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Works & Councils of Toledo 35

Latin original · 20 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

← ch. 34ch. 36 →
35:1
Imperator Justinianus Augustus Epiphanio regiae hujus urbis archiepiscopo, et universi ejus tractus patriarchae. Communi quidem ac generali lege jam pridem tam beatitudinem, o patriarcha, tuam, quam reliquos sanctissimos patriarchas de ordinatione sanctissimorum episcoporum, et reverendissimorum clericorum, nequc non mulierum, et diaconorum, et ne ordinatorum numerus veterem modum excederet, conscripta disposuimus quaecunque nobis honesta, et decora, sacrisque regulis conformia esse videbantur. Prætem vero legem specialiter ad beatitudinem tuam scribimus, digerentes item in ordinem ea quae ad numerum reverendissimorum clericorum in hac urbe pertinent.
The Emperor Justinian Augustus to Epiphanius, archbishop of this royal city, and patriarch of its entire district. By a common and general law we have already long since prescribed, both for your Beatitude, O patriarch, and for the rest of the most holy patriarchs, concerning the ordination of the most holy bishops and most reverend clerics, and likewise of women, and of deacons, and lest the number of those ordained should exceed the ancient measure, having set down in writing whatsoever things seemed to us honourable and seemly and conformable to the sacred canons. But the present law we write specially to your Beatitude, arranging likewise in order those matters which pertain to the number of the most reverend clerics in this city.
皇帝查士丁尼奧古斯都致這王都的大主教、其全境的宗主教伊皮法尼烏斯。宗主教啊，關於至聖主教與至可敬聖品人、並婦女、執事的按立，以及為使受按立者的數目不超過古制，我們早已以一條普遍通行的法律，為你的聖德並其餘至聖的眾宗主教作了規定，把凡我們看為正當、合宜、並合乎聖規的事一一記錄頒佈。但這現行的法律，我們是專為你的聖德而寫，同樣按次序整理那關涉本城至可敬聖品人數目的事項。
35:2
Ac cum nihil pene eorum quae honesta et pulchra sunt, si modum egrediantur, deceat, ne reverendissimos quidem clericos aut reverendissimas diaconissas tot ordinari conveniat, ut illis alendis sacrosancta major ecclesia in necessitatem magni æris alieni incidat, et ad extremam paulatim inopiam deferatur. Siquidem compertum habemus sacrosanctam hujus regiae urbis majorem ecclesiam nostri imperii matrem, per hanc occasionem tam magno alieno aere inquietari, ut singulatim erogationes in reverendissimos clericos aliter facere nequeat, nisi prius immensam auri vim partim sub obligatione hypotecharum, partim datione pignorum in præstantissimis cjus pradiis et suburbiis mutuo desumat.
And since scarcely any of those things which are honourable and beautiful is becoming if they exceed measure, it is not fitting that even the most reverend clerics or the most reverend deaconesses be ordained in such numbers that, in maintaining them, the holy great church should fall into the necessity of great debt and be brought little by little to extreme want. Inasmuch as we have ascertained that the most holy great church of this royal city, the mother of our empire, is on this account disquieted by so great a debt, that it cannot make its individual disbursements to the most reverend clerics otherwise than by first borrowing an immense quantity of gold, partly under the obligation of mortgages, partly by the giving of pledges upon its most excellent estates and suburban properties.
