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scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Honestly, I might eat my hat here and go on a rabbit hole about early priestly marriage myself.

ā€œThis great synod absolutely forbids a bishop, presbyter, deacon or any of the clergy to keep a woman who has been brought in to live with him, with the exception of course of his mother or sister or aunt, or of any person who is above suspicion.ā€ Okay, so as you know, from your source; phrased as so.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea The wikipedia provides some clarification on the issue. ā€œprohibition of a man and a woman who have both taken vows of chastity to live together in a chaste and non-legalized partnership (the so-called virgines subintroductae, who practiced syneisaktism)ā€ the last word being a Greek term for ā€œspiritual marriageā€ which was chaste, but also unofficial in the eyes of the law? I’m not sure I’m reading it correctly myself.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syneisaktism

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