Canons of the Council of Arles (second) (complete)

Anonymous · Canons of the Council of Arles (second) · date disputed (between ca. 442 and 506) · Arles · 56 passages

Latin text: Bruns (1839) (Latin text: Bruns (1839), OCR of the archive.org scan).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).

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Chapter 1

1Bruns 2:130

Ad diaconatus ac sacerdotii officium neophytum non debere ordinari.

A neophyte ought not to be ordained to the office of deacon or of priest.

1 Tim 3:6 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The newly baptized may not be ordained deacon or priest.

The so-called second council of Arles, a collection of canons whose date is disputed (between ca. 442 and 506); many canons repeat those of Orange (441) and Vaison (442). The Latin of the digitization is very poor; clear OCR slips are corrected by logged corrections, leftover heading words at canon openings are removed, and unreadable passages are marked "…".

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Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Ordiiiari. nd → Ad; discMatua → diaconatus; aaceidQiii → sacerdotii; offidmn → officium; neophjrlimi → neophytum; aoii → non; debere. → debere ordinari..

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 1 (Bruns 2:130; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 2

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Assumi aliquem ad sacerdotium non posse in conjugii vinculo constitutum, nisi fuerit praemissa conversio.

No one placed in the bond of marriage can be taken up into the priesthood unless conversion has come first.

Notes and citation

Summary: A married man may not be ordained priest unless he has first undertaken continence.

Translated as written. "Conversion" (conversio): the resolve of continence. Compare Orange (441), canon 22.

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Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): pos,e ia copjugii → posse in conjugii; conversio, → conversio..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 22 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); allusion)

Topics: Marriage, Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 2 (Bruns 2:130; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 3

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Si quis clericus a gradu diaconatus in solatio suo mulierem praeter aviam, matrem, sororem, filiam, neptem vel conversam secum uxorem, habere praesumpserit, a communione alienus habeatur Par quoque et mulierem, si se separare noluerit, poena percellat.

If any cleric from the rank of deacon upward presumes to have a woman for his help, apart from a grandmother, mother, sister, daughter, niece, or his wife who has converted with him, let him be held a stranger to communion. And let the same penalty strike the woman too, if she will not separate.

Notes and citation

Summary: Clerics from deacon upward may not keep women in their homes other than close relatives or a wife living in continence with them.

The list of permitted women is partly garbled in the digitization (the last item read as "conversam secum uxorem", a wife converted to continence with him); translated by that reading.

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Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): dericiis → clericus; in solatio auo moM, lem praeter → in solatio suo mulierem praeter; matfem >; → matrem,; n,tem → neptem; foaveisam. → conversam; soewn ^monNii, → secum uxorem,; babere → habere; pfaesnmpserit, → praesumpserit,; tennnanione → communione; alienua → alienus; babeaAur → habeatur; muiterem, si ao separare → mulierem, si se separare; Boiiierit f → noluerit,; poeoa. → poena; pierceUat. → percellat..

Topics: Church office, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 3 (Bruns 2:130; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 4

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Nullus diaconus vel presbyter vel episcopus ad cellarium secretum intromittat puellam vel ingenuam vel ancillam.

No deacon, presbyter, or bishop is to admit into his private chamber a girl, whether free or a slave.

Notes and citation

Summary: Clergy may not admit girls or women servants into their private rooms.

"Private chamber" renders "cellarium secretum" as read from a garbled passage.

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Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): adceilarit → ad cellarium; aecrelum → secretum; ititremitlAt → intromittat; puell4iti → puellam; ingtevani → ingenuam; ancilMm.. → ancillam..

Topics: Church office, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 4 (Bruns 2:130; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 5

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Episcopum sine metropolitano vel epistola metropolitani vel tribus comprovincialibus non liceat ordinare: ita ut alii comprovinciales epietolis admoneantur, ut se sua responso consensisse significent. Quod si inter partes aliqua nata fuerit dubitatio, majori numero metropolitanus in electione consentiat.

It is not permitted to ordain a bishop without the metropolitan, or a letter of the metropolitan, or three bishops of the province; and the other bishops of the province are to be advised by letters, so that they may indicate by their reply that they have consented. But if any doubt arises between parties, let the metropolitan agree with the greater number in the election.

Notes and citation

Summary: A bishop may be ordained only with the metropolitan or his letter and three bishops of the province; in a disputed election the metropolitan follows the majority.

Leftover heading words at the opening are removed. Compare Nicaea, canons 4 and 6.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): fiicta permnae 0' Episcopum → Episcopum; siite → sine; metfOpolilRBiD → metropolitano; epi,ola → epistola; metroiKrtitaiii → metropolitani; tnbiw → tribus; oompreriiiciaHbBe → comprovincialibus; Iti,eat → liceat; ordinaTe: → ordinare:; if a nt aK comprovinciales → ita ut alii comprovinciales; admoneanttir, → admoneantur,; dnbitatio, → dubitatio,; majoti → majori; nnmero → numero; metropolitai\us → metropolitanus; efeetione → electione; consentiat. ' → consentiat..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Nic. 4 (Creed and Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325); allusion)

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 5 (Bruns 2:133; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 6

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Illud autem ante omnia clareat, eum qui sine conscientia metropolitani constitutus fuerit episcopus, juxta magnam synodum esse episcopum non debere.

But let this above all be clear: that one who has been made bishop without the knowledge of the metropolitan ought not, according to the great synod, to be a bishop.