既然凡正當美好之事，若超出分寸，便幾乎無一是合宜的，那麼即便是至可敬的聖品人或至可敬的女執事，也不該按立過多，以致供養他們竟使這聖潔的大教會陷入鉅債之必需，並漸漸被帶到極度的貧乏。因為我們已查明：這王都的至聖大教會、我們帝國之母，正因此故被如此鉅債所困擾，以致它若不先以抵押為約、以質押其最優美的田產與郊外產業，借取龐大的金額，便無法逐一向至可敬的聖品人發放給養。
35:3
Ea propter visum nobis est, ipsos nos ad causæ inquisitionem demittere, ac perdiscere, quo se modo initio habuerit, quidve postea temporum series adinvenerit. Ex omni igitur parte ea pervestigantes, deprehendimus eos qui sacrosannctam aliquam ecclesiam in hac alma urbe exædificarunt, non solum curam ædificii egisse. sed etiam ut sacris aedibus, quas ipsi instituissent, sufficiens erogatio suppeteret, utque definirent quot per singulas versari ecclesias presbyteros conveniret, quot diaconos vel mares vel feminas, quot subdiaconos, et item cantores simul et lectores, et ostiarios; ad hæc ædis sumptum determinasse, adjecisse praeterea peculiares reditus, qui instituto huic suo satis essent;
For this reason it seemed good to us to commit ourselves to the investigation of the matter, and to learn thoroughly how it had its beginning, and what the course of later times had introduced. Investigating these things therefore from every side, we discovered that those who built up any holy church in this fostering city took care not only of the building, but also that for the sacred edifices which they themselves had founded a sufficient maintenance should be supplied, and that they should define how many presbyters it was fitting to serve in each several church, how many deacons, whether male or female, how many subdeacons, and likewise cantors together with lectors and doorkeepers; that, beyond this, they determined the expense of the building, and moreover added special revenues which should suffice for this their foundation;
為此我們以為當親自著手調查此事，徹底查明它起初的情形，以及後來的時勢又增添了甚麼。我們既從各方面詳加考察，便發現：凡在這蒙眷顧之城建造任何聖教會的人，不僅顧到建築，也顧到使他們所設立的聖所有充足的給養可供，並規定每一教會中應有多少長老服事，多少男女執事，多少副執事，並歌唱者、誦經者與守門者；此外又限定建築的費用，更附加專項的收入，足供他們這設立之用；
35:4
neque multitudinem aliquam adjectam, cui exinde competens solutio fieri non posset. Atque hæc sane in ea observatione longo temporis spatio permansisse, et quandio manserunt, tandiu et sibi deputatis sacrosanctarum ecclesiarum res suffecisse.
and that they added no multitude beyond what a fitting payment could be made for thereafter. And these things indeed remained in that observance for a long space of time, and as long as they remained, so long did the resources of the holy churches suffice both for them and for those assigned to them.
並且不增添任何過多的人員，以致此後無法為他們作出相稱的供給。這些事確實在那種規制下維持了很長的時日；只要它們得以維持，聖教會的財力便始終足供它們自身與所分派的人員之用。
35:5
Simul ac vero Dei amantissimi episcopi assiduis nonnullorum precibus intenti, ad plures ordinandos effusi sunt, excrevisse quidem sumptus quantitatem in immensum, undique vero creditores et usuras, ac postremo ob vacillantem jam tidem ne creditores qnidem de cætero, sed (indignum factu, et neque in privata familia utcunque instituta ferendum) necessitate extortas et legibus prohibitas alienationes extitisse, ut ex hujusmodi absurditate neque praedia neque suburbia ad hypothecas et pignora sufficerent, eamque ob causam neque creditorum copia esset, et ad summam ipsa inopiam deveniret, neque ipsis amplius ministris alimenta praebere posset, imo etiam ad conditionem omnium calamitosissimam delaberetur, ut creditoribus bonis universis cederet, id quod etiam veremur dicere, et ne in posterum flat, providemus.
But as soon as the bishops, most loving of God, intent upon the assiduous entreaties of certain persons, were carried away to ordaining a greater number, the quantity of expenses indeed grew without measure, and on every side there were creditors and interest, and at last, because their credit was now shaken, there were no longer even creditors; but (a thing unworthy to be done, and not to be borne even in a private household however ordered) there arose alienations extorted by necessity and forbidden by the laws, so that out of an absurdity of this kind neither estates nor suburban properties sufficed for mortgages and pledges, and on this account there was no abundance of creditors, and it came at last to want itself, nor could it any longer furnish sustenance to its own ministers, nay rather it was sliding down into the most calamitous condition of all, namely that it should yield up all its goods to its creditors,—which thing we even dread to speak, and we make provision lest it come to pass hereafter.
