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A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

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737drew up a list of councils and of Fathers whose writingsshould have authority as canons, and omitted the importantWestern councils, except Carthage, and all the papal decrees.With this canon should be compared the decretal of Gelasius,De Libris Recipiendis, v. supra, § 92.It has also seemed good to this holy synod that the eighty-fivecanons received and ratified by the holy and blessed Fathers [675]be<strong>for</strong>e us, and also handed down to us in the name of the holy andglorious Apostles, should from this time <strong>for</strong>th remain firm andunshaken <strong>for</strong> the cure of souls and the healing of disorders. Andsince in these canons we are bidden to receive the Constitutionsof the Holy Apostles by Clement, in which, in old time, certainspurious matter entirely contrary to piety was introduced by heterodoxpersons <strong>for</strong> the polluting of the <strong>Church</strong>, which obscures tous the elegance and beauty of the divine decrees; we, there<strong>for</strong>e,<strong>for</strong> the edification and security of the most Christian flock, rejectproperly such constitutions; by no means admitting the offspringof heretical error, and cleaving to the pure and perfect doctrineof the Apostles. But we set our seal likewise upon all the otherholy canons set <strong>for</strong>th by our holy and blessed Fathers, that is, bythe three hundred and eighteen God-fearing Fathers assembledat Nicæa, and those at Ancyra; further, those at Neo-Cæsareaand at Gangra, and besides these those at Antioch in Syria [A. D.341], those too at Laodicea in Phrygia, and likewise those of theone hundred and fifty assembled in this God-preserved imperialcity and of the two hundred, who assembled <strong>for</strong> the first time inthe metropolis of the Ephesians, and of the six hundred and thirtyholy and blessed Fathers at Chalcedon; in like manner those ofSardica and those of Carthage; those also who assembled in thisGod-preserved imperial city under Nectarius [A. D. 394], andunder Theophilus, archbishop of Alexandria; likewise too thecanons 307 of Dionysius, <strong>for</strong>merly archbishop of the great city of307 Decretal letters.

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