Church Polity : a Treatise On Christian Churches And the Christian Ministry
Church Polity : a Treatise On Christian Churches And the Christian Ministry
Henry J Henry Jones Ripley
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feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight i mtaxonovvrsf thereof." Elders, then, were charged with the duties of oversight, or held the office of tmaxonogy a bishop. Digitized by VjOOQIC 130 CHURCH POLITY. In Phil. i. I. also, only bishops and deacons are mentioned. t § Origin of the terms elder and bishops and shade of difference between them. — As a significa- tion in common belongs to these terms, it may be worth whilS to remark that, in the opinion of judi- cious critic...s, the official term rendered elder^ was of Jewish origin ; while the equivalent term rendered overseer^ or bishops arose among the Gentile converts, who selected from their own language and usuages a term equivalent to the Jewish. It is worthy of note, also, that, so far as any shade of difference in signification between them is con- cerned, the word presbyter, or elder, was indicative of the respect, or honor, due to the office, and the word bishop of the service which the office required.
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