但這些至愛神的主教們，一旦因某些人不住的懇求而被打動，便縱情於按立更多的人，於是開支的數額便無度地增長，四面盡是債主與利息；最後，因其信用已動搖，連債主也不再有了；卻（這是不該作的事，即便在治理良好的私家中也是不能容忍的）出現了被需要所逼、為律法所禁的變賣財產之事，以致因這等荒謬，田產與郊外產業都不足以作抵押與質押，因此既無充足的債主可借，終至陷於貧乏本身，再也不能供養自己的聖役人員，反倒滑向一切境況中最為慘烈的地步，就是要把一切財物盡讓與債主——這事我們連說出都心存畏懼，並要設法防備，免得日後成真。
35:6
Nam si nemo facile eum, qui ultra subsiantiæ suæ modum sumplus faciat, æquo animo ferat, quare non et nos ea ad sollicitudinem nostram revocabimus? Præterea si non oportet undique ad sumptus possessionos conquirere (nam id insatiabili cuidam avaritiæ simul et impietatati proxiinum est), sed ex moderatis facultatibus sumptum temperare, ea propter convenienter et quae ista concernunt, lege includemus, et inGnitatem manifeste ei rei medicina adhibita ejiciemus. Sancimus igitur, ut reverendissimi clerici, et ministrantes mulieres, et ostiarii, qui ad hunc usque diem in eadem sacrosancta majore ecclesia cæterisque sacris aedibus consistunt, in ea forma, in qua jam sunt permaneant.
For if no one easily bears with equanimity the man who spends beyond the measure of his substance, why shall we not also recall these matters to our own solicitude? Moreover, if it is not right to seek out possessions for expenses from every quarter (for that is next door to a certain insatiable avarice together with impiety), but rather to temper one's expense out of moderate means, for this reason we shall fittingly include by law also the things that concern this, and, applying a remedy, we shall manifestly cast out the boundlessness from that matter. We sanction therefore that the most reverend clerics, and the ministering women, and the doorkeepers, who up to this day exist in the same holy great church and in the other sacred edifices, shall remain in that form in which they now are.
因為若無人能心平氣和地容忍那入不敷出、揮霍逾越其產業之人，我們又為何不把這些事召回我們自己的關切之中呢？再者，若不該從各處搜羅產業以供開支（因那近乎某種貪得無厭的貪婪兼不敬），而當以適度的資財來節制開支，為此我們便當以律法相宜地把關涉此事的規定一併納入，並施以對策，明白地把那無度從此事中驅逐出去。所以我們規定：凡至今仍在這同一聖潔大教會與其餘聖所中的至可敬聖品人、供職的婦女與守門者，都當按其現今的形制繼續存留。
35:7
Neque enim quod modo est, minuimus, sed potius ista lege complectimur, ut futuro prospiciamus. Reliquo vero tempore nulla omnino ordinatio fiet, donec ad veterem numerum ab ipsis sanctae ecclesiae ædificatoribus institutum reverendissimorum clericorum quantitas revertatur. Et sane reverendissimorum clericorum sacrosanctæ majoris ecclesiæ regiæ urbis nostrae mensura certis finibus descripta, et in arctum admodum contracta erat, quo tempore sola adbuc erat sacrosancta major ecclesia.
For we do not diminish what now is, but rather embrace it by this law, that we may provide for the future. But in the time remaining no ordination at all shall take place, until the quantity of the most reverend clerics returns to the ancient number instituted by the very builders of the holy church. And indeed the measure of the most reverend clerics of the most holy great church of our royal city had been described within fixed limits, and contracted within very narrow bounds, at that time when there was as yet only the one holy great church.
