{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140540.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140540.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140540.htm","text":"p. 450 Canon XVI.\nThat no bishop, presbyter or deacon should be a \u201cconductor;\u201d and that Readers should take wives; and that the clergy should abstain from usury; and at what age they or virgins should be consecrated.\nLikewise it seemed good that bishops, presbyters, and deacons should not be \u201cconductors\u201d or \u201cprocurators;\u201d nor seek their food by any base and vile business, for they should remember how it is written, \u201cNo man fighting for God cumbereth himself with worldly affairs.\u201d\nAlso it seemed good that Readers when they come to years of puberty, should be compelled either to take wives or else to profess continence.\nLikewise it seemed good that if a clergyman had lent money he should get it back again, but if kind (speciem) he should receive back the same kind as he gave.\nAnd that younger than twenty-five years deacons should not be ordained, nor virgins consecrated.\nAnd that readers should not salute the people.\nA bishop, presbyter, and deacon may not be a \u201cconductor\u201d or a \u201cprocurator.\u201d A reader when he comes to puberty must contract marriage or profess continence.\nA cleric who has lent to someone, what he gave let him receive, or as much.\nLet not him be a deacon, who is made a deacon being under twenty-five.\nAnd let not readers salute the people.\nThis canon is made up of Canons xv., xviij., and xxj., and added to these Canon j. of the same Second Series of the synod of Hippo, a.d. 393.\nZonaras says this was never observed anywhere but in Africa. See Can. Afr. 19 (27).\nDu Pin turns the Latin, saluto, by \u201caddressing his speech to the people.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Canons of the Synods of Sardica, Carthage, Constantinople, and Carthage Under St. Cyprian, Which Canons Were Received by the Council in Trullo and Ratified by II. Nice.: Canon XVI","type":"page"}