The Holy Canons Nicaea II Canon 8
Canon 8 Hebrews feigning Christianity are not to be received
Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Νικαίᾳ Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Ζ´ Συνόδου
The Seventh Ecumenical Council · Nicaea, 787 · convened by the empress Irene and the emperor Constantine VI · Seventh Ecumenical Council: Nicaea II (787) on the map
Since some from the religion of the Hebrews, being in error, have thought fit to mock Christ our God, pretending to be Christians but denying him in secret, and secretly keeping the Sabbath, and doing other Jewish things, we decree that these be received neither into communion, nor into prayer, nor into the church, but that they be openly Hebrews according to their own religion, and that they neither baptise their children nor buy or acquire a slave. But if any of them is converted out of sincere faith, and confesses with his whole heart, making a public show of their customs and practices, so that others too may be reproved and corrected, this one is to be received and baptised, and his children too, and it is to be made sure that they depart from the Hebrew practices; but if they are not so disposed, they are by no means to be received.
Ἐπειδὴ πλανώμενοί τινες ἐκ τῆς τῶν Ἑβραίων θρησκείας, μυκτηρίζειν ἔδοξαν Χριστὸν τὸν Θεὸν ἡμῶν, προσποιούμενοι μὲν χριστιανίζειν, αὐτὸν δὲ ἀρνούμενοι κρύβδην, καὶ λαθραίως σαββατίζοντες, καὶ ἕτερα Ἰουδαϊκὰ ποιοῦντες· ὁρίζομεν τούτους, μήτε εἰς κοινωνίαν, μήτε εἰς εὐχήν, μήτε εἰς ἐκκλησίαν δέχεσθαι, ἀλλὰ φανερῶς εἶναι κατὰ τὴν ἑαυτῶν θρησκείαν Ἑβραίους, καὶ μήτε τοὺς παῖδας αὐτῶν βαπτίζειν, μήτε δοῦλον ὠνεῖσθαι, ἢ κτᾶσθαι. Εἰ δὲ ἐξ εἰλικρινοῦς πίστεως ἐπιστρέψει τις αὐτῶν, καὶ ὁμολογήσει ἐξ ὅλης καρδίας, θριαμβεύων τὰ κατ᾿ αὐτοὺς ἔθη καὶ πράγματα, πρὸς τὸ καὶ ἄλλους ἐλεγχθῆναι καὶ διορθώσασθαι, τοῦτον προσδέχεσθαι, καὶ βαπτίζειν, καὶ τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀσφαλίζεσθαι αὐτοὺς ἀποστῆναι τῶν Ἑβραϊκῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων· εἰ δὲ μὴ οὕτως ἔχοιεν, μηδαμῶς αὐτοὺς προσδέχεσθαι.
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