This is a very interesting canon: firstly, it tries to impose a taxative prohibition of the presence of any "extraneous women" in the houses of clerics, but then it enumerates so many exceptions that it can hardly be effective. The canon does not deal with the celibacy of clergy, although we may assume that it was aimed rather at the celibate clergy; the presence of women in their houses might have been giving more occasion to scandal.
The canon also shows us something of the large clerical households in which clerics were living together with their adult sons, their families, other relatives, and slaves. The last phrase shows that the household might have been large enough to arrange marriages among the slaves, although the canon concedes "bringing wives from other places" if this was not possible.