因為我們並非削減現有的，乃是藉這律法予以保全，好為將來作預備。但在其餘的時日，全然不可有任何按立，直到至可敬聖品人的數目回復到聖教會建造者本身所設立的古制之數。誠然，當其時只有這一座聖潔大教會之際，我們王都至聖大教會的至可敬聖品人數目，原是限定於固定的界限之內，並被收束於極狹的範圍之中。
35:8
Postquam vcro et veneranda domus sancta et gloriosae virginis Deique genitricis Marine in vicinia sacrosanctæ majoris ecclesiae posita, ab ipsa piæ memoriæ Verina coepit exstrui, item religiosa domus sancti martyris Theodori a Sphracio gluriosæ memoriae consecrata, et venerapda domus sanctæ Irenes sacrosanctæ majori ecclesiæ copulata fuit, redigere plane numerum ad veterem formam impossible est. Neque enim tot simul ecclesiis paqci quidem sufficere possint, quandoquidem nulla barum triam ædium peculiares c!ericos habeat, sed pro communibus utatur iis qui ad sacrosanctam majorem ecdesiam pertinent, qui omnes eas ordine et veluti i.
But after the venerable holy house also of the glorious Virgin and Mother of God Mary, set in the neighbourhood of the holy great church, began to be built by Verina of pious memory; likewise the religious house of the holy martyr Theodore, consecrated by Sphoracius of glorious memory; and the venerable house of holy Irene was joined to the holy great church,—it is plainly impossible to reduce the number to the ancient form. For so few could not suffice for so many churches at once, seeing that none of these three edifices has its own clerics, but uses in common those who pertain to the holy great church, who all, going round them in order and as it were in turn,
但自從那榮耀的童女、神之母瑪利亞的可敬聖所——座落於聖潔大教會近鄰——由虔誠紀念的維里娜開始建造，又有榮耀紀念的斯弗拉奇烏斯所祝聖的聖殉道者狄奧多若的虔修之所，以及那可敬的聖伊琳娜之所與聖潔大教會相聯之後，要把人數縮減回古制乃是顯然不可能的。因為這麼少的人實在無法同時供應這麼多教會，何況這三座聖所中沒有一座有自己的聖品人，乃是共用那屬於聖潔大教會的人員，這些人都按次序、彷彿輪流地巡行這些聖所，
35:9
erbem obeuntes, sacra in eis officia concelebrant, prxsertim vero ingenti multitudine ex hæreticorum conciliabulis ad sacrosanctam majorem ecclesiam, partim gratia beatissimi Dei et servatoris nostri Jesu Christi, partim laboribus depulsionibusque nostris adducta, ut duplo plura, quam ab initio, ministera ad christianæ pietatis officium peragendum deptatri oporteat. Quapropter sancimus ne quando in sacrosancta majore ecclesia ultra LX presbyteros, diaronos vero mares centum, feminas XL, et subdiaconos xc, lectores autem ultra cx, cantores ultra XXV, eiistant, ut universus reverendissi morum clericorum majoris numerus iri CCCCIXV personis, et centum præterea ostiariis (ut vocant) consistat.
perform the sacred offices in them; especially since a vast multitude has been brought from the conventicles of the heretics to the holy great church, partly by the grace of our most blessed God and Saviour Jesus Christ, partly by our labours and expulsions, so that twice as many ministers as at the beginning ought to be appointed for performing the office of Christian piety. Wherefore we sanction that at no time shall there exist in the holy great church more than sixty presbyters, a hundred male deacons, forty female ones, ninety subdeacons, lectors however beyond a hundred and ten, cantors beyond twenty-five, so that the whole greater number of the most reverend clerics shall consist of four hundred and twenty-five persons, and besides a hundred doorkeepers (as they are called).
在其中舉行聖職；尤其因為有極大的群眾，部分藉著我們至有福的神、救主耶穌基督的恩典，部分藉著我們的努力與驅逐，已從異端的會所被帶到聖潔大教會，以致為履行基督信仰虔敬的職事，所當設立的聖役人員竟須兩倍於起初之數。為此我們規定：聖潔大教會中無論何時都不得超過六十名長老、男執事一百名、女執事四十名、副執事九十名、誦經者不超過一百一十名、歌唱者不超過二十五名，使至可敬聖品人的總數定於四百二十五人，此外加上守門者一百名（如人所稱）。
35:10
In sanctissima igitur majore almae hujus urbis nostrae ecclesia. tt tribus Uti! sacris aedibus ei coadunatis, tanta clericorum multitudo esto, nemi ne eorum, qui nunc sunt, ejiciendo, tametsi multo major numerus existat, quam a nobis definitus est; nemine item de caetero per ullum ordinem, qui hoc tempore est, adjiciendo, done: intra hunc numerum mensura consistat. Illo etiam ad.
