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On the prohibition of clerics from engaging in usury.
Since many of those numbered among the clergy, driven by covetousness and covetousness, forgot the Divine Scripture, which says: He did not lend his silver at interest (Ps. 14:5), and, when lending, they demand hundredths, then the holy and great Council judged: if it turns out that after this definition anyone charges interest on the loan, or otherwise arranges this matter, or demands half the increase, or generally invents anything else for the sake of shameful gain, then let him be ejected from the clergy and expelled from the rank of clerics.
Greek original
Ἐπειδὴ πολλοὶ ἐν τῷ κανόνι ἐξεταζόμενοι, τὴν πλεοναξίαν, καὶ τὴν αἰσχροκέρδειαν διώκοντες, ἐπελάθοντο τοῦ θείου γράμματος λέγοντος· Τὸ ἀργύριον αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔδωκεν ἐπὶ τόκῳ· καὶ δανείζοντες, ἑκατοστὰς ἀπαιτοῦσιν· ἐδικαίωσεν ἡ ἁγία καὶ μεγάλη σύνοδος, ὡς εἴ τις εὑρεθείη μετὰ τὸν ὅρον τοῦτον τόκους λαμβάνων, ἐκ μεταχειρίσεως, ἢ ἄλλως μετερχόμενος τὸ πρᾶγμα, ἢ ἡμιολίας ἀπαιτῶν, ἢ ὅλως ἕτερόν τι ἐπινοῶν αἰσχροῦ κέρδους ἔνεκα, καθαιρεθήσεται τοῦ κλήρου, καὶ ἀλλότριος τοῦ κανόνος ἔσται.
Parallel canons
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