The Council of Chalcedon
The holy Synod has decreed that those who forcibly carry off women under pretence of marriage, and the aiders or abettors of such ravishers, shall be degraded if clergymen, and if laymen be anathematized.
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A.D. 451 · Canon 27 (451)
Checked word-for-word against Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Vol. 14 · 2026-07-26