{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140083.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140083.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140083.htm","text":"Concerning women who commit fornication, and destroy that which they have conceived, or who are employed in making drugs for abortion, a former decree excluded them until the hour of death, and to this some have assented. Nevertheless, being desirous to use somewhat greater lenity, we have ordained that they fulfil ten years [of penance], according to the prescribed degrees.\nHarlots taking injurious medicines are to be subjected to penance for ten years.\nThe phrase \u201cand to this some have assented\u201d is the translation of Hervetus, Van Espen, and Hefele. Dr. Routh suggests to understand \u1f01\u03b9 and translate, \u201cthe same punishment will be inflicted on those who assist in causing miscarriages,\u201d but this seems rather an unnatural and strained rendering of the Greek.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra, Neoc\u00e6sarea, Antioch and Laodicea, which Canons were Accepted and Received by the Ecumenical Synods.: Canon XXI","type":"page"}