{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140130.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140130.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140130.htm","text":"If any of the ascetics, without bodily necessity, shall behave with insolence and disregard the fasts commonly prescribed and observed by the Church, because of his perfect understanding in the matter, let him be anathema.\nWhoso neglects the fasts of the Church, let him be anathema.\nI have followed Hefele\u2019s translation of the last clause, with which Van Espen seems to agree, as well as Zonaras. But Hardouin and Mansi take an entirely different view and translate \u201cif the Eustathian deliberately rejects the Church fasts.\u201d Zonoras and Balsamon both refer to the LXIXth of the Apostolical Canons as being the law the Eustathians violated. Balsamon suggests that the Eustathians shared the error of the Bogomiles on the subject of fasting, but I see no reason to think that this was the case; Eustathius\u2019s action seems rather to be attributable to pride, and a desire to be different and original, \u201cI thank thee that I am not as other men are,\u201d (as Van Espen points out). All that Socrates says (H. E. II., xliii.) is that \u201che commanded that the prescribed fasts should be neglected, and that the Lord\u2019s days should be fasted.\u201d\nThis canon is found in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian\u2019s Decretum, Pars I., Dist. xxx., c. viii., in an imperfect translation but not that of either Isidore or Dionysius.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Ca...","type":"page"}