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Works & Councils of Toledo 54

Latin original · 3 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

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54:1
Imperator Juslinianus Augustus Mennæ arcbiepiscopo regiae c'vitatis Constantinopolitano. Plurimas additiones suscipientes hanc legem dirigere ad tuam beatiludinem justum existimavimus. Qui enim ordinantur a tua reverentia clerici in eanctissimis ecclesiis (absque tamen sanctissima majori ecclesia) omnium patiuntur crudelissima, non suscipienlibus eos illic ecclesiis, antequam quantum voluerint, accipiant aurum. Et novimus hoc ex frequentibus additionibus de hoc factis nobis. Sancimus igitur beatitudinem tuam hoc validissime custodire. Et si quidem consuetudo est dare eos qui ordinantur in sanctissima majore ecclesia, hoc eos praebere.
The Emperor Justinian Augustus to Mennas, archbishop of the royal city of Constantinople. Receiving very many petitions, we have deemed it just to direct this law to your Beatitude. For those who are ordained by your reverence as clerics in the most holy churches (excepting however the most holy Great Church) suffer the cruellest things of all, the churches there not receiving them before they receive as much gold as they wish. And we have come to know this from the frequent petitions made to us about it. We ordain therefore that your Beatitude most strongly guard this. And if indeed there be a custom that those who are ordained in the most holy Great Church give (something), let them furnish this.
皇帝查士丁尼·奧古斯都諭至王城君士坦丁堡的總主教門納斯。我們既領受極多的申訴，便以為將這條法律下達閣下乃是公道的。因為那些由閣下任命為各至聖教會神職人員的人（惟至聖大教會除外），遭受最殘酷的對待，那裡的教會非等他們交出隨意索取的金子，便不接納他們。我們是從就此事屢次呈於我們的申訴中得知這事的。因此我們規定，閣下要極力看守這事。固然，若在至聖大教會有慣例叫受任命者交付某物，就讓他們照此供給。
54:2
Nihil enim de his quæ dantur in sanctissima majore ecclesia, novamus. Præterea|vero in aliis omnibus, nullis in eis clericorum licentiam esse penitus pro his quæ vocantur insinuativa, aliquid ferre. Sed et si quis tale aliquid egerit, illum quidem privari sacerdotio, in illius autem officium introire qui missus est, et hanc eum avaritiæ ferre mercedem. Custodire vero haec etiam Deo amantissimos defensores sanctissimae majoris ecclesiæ, poenam forinidantes x librarum auri, si quid neglexerint. Sed gratis omnia procedere. Deinde etenim defunctiones et ministeria, non per venditionem, nec per mercalionem lieri aliquam volumus, sed pure et citra redemptionem.
For we innovate nothing concerning those things which are given in the most holy Great Church. But moreover, in all others, let there be utterly no license to any of the clerics in them to exact anything for what are called 'insinuative' fees (registration dues). But even if anyone should do any such thing, let him indeed be deprived of his priesthood, and let one who is sent enter into his office, and let him bear this as the wage of his avarice. And let the defenders most loving of God of the most holy Great Church guard these things too, dreading a penalty of ten pounds of gold, if they should neglect anything. But let all things proceed gratis. For thereafter we wish that funeral services and ministrations be performed not by sale, nor by any trafficking, but purely and apart from redemption (payment).
因為論到那些在至聖大教會所給付之物，我們概不更動。但此外，在其餘一切教會中，絕不准許其中任何神職人員為所謂「登錄費」（insinuativa）索取任何東西。即便有人作了任何這類的事，就要剝奪他的祭司職分，並使一位被差遣的人進入他的職位，使他擔受這貪婪的報應作為工價。至聖大教會那些至愛神的護衛者（defensores）也要看守這些事，畏懼那十磅黃金的刑罰，若他們有所疏忽。一切都當無償進行。因此後，我們願喪葬之事與聖工不藉買賣、不藉任何交易而行，乃是純潔地、不取贖價地進行。
54:3
Sic enim rei digni fient nulla venditione ac mercatione facienda. Tua igitur beatitudo, et qui postea in pontificales accesserint sedes, quae a nobis ordinata sunt, et per hanc declarata sunt legem, operi eflectuique tradere festinet. Dat. III Kal. Nov. Constant. imp. d. n. Justin. Aug. an. 11, post Bilis. v. c. cons. ann. 2.
For thus they will become worthy of the office, no sale and trafficking being made. Your Beatitude therefore, and those who hereafter shall accede to the pontifical sees, let it hasten to hand over to work and effect the things that have been ordained by us, and declared through this law. Given on the third day before the Kalends of November at Constantinople, in the eleventh year of the reign of our lord Justinian Augustus, after the consulship of Belisarius, most distinguished man, in the second year.
因為這樣，他們不行買賣交易，才會配得這職分。因此，閣下、以及此後將登上主教座位的人，當趕緊把我們所定、並藉這條法律所宣明的事付諸實行、見諸果效。頒於君士坦丁堡，十一月朔前第三日，我們的主查士丁尼·奧古斯都在位第十一年，至顯赫者貝利撒留執政之後第二年。
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