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Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian · St Theodota, Mother of Cosmas and Damian

Canon 67

About penance for those who taste blood (eruption for clergy, excommunication for laity).
Divine Scripture commanded us to abstain from blood, strangulation and fornication (Gen. 9:3-4; Lev. 17 and 18:13; Acts 15:28-29). Therefore, those who, for the sake of a voluptuous belly, with the help of some art, prepare the blood of any animal for food and then eat it, we punish accordingly. So, if anyone from now on begins to eat the blood of an animal in any way, if he is a cleric, he will be deposed, and if he is a layman, he will be excommunicated.
Greek original
Ἡ θεία ἡμῖν Γραφὴ ἐνετείλατο, ἀπέχεσθαι αἵματος, καὶ πνικτοῦ, καὶ πορνείας. Τοῖς οὖν διὰ τὴν λίχνον γαστέρα αἷμα οἱουδήποτε ζῴου τέχνῃ τινί 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.
Parallel canons
Ап.63Гангр.2
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