THE COUNCIL OF ANTIOCH IN SYRIA
CANON VII - NOTES

No stranger shall be received without letters pacifical.

NOTES.

ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON VII

A traveller having no letter pacific with him is not to be received.

Comapare the Apostolic Canon number XXXIII

For a discussion of the Letters styled pacifici, see notes on next canon.

This canon is found in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian's Decretum, Pars I., Dist. lxxi., c. ix. in Isidore's version. The Roman Corectors the Apostolic note that Dionysius must have had a different reading from the Greek we know.


 


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