{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140340.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140340.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140340.htm","text":"It is not lawful for clergymen, after the death of their bishop, to seize what belongs to him, as has been forbidden also by the ancient canons; and those who do so shall be in danger of degradation from their own rank.\nAncient Epitome of Canon XXII.\nWhoever seizes the goods of his deceased bishop shall be cast forth from his rank.\nIt is curious that the Greek text which Zonaras and Balsamon produce, and which Hervetus translated, had instead of \u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u03c0\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9 \u03ba\u03b1\u03bd\u03cc\u03c3\u03b9, \u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03bc\u03b2\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd . Van Espen thinks that the Greek commentators have tried without success to attach any meaning to these words, accepting the arguments of Bp. Beveridge (which see). The reading adopted in the text does not lack ms. authority, and is the one printed by Justellus in his \u201cCodex of the Canons of the Universal Church.\u201d\nThis canon is found in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian\u2019s Decretum, Pars II., Causa XII., Qu\u00e6st. II., canon xliii., in Isidore\u2019s version.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Fo...","type":"page"}