Buyers of Church Property Must Return It

“And it would be wrong, in a provision meant to cover every case, to pass over those who have either acquired any such property by buying it from the treasury, or have kept it when it was handed to them as a gift. So let all who have rashly indulged their insatiable thirst for gain in this way be assured of this. By daring to make such purchases they have done all they could to turn our clemency away from themselves. Even so, they will not fail to receive it, as far as is possible and proper in each case. So much, then, is settled.