Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Gregory Thaumaturgus/Acknowledged Writings/Canonical Epistle/Canon X

by Gregory Thaumaturgus

Canon X.

And they who keep the commandment ought to keep it without any sordid covetousness, demanding neither recompense,^[1] nor reward,^[2] nor fee,^[3] nor anything else that bears the name of acknowledgment.

Footnotes

1. μηνυτρα, the price of information.
2. σῶστρα, the reward for bringing back a runaway slave.
3. εὕρετρα, the reward of discovery.