Notes and citation

Summary: One made bishop without the metropolitan's knowledge is no bishop, according to Nicaea.

"The great synod": Nicaea, canon 6.

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Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): niud → Illud; episcopum hon debere. → episcopum non debere..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Nic. 6 (Creed and Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325); quotation)

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 6 (Bruns 2:133; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 7

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Hos qui se carnali vitio repugnare nescientes abscidunt, ad clerum pervenire non posse.

Those who, not knowing how to fight against the vice of the flesh, castrate themselves cannot come to the clergy.

Notes and citation

Summary: Men who castrate themselves may not be ordained.

Compare Nicaea, canon 1.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Hbscidunt, → abscidunt,; clefum → clerum; posse. r → posse..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Nic. 1 (Creed and Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325); allusion)

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 7 (Bruns 2:133; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 8

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Si quis excommunicatum alterius sive clericum sive saecularem recipere post interdictum praesumpserit, noverit se reum fraternitatis factum causam in concilio reddituram.

If anyone presumes, after it has been forbidden, to receive a person excommunicated by another, whether a cleric or a layman, let him know that he has become guilty toward the brotherhood and will give account in the council.

Notes and citation

Summary: Whoever receives someone excommunicated by another bishop answers for it before the council.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): excommunicatum. → excommunicatum; ndverit sfe reum → noverit se reum; fi-atemitatis → fraternitatis; foctum → factum.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 8 (Bruns 2:133; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 9

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Novatianum in communionem recipi non debere, nisi suscepta poenitentia incredulitatis praeteritum damnet errorem.

A Novatian ought not to be received into communion unless, having received penance for his unbelief, he condemns his past error.

Notes and citation

Summary: Novatians are received only after penance and renouncing their error.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Novatianum,in → Novatianum in; commYinioueiii → communionem; danme,. → damnet.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 9 (Bruns 2:133; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 10

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De his qui in persecuti<me praevaricati sunt, si voluntate fidem negaverint, hoc de iis Nicaena synodus statuit, ut quinque annos inter catechumenos exigant et duos inter discommunicantes, ita ut communionem inter poenitentes non ptaesumant. In potestate tamen vel arbitrio sit episcopi, ut si eos ex animo errorem deflere et agere poenitentiam viderit, ad communionem pro ecclesiastica humanitate suscipiat.

Concerning those who transgressed in persecution, if they denied the faith willingly, the synod of Nicaea decreed this about them: that they spend five years among the catechumens and two among those not admitted to communion, so that they do not presume to communion among the penitents. Yet let it be in the power or judgment of the bishop that, if he sees them bewailing their error and doing penance from the heart, he may receive them into communion out of the church's kindness.

Notes and citation

Summary: Those who apostatized willingly in persecution do the penance set by Nicaea, which the bishop may shorten for true repentance.

Nicaea, canons 11–12. A note of the edition's apparatus that leaked into the text is removed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): De.bis → De his; sont, → sunt,; volunt,a. → voluntate; Nicaeiia → Nicaena; syiio(jps statuit, ut. quinque → synodus statuit, ut quinque; annps → annos; ca);echumenos → catechumenos; Comsbuliionem → communionem; poeni-^ tentiam. → poenitentiam; vid,frit → viderit,; eommumon,m → communionem; ecdesiasti,a → ecclesiastica; faumanitate → humanitate; suscipiat. Conoit Nieaei]^. 6 ttui sS ipMos C. H; — l dertx,atum Hae ^edtdUate C. H4 — 1 pKotermmlXsg B. — i ttt persec >' eqoeaiiliiiB Terbis t,pii|Mit) C M. eteditio Siri&oiidl -, → suscipiat..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Nic. 11 (Creed and Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325); allusion)

Topics: Persecution, Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 10 (Bruns 2:133; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 11

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Si qui vero dolore victi et pondere persecutionis negare vel immolare coacti sunt, duobus anni inter catechumenos, triennio inter poenitentes habeantur, a communione suspensi.

But if any, overcome by pain and the weight of persecution, were forced to deny or to sacrifice, let them be held two years among the catechumens and three among the penitents, suspended from communion.

Notes and citation

Summary: Those forced by torture to deny or sacrifice do two years among the catechumens and three among the penitents.

Leftover heading words at the opening are removed; the canon is read from a garbled passage.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): comptnhi mBt Si → Si; vioii ol pio&dovo → victi et pondere; persecaiionis negare Vel iMriioMe → persecutionis negare vel immolare; eoai,i → coacti; aunfc, → sunt,; dttoboii → duobus; nnni → anni; inter.oaleduaineiiosy → inter catechumenos,; liieDnio → triennio; inler → inter; poenitoiites. → poenitentes; liabenotitf.^a → habeantur, a; eoanMUfume → communione; eiiSittiisi.' → suspensi..

Topics: Persecution, Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 11 (Bruns 2:135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 12

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De his qui in poenitentia positi vita excesserint, placuit nullum communione vacuum debere dimitti; sed pro eo quod honoravit poenitentiam, oblatio illius suscipiatur.

Concerning those who have departed this life while placed in penance, it was decided that no one ought to be sent away empty of communion; but because he honoured penance, let his offering be received.

