Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 424
Canon 25 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) orders priests to read the Holy Scripture and the canons.
[Titulus in recensione Iuliana] XXV Quod maxime in sacerdotibus Dei uitanda est errorum ignorantia
[Titulus in recensione Vulgata] XXV Vt sacerdotes scripturarum sanctarum et canonum cognitionem habeant
 
Canon 25
 
Ignorantia mater cunctorum errorum maxime in sacerdotibus Dei uitanda est, qui docendi officium in populis susceperunt. Sacerdotes enim legere sancta scriptura admonet, Paulo apostolo dicente ad Timotheum: "Intende lectioni, exhortationi, doctrinae; semper permane in his" (1 Timothy 4:13; 2 Timothy 3:14). Sciant igitur sacerdotes scripturas sanctas et canones ut omne opus eorum in praedicatione et doctrina consistat atque aedificent cunctos tam fidei scientia quam operum disciplina.
 
(eds. Martinez Diez, Rodriguez 1992: 164, 172, 215-216)
[Title in the recension Iuliana] XXV That ignorance of the vices should be avoided especially by priests
[Title in the recension Vulgata] XXV That the priests should know the Holy Scripture and the canons
 
Canon 25
 
Ignorance is the mother of all vices, and should be especially avoided by the priests of God who undertake the office of teaching the people. The Holy Scripture admonishes reading to the priests in the words of Paul the Apostle to Timothy: "Attend unto reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine; continue thou in those things" [1 Tim 4:13; 2 Tim 3:14]. All the priests shall know the Holy Scripture and the canons, so that all their deeds depend upon their teaching and doctrine and instruct everbody in the knowledge of faith and in the discipline of deeds.
 
(trans. M. Szada)

Place of event:

Region
  • Iberian Peninsula
City
  • Toledo

About the source:

Title: Fourth Council of Toledo (633), IV Council of Toledo, IV Concilium Toletanum, IIII Concilium Toletanum, Concilium Toletanum quartum a. 633
Origin: Toledo (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Fourth Council of Toledo was a council of the whole Visigothic church (86 bishops were present) gathered by King Sisenand (631-636)  in 633 and held under the presidency of Isidore of Seville. It is sometimes claimed on stylistic grounds that Isidore was an author of the decrees (Collins 2004: 79).
 
The acts of the Fourth Council of Toledo are transmitted in the 7th-century canonical collection from Spain, the so-called Hispana. Its authorship has been attributed to the Isidore of Seville (it is still accepted by Martinez Diez 1966; other scholars reject this attribution: Munier 1966; Gaudemet 1967: 122-124; Schaferdiek 1967: 144-148; Landau 1968: 406-418). This collection has several recensions: a primitive one, the so-called Isidoriana, lost today; the Juliana recension edited after 681 and attributed to the Julian of Toledo, that adds to the previous recension the acts and canons of the councils from the Fifth Council of Toledo do the Twelfth (in 681); the Vulgata recension edited between 694 and 702 that adds the acts and canons of the councils from the the Thirteenth Council of Toledo up to the Seventeenth held in 694, this recension was the most widespread during the Middle Ages (more bibliography see Kéry 1999: 61-67). The two recensions Iuliana and Vulgata give different titles to the canons of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Martinez Diez 1992: 17-20).
Edition:
G. Martínez Díez, F. Rodríguez eds., La colección canónica Hispana, Monumenta Hispaniae sacra. Serie canónica 5, Madrid 1992.
Bibliography:
R. Collins, Visigothic Spain, 409-711, Oxford, OX, UK; Malden, MA, USA 2004.
J. Gaudemet, review of: ''G. Martinez Diez, La coleccion canonica Hispana 1'', Revue historique de droit français et étranger 4e ser.  45 (1967), 122-124.
L. Kéry, Canonical collections of the early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): a bibliographical guide to the manuscripts and literature, Washington, D.C 1999.
P. Landau, review of: ''G. Martinez Diez, La coleccion canonica Hispana 1'', Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte Kanonistische Abteilung 54 (1968), 406-414.
G. Martínez Díez, La Colección canónica Hispana, vol. 1 Estudio, Madrid 1966.
C. Munier, ''Saint Isidore de Séville est-il l’auteur de I’Hispana chronologique?'', Sacris Erudiri 17 (1966), 230-241.
K. Schaferdiek, review of: ''G. Martinez Diez, La coleccion canonica Hispana 1'', Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 78 (1967), 144-148.
 

Categories:

Education - Insufficient education
    Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς
      Education
        Ecclesiastical administration
          Education - Knowledge of canons
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