Правило 19
About simony in the form of acceptance into the clergy or monastery for money
The hateful love of money has spread so much among church leaders that even some of the husbands and wives who are considered reverent, having consigned the Lord’s commandment to oblivion, have become deceived and accept those entering the sacred rank and monastic life for gold, and it happens according to the word of Basil the Great: the beginning of which is worthless, and everything is unacceptable. For it is impossible to serve God and mammon (see Matt. 6:24). So, if anyone is found doing this, then, if he is a bishop, or an abbot, or someone from the priestly rank, let him either stop or be deposed, on the basis of the 2nd rule of the Holy Council of Chalcedon; if this is an abbess, let her be expelled from the monastery and given to another monastery as a subordinate, just like an abbot who does not have presbyteral ordination. And regarding the things brought, passed on by parents to children as an inheritance or constituting personal property, if the bringers declare that they are donated to God, we have determined that these things, whether the bringer stays or leaves, remain in the monastery, according to his promise, unless the abbot is guilty of leaving.
Greek original
Τοσοῦτον κατενεμήθη τῆς φιλαργυρίας τὸ μῦσος εἰς τοὺς ἡγήτορας τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν, ὥστε καί τινας τῶν λεγομένων εὐλαβῶν ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν, ἐπιλαθομένους τῆς ἐντολῆς τοῦ Κυρίου, ἐξαπατηθῆναι, καὶ διὰ χρυσίου τὰς εἰσδοχὰς τῶν προσερχομένων τῷ ἱερατικῳ τάγματι, καὶ τῷ μονήρει βίῳ, ποιεῖσθαι. Καὶ γίνεται, ὧν ἡ ἀρχὴ ἀδόκιμος, καὶ τὸ πᾶν ἀπόβλητον, ὥς φησιν ὁ μέγας Βασίλειος· Οὐδὲ γὰρ Θεῷ, καὶ μαμωνᾷ δουλεύειν ἔξεστιν. Εἴ τις οὖν εὑρεθῆ τοῦτο ποιῶν, εἰ μὲν ἐπίσκοπός ἐστιν, ἢ ἡγούμενος, ἤ τις τοῦ ἱερατικοῦ, ἢ παυσάσθω, ἢ καθαιρείσθω, κατὰ τὸν δεύτερον κανόνα τῆς ἐν Χαλκηδόνι ἁγίας συνόδου. Εἰ δὲ ἡγουμένη, ἐκδιωχθήτω τοῦ μοναστηρίου, καὶ παραδοθήτω ἐν ἑτέρῳ μοναστηρίῳ πρὸς ὑποταγήν. Ὡσαύτως καὶ ἡγούμενος, μὴ ἔχων χειροτονίαν πρεσβυτέρου. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν παρὰ γονέων παραδεδομένων δίκην προικώων τοῖς τέκνοις, ἢ ἰδιοκτήτων αὐτῶν πραγμάτων, προσαγομένων, ὁμολογούντων τῶν προσαγόντων ταῦτα εἶναι ἀφιερωμένα τῷ Θεῷ, ὡρίσαμεν, κἄν τε μείνῃ, κἄν τε ἐξέλθῃ, μένειν αὐτὰ ἐν τῷ μοναστηρίῳ, κατὰ τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν αὐτοῦ, εἰ μὴ εἴη αἰτία τοῦ προεστῶτος.
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