Notes and citation

Summary: Penitents who die before reconciliation receive communion and have their offering accepted.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): excesseriuit, → excesserint,; nnDnm → nullum; yacuum → vacuum.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Vas. I 2 (Canons of the Council of Vaison (442); allusion)

Topics: Eucharist, Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 12 (Bruns 2:135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 13

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Nullus cujuscumque ordinis clericus, non diaconus, non presbyter, non episcopus, quacumque occasione faciente propriam relinquat ecclesiam, sed omnimodis aut excommunicetur aut redire cogatur. Quod si aliquo commorationis tempore invito episcopo suo in aliena ecclesia habitans, ab episcopo loci clericus fuerit ordinatus, hujusmodi ordinatio irrita habeatur.

No cleric of any order, not a deacon, not a presbyter, not a bishop, is to leave his own church for any reason whatever; but by all means let him either be excommunicated or be compelled to return. And if, during some time of residence, living in another church against his bishop's will, the cleric has been ordained by the bishop of the place, let such an ordination be held void.

Notes and citation

Summary: No cleric may leave his own church; an ordination conferred on him elsewhere against his bishop's will is void.

Leftover heading words at the opening ("let the ordination be void") are removed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): irrita sit ordinatio. NuIIus → Nullus; propnam → propriam; r,qoat → relinquat; excommuni- COtiir → excommunicetur; aliqno → aliquo; Commorationis → commorationis; temporoi → tempore; eoclesia → ecclesia; habkans, → habitans,; episoopo → episcopo; loei → loci.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 13 (Bruns 2:135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 14

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Si quis clericus pecuniam dederit ad usuram, aut conductor alienae rei voluerit esse, aut turpis lucri gratia genus aliquod negotiationis exercuerit, depositus a clero a communione alienus fiat.

If any cleric lends money at interest, or wishes to be a tenant of another's property, or engages in any kind of trade for the sake of shameful gain, let him be deposed from the clergy and become a stranger to communion.

1 Tim 3:8 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Clerics who lend at interest, farm others' property, or trade for gain are deposed and excommunicated.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): pecuniam dederit ad. lisuram, → pecuniam dederit ad usuram,.

Topics: Church office, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 14 (Bruns 2:135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 15

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In secretario diacono inter presbyteros sedere non liceat; vel corpus Christi praesente presbytero tradere non praesumat. Quod si fecerit, ab officio diaconatus abscedat.

In the sacristy a deacon may not sit among the presbyters; nor may he presume to give the body of Christ when a presbyter is present. If he does so, let him withdraw from the office of deacon.

Notes and citation

Summary: A deacon may not sit with presbyters or give the Eucharist in a presbyter's presence.

Compare Nicaea, canon 18.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): praeseate → praesente; Qttod → Quod; ofBcio → officio; diaconatos → diaconatus; abscedtlt. → abscedat..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Nic. 18 (Creed and Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325); allusion)

Topics: Church office, Eucharist

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 15 (Bruns 2:135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 16

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Photinianos sive Paulianistas secundum patrum statuta baptizari oportere.

Photinians or Paulianists, according to the statutes of the fathers, must be baptized.

Notes and citation

Summary: Photinians and followers of Paul of Samosata are to be baptized on joining the church.

Nicaea, canon 19, on the Paulianists.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Photiniacos → Photinianos; patnmi → patrum; hapti,ari → baptizari.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Nic. 19 (Creed and Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325); allusion)

Topics: Baptism, Heresy

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 16 (Bruns 2:135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 17

17Bruns 2:135

Bonosiacos autem ex eodem errore venientes, quos sicut Arianos baptizari in trinitate manifestum est, si interrogati fidem nostram ex toto corde confessi fuerint, cum chrismate et manus impositione in ecclesia recipi sufficit.

But the Bonosians, coming from the same error, who, like the Arians, are clearly baptized in the Trinity, if on being questioned they confess our faith with their whole heart, it is enough that they be received in the church with chrism and the laying on of hands.

Notes and citation

Summary: Bonosians, baptized in the Trinity like the Arians, are received with chrism and the laying on of hands.

The Bonosians followed Bonosus of Naissus, who denied the perpetual virginity of Mary.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): quossieut → quos sicut; iutenrogati → interrogati.

Topics: Baptism, Heresy

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 17 (Bruns 2:135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 18

18Bruns 2:136

Ad Arelatensis episcopi arbitrium synodus congreganda, ad quam urbem ex omnibus mundi partibus, praecipue Gallicanis, sub sancti Marini tempore legimus celebratum Mmm concilium atque conventum. Si quis commonitus infirmitatis causa defuerit, personam vice sua dirigat.

A synod is to be gathered at the discretion of the bishop of Arles, in which city we read that, in the time of holy Marinus, … a council and assembly was held from all parts of the world, especially from Gaul. If anyone who has been summoned is absent because of illness, let him send a person in his place.

Notes and citation

Summary: Synods are to meet at the call of the bishop of Arles; a bishop prevented by illness sends a deputy.

"In the time of holy Marinus": the council of Arles (314) under Marinus of Arles. One word is unreadable in the digitization.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Ar&latensfs → Arelatensis; arbitriuni → arbitrium; congtogiuida, → congreganda,; qasm → quam; inrbein → urbem; oamibiis → omnibus; ninndi → mundi; GaUi canis, sab saneti → Gallicanis, sub sancti; Maotiai → Marini; tempare → tempore; legimns → legimus; celebratam → celebratum; conciliam → concilium; deiiierit) → defuerit,.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 18 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 19

19Bruns 2:136

Si quis autem adesse neglexerit, aut coetum fratrum antequam concilium dissolvatur crediderit deserendum, alienatum se a fratrum communione cognoscat, nec eum recipi liceat, nisi in sequenti synodo fuerit absolutus.

