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Let no one delude himself that he has found something, for it is not permissible for those who have been found to become selfish. Deuteronomy says: When you see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, do not abandon them, but return them to your brother; if your brother is not close to you, or you do not know him, then take them into your house, and let them be with you until your brother looks for them, and then return them to him; So do you with his donkey, so do with his clothes, so do with every lost thing of your brother, which is lost by him and which you find; You cannot avoid this; This is what Deuteronomy says (Deut. 22:1–3). In the book of Exodus, not only about the property of a brother found by someone, but also of an enemy, it is said: return and return it to the house of its master (Ex. 23: 4, 5). If it is not permissible in the world to take self-interest from a careless and luxurious person, and from a brother or enemy who does not care about one’s property, how much more from one who is in need, avoids enemies, and leaves property out of necessity. We know the prescription of the 2nd rule of the same holy father, according to which anyone who is convicted of covetousness, or who in any way seeks to appropriate for himself what is not his, to which he has no legal right, is excommunicated. This rule also condemns anyone who would appropriate for himself any thing found on the road that does not belong to him. In confirmation, the holy father cites two passages from the Old Testament. Such an act is punishable by civil laws, both old and new. For any unlawful appropriation of what does not rightfully belong to us, the Council of Antioch, by its 25th canon, sentences members of the clergy in general and bishops in particular to canonical punishment. The same subject is also discussed in the 5th, 9th and 10th rules of this holy father. You might be interested in: