The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 65
Canon 65 No new-moon bonfires or leaping over them
Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Τρούλλῳ Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Πενθέκτης Συνόδου
The Council in Trullo · Constantinople, 691 to 692 · convened by the emperor Justinian II · The Quinisext Council (Trullo, 692) on the map
The bonfires kindled at the new moons by some before their own workshops or houses, over which some also undertake to leap according to some ancient custom, we command from the present to be abolished. Whoever therefore does any such thing, if he be a cleric, let him be deposed; and if a layman, let him be excommunicated. For it is written in the fourth book of Kingdoms: And Manasseh built an altar to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord, and made his children pass through the fire, and divined by omens, and practised augury, and made ventriloquists, and multiplied wizards, and multiplied the doing of what is evil before the Lord, so as to provoke him to anger [4 Kingdoms 21:5-6].
Τὰς ἐν ταῖς νουμηνίαις ὑπό τινων πρὸ τῶν οἰκείων ἐργαστηρίων, ἢ οἴκων ἀναπτομένας πυρκαϊάς, ἃς καὶ ὑπεράλλεσθαί τινες κατά τι ἔθος ἀρχαῖον ἐπιχειροῦσιν, ἀπὸ τοῦ παρόντος καταργηθῆναι προστάσσομεν. Ὅστις οὖν τοιοῦτόν τι πράξοι, εἰ μὲν κληρικὸς εἴη, καθαιρείσθω· εἰ δὲ λαϊκός, ἀφοριζέσθω. Γέγραπται γὰρ ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ τῶν Βασιλειῶν· Καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε Μανασσῆς θυσιαστήριον πάσῃ τῇ στρατιᾷ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ἐν ταῖς δύο αὐλαῖς οἴκου Κυρίου, καὶ διήγαγε τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ ἐν πυρί, καὶ ἐκληδονίζετο, καὶ οἰωνίζετο, καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐγγαστριμύθους, καὶ γνώστας ἐπλήθυνε, καὶ ἐπλήθυνε τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου, τοῦ παροργίσαι αὐτόν.
The Council in Trullo, the canons
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