Правило 42
About going around the city under the guise of desert monks (accepted into a monastery or expelled).
Regarding the so-called hermits, who, putting on black clothes and letting their hair grow, go around the cities, move among worldly people and dishonor their vow, we determine: if they want to take the monastic image (σχήμα) after cutting their hair, following the example of other monks, then place them in a monastery and count them among the brethren. If they do not want this, then completely expel them from the cities, and let them live in the deserts, after the name of which they came up with a nickname for themselves.
Greek original
Τοὺς λεγομένους ἐρημίτας, οἵτινες μελανειμονοῦντες, καὶ τὰς κεφαλὰς κομῶντες περιάγουσι τὰς πόλεις, μεταξὺ ἀνδρῶν λαϊκῶν, καὶ γυναικῶν ἀναστρεφόμενοι, καὶ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἐπάγγελμα καθυβρίζοντες, ὁρίζομεν, εἰ μὲν αἱροῦνται, τὰς κόμας ἀποκειράμενοι, τὸ τῶν λοιπῶν μοναχῶν ἀναδέξασθαι σχῆμα, τούτους ἐν μοναστηρίῳ ἐγκαθίστασθαι, καὶ τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς ἐγκαταλέγεσθαι. Εἰ δὲ μὴ τοῦτο προέλοιντο, παντάπασιν αὐτοὺς τῶν πόλεων ἀπελαύνεσθαι, καὶ τὰς ἐρήμους οἰκεῖν, ἐξ ὧν καὶ τὰς ἐπωνυμίας ἑαυτοῖς ἀνεπλάσαντο.
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