{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140205.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140205.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140205.htm","text":"No Christian shall forsake the martyrs of Christ, and turn to false martyrs, that is, to those of the heretics, or those who formerly were heretics; for they are aliens from God. Let those, therefore, who go after them, be anathema.\nAncient Epitome of Canon XXXIV.\nWhoso honours an heretical pseudo-martyr let him be anathema.\nThis canon forbids the honouring of martyrs not belonging to the orthodox church. The number of Montanist martyrs of Phrygia was probably the occasion of this canon.\nThe phrase which I have translated \u201cto those who formerly were heretics\u201d has caused great difficulty to all translators and scarcely two agree. Hammond reads \u201cthose who have been reputed to have been heretics;\u201d and with him Fulton agrees, but wrongly (as I think) by omitting the \u201cto.\u201d Lambert translates \u201cto those who before were heretics\u201d and correctly. With him agrees Van Espen, thus, vel eos qui prius heretici fuere.","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 XXXIV","type":"page"}