to the term used to designate a disciplinary enactment. Thus we find such an enactment called “the canon of the Church” (ὁ κανὼν τῆς ἐκκλησίας), which could apply equally as well, as it actually did, to a decision of dogmatic content. Another expression used was “ecclesiastical canon” (κανὼν ἐκκλησιαστικός). The First Council of Nicaea (325) in four of its canons (2, 6, 10, 16) refers to as many earlier “ecclesiastical canons.” Eusebius denominates a disciplinary decision ὅρος (rule), ψῆφος