Canon Examples
Canons tend to be short and to the point. They do not tend to include arguments for the rule but just the rule itself.
So, for instance, Canon 1 from the synod in Elvira reads:
“It is decided that anyone of a mature age, who, after the faith of saving baptism, approaches a temple as an idolater and commits this major crime, because it is an enormity of the highest order, is not to receive communion even at the end.”
Canon 18 of the same synod reads: “Bishops, presbyters, and deacons, if—once placed in the ministry—they are discovered to be sexual offenders, shall not receive communion, not even at the end, because of the scandal and the heinousness of the crime.”