In the most holy great church therefore of this our fostering city, together with the three sacred edifices united to it, let there be so great a multitude of clerics, none of those who now exist being cast out, even though a far greater number exist than has been defined by us; nor likewise henceforth any one being added through any order which exists at this time, until the measure settle within this number. With this also being added,
所以，在我們這蒙眷顧之城的至聖大教會，連同與它相聯合的三座聖所中，當有這許多的聖品人，現今存在的人一個也不可逐出，縱然其數遠多於我們所限定的；同樣，此後也不可藉現今所有的任何品級增添一人，直到其數量收束於此定額之內。此外又附加一條，
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jiciendo, ne quod hactenus indecore fieri consucrit, deinceps in usu habeatur ut reverendissimorum clericorum nonnulli in sanctissimis ecclesiis, in quas vel hic, vel per provincias ordinati sunt, manere drdignentur, ac per patrocinia in sacrosanctam majoren ecclesiam ejusque clerum subeant, quod omnibus modis in posterum fieri prohibemus. Nam si in sacris monasteris prohibemus, pe quis de uno ad aliud transeat, multo minus id reverendissimis clericis permittemus, rati hujusmodi cupiditatem speciem prx se ferre quæstus et nundinationis. Cæterum si quando et hoc transitionis genus vel beatitudini tuæ, vel pro tempore majestati imperatoriæ probabitur:
namely that what has hitherto been wont to be done unbecomingly should not henceforth be retained in use: that some of the most reverend clerics disdain to remain in the most holy churches in which, whether here or throughout the provinces, they were ordained, and through patronage make their way into the holy great church and its clergy,—which we forbid by all means to be done in future. For if in the sacred monasteries we forbid that any one pass from one to another, much less shall we permit this to the most reverend clerics, reckoning that a covetousness of this kind bears before it the appearance of gain and of trafficking. But if at any time even this kind of transfer shall be approved either by your Beatitude or for the time being by the imperial majesty:
就是說，凡至今慣常不合宜地行的事，此後不可再沿用：即某些至可敬的聖品人，竟不屑留在那些他們無論在此地或各省受按立的至聖教會中，反藉著庇護而擠進聖潔大教會及其聖品班——這事我們無論如何都禁止日後再行。因為若在聖潔的隱修院中我們禁止任何人從一處轉到另一處，那麼對至可敬的聖品人就更不容許此事，深知這等貪欲乃帶著營利與買賣的形跡。然而倘若有時連這種調轉也蒙你的聖德、或當時的皇帝陛下所核准：
35:12
ne aliter id flat, nisi prius res ipsa ad numerum, quem prædiximus, redigatur, ut ea transitio in deficientis locum fiat, neque supernumerarius omnino a!quis irrepat; nulla enim id machinatione neque ullo modo fieri permittimus. Atque hæc quidem de sacrosancta majore ecclesia. In omnibus autem aliis ecclesiis, quibus expensas sacrosancta major ecclesia suppeditat, saucimus, ut qui hoc tempore sunt, consimiliter et ipsi sub eadem forma maneant; in posterum vero nemo ordinemur, priusquam ad statutum cujusque ecclesiae (ut vocant) quod per ædificatores harum ab initio determinatum est, presbyterorum simul et diaconorum, tam marium, quam feminarum, et subdia.
