Canon XIII.
Strange
and unknown clergymen
without letters commendatory from their own Bishop, are absolutely
prohibited from officiating in another city.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon
XIII.
No cleric shall be received to communion in another city
without a letter commendatory.
“Unknown clergymen.” I have here
followed the reading of the Greek commentators. But the
translators of the
Prisca
, and Dionysius, and Isidore must have
all read
ἀναγνώστας
(i.e., Readers) instead of
ἀγνώστους
.
Justellus, Hervetus, and Beveridge, as also Johnson and Hammond, follow
the reading of the text. Hefele suggests that if
“Readers” is the correct reading perhaps it means,
“all clergymen even readers.”