The Sinodos
Section 57
Statute 55. Concerning those who confessed. The confessor shall not be ordained. This is a thing ^ of his own will. He is worthy of great honour, for he confessed God, and he confessed before peoples and kings. If he had a call for this he shall be ordained bishop ; or as presbyter let him be ordained : and likewise this ordination is because of his confession. If he did not finish (his course), but turned back and denied, he shall be deposed ; * because not only did he deny Christ, but became an enemy as one of the unbelievers.
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Text. The Rev. G. Horner, The Statutes of the Apostles, 1904. Public domain by age. Horner's English of the Ge'ez Sinodos he prints in the same volume, recovered from the scan by the word coordinates rather than by its plain OCR. Not audited: no independent reference counts exist for this text. His own numbering is kept, including the two statutes he numbers 40.