let it not be done otherwise than that the matter itself be first reduced to the number which we have aforesaid, so that that transfer may be made into the place of one who is lacking, and that no supernumerary at all creep in; for by no contrivance and in no way do we permit this to be done. And these things indeed concerning the holy great church. But in all the other churches, to which the holy great church supplies the expenses, we sanction that those who exist at this time should likewise themselves remain under the same form; but in future let no one be ordained, before the number be reduced to that appointed for each church (as they call it), which was determined from the beginning by their builders, of presbyters together with deacons, both male and female, and of subdeacons,
也不得以別樣方式行之，必先把此事本身縮減至我們前述之數，使那調轉得以補入空缺之位，而絕不容任何超額者潛入；因為我們無論藉何等詭計、以何等方式，都不容許此事。這些就是關於聖潔大教會的規定。但在其餘一切由聖潔大教會供應開支的教會中，我們規定：現今所有的人同樣當在同一形制下存留；至於日後，在每一教會（如人所稱）的定額——即其建造者起初所定長老連同男女執事、副執事、
35:13
conorum, neque non lectorum, cantorum, et ostiariorum numerus redigatur, neque quisquam interea temporis atljiciatur. Nam et ipsi nos præcavebimus, ne quid ejusmodi faciamus. ordinatumve aliquos mittamus, neque magistratuum nostrorum aliquis tale quid faciet, reveritus legem nostram, et beatissimus archiepiscopus et patriarcha hujus regiæ urbis petestatem habebit ordinationi contradicere, licet de palatio jussio procedat. Nam et qui præcipit, et cui praecipitur, uterque sub censura erit ecclesiastica, si quid tale peregerit.
and likewise of lectors, cantors, and doorkeepers,—before that number be reduced, let no one be added in the meantime. For we ourselves also will take precaution that we do nothing of the kind, nor send any to be ordained, neither shall any of our magistrates do any such thing, out of reverence for our law; and the most blessed archbishop and patriarch of this royal city shall have the power to gainsay the ordination, even though a command proceed from the palace. For both he who commands and he to whom the command is given, each shall be under ecclesiastical censure, if he carry out any such thing.
並誦經者、歌唱者與守門者之數——在那數目縮減之前，這期間不可增添一人。因為我們自己也要謹慎，免得作出任何此類之事，也不差派任何人去受按立；我們的官長也不可作出任何此類之事，乃要敬畏我們的律法；這王都至有福的大主教兼宗主教，必有權柄反對那按立，即便有命令出自皇宮。因為那發令者與那受令者，兩者若行了任何此類之事，都當受教會的責罰。
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Sed neque in aliis ecclesiis, quae alimenta et sumptus ex sacrosaucta majore ecclesia non habent, conveniens est ut ordinandorum in ipsis multitudo intromittatur, aut mensura initio in illis statuta de caetero transcendatur, ne quando qui sacra in illis obeunt, ad immensam multitudinem delapsi, interque se reditus ex piorum hominum collatione quæsitos patientes, nec illos exinde suae mensuræ sufficere videntes, in magnam animi augustiam incidant.
But neither in the other churches, which do not have their sustenance and expenses from the holy great church, is it fitting that a multitude of those to be ordained should be brought in, or that the measure established in them from the beginning should henceforth be transcended; lest at any time those who perform the sacred rites in them, having fallen into an immense multitude, and dividing among themselves the revenues sought from the contribution of pious men, and seeing that these do not thence suffice for their measure, should fall into great anguish of soul.
但在其餘那些並不從聖潔大教會領取給養與開支的教會中，同樣不宜引入大批待按立之人，也不宜把那起初在其中所立的定額此後加以逾越；免得有時那在其中執行聖禮的人，落入無度的群眾之中，彼此瓜分那從敬虔之人捐獻所得的收入，見其不足以供自己的份額，便陷於心靈的極大愁苦。
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Si vero ultra mensuram in sacrosancta majore ecclesia aut aliis ecclesiisstatutam sanctissimus arcbiepiscopus, qui sacrosanctæ majori ecclesiæ praeest, ordinaverit, Deique amantissimi ejusdem sacrosancte ecclesiæ oeconomi sumptum ad haec de redilibus ecclesiasticis expenderint, tam ipsi quam etiam bealissimus patriarcha, qui haec ipsis supped tare permisit, de suo, deque propriis facultatibus expensa restituent.
But if beyond the measure established in the holy great church or in the other churches the most holy archbishop, who presides over the holy great church, shall ordain, and the stewards of the same holy church, most loving of God, shall have expended the cost for these things out of the ecclesiastical revenues, both they themselves and also the most blessed patriarch, who permitted these things to be supplied to them, shall restore the expenses out of their own and their proper means.
