There are, he said, two
laws, one public, the other private. The public law is that which is
established in writing by the holy fathers, as is canon law, which, indeed,
is issued because of transgressors [cf. Galatians 3:19]. For example, it is
decreed in the canons that a cleric ought not to cross from his own diocese
to another without a letter of introduction from his bishop, which was
constituted because of criminals, namely so that infamous persons would not
be received by any bishop. For they were accustomed to celebrate their
liturgies in another diocese when they could not do so in their own, which
with justice is excoriated by commands and writings. |