{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140202.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140202.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140202.htm","text":"It is not lawful to make marriages with all [sorts of] heretics, nor to give our sons and daughters to them; but rather to take of them, if they promise to become Christians.\nAncient Epitome of Canon XXXI.\nIt is not right to give children in marriage to heretics, but they should be received if they promise to become Christians.\nBy this canon the faithful are forbidden to contract marriage with heretics or to join their children in such; for, as both Balsamon and Zonaras remark, \u201cthey imbue them with their errors, and lead them to embrace their own perverse opinions.\u201d","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 XXXI","type":"page"}