但若至聖的大主教——就是主理聖潔大教會的——竟逾越聖潔大教會或其餘教會所立的定額而行按立，而那至愛神的、同一聖教會的財務管家又從教會的收入支付這等費用，那麼他們自己、並那容許將此供給他們的至有福的宗主教，都當從自己、從其本身的資財償還這些開支。
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Noverint enim, si quid tale perpetraverint, quod non solum sanctissimis patriarchis, qui talia patranti succedent et secuturis oeconomis, sed etiam omnibus caeteris reverendissimis clericis talium curiose perquirendi, et cum liunt, prohibendi, deferendique ad imperatoriam majestatem potestatem damus, quo magis hoc cognoscens ipsa, ex substantia oeconomorum, qui hoc fcrerint, aut etiam permittentis archiepiscopi, sacrosanctæ majori ecclesiæ isia servari demandet, ne rursus ejusmodi confusio ct perturbatio in ea re incidat. Enimvero negotio ad pristinam mensuram redacto, tunc liberum erit ordinare, usque eo tamen, ne dictarn mensuram transcendant, aut numerum.
For let them know that, if they have perpetrated any such thing, we grant the power not only to the most holy patriarchs who shall succeed those who commit such things, and to the stewards who shall follow, but also to all the other most reverend clerics, of carefully searching out such matters, and, when they are done, of forbidding them and of referring them to the imperial majesty; so that the more it, coming to know this, may demand that these things be preserved for the holy great church out of the substance of the stewards who shall have done this, or even of the archbishop who permits it, lest again confusion and disturbance of this kind befall in that matter. But truly, the business being brought back to its former measure, then it shall be free to ordain, yet only so far that they do not transcend the said measure or the number,
因為叫他們知道：若他們犯了任何此類之事，我們不僅將權柄賜給那承接這等犯事者的至聖宗主教、並後續的財務管家，也賜給其餘一切至可敬的聖品人，去仔細查究這等事，並在其發生時加以禁止、上報皇帝陛下；使陛下既得知此事，更可從那作此事的管家、或那容許此事的大主教的財產中，責令把這些歸還聖潔大教會，免得這等混亂與擾攘再臨於此事。然而誠然，待此事回復到先前的定額之後，便可自由按立，惟以不逾越上述定額或人數為限，
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superent, neve dolus circa hoc malus interveniat. Neque enim ullo pacto locum habere patimur quod plerisque in ore est, facultatem quidem ordinandi suppetere, non autem præbendorum alimentorum. Si quidem hoc iterum illorum est, qui confusionem pariunt, aut super numeraria adjectione altera pro unis collegia constituunt, praesertim cum multas ea res circumscriptiones producat, ut sub prætextu alimentariæ præstationis alias sibi vias insatiabilis cujusdam avaritiæ inveniant.
and that no evil deceit intervene in this regard. For in no way do we suffer to have place that which is on most people's lips, namely that there is indeed means for ordaining, but not for furnishing maintenance. If indeed this again belongs to those who breed confusion, or who through a supernumerary addition establish other colleges in the place of single ones, especially since this matter brings about many evasions, so that under the pretext of providing maintenance they may find for themselves other paths of a certain insatiable avarice.
也不容任何惡意的詭計插足其間。因為我們無論如何都不容那掛在多數人口中之言有立足之地，就是說：按立固有其財力，供給給養卻無其財力。倘若此言又出於那些製造混亂的人，或那些藉超額增員、以眾多的團體取代單一團體的人，尤其因這事招致許多規避，使他們得以託辭供給給養，為自己另尋某種貪得無厭之貪婪的途徑。
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Iloc igitur etiam ipsum fieri probibemns et sub censuram (ut appellant) ecclesiasticam deducimus, magno usui futurum arbitrantes, si sacrosanciam majorem ecclesiam neque creditoribus obnoxiam, neque rebus angustis afflictam, neque perpetuo egentem, sed omnium rerum copia abundantem cernamus.
