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Greatmartyr and Healer Panteleimon

Правило 61

About a 6-year penance for those turning to fortune-tellers, sorcerers, and talisman makers.
Those who turn to soothsayers, or the so-called leaders of hundreds and the like, so that they reveal to them everything they want to know about, are subject to 6 years of penance according to the recent definitions of the fathers about them. Those who lead she-bears or similar animals to the amusement and harm of the common people and in their seductive empty speeches proclaim happiness, fate, genealogy and many similar things, as well as the so-called cloud-catchers, sorcerers, phylacters and soothsayers, should be subjected to the same penance. Those who persist in this and do not correct themselves and do not avoid these harmful pagan practices are determined to be completely thrown out of the Church, as the sacred rules command. For what does light have in common with darkness? - as the apostle says. Or what is the relationship between the temple of God and idols? Or what is the complicity of the faithful with the infidel? What agreement is there between Christ and Belial? (2 Cor 6:14–16).
Greek original
Οἱ μάντεσιν ἑαυτοὺς ἐκδιδόντες, ἢ τοῖς λεγομένοις ἑκατοντάρχοις, ἤ τισι τοιούτοις, ὡς ἂν παρ᾿ ἐκείνων μάθοιεν ὅ,τι ἂν αὐτοῖς ἐκκαλύπτεσθαι βούλοιντο, κατὰ τὰ πρῴην ὑπὸ τῶν Πατέρων περὶ αὐτῶν ὁρισθέντα, ὑπὸ τὸν κανόνα πιπτέτωσαν τῆς ἑξαετίας. Τῷ αὐτῷ δὲ τούτῳ ἐπιτιμίῳ καθυποβάλλεσθαι δεῖ, καὶ τοὺς ἄρκτους ἐπισυρομένους, ἢ τοιαῦτα ζῷα, πρὸς παίγνιον καὶ βλάβην τῶν ἁπλούστερων, καὶ τύχην, καὶ εἱμαρμένην, καὶ γενεαλογίαν, καὶ τοιούτων τινῶν ῥημάτων ὄχλον, κατὰ τοὺς τῆς πλάνης λήρους φωνοῦντας, τούς τε λεγομένους νεφοδιώκτας, καὶ γητευτάς, καὶ φυλακτηρίους, καὶ μάντεις. Ἐπιμένοντας δὲ τούτοις, καὶ μὴ μετατιθεμένους, καὶ ἀποφεύγοντας τὰ ὀλέθρια ταῦτα καὶ ἑλληνικὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα, παντάπασιν ἀποῤῥίπτεσθαι τῆς ἐκκλησίας ὁρίζομεν, καθώς καὶ οἱ ἱεροὶ κανόνες διαγορεύουσι. Τίς γὰρ κοινωνία φωτὶ πρὸς σκότος; ὥς φησιν ὁ Ἀπόστολος, ἢ τίς συγκατάθεσις ναῷ Θεοῦ μετὰ εἰδώλων; ἢ τίς μερὶς πιστῷ μετὰ ἀπίστου; τίς δὲ συμφώνησις Χριστῷ πρὸς Βελίαρ.
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