Sirmondian Constitutions: Title 6: Heretics Must Be Cast Out of the Municipalities

Emperor Theodosius Augustus and Valentinian Caesar to the Illustrious Amatius, Praetorian Prefect of Gaul.

We restore with eager devotion to all the churches and the clergy their privileges which the tyrant2 had begrudged to Our age, namely, that whatever each of the bishops obtained from the sainted Emperors shall be confirmed and preserved throughout all eternity. The presumption of no person shall dare to disturb a situation in which We confess that a privilege has rather been granted to Us. Clerics also, who the accursed presumptor2 had declared must be led indiscriminately before secular judges, We reserve for a hearing before the bishops, and those regulations shall remain valid which antiquity sanctioned in regard to them. For it is not right that ministers of the divine service should be subjected to the judgment of temporal authorities.

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Author: Code of Theodosius

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Bible reference(s): Revelation 13:11-15

Source: Clyde Pharr, trans., The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions, Sirmondian Constitutions (Princeton Univ. Press, 1952).

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