The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossaryIllustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents . , that second marriages were considered a disgrace and areproach. At the council of Nice, held A. D. 325, it is related by Socrates,the ecclesiastical historian, that a rule was proposed, requiring allclergymen who had married before their ordination, to withdrawfrom their wives, or cease
The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossaryIllustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents . , that second marriages were considered a disgrace and areproach. At the council of Nice, held A. D. 325, it is related by Socrates,the ecclesiastical historian, that a rule was proposed, requiring allclergymen who had married before their ordination, to withdrawfrom their wives, or cease to cohabit with them ; and the color ofthe account leads us to suppose that this regulation, which, inrespect to the church universal, was called a new law, althoughnot new to several of the churches, was near to have been carried,and probably would have been, had not the good sense and rightfeeling of one of the bishops present defeated the fanaticism of theothers. Paphnutius, a bishop of the Thebais, a confessor, havinglost an eye in the late persecution, and himself an ascetic, rose, and • Can. ApOSt. 17 : O X^P0 ^a0>v, »> iK0cff),riiilvi)v, >j Iratpav, fi oUirtv, 1) tiov siri *f,oi Ivvarai ehai intOKOKOS 5) irpcvflvTCpos, 5) SkIkovo;, 5) iAwj, rou Kara\6yov tov Crowning of Nuns upon taking their vow.
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