September 2019

The sacred laws are very strict against the one who buys his painting with money, “making from the grace that a commodity is not sold for trade, so that he draws a bishop or a pseudo-archbishop or a priest or a deacon …
So whoever is proven to have done this painter or appointment will be stripped of his job. He is not entitled to enjoy his rank or position, but on the contrary, he is dismissed from it for obtaining it with money.

(Law 2 of the Council of Chalcedon in the Sunnah 451)