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Handout #28 |
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Occupations forbidden to candidates for baptism |
| Hippolytus, a priest in Rome at the beginning
of the third century, suggests models for liturgical prayer in his Apostolic
Tradition and indicates conditions needed for baptism and ministry.
If a man be a priest of idols or a keeper of idols either let him desist or let him be rejected. A soldier of the government must be told not to execute men; if he should be ordered to do it, he shall not do it. He must be told not to take the military oath. If he will not agree, let him be rejected. A military governor or a magistrate of a city who wears the purple, either let him desist or let him be rejected. If a catechumen or a baptized Christian wishes to become a soldier, let him be cast out. For he has despised God. Hippolytus, Apostolic Tradition, II, xvi,16-19 |
