II.2 Rules of Clerics.
(1) Clerics, therefore, secluded from ordinary life, are warned by the law of the fathers that they ought to keep themselves free from the sensual pleasures of the world, that they are not to take part in spectacles or parades, that they are to flee from public banquets, that they are to live a private life, not only chaste but sober.
They shall never be inclined to usury, they should never strive for occupations of shameless profits and the pursuit of deceptions of any kind, and they should flee the love of money as the root of all evils. They should give up secular offices and business; they should not seek after positions of honor through ambitions. (2) They should not accept gifts for the benefits of divine healing.
They should beware of trickeries and conspiracies. They should flee hatred, rivalry, detraction, and jealousy. They should not go about with wandering eyes, nor unbridled or petulant tongue and inflated manner, but they should show modesty and reverence of mind, walking in a simple manner. They should completely disavow obscenity both of words and of actions. (3) They should avoid overly frequent visits of widows and virgins; they should in no way seek the companionship of unrelated women. They should strive to perserve chastity, perpetually inviolate of body, or at least they should be bound by the bond of one marriage. They should offer the obedience owed to their elders, and they should not exalt themselves by any desire to show off.
Finally, they should apply themselves to continual training in doctrine, in readings, psalms, hymns, and canticles.
They ought to be such people who strive to have delivered themselves up to divine worship, so that as they give effort to knowledge they may administer the grace of their learning to the people.
(trans. Knoebel 2008: 68-69)