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Canon 96 Against dressing the hair to entice

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

Those who through baptism have put on Christ have professed to imitate his way of life in the flesh. Those therefore who arrange and dress up the hair of the head with contrivances of plaiting, to the harm of those who see them, and thereby set out a bait for unstable souls, we treat in a fatherly way with a suitable penance, training them and teaching them to live soberly, so that, leaving the deceit and vanity that come from matter, they may turn their mind continually to the imperishable and blessed life, and keep their conduct pure in fear, and draw near to God, as far as is attainable, through purity of life, and adorn the inner man rather than the outer with virtues and good and blameless ways; so as to bear in themselves no remnant of the perversity of the adversary. And if anyone lives contrary to the present canon, let him be excommunicated.

Οἱ τὸν Χριστὸν διὰ τοῦ βαπτίσματος ἐνδυσάμενοι, τὴν ἐν σαρκὶ αὐτοῦ πολιτείαν μιμεῖσθαι καθωμολόγησαν. Τοὺς οὖν τὰς ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ τρίχας πρὸς λύμην τῶν ὁρώντων ἐν ἐπινοίαις ἐμπλοκῆς εὐθετίζοντας, καὶ διασκευάζοντας, καὶ δέλεαρ προτιθέντας ἐντεῦθεν ταῖς ἀστηρίκτοις ψυχαῖς, ἐπιτιμίῳ προσφόρῳ πατρικῶς θεραπεύομεν, παιδαγωγοῦντες αὐτούς, καὶ σωφρόνως βιοῦν ἐκδιδάσκοντες, πρὸς τὸ ἀφέντας τὴν ἐκ τῆς ὕλης ἀπάτην καὶ ματαιότητα, πρὸς τὴν ἀνώλεθρον καὶ μακαρίαν ζωὴν τὸν νοῦν μετάγειν διηνεκῶς, καὶ ἐν φόβῳ ἁγνὴν ἔχειν ἀναστροφήν, καὶ Θεῷ πλησιάζειν, κατὰ τὸ ἐφικτόν, διὰ τῆς ἐν βίῳ καθάρσεως, καὶ τὸν ἔνδον, ἢ τὸν ἔξω ἄνθρωπον μᾶλλον κοσμεῖν ἀρεταῖς καὶ χρηστοῖς καὶ ἀμώμοις τοῖς ἤθεσιν· ὥστε μηδὲν λείψανον φέρειν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς τῆς τοῦ ἐναντίου σκαιότητος. Εἰ δέ τις παρὰ τὸν παρόντα κανόνα διαγίνοιτο, ἀφοριζέσθω.

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