This very thing therefore also we forbid, and we bring it under ecclesiastical censure (as they call it), judging that it will be of great use, if we behold the holy great church neither liable to creditors, nor afflicted by straitened circumstances, nor perpetually in want, but abounding in plenty of all things.
所以這同一件事我們也予以禁止，並把它置於教會的責罰之下（如人所稱），我們判斷這必大有益處，若我們得見聖潔大教會既不受債主轄制，也不為窘迫所苦，更不長久缺乏，乃是萬物豐盈、充充足足。
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Quemadmodum autem ad eam pertinentes sumptus certa fine descripsimus, ita convenit, ut sanctissimus pro tempore patriarcha et reverendissimi cierici circumspiciant, ne reliqui sumptus qui ex ecclesiasticis reditibus fiunt, aliter quam in pias et Deo placitas causas insumantur, et ut in illos conferantur, qui et revera egent, nec aliunde habent unde vivant (hæc enim Dominum Deum conciliare solent), non vero per patrocinia et hominum studia in locupletes distribuaut ea quæ ad ecclesiasticos sumptus suppetunt, ut exinde egentes vitæ necessariis defraudentur, Noverint enim Dei amantissimi œconomi, tam qui nunc, quam qui olim pro tempore futuri sunt, quod si quid in his deliquerint, non t tantum poenis coelestibus erunt obnoxii.sed etiam de substantia sua sacrosanctæ ecclesiae indemnitatem praestabunt.
And just as we have described the expenses pertaining to it within a fixed limit, so it is fitting that the patriarch for the time being, most holy, and the most reverend clerics take care that the remaining expenses which are made out of the ecclesiastical revenues be not laid out otherwise than upon pious causes pleasing to God, and that they be conferred upon those who are truly in need and have not whence to live from elsewhere (for these things are wont to win the favour of the Lord God), and not, through patronage and the zeal of men, that they distribute upon the wealthy those things which are available for ecclesiastical expenses, so that thereby the needy be defrauded of the necessaries of life. For let the stewards, most loving of God, both those who are now and those who at any time hereafter shall be, know that if they offend in any of these things, they shall not only be liable to heavenly punishments, but shall also make good the indemnity to the holy church out of their own substance.
正如我們把關涉它的開支描述於一個固定的界限之內，照樣也當由當時至聖的宗主教與至可敬的聖品人留意：凡從教會收入而出的其餘開支，不可用在別處，惟用於蒙神喜悅的虔敬之事，且當給予那真正缺乏、別處無從度日的人（因這等事素能蒙主神的悅納），而不可藉著庇護與人的偏私，把那可供教會開支的款項分給富足之人，以致使貧乏者被剝奪生活的必需。因為叫那至愛神的財務管家，無論現今的、或日後任何時候的，都當知道：他們若在這些事上有所過失，不僅要受天上的刑罰，也當從自己的財產向聖教會賠補損失。
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Sancimus igitur, ut beatitudo tua, quae initio et a tenera propemodum aetate per omnes sacerdotales gradus et dignitates sacrosanctam exornavit Ecclesiam, utpote quae ex sacerdotibus etiam genus et originem ducat, in perpetuum custodiat, certo scientes, non minus nobis sacrosanctarum ecclesiarum commoda curae esse, quam ipsam vitam. Dat. XVII Kalend. April. d. n. Bilis. v. c. cons.
We sanction therefore that your Beatitude—who from the beginning and from almost a tender age, through all the priestly grades and dignities, has adorned the holy Church, inasmuch as you draw your lineage and origin even from priests—should guard these things in perpetuity, knowing for certain that the advantages of the holy churches are no less a care to us than life itself. Given on the seventeenth of the Kalends of April, in the consulship of our lord Belisarius, most distinguished man.
所以我們規定：你的聖德——你從起初、幾乎自幼年起，便歷經一切聖品的階級與尊位，裝飾了聖教會，因你的世系與根源甚至是出於祭司——當永遠守護這些事，並確知聖教會的益處在我們乃是不亞於生命本身的關切。頒於四月朔日前第十七日，在我們的主、最尊貴者貝利撒留執政之年。
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