Canon
XI.
Let
no one in the priestly order
nor any layman eat the unleavened bread of the Jews, nor have any
familiar intercourse with them, nor summon them in illness, nor receive
medicines from them, nor bathe with them; but if anyone shall take in
hand to do so, if he is a cleric, let him be deposed, but if a layman
let him be cut off.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon XI.
Jewish unleavened bread is to be refused. Whoever
even calls in Jews as physicians or bathes with them is to be
deposed.
Van Espen.
Theodore Balsamon is of opinion that this canon does not
forbid the eating of unleavened bread; but that what is intended is the
keeping of feasts in a Jewish fashion, or in sacrifices to use
unleavened bread (
azymes
), and this, says Balsamon, on account
of the Latins who celebrate their feasts with azymes.
Canon lxix. [i.e., lxx.] of those commonly called
Apostolic forbids the observance of festivals with the Jews; and
declares it to be unlawful to receive manuscula from them, but by this
canon all familiar intercourse with them is forbidden.
While there can be no doubt that in all the Trullan
canons there is an undercurrent of hostility to the West, yet in this
canon I can see no such spirit, and I think it has been read into it by
the greater bitterness of later times. This seems the more
certain from the fact that there is nothing new whatever in the
provision with respect to the passover bread,
vide
canons of
Laodicea xxxvij. and xxxviij.
This canon is found in the
Corpus Juris Canonici
,
Gratian’s
Decretum
, Pars II., Causa xxviij., can.
xiii.
359
359
Van Espen says that
in his copy of Gratian this canon is assigned to the VII
th
Synod. Such is not the case in the edition in Migne’s
Patrologia Latina
, where the reference is given as
ex VI.
Synodo. c. II.,
and
Judæorum
is found in the text
instead of the
eorum
of which Van Espen complains.