Canon 70 Women not to speak during the divine liturgy

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

Let it not be permitted to women to speak at the time of the divine liturgy; but according to the voice of Paul the Apostle, let them keep silence; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the law also says; and if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home.

Μὴ ἐξέστω ταῖς γυναιξὶν ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τῆς θείας λειτουργίας λαλεῖν· ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὴν φωνὴν Παύλου τοῦ Ἀποστόλου, σιγάτωσαν· οὐ γὰρ ἐπιτέτραπται αὐταῖς λαλεῖν, ἀλλ᾿ ὑποτάττεσθαι, καθὼς καὶ ὁ νόμος λέγει· εἰ δέ τι μαθεῖν θέλουσιν, ἐν οἴκῳ τοὺς ἰδίους ἄνδρας ἐπερωτάτωσαν.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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