Constitutiones Apostolorum: Apostolic Constitutions

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Apostolic Constitutions , as edited by Paul de Lagarde, who corrects the Greek text extensively from the Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic and Coptic translations.

cf. de Castro, O.F.M., Against All Heresies ref:21.14 and Fr. Kimball's note on their being considered of primary importance right after the canon of Holy Scripture:

286 The Apostolic Canons was a collection of eighty-five canons, mostly disciplinary and mostly taken from local Oriental councils of the fourth century. This collection was included in Book VIII of the Apostolic Constitutions , the whole being attributed to St. Clement. The Council in Trullo (692), while rejecting the Constitutions, retained and approved the Canons. The Canons, Saint John Damascene notwithstanding, were never generally considered to belong to the canon of Scripture.

cf. Hefele vol. 1 for translation