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Canonical Epistle

Gregory Thaumaturgus

Canon 9

About this work

A pastoral letter addressing moral and disciplinary problems that arose during invasion and social breakdown, including captivity, theft, violence, and the restoration of offenders within Christian communities.

Author: Gregory Thaumaturgus
Date: c. AD 258–262
Origin: Pontus
Genre: Canon Law

Canon IX.

Now, those who have found in the open

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field

or

in

their

own

houses

anything

left

behind

them

by

the

barbarians

,

if

they

have

once

been

put

on

their

trial

and

convicted

,

ought

to

fall

under

the

same

class

of

the

repentant

.

But

if

they

have

declared

themselves

and

made

restitution

,

they

ought

to

be

deemed

fit

for

the

privilege

of

prayer

.

Notes

2
[Partially elucidated below in (the spurious) Canon XI. See Marshall’s Penitential Discipline of the Primitive Church.]