But if anyone neglects to be present, or thinks he may leave the assembly of the brothers before the council is dissolved, let him know that he is estranged from the communion of the brothers, and he may not be received unless he has been absolved at the next synod.

Notes and citation

Summary: A bishop who fails to attend or leaves a council early is excluded from communion until the next synod.

Leftover heading words at the opening ("[whoever] has left the council without permission") are removed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): de concilio sine permissu disceaserit Si → Si; qnis → quis; fraixum → fratrum; ante-> quam → antequam; conciJium → concilium; disolvatur → dissolvatur; fhitnjkm → fratrum; communionQ → communione; liceat, nisi iB equenti → liceat, nisi in sequenti; absoluius. → absolutus..

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 19 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 20

20Bruns 2:136

De agitatoribus sive theatricis qui fideles sunt, placuit eos quamdiu agunt a communione separari

Concerning charioteers or actors who are faithful, it was decided that they be separated from communion as long as they practise.

Notes and citation

Summary: Baptized charioteers and actors are excommunicated while they continue in their trade.

Compare Arles (314), canons 4–5.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): aguiit → agunt; cpmmunione → communione.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 20 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 21

21Bruns 2:136

Poenitens quaecumque defuncto viro alii nubere praesumpserit, vel suspecta vel interdicta familiaritate cum extraneo vixerit, cum eodem ab ecclesiae liminibus arceatur. Hoc etiam de viro in poenitentia posito placuit observari.

Any woman penitent who, after her husband's death, presumes to marry another, or lives in suspect or forbidden familiarity with a stranger, is to be kept from the thresholds of the church together with him. It was decided that this be observed also of a man placed in penance.

Notes and citation

Summary: A penitent widow who remarries or lives in suspect familiarity with a man is excluded from the church with him; the same applies to a male penitent.

Translated as written. Public penance carried a lifelong bar on marriage; the canon applies it to penitents whose spouse has died.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): prae sumpserit, → praesumpserit,; extraned → extraneo; ecdesiae → ecclesiae; obseivarL → observari..

Topics: Remarriage, Marriage, Church office, Divorce and remarriage

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 21 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 22

22Bruns 2:136

Poenitentiam conjugalis non nisi ex consensu dandam.

Penance is not to be given to a married person except with the consent of the spouse.

1 Cor 7:5 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: A married person may enter public penance only with the spouse's consent.

Public penance required continence; hence the spouse's consent. Compare 1 Cor 7:5.

Topics: Marriage, Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 22 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 23

23Bruns 2:136

Si in alicujus episcopi territorio infideles aut faculas accendant aut arbores fontes vel saxa venerantur si hoc eruere neglexerit, sacrilegii reum se esse cognoscat. Dominus aut ordinator rei ipsius, si admonitus emendare noluerit, communione privetur.

If in the territory of any bishop unbelievers either light torches or venerate trees, springs, or stones, if he neglects to root this out, let him know that he is guilty of sacrilege. The lord or manager of the property itself, if he will not correct it when warned, is to be deprived of communion.

Notes and citation

Summary: A bishop who tolerates pagan cults at trees, springs, or stones in his territory is guilty of sacrilege; the landowner who will not stop them is excommunicated.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): arbores → arbores; Doniinus → Dominus; ordiaator → ordinator.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 23 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 24

24Bruns 2:136

victi fuerint, placuit usque ad exitum non communicare, sicut magna synodus ante constituit; nisi digna satisfactione poenituerint.

[Those who] have been convicted, it was decided, are not to communicate until death, as the great synod decreed before, unless they have done penance with worthy satisfaction.

Notes and citation

Summary: Those convicted (of the offence named in the lost heading) are excluded from communion until death, unless they do worthy penance.

The opening of the canon, with the offence it concerns, is lost; the staged text begins in the middle ("victi fuerint"). "The great synod" here is probably the council of Arles (314), canon 14 (false accusers), rather than Nicaea; the identification is uncertain.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): ad exitum uon commuuicare, → ad exitum non communicare,; magra → magna; coustituil; → constituit;; digAa → digna; satisfactlohe → satisfactione.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 24 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 25

25Bruns 2:136

Hi qui post sanctam religionis professionem apostatant et ad saecul redeunt, et postmodum poenitentiae remedia non requirunt, sine poenitentia communionem penitus non accipiant: quos etiam jubem ad clericatus officium non admitti; et quicumque ille post poenitentiam habitum saecularem non praesumat; quod si praesumpserit, ab ecclesia alienus habeatur.

Those who, after the holy profession of religion, apostatize and return to the world, and afterwards do not seek the remedies of penance, are by no means to receive communion without penance; and we order that they also not be admitted to the office of the clergy; and whoever it may be, after penance, let him not presume to take up secular dress; and if he presumes, let him be held a stranger to the church.

Notes and citation

Summary: Those who abandon the religious life without penance are excluded from communion and from the clergy; a penitent may not return to secular dress.

