{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140116.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140116.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140116.htm","text":"If any one shall teach that the house of God and the assemblies held therein are to be despised, let him be anathema.\nWhoso styles the house of God contemptible, let him be anathema.\nThis canon is found in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian\u2019s Decretum, Pars I., Dist. xxx., c. x. The commentators find nothing to say upon the canon, and in fact the despising of the worship of God\u2019s true church is and always has been so common a sin, that it hardly calls for comment; no one will forget that the Prophet Malachi complains how in his days there were those who deemed \u201cthe table of the Lord contemptible\u201d and said of his worship \u201cwhat a weariness is it.\u201d (Mal. 1:7, 13.)","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 V","type":"page"}