Let the Manichaeans be expelled from everywhere and be punished with death. But the remaining heretics (a heretic is everyone who is not orthodox) and the Greeks [that is, pagans] and Jews and Samaritans are forbidden to hold any magistracy, or to possess any dignity, or to administer justice, or to become defenders or fathers of the cities (lest they have license to harass, or to judge, Christians or bishops). Likewise they are also forbidden to serve in the army, except if they are of the rank of the cohortales; for these remain, bearing indeed the burdens, but not giving offense, nor carrying out anything against the orthodox in public or private cases.
But whoever shall attempt to do any of these things, besides that what was done shall be held as undone, shall also pay twenty pounds; and those who have endeavored to enroll them in the public registers shall likewise pay twenty; and the governors one pound; and all these penalties are levied upon private estates. Excepted are the Goths, who become federates, and who are honored otherwise, according as it shall have seemed good to the emperor.