Several clauses are read from garbled text; translated by sense.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Hi qoi post → Hi qui post; i,ostatant → apostatant; saeeuiiinl → saecul; poBtmodtHn → postmodum; poenttentiae → poenitentiae; rem,a → remedia; tton → non; requinint, → requirunt,; conanmionem → communionem; penitas → penitus; qnoa → quos; otiam → etiam; jabeaMm → jubem; derieatoa → clericatus; olBeimii → officium; ailnliftiy → admitti;; qoicomqae → quicumque; paenitentiam → poenitentiam; habitom → habitum; prae, ornat} → praesumat;; eedeaia → ecclesia; aUmua → alienus; habeator. → habeatur..

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 25 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 26

26Bruns 2:136

(Vide Conc. Arausic. c. 1.)

[Same as Orange (441), canon 1.]

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats Orange (441), canon 1.

Bruns prints this canon only as a cross-reference ("see the council of Orange, canon 1").

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Afausic. → Arausic..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 1 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 26 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 27

27Bruns 2:136

(Ibid. c. 2. init.: Nullum ministrum — semel chrismari.)

[Same as Orange (441), canon 2, opening: "None of the ministers … chrismated once."]

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats the opening of Orange (441), canon 2.

Bruns prints this canon only as a cross-reference to the opening words of Orange, canon 2; a leftover heading word ("non procedat") is removed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): non procedat.,(Ibid. → (Ibid.; NuIIum → Nullum; chrisnfari.} → chrismari.).

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 2 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 27 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 28

28Bruns 2:136

Quod si accepto hoc viatico supervixerint stent in ordine poenitentium ut ostensis necessariis poenitentiae fructibus, legitime reconciliatoriam manus impositionem recipiant.

But if, having received this viaticum, they survive, let them stand in the order of penitents, so that, having shown the necessary fruits of penance, they may lawfully receive the reconciling laying on of hands.

Notes and citation

Summary: Penitents who recover after receiving the viaticum return to the order of penitents (the end of Orange, canon 3).

Bruns prints only the end of this canon, which repeats the end of Orange (441), canon 3.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): si.accepto → si accepto; steut → stent; poeniteutium → poenitentium; fVuctibnS; → fructibus,; reconciliatdriam → reconciliatoriam; impositioneiti → impositionem; recipiant.- → recipiant..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 3 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Topics: Eucharist, Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 28 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 29

29Bruns 2:136

(Conc. Arausic. c. 4.)

[Same as Orange (441), canon 4.]

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats Orange (441), canon 4.

Bruns prints this canon only as a cross-reference.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): (Coijc, → (Conc..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 4 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 29 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 30

30Bruns 2:136

Eos qui ad ecclesiam confugerint tradi non oportet: sed eos domini sui promissa intercessione exire persuadeant, Quod si ab ecclesia exeuntibus poenale aliquid ihtulerint, ut ecclesiae inimici habeantur excommunes.

Those who have taken refuge in a church ought not to be handed over; but let them persuade them to come out on their master's promise of pardon at their intercession. And if the masters inflict any punishment on them when they come out of the church, let them be held enemies of the church and excommunicated.

Notes and citation

Summary: Fugitives in a church are not handed over but persuaded to leave under a promise of pardon; masters who then punish them are excommunicated.

An expanded form of Orange (441), canon 5.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): ecdesiam → ecclesiam; obnfiigerint → confugerint; domiui → domini; exCommunes '1. → excommunes..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 5 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); allusion)

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 30 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-30). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 31

31Bruns 2:136

Si quis clericorum religionis negotia vel spirituales causas ecclesiae ad saecularia patrocinia, relicta synodo, transire praesumpserit, excommunicatione omnium ac detestatione dignus habeatur. Simili modo si causa inter clericos orta fuerit, ne invito episcopo ad saeculares judices deferatur, sed episcoporum judicio terminetur.

If any cleric presumes to take the affairs of religion or the spiritual causes of the church to secular patronage, leaving the synod, let him be held worthy of excommunication and abhorrence by all. Likewise, if a case arises between clerics, let it not be brought before secular judges against the bishop's will, but be settled by the judgment of bishops.

1 Cor 6:1 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Clerics may not take church causes or disputes among clergy to secular courts.

Leftover heading words at the opening ("let them be settled by the judgment of bishops") are removed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): acoporum judicio terminentur Si → Si; religiouis, → religionis; trausire → transire; praesumpserit) → praesumpserit,; detestatioue → detestatione; cl,ricos → clericos; orta fuerit, ue ihvito → orta fuerit, ne invito; judicos → judices; dofera|ttt> → deferatur,; episcopo, rum → episcoporum; terminetur, → terminetur..

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 31 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 32

32Bruns 2:136

(Ibid c. 6.)

[Same as Orange (441), canon 6.]

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats Orange (441), canon 6.

Bruns prints this canon only as a cross-reference; a leftover heading phrase ("has seized the slaves of clerics") is removed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): mancipia clericorum pervaaerit, (Ibid → (Ibid.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 6 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 32 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-32). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 33

33Bruns 2:136

Si quis per testamentum manumissum in servitutem vel obsequium vel in colonaria conditione imprimere tentaverit, animadversione ecclesiastica coerceatur.

If anyone tries to force one freed by will into slavery, or into service, or into the condition of a tenant farmer, let him be restrained by church discipline.

Notes and citation

Summary: Those freed by will may not be reduced again to servitude (as Orange, canon 7).

