DIDASCALIA. 21 to hear judgment, if it be perceived that they are respecters of persons condemning the innocent, and acquitting the guilty ; they shall not again hear another judgment, and they shall also receive the reproof of their partiality. (23) The Apostles have also decreed that those who are high-minded and lifted up in the haughtiness of pride shall not be presented for service, because of this that "he who is haughty among men is abominable before God," for it is also said, " I will repay vengeance on them that exalt ps.xxxi.23 themselves." (24) The Apostles have also decreed that the commands of the Bishop shall be upon the Elders of the Churches who are in all the villages, that he may be known to be the chief of them all, that through him they may all be judged, for Samuel also visited thus from place to place and commanded. f. 13 b (25) The Apostles have also decreed that those kings who shall become believers in the Christ ; it shall be lawful for them to go up and stand before the altar with the Ruler of the Church, because also David and those who were like him went up and stood before the altar of the Lord. (26) The Apostles have also decreed that no man shall venture to do anything with the authority of the priesthood in unrighteousness and im- propriety but in integrity without accusation of partiality. (27) The Apostles have also decreed that the bread of the Eucharist in the day in which it is cooked shall be Maid on the altar1, and not after some days, which is not lawful. Again, a little of the Canons of the Apostles, and the Fathers, by which the Church of the Christ is truly bound. To those who in everything agree with us in the Orthodox faith, and in the Apostolic laws ; the holy Bishops, the glorious Priests, the pure Deacons ; and the faithful and Christ-loving people, with the rest of all the ecclesiastical order, and the sons of the Lord ; who live, that is to say, dwell as strangers in all the various provinces, keeping (themselves) continually in the Lord, Amen... Because, therefore, O beloved, we are sons and heirs of the laws, prophetical and apostolic, those which command and warn us that continually and always we shall learn the way which is straight and good, and that we should go in it ; we have appointed to you twenty Canons, and they are these. Canon I. A man shall not take a wife, and his son her daughter. II. Nor shall a man take a girl, and his son the mother of the girl. 1 Cod. consumed as bread. '