22 DIDASCALIA. III. Nor a man and his son two sisters, or two daughters of a paternal uncle. IV. Nor two brothers a woman and her daughter. V. Also a man shall not take a woman, and give his daughter to her son. f. 14 a VI. Nor a man a woman, and give his daughter to her brother. VII. Nor a man a woman, and give his daughter to her father. VIII. Nor shall a man take the sister of his wife nor the daughter of his sister. IX. Nor a man the wife of the brother of his wife. X. Nor the wife of a brother or the wife of his son. XI. Nor (is) a man bound to the wife of his paternal uncle. XII. Nor is the wife of a mother's brother lawful. XIII. Nor let a man take the daughter of the brother of his wife. XIV. Nor let a man take his godmother from among men for three generations. XV. Nor the brothers of that one for two generations. XVI. Nor let a man take a (fellow-) sponsor of baptism, nor a man who is related to him in race for five generations. XVII. Nor let an Elder baptize his son according to the flesh, unless a reason of death should happen to that child and there be no stranger Elder to baptize him. XVIII. Nor let a man confirm the espousals of a woman except before the Elders and Deacons, and before free persons who are worthy to be believed. XIX. And he who espouses a spouse let him not do violence to the girl, and let him not see her face until he has fulfilled to her all (things) that are obligatory to the order of Christians, and let the girl enter his house. XX. It is not lawful for a Christian to give a woman to any kind of marriage with a Nestorian or with a people out of our fold, nor to a heretic, nor to those who are strange to us in faith. These things we have determined thus and appointed to you as to sons and obedient people ; as therefore ye keep them and walk in them, attend also to the Canons spoken by the Spirit ; by them ye shall be kept, in this world ye shall be blest, and in that which is to come ye shall be saved to the kingdom of our Lord and ye shall have rest, pleasing Him by good works.