Repeats Orange (441), canon 7, in part.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): qnia → quis; testamentun → testamentum; manumissttm → manumissum; in.seryitate vcl obsequio ve! in → in servitutem vel obsequium vel in; eoclesiastica → ecclesiastica; coeroeatur, → coerceatur..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 7 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 33 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-33). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 34

34Bruns 2:136

Si quis in ecclesia manumissum crediderit ingrati titulo revocandum, non aliter liceat nisi eum gestis apud acta municipum reum esse ante probaverit.

If anyone thinks that one freed in church should be recalled on the ground of ingratitude, it is not to be allowed unless he has first proved him guilty in proceedings before the municipal records.

Notes and citation

Summary: A master may not revoke a manumission performed in church on grounds of ingratitude unless he proves it before the municipal authorities.

A leftover heading word at the opening is removed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): putarit,. Si → Si; mauumissima → manumissum; crediderii> → crediderit; revocaudum uon aliter → revocandum, non aliter; liceat → liceat.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 34 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-34). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 35

35Bruns 2:136

(Ibid. c. 8.)

[Same as Orange (441), canon 8.]

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats Orange (441), canon 8.

Bruns prints this canon only as a cross-reference.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): (ibid. → (Ibid.; c8.) → c. 8.).

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 8 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 35 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-35). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 36

36Bruns 2:136

(Ibid. c. 10. init.: Si quis episcopus — pertinebit; et si quid ipsi ecclesiae fuerit ab episcopo conditore collatum, is in cujus territorio est, auferendi exinde aliquid non habeat potestatem. Hoc solum aedificatori episcopo credidimus reservandum.

[Same as Orange (441), canon 10, from the beginning to "shall belong";] and if anything has been given to that church by the founding bishop, the one in whose territory it is has no power to take anything away from it. This alone we have thought should be reserved to the founding bishop.

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats Orange, canon 10, adding that gifts of the founding bishop to the church may not be taken away by the local bishop.

Bruns prints the first part only as a cross-reference to Orange (441), canon 10.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): mit.:} St qois → init.: Si quis; episcopus,— → episcopus —; pertiQebit; → pertinebit;; quid.ipsi → quid ipsi; Aierit → fuerit; coUatnm, → collatum,; polestatesr, → potestatem.; sotuin → solum; aedificatoii → aedificatori; episooptt → episcopo; cradidiious → credidimus; re, servandum. → reservandum..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 10 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 36 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-36). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 37

37Bruns 2:136

(Ibid. c. 10. fin.: Quod si etiam quicumque ecclesiam aedificaverit — conventu abstinebunt: si ordinem excesserit, in reatu revocabitur.

[Same as the end of Orange (441), canon 10: "And if any layman builds a church … shall abstain from the assembly";] if he oversteps the order, he will be called to account.

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats the end of Orange, canon 10, on lay founders who invite another bishop.

Bruns prints the first part only as a cross-reference; the last clause is read from garbled text.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): (ibid. e. 10. → (Ibid. c. 10.; fln.:) → fin.:; Qaod → Quod; etiatii → etiam; quicuii qQe ecdMStam → quicumque ecclesiam; eonventn → conventu; abstinebttBtur: → abstinebunt:; ordioeiii → ordinem; abcesseriti → excesserit,; revocabitur... → revocabitur..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 10 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 37 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-37). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 38

38Bruns 2:136

Subito obmutescens baptizari potest et amentibus quaecumque pietatis sunt conferenda.

One who suddenly becomes speechless can be baptized; and to the insane, whatever belongs to piety is to be granted.

Notes and citation

Summary: One who suddenly loses speech may be baptized; the insane receive what piety allows (Orange, canons 12–13).

Combines Orange (441), canons 12 and 13, in shortened form.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): ameutJbus → amentibus; quae cumque → quaecumque; pietl,tis → pietatis; sQnt → sunt.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 12 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation); Conc. Araus. I 13 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 38 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-38). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 39

39Bruns 2:136

(Ibid. c. 14.)

[Same as Orange (441), canon 14.]

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats Orange (441), canon 14.

Bruns prints this canon only as a cross-reference.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 14 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 39 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-39). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 40

40Bruns 2:136

(Ibid. c. 15.)

[Same as Orange (441), canon 15.]

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats Orange (441), canon 15.

Bruns prints this canon only as a cross-reference.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 15 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 40 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-40). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 41

41Bruns 2:136

(Ibid. c. 16.)

[Same as Orange (441), canon 16.]

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats Orange (441), canon 16.

Bruns prints this canon only as a cross-reference.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 16 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 41 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-41). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 42

42Bruns 2:136

In provinciis nostris placuit de praesumptoribus, ut sicubi duo episcopi ausi fuerint episcopum facere etiamsi metropolitani episcopi epistolam non habuerint et is qui ordinatus est cum ordinatoribus excludatur.

It was decided in our provinces concerning presumptuous persons that, if anywhere two bishops dare to make a bishop, even if they did not have the letter of the metropolitan bishop, the one ordained too is to be excluded together with the ordainers.

Notes and citation

Summary: If two bishops ordain a bishop without the metropolitan's letter, he is deposed with them.

A stricter form of Orange (441), canon 21. A leftover heading word at the opening is removed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): ordinaverint In → In; praesumptoribuS; → praesumptoribus,; habuerint → habuerint; ordinatuS → ordinatus.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 21 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); allusion)

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 42 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-42). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 43

43Bruns 2:136

Placuit praeterea, ut secundum synodi instituta non ordinentur etc. (Ibid. c. 22.)

