{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140127.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140127.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140127.htm","text":"p. 99 Canon XVI.\nIf, under any pretence of piety, any children shall forsake their parents, particularly [if the parents are] believers, and shall withhold becoming reverence from their parents, on the plea that they honour piety more than them, let them be anathema.\nIf children leave their parents who are of the faithful let them be anathema.\nZonaras notes that the use of the word \u201cparticularly\u201d shews that the obligation is universal. The commentators all refer here to Matt. 15, where our Lord speaks of the subterfuge by which the Jews under pretext of piety defrauded their parents and made the law of God of none effect.\nOf the last clause this is the meaning; that according to the Eustathians \u201cpiety towards God\u201d or \u201cdivine worship,\u201d or rather its pretence, should be preferred to the honour and reverence due to parents.\nThis canon, in Isidore\u2019s version, is found in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian\u2019s Decretum, Pars I., Dist. xxx., c. i. The Roman correctors advertize the reader that the version of Dionysius Exiguus \u201cis much nearer to the original Greek, although not altogether so.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Ca...","type":"page"}