 | Hugh James Rose - 1831 - 332 pągines
...passages, the terms are clearly synonymous. ' The same Apostle addresses his Epistle to the Philippians, " To all the saints in Christ Jesus, which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. Can we suppose, that there were many bishops, and no Presbyters at Philippi; or that St. Paul would... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1832 - 908 pągines
...courage and constancy, by several weighty arguments, to the end of the chapter. "DAUL and Tiinotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in...which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons ; Observe here, 1. The penman of this epistle, St. Paul, joining Timotheus with him in the salutation,... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - 1832 - 458 pągines
...scriptures, let him read the words of the apostle in his epistle to the Philippians ; ' Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in...which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons,' &c. Philippi, is a single city of Macedonia ; and certainly in one city there could not be several... | |
 | George Thomas Chapman - 1832 - 334 pągines
...its original institution. I also find that long after this, Paul addressed one of his epistles ' ta all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.' I find in another directed to Timothy, that he writes,' Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued,... | |
 | Manton Eastburn - 1833 - 272 pągines
...ministry of the gospel. New York, May, 1833. CONTENTS. LECTURE I. CHAPTER I. 1—6.— Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in...bishops and deacons : Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, Always... | |
 | John Sinclair - 1833 - 410 pągines
...their views. Commenting on the first verse of the Epistle to the Philippians, (" Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in...which are at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons,") Theodoret observes, that the word Bishops here means Presbyters ; and that EpaphrodituS, who was then... | |
 | James Abbott - 1833 - 398 pągines
...two orders of offices in the church, viz. bishops and deacons; Philip, i. 1. " Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in...Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacon ma-xoTrois xa1 Siajcdvoi*." The name, office, and work of a bishop and presbyter are the same... | |
 | 1834 - 406 pągines
...for them : 21 his readiness to suffer : 27 he exhorteth them to walk worthily. PAUL and Timotheus? the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in...which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons : 2 Grace be unto you, and much as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel,... | |
 | George Washington Doane - 1834 - 36 pągines
...Apostle, the other having the power of ordination, or a proper Bishop, — address