It was decided moreover that, according to the institutions of the synod, [married men] are not to be ordained [deacons] … [Same as Orange (441), canon 22.]

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats Orange (441), canon 22, on married deacons.

Bruns prints only the opening words and a cross-reference to Orange, canon 22.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): ordi, nentur → ordinentur.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 22 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Topics: Marriage, Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 43 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-43). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 44

44Bruns 2:136

(Ibid. c. 23.)

[Same as Orange (441), canon 23.]

Notes and citation

Summary: Repeats Orange (441), canon 23, on deacons who are incontinent with their wives.

Bruns prints only the last word of the canon ("is found incontinent") and a cross-reference, misprinted in the digitization as canon 3; Orange, canon 23, is meant. The leftover word is removed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): incontinensinvenitur. (Ibid. c. 3.) → (Ibid. c. 23.).

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 23 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); quotation)

Topics: Marriage, Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 44 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-44). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 45

45Bruns 2:136

De his quos clericatui alligari ipsa vitae gratia suggesserit, si forte internupta et duplicata matrimonia inciderunt; non ultra subdiaconatum ecclesiasticas capiant dignitates; quod si facti forsitan sunt, ab ecclesiastico removeantur officio.

Concerning those whom the very grace of their life suggests should be bound to the clergy, if perhaps they have fallen into marriages to a woman not a virgin, or into second marriages, they are not to receive ecclesiastical dignities beyond the subdiaconate; and if perhaps they have been made such, let them be removed from ecclesiastical office.

1 Tim 3:2 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Men married to a widow or married twice may not be ordained above subdeacon, and are removed if ordained.

A fuller form of Orange (441), canon 25. "Internupta et duplicata matrimonia": marriage to a woman previously married, and a second marriage. Translated as written.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): ailigari → alligari; dignitatesj → dignitates;; removeantuif → removeantur; ofBcio,. → officio..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 25 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); allusion)

Topics: Marriage, Remarriage, Church office, Divorce and remarriage

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 45 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-45). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 46

46Bruns 2:136

Professas viduas, si conniventiam praestiterint, cum raptoribus esse damnandas.

Professed widows, if they have connived, are to be condemned together with their abductors.

Notes and citation

Summary: Vowed widows who consent to their abduction are condemned with the abductors.

Compare Orange (441), canon 27.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Araus. I 27 (Canons of the Council of Orange (441); allusion)

Topics: Marriage

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 46 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-46). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 47

47Bruns 2:136

Secundum constitutionem synodi Vasensis, quicumque oblationem fidelium suppresserit aut negaverit, ab ecclesia cui fraudem fecerit excludatur.

According to the constitution of the synod of Vaison, whoever withholds or denies the offering of the faithful is to be excluded from the church which he has defrauded.

Notes and citation

Summary: Whoever withholds bequests to the church is excluded from it, as at Vaison.

Vaison (442), canon 4.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): constitutionein → constitutionem; Vasensisf. → Vasensis,; qiticinnqtte → quicumque; negav,U, → negaverit,; e,esia → ab ecclesia; fralidem → fraudem.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Vas. I 4 (Canons of the Council of Vaison (442); quotation)

Topics: Ethics, Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 47 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-47). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 48

48Bruns 2:136

Si quis episcopi sui sententiae non acquiescit, synodi legibus audiendum.

If anyone does not accept the sentence of his bishop, he is to be heard by the laws of the synod.

Notes and citation

Summary: One who rejects his bishop's sentence is heard by the synod (Vaison, canon 5).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): ^ Si → Si; Aoqaiescit| → acquiescit,.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Vas. I 5 (Canons of the Council of Vaison (442); quotation)

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 48 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-48). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 49

49Bruns 2:136

Secundum instituta seniorum, hic qui a communione sacerdotali fuerit auctoritate suspensus, hunc non sol a clericorum sed etiam a totius populi colloquio atque convivio placuit excludi; donec resipiscens ad sanitatem redire festinet

According to the institutions of the elders, it was decided that one who has been suspended from communion by priestly authority is to be excluded not only from the conversation of the clergy but also from that of the whole people, and from their table, until, coming to his senses, he hastens to return to health.

1 Cor 5:11 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: One excommunicated by his bishop is to be shunned by clergy and people alike until he repents.

Leftover heading words at the opening ("suspended") are removed. Compare Vaison (442), canon 6.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): euepeneus. s Secpndain → Secundum; SMiiorum, h\ quit → seniorum, hic qui; sacerdotaU → sacerdotali; ftierit → fuerit; kuctoiitate → auctoritate; sasi,ensus, → suspensus,; hnne,non → hunc non; 8 kinl → sol; clefiodffam → clericorum; coUoquio → colloquio; c#nvivio → convivio; placiHt → placuit; donec:reaipisoens oA sanitatem → donec resipiscens ad sanitatem; rediie → redire; feslniiet → festinet.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Vas. I 6 (Canons of the Council of Vaison (442); allusion)

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 49 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-49). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 50

50Bruns 2:136

Hi qui publicis inter se odiis dissident, ab ecclesiasticis conventibus removendi donec ad pacem recurrant

Those who are at odds with one another in public hatreds are to be kept from the church's assemblies until they return to peace.

