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Book VIII. Concerning Gifts, and Ordinations, and the Ecclesiastical Canons.

XLV. Concerning the Receiving Such as are Persecuted for Christ's Sake.

Receive ye those that are persecuted1 on account of the faith, and who fly from city to city,2 as mindful of the words of the Lord. For, knowing that though "the spirit be willing, the flesh is weak,"3 they fly away, and prefer the spoiling of their goods, that they may preserve the name of Christ in themselves without denying it. Supply them therefore with what they want, and thereby fulfil the commandment of the Lord.

  1. [A token of the early origin of what is genuine in these interpolated Constitutions.] ↩

  2. Matt. x. 23. ↩

  3. Matt. xxvi. 41. ↩

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