Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/Additional Canons 1/Synod of Laodicea/Canons/Canon XXXIX

Canon XXXIX.

is not lawful to feast together with the heathen, and to be partakers of their godlessness.

Notes.

Thou shalt not keep feasts with Hebrews or heretics, nor receive festival offerings from them.

Read canon lxx. and canon lxxj. of the Holy Apostles, and Canon lx. of the Synod of Carthage.

Light hath no communion with darkness.&#160; Therefore no Christian should celebrate a feast with heretics or Jews, neither should he receive anything connected with these feasts such as azymes and the like.