{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140331.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140331.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140331.htm","text":"Strange and unknown clergymen without letters commendatory from their own Bishop, are absolutely prohibited from officiating in another city.\nAncient Epitome of Canon XIII.\nNo cleric shall be received to communion in another city without a letter commendatory.\n\u201cUnknown clergymen.\u201d I have here followed the reading of the Greek commentators. But the translators of the Prisca, and Dionysius, and Isidore must have all read \u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03b3\u03bd\u03ce\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 (i.e., Readers) instead of \u1f00\u03b3\u03bd\u03ce\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2. Justellus, Hervetus, and Beveridge, as also Johnson and Hammond, follow the reading of the text. Hefele suggests that if \u201cReaders\u201d is the correct reading perhaps it means, \u201call clergymen even readers.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Fourth Ecumenical Council. The Council of Chalcedon.: Canon XIII","type":"page"}