Canon 67 Eating the blood of animals forbidden

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 divine Scripture has commanded us to abstain from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication. Those therefore who, for the sake of a gluttonous belly, prepare the blood of any animal whatever by some art so as to be edible, and so eat it, we fittingly censure. If anyone therefore from now on should undertake to eat the blood of an animal in any manner whatever, if he be a cleric, let him be deposed; and if a layman, let him be excommunicated.

Ἡ θεία ἡμῖν Γραφὴ ἐνετείλατο, ἀπέχεσθαι αἵματος, καὶ πνικτοῦ, καὶ πορνείας. Τοῖς οὖν διὰ τὴν λίχνον γαστέρα αἷμα οἱουδήποτε ζῴου τέχνῃ τινὶ κατασκευάζουσιν ἐδώδιμον, καὶ οὕτω τοῦτο ἐσθίουσι, προσφόρως ἐπιτιμῶμεν. Εἴ τις οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν αἷμα ζῴου ἐσθίειν ἐπιχειρήσοι οἱῳδήτινι τρόπῳ, εἰ μὲν κληρικὸς εἴη, καθαιρείσθω· εἰ δὲ λαϊκὸς ἀφοριζέσθω.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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