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Sin leading to death (1 John 5:16) is a sin when those who sin it remain incorrigible. But worse than this is when they rebel against piety and truth with arrogance, preferring mammon to obedience to God and not adhering to His canonical decrees. There is no Lord God in such people if they, having humbled themselves, do not become sober from their delusion. After all, it is more appropriate for them to approach God and with a contrite heart to pray for forgiveness of this sin and for forgiveness, and not to be vain with illegal giving, because the Lord is close to the brokenhearted (Ps. 33:19). So, those who boast that they received rank in the Church for gold, and rely on this vicious custom, alienating them from God and any sacred degree, and therefore with a shameless face openly dishonor with abusive words those who are chosen by the Holy Spirit for a virtuous life and numbered among the clergy without giving gold - let those who do this first take the last degree of their rank, and if they persist, let them be corrected penance. If it turns out that someone did this during ordination, then let him be punished according to the words of the apostolic canon: “If a bishop, or presbyter, or deacon takes possession of this dignity for money, let both he and the one who ordained him be deposed; and let him be completely cut off from fellowship, like Simon by me, Peter”; and also according to the 2nd canon of our venerable fathers in Chalcedon, which says: “If any bishop performs ordination for money, he will reduce unsold grace to an object of sale and for money he will ordain a bishop, or a chorebishop, or a presbyter, or a deacon, or anyone else from the clergy, or because of his greed for money he will promote him to the steward, or ecdiki, or paramonari, or in general to any church rank, then anyone who encroaches on this after exposure will be subject to deprivation of his degree, and the one ordained by him should not use the purchased ordination or production at all, but should be alien to the dignity or position that he received for money. And if anyone is simply a mediator in such vile and lawless profit, then such a one, if he is a cleric, will be deposed from his position, and if he is a layman or monastic, he will be excommunicated.”