The Holy Canons Apostolic Canon 51
Canon 51 Abstaining from marriage, meat and wine through abhorrence
Ἱεροὶ Κανόνες τῶν Ἁγίων καὶ Πανσέπτων Ἀποστόλων
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If any bishop, or presbyter, or deacon, or anyone at all of the priestly list, abstains from marriage, and meat, and wine, not for asceticism but through abhorrence, forgetting that all things are very good, and that God made man male and female, but blasphemously slanders the creation, let him either be corrected, or be deposed and cast out of the Church. Likewise also a layman.
Εἴ τις ἐπίσκοπος ἢ πρεσβύτερος, ἢ διάκονος, ἢ ὅλως τοῦ καταλόγου τοῦ ἱερατικοῦ, γάμου, καὶ κρεῶν, καὶ οἴνου, οὐ δι᾿ ἄσκησιν, ἀλλὰ διὰ βδελυρίαν ἀπέχηται, ἐπιλαθόμενος ὅτι πάντα καλὰ λίαν, καὶ ὅτι ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ βλασφημῶν διαβάλλῃ τὴν δημιουργίαν, ἢ διορθούσθω, ἢ καθαιρείσθω, καὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἀποβαλλέσθω. Ὡσαύτως καὶ λαϊκός.
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