{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140583.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140583.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140583.htm","text":"That clerics be not compelled to give testimony in public concerning the cognizance of their own judgment.\nIt should be petitioned also that they deign to decree, that if perchance any shall have been willing to plead their cause in any church according to the Apostolic law imposed upon the Churches, and it happens that the decision of the clergy does not satisfy one of the parties, it be not lawful to summon that clergyman who had been cognitor or present, 459 into judgment as a witness, and that no person attached to any ecclesiastic be compelled to give testimony.\nA cleric who has decided a case shall not, if it be displeasing, be summoned to a tribunal to give evidence concerning it; and no ecclesiastical person shall be forced to give testimony.\nThis is Canon iij. of the Synod of Carthage, June 15 (or 16). a.d. 401.\n\u201cAccording to the Apostolic law,\u201d viz., that of St. Paul, 1 Cor. 6:1, 2, etc. I follow the Greek scholia in rendering this canon. In Latin cognitor is he that is solicitor, or advocate, rather than the judge who takes cognizance.\nThis must mean \u201cwho had heard the cause or been present at the hearing,\u201d and so the Greek has it.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Ca...","type":"page"}