- “whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven”
(Mark 3:29).
- Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!" The disciples were astounded by these words, but Jesus insisted, "My children," he said to them, "how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."Mark 10:21-27,31
- Generation of vipers. Poisonous, evil and dangerous, like vipers.
Their hearts were thoroughly evil, hence they could only speak and do evil, for out of the good treasure of the heart the mouth speaketh. On the other hand, the good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things.Matthew 12:34,35.
- "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. Matthew 7:15
- What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? Romans 3:3
THE APOSTOLIC CANONS
Let a bishop be ordained by two or three bishops.
Let a presbyter, deacon, and the rest of the clergy, be ordained by one bishop,
Let not a bishop, presbyter, or deacon, undertake worldly business; otherwise let him be deposed (defrocked).
If a bishop, presbyter, or deacon be found guilty of perjury, or theft, let him be deposed(defrocked), but let him not be excommunicated; for the Scripture says, "thou shall not punish a man twice for the same offence."
- Canon XXX. (XXXI.) (XXXI.)
If any bishop obtain possession of a church by the aid of the temporal powers, let him be deposed(defrocked) and excommunicated, and all who communicate with him.
If a bishop or presbyter, or deacon, is addicted to dice or drinking, let him either give it over, or be deposed(defrocked).
Let a bishop, presbyter, or deacon, who has only prayed with heretics, be excommunicated: but if he has permitted them to perform any clerical office, let him be deposed(defrocked).
Let a bishop or presbyter who shall baptize again one who has rightly received baptism or who shall not baptize one who has been polluted by the ungodly, be deposed(defrocked).
If any bishop, presbyter, or deacon, does not on festival days partake of flesh and wine, from an abhorrence of them, and not out of religious restraint, let him be deposed
(defrocked), as being seared in his own conscience, and being the cause of offence to many.
If any one reads publicly in the church the falsely inscribed [pseudepigrapha] books of impious men, as if they were holy Scripture, to the destruction of the people and clergy, let him be deposed(defrocked).
If any bishop, presbyter, or deacon, shall receive from anyone a second ordination, let both the ordained and the ordainer be deposed(defrocked) cannot be either of the faithful or of the clergy.
We have said that a bishop or presbyter must not give himself to the management of public affairs, but devote himself to ecclesiastical business. Let him then be persuaded to do so, or let him be deposed(defrocked), for no man can serve two masters, according to the Lord's declaration.
(The
Apostolic Canons[1] or
Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles[2] is a collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees concerning the government and discipline of the
Early Christian Church, first found as last chapter of the eighth book of the
Apostolic Constitutions and belonging to
genre of the
Church Orders.
These eighty-five canons were approved by the Eastern
Council in Trullo in 692 but rejected by
Pope Constantine. In the
Western Church only fifty of these canons circulated, translated in
Latin by
Dionysius Exiguus in about 500 AD, and included in the
Western collections and afterwards in the "
Corpus Juris Canonici". Canon n. 85 contains a list of
canonical books, thus it is important for the history of the
Biblical canon).
with Crist love ,
to not the old priests forget and the new priests to learn.
