Canon XIII.
Country
presbyters may not make
the oblation in the church of the city when the bishop or presbyters of
the city are present; nor may they give the Bread or the Cup with
prayer. If, however, they be absent, and he [
i.e
., a
country presbyter] alone be called to prayer, he may give them.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canons XIII. and
XIV.
A country presbyter shall not offer in the city temple,
unless the bishop and the whole body of the presbyters are away.
But if wanted he can do so while they are away. The chorepiscopi
can offer as fellow ministers, as they hold the place of the
Seventy.
Routh reads the last clause in the plural, in this
agreeing with Dionysius Exiguus and Isidore. In many
mss.
this canon is united with the following and the whole
number given as 14.
This canon is found in the
Corpus Juris Canonici
,
Pars I., Dist. xcv., c. xii. And the Roman correctors have added
the following notes.
Roman Correctors.
(Gratian
ut supra
.)
“Nor to give the sacrificed bread and to hand the
chalice;” otherwise it is read “sanctified”
[
sanctificatum
for
sacrificatum
]. The Greek of the
council is
ἄρτον
διδόναι ἐν
εὐχῇ
; but Balsamon has
ἄρτον
εὐχῆς
, that is, “the bread of
the mystic prayer.”
Instead of “let them only who are called for
giving the prayer, etc.,” read
καὶ εἰς
εὐχὴν κληθῇ
μόνος
δίδωσιν
, that is:
“and only he that shall have been called to the mystic prayer,
shall distribute.”