Matt 5:24 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Those in open enmity with each other are excluded from church assemblies until reconciled.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): publicis inter ae adiis → publicis inter se odiis; oMfdiMWunt, → dissident,; ecdeslMtieis → ecclesiasticis; Conventi|bus → conventibus; recuirant → recurrant.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 50 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-50). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 51

51Bruns 2:136

Si expositus ante ecclesiam cujuscumque fuerit miseratione collectus, contestationis ponat epistolam; et si is qui collectus est intra decem dies quaesitus agnitusque non fuerit, securus habeat qui collegit Sane qui post praedictum tempus calumniator extiterit, ut homicida ecclesiastica districtione damnabitur, sicut patrum sanxit auctoritas.

If an infant exposed before the church of anyone has been taken up out of compassion, let the one who took it up put out a letter of attestation; and if the one taken up has not been sought and recognized within ten days, let the one who took it up keep it securely. But whoever comes forward as a slanderer after the said time will be condemned by church discipline as a murderer, as the authority of the fathers has decreed.

Notes and citation

Summary: Whoever takes in an exposed infant posts a notice; if unclaimed in ten days the finder keeps it, and later claimants are punished as murderers.

A form of Vaison (442), canons 9–10.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): eiqiositus → expositus; ecdesiam → ecclesiam; cujuseumque → cujuscumque; collectiTB, → collectus,; coUectns' → collectus; coHegit → collegit; extiterit, |it homicida → extiterit, ut homicida; ecclesiastica, → ecclesiastica; distiictiohe → districtione.

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Vas. I 9 (Canons of the Council of Vaison (442); allusion); Conc. Vas. I 10 (Canons of the Council of Vaison (442); allusion)

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 51 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-51). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 52

52Bruns 2:136

De puellis quae se voverunt deo et praeclari decore nominis floruerunt, si post viginti et quinque annos aetatis ad terrenas nuptias sponte transierint, id custodiendum esse decrevimus, ut cum his cum quibus se alligaverint communione priventur, ita ut iis postulantibus poenitentia non negetur; cujus poenitentiae communio multo tempore differatur.

Concerning girls who have vowed themselves to God and have flourished in the glory of a distinguished name, if after twenty-five years of age they pass of their own will to earthly marriage, we have decreed that this be kept: that they be deprived of communion together with those to whom they have bound themselves; yet if they ask for it, penance is not to be denied them; but the communion of that penance is to be put off for a long time.

Notes and citation

Summary: Consecrated virgins over twenty-five who marry are excommunicated with their husbands; they may do penance, but reconciliation is long delayed.

Translated as written.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): noininis → nominis; terreoas → terrenas; custodieadum → custodiendum.

Topics: Marriage, Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 52 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-52). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 53

53Bruns 2:136

Si quis famulorum cujuslibet conditionis aut generis quasi ad exacerbandam domini districtionem se diabolico repletus furore percusserit, ipse tantum sanguinis sui reus erit, neque ad dominum sceleris alieni pertinebit invidia.

If any servant of whatever condition or kind, as if to provoke his master's severity, strikes himself, filled with diabolical fury, he alone will be guilty of his own blood, and the odium of another's crime will not attach to the master.

Notes and citation

Summary: A slave who wounds or kills himself to bring odium on his master alone bears the guilt.

"Strikes himself … with fury" is read from garbled text ("fuifM peiMsserit"); translated by sense.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): ciuuslibet → cujuslibet; fuifM → furore; peiMsserit,, → percusserit,; tantiAn → tantum; scelerisfdieni → sceleris alieni; p,tinebit → pertinebit.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 53 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-53). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 54

54Bruns 2:136

Placuit in ordinatione episcopi hunc ordinem custodiri, ut primo loco venalitate vel ambitione submota tres ab episcopis nominentur, de quibus clerici vel cives erga unum eligendi habeant potestatem.

It was decided that in the ordination of a bishop this order be kept: that first, venality or ambition being removed, three be nominated by the bishops, of whom the clergy or citizens have the power to choose one.

Notes and citation

Summary: For a bishop's election the bishops nominate three candidates, and the clergy and citizens choose one.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): eligeudi → eligendi.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 54 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-54). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 55

55Bruns 2:136

Si quis saecularium amore religionis se ad quemcumque

If any of the laity, out of love of religion, [betakes] himself to any …

Notes and citation

Summary: The canon breaks off after its opening words.

Only the opening words of the canon are in the staged text; the rest is lost in the digitization.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): ' qms sAeimlariuiii → quis saecularium; religioiBS → religionis.

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 55 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-55). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 56

56Bruns 2:136

Hoc etiam placuit custodiri, ut nihil contra magnam synodum metropolitani sibi aestiment vindicandum.

This too it was decided should be kept: that the metropolitans should not think they may claim anything for themselves contrary to the great synod.

Notes and citation

Summary: Metropolitans may claim nothing for themselves against the decrees of Nicaea.

A leftover word at the opening ("praesumant") is removed. "The great synod": Nicaea.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): praesumant, Hoe etiam → Hoc etiam; plaenit → placuit; cnstodiri, → custodiri,; flfyno> dnm metropolitani → synodum metropolitani; Bibi → sibi; vi,dicandom.; → vindicandum..

Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Nic. 6 (Creed and Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325); allusion)

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Conc. Arel. II 56 (Bruns 2:136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-arles-ii/1/#p-56). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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