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APOSTOLIC CANONS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 201 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APOSTOLIC CANONS , a collection of eighty-five rules for the regulation of clerical See also:

life, appended to the eighth See also:book of the See also:Apostolical Constitutions (q.v.). They are couched in brief legislative See also:form though on no definite See also:plan, and See also:deal with the vexed questions of ecclesiastical discipline as they were raised towards the end of the 4th See also:century. At least See also:half of the canons are derived from earlier constitutions, and probably not many of them are the actual productions of the compiler, whose aim was to See also:gloss over the real nature of the Constitutions, and secure their See also:incorporation with the Epistles of See also:Clement in the New Testament of his See also:day. The Codex Alexandrinus does indeed append the Clementine Epistles to its See also:text of the New Testament. The Canons may be a little later in date than the preceding Constitutions, but they are evidently from the same Syrian theological circle.

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