One bishop with the presbyters and deacons: and two altars and two bishops proved two churches.
And in those churches which Christ himself hath instituted, there are officers that make but for the integrity, and not for the political essence of the church: as deacons, and all pastors or presbyters more than one.
To the senior pastors of the church (whether bishops or presbyters of a distinct order, the reader must not expect that I here determine).
And such new impositions give just reason to princes and to the people to suspect that the presbyters are aspiring after some inordinate exaltation, or have some ill project for the advancement of themselves.
He thus states it: "Whether the institution of Presbyters existed in the first instance outside the limits of the Judæo-Christian communities is doubtful.
The presbytersare mentioned at Miletus, and Agabus the prophet appeared at Antioch years before, and now again he appears at Cæsarea, where Philip the Evangelist and his daughters the prophetesses appear.
In connexion with this statement made by St. Paul concerning the source of the ministry we find a title given to the Ephesian presbyters round which much controversy has centred.
There is in Christianity a threefold ministry exercised by bishops, presbyters or elders, and deacons.
In fact, this custom of calling bishops seniors or presbyters was used in Ireland till the twelfth century: see Ussher's Works, Ed.
St. Paul speaks of the presbyters as called "to feed the Church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood.
However, there must be within his dwelling sundry presbyters and deacons, and she would address herself to one of them, as soon as the crowd had dispersed enough for her to make her way to the door beneath the cross.
Why, indeed, should these Scottish divines, headed by the Presbyters Candlish and Cunningham, seek or advocate the freedom of the slaves held by their fellow Presbyters of the United States?
The presbyters aspired to the episcopal office, which every day became an object more worthy of their ambition.
His faithful presbytersand deacons were permitted to accompany their holy bishop.
A great number even of bishops and presbyters acquired, by this criminal compliance, the opprobrious epithet of Traditors; and their offence was productive of much present scandal and of much future discord in the African church.
Sure these themselves from primitive And Heathen Priesthood do derive, 1190 When butchers were the only Clerks, Elders and Presbyters of Kirks; Whose directory was to kill; And some believe it is so still.
Priests are in an ordinary sense the presbyters of the Church, and in the Scotch Liturgy, compiled in the reign of Charles I, the word presbyter is substituted for that of priest.
Now it was too that he made his second great mistake of consecrating an English Clergyman as bishop, and two laymen as presbyters of the American Societies.
Mosheim says: "The rulers of the church were called their presbyters or bishops, which two titles are, in the New Testament, undoubtedly applied to the same order of men.
Lightfoot tells us in the same place, that "at Alexandria the bishop was nominated and apparently ordained by the twelve presbyters out of their own number.
To our beloved fellow-presbyters also, Dionysius and Philemon, who had formerly sided with Stephanus and were correspondents of mine on the same matter, I have written briefly the first time and more fully now.
Jerome (in his letter ad Evangelum) is responsible for the assertion that Dionysius was the last who, in accordance with the original custom of the Church of Alexandria, was nominated as Bishop by his fellow-presbyters there.
The rule of bishops he denounced as begotten of the devil; the absolute rule of presbyters he held to be established by the word of God.
The change of name was the appropriation to this now localized ruler of the title of bishop or 'overseer' which had hitherto appertained more or less to the presbyters generally.
So it was at Jerusalem where the presbyters and deacons were presided over by St. James.
These words from St. Paul's speech to the Ephesian presbyters are in remarkable affinity with the teaching of our epistle.
Before giving a slight summary of its contents I must mention that it is addressed "to the bishops and presbyters of the whole of Ireland," and that Gilbert declares that he wrote it at the urgent request of many of them.
There were many bishops and presbyters who had become dissatisfied with the old Irish method of Church government.
Thence with Mr. Moore to the Wardrobe, and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr. Townsend about his accounts an hour or two, we reading of a merry book against the Presbyters called Cabbala, extraordinary witty.
Whence we see, that presbyters also were wont to excommunicate, and that this power was common to them with the bishops.
That which maketh them grant so much is, because they dare not deny that presbyters have the power of ordination jure divino.
This honour did the presbyters yield to him who was specially and peculiarly called bishop, jure humano; yet the act of ordination they still reserved in their own power.
Titus and Timothy act as delegates of the apostle, and as the highest officials of the ministry, and they appoint presbyters and deacons.
He was ordained by the laying on of the hands of St. Paul himself and the presbyters of the Church (1 Tim.
Counsels as to the treatment of presbyters (translated "elders" in the English versions) and widows (v.
Now, however, the apostolic delegate will be able to ordain the presbyters required in every city.
But here the title "episkopos" is applied to the presbyters themselves as the overseers of the congregation.
In speaking to the presbyters of Ephesus at Miletus (Acts xx.
It seems quite certain that at Jerusalem the presbyters and deacons were under the authority of St. James, and after his death under that of Symeon.
Clement is here relying upon "the presbyters of old," and the antiquity of the tradition is proved by the fact that it does not claim St. Peter's direct sanction for the Gospel.
Journey to Macedonia and Greece, Paul at Troas, Eutychus' fall and cure, journey to Miletus where Paul meets the presbyters of Ephesus (xx.
It is addressed by "Polycarp and the presbyters with him to the Church of God sojourning at Philippi," and probably was written about the middle of the second century.
That form of church government which investspresbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively.
These presbyters were Cedda and Adda and Berti and Dinna, of whom the last was by nation a Scot, the rest were English.
Who having received the episcopal dignity and pursuing the work he had begun with more ample authority, built churches in various places, and ordained presbyters and deacons.
Bishops and presbyters are equal;[25] they should be the husbands of one wife, and have their children in subjection.
That, even supposing it to be oblique, there is no ground for identifying the authorities quoted with the presbyters of Papias (pp.
He might, or might not, have had opportunities of inquiring from the presbyters respecting the Gospel of St Luke.
There is every reason for believing that Polycarp was Bishop of Smyrna at this time; yet in the heading of the letter he does not assert his title, but writes merely, 'Polycarp and the presbyters with him.
Tischendorf renders the oblique construction of the text by inserting "say they" referring to the Presbyters of Papias,' where the point of grammar is silently conceded.
He, the Bishop, is the image of Christ, and his twelve presbyters of the Apostles.
This council was composed of eighty-seven bishops from the provinces of Mauritania, Numidia, and Africa; some presbyters and deacons assisted at the assembly; praesente plebis maxima parte.
But the Calvinistical presbyters were impatient of a superior; and the Roman Pontiff refused to acknowledge an equal.
The ancient state, as it is described by Jerome, of the bishop and presbyters of Alexandria, receives a remarkable confirmation from the patriarch Eutychius, (Annal.
The same causes which at first had destroyed the equality of the presbyters introduced among the bishops a preeminence of rank, and from thence a superiority of jurisdiction.
In proportion to the respective numbers of the faithful, a larger or smaller number of these episcopal presbyters guided each infant congregation with equal authority and with united counsels.
Whenever the episcopal chair became vacant by death, a new president was chosen among the presbyters by the suffrages of the whole congregation, every member of which supposed himself invested with a sacred and sacerdotal character.
Valois) has thought proper to reduce the number of presbyters to forty-four.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presbyters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
