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if afterwards they have been condemned for prevaricating in Christ by any penalty, namely as heretics, the faithful sons ought not to be excluded from their things. The gloss: concerning infidel sons, nothing is constituted here. The text gives the reason, because it is written, namely Ezekiel 18: "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son." For the same is Augustine to Boniface. And he assumes the canon in the chapter "Iam itaque" Now therefore in the same place.
Nicholas, bishop, servant of the servants of God, for a perpetual remembrance of the matter: exercising the office of a watcher over the Lord's flock entrusted to us by divinity, although in merits, now by the edition of new laws, now by the renovation of old ones, we gladly intend toward those things through which the status of the flock itself is seen to be directed faithfully and prosperously. And we strive to monitor as much as is in us those things so that the detriment of the flock may not suffer and heavier outcomes and worse results may not proceed from it. Indeed, a long time ago, it having been brought to our hearing that Jews in all parts and provinces of Italy use the certain indulgences and concessions granted to them by the Apostolic See, for a future remembrance of the matter, or granted by any others whatsoever, so erroneously and perversely, that those things which were granted to them graciously and for a good and honest