Правило 6 Феофила Александрийского
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Ο Jacob must be examined. If he, being a reader, was found guilty of the crime of fornication and was expelled from the elders, and then accepted ordination: then let him be expelled according to his degree, however, after a thorough examination, and not based on a single suspicion resulting from slander and slander. If he does not find himself guilty, let him remain in the clergy. For one should not listen to vain complaints.
(Ap. 25, 61; I Universe. 2, 9, 10; Neoces. 9, 10; Dvukr. 17; Basil the Great. 69, 70, 89; Timothy Alex. 3, 5).
Just as in his 3rd rule, Theophilus prescribes that before condemning a cleric, a complaint against him must be investigated, so in this rule, he prescribes that a complaint filed against a certain reader James, for which he was removed from service, and then again elevated to the highest rank, must be investigated. If the crime is proven, then in this case Jacob is subject to deprivation of his rank, and vice versa, if he was only slandered and his innocence is proven, then let him remain in the clergy.
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