμῆς μετὰ τὸν τῆς Ρώμης ἐπίσκοπον, διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτὴν νέαν Ρώμην.

LXXV.

Roman Religion.

1. Separatim nemo habessit deos, neve novos sive advenas nisi publice adscitos privatim colunto. XII Tabb.

2. Est enim pietas iustitia adversus deos, . sanctitas autem scientia colendorum sacrorum. Cic. De Nat. Deor. i. 41.

3. τὸ μὲν θεῖον πάντῃ πάντως αὐτός τε σέβου κατὰ τὰ πάτρια καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους τιμᾶν ἀνάγκαζε, τοὺς δὲ δὴ ξενίζοντάς τι περὶ αὐτὸ καὶ μίσει καὶ κόλαζε, μὴ μόνον τῶν θεῶν ἕνεκα, ὧν ὁ καταφρονήσας οὐδ ̓ ἄλλου ἄν τινος προτιμή ἀλλ ̓ ὅτι καὶ καινά τινα δαιμόνια οἱ τοιοῦτοι ἀντεσφέροντες πολλοὺς ἀναπείθουσιν ἀλλοτριονομεῖν, κἀκ τούτου

σειεν,

LAODICEA.

Can. II. That there be no ordination of the so-called female elders or presidents in the church.

Can. 13. That the multitude be not allowed to make the choice of those to be appointed to priestly office.

Can. 28. That it be not lawful to hold agapae in the 5 Lord's houses or the churches, or to eat in the house of God or lay couches.

Can. 29. That Christians must not play Jews by ceasing work on the Sabbath, but that they work on that day and prefer the Lord's day by ceasing work as Christians to if they can.

CONSTANTINOPLE (381).

Can. 3. The bishop however of Constantinople to have precedence of honour after the bishop of Rome, because Constantinople is New Rome.

192 Selections from Early Christian Writers.

καὶ συνωμοσίαι καὶ συστάσεις ἑταιρεῖαί τε γίγνονται, ἅπερ йκισта μоναρxía ovμpépel. (MAECENAS) DIO CASS. Hist. lii. 36.

4. Iudaeos fieri sub gravi poena vetuit. Christianis sanxit.

Idem etiam de
Vita Severi, 17.

5. Cum Christiani quendam locum, qui publicus fuerat, occupassent, contra popinarii dicerent, sibi eum deberi, rescripsit, melius esse, ut quemadmodumcunque illic deus colatur, quam propinariis dedatur. Vita Alexandri Severi, 49.

6. +Impp. Maximianus, Diocletianus et Maximinus nobilissimi a. A. a. Iuliano proconsuli Africae + . . . neque reprehendi a nova vetus religio debet. Maximi enim criminis est, retractare, quae semel ab antiquitate statuta et definita, suum cursum tenent ac possident... Iubemus namque, auctores quidem et principes una cum abominandis scripturis eorum severiori poenae subici, ita ut flammeis ignibus exurantur: consectaneos vero capita puniri praecipimus... si qui sane etiam honorati . . . ad hanc... doctrinam Persarum se transtulerint, eorum patrimonia fisco nostro adsociari facies, ipsosque ... metallis dari. Dat. pridie Kal. Aprilis, Alexandriae.

Mos. et Rom. Legum Collatio, xv. 3.

7. ... AEDuo SUMMIS honoribus APUD SUOS FUNCTO SACERDOTI AD TEMPL ROM ET AUG AD CONFLUENT ARARIS ET RHODANI. (WILMANNS, Inscr. 2220.)

8. DIS MAGNIS ULPIUS EGNATIUS FAVENTINUS V C AUGUR PUB P R Q PATER ET HIEROCERYX D SIM ARCHIBUCOLUS DEI LIBERI HIEROFANTA HECATAE SACERDOS ISIDIS PERCEPTO TAUROBOLIO CRIOBOLIOQ IDIBUS AUGUSTIS D D. N N VALENTE AUG V ET VALENTINIANO CONSS FELICITER. (WILMANNS, Inscr. 111.)