{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140387.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140387.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140387.htm","text":"p. 364 Canon IV.\nIf any bishop, presbyter, deacon, sub-deacon, lector, cantor, or door-keeper has had intercourse with a woman dedicated to God, let him be deposed, as one who has corrupted a spouse of Christ, but if a layman let him be cut off.\nA cleric coupled to a spouse of God shall be deposed. In the case of a layman he shall be cut off.\nThis canon is found in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian\u2019s Decretum, Pars II., Causa XXVII., Q. I., c. vj.\nA layman ravishing a nun, by secular law was punished by death. Balsamon gives the reference thus: V Cap. primi tit. iiij. lib. Basilic. or cxxiij. Novel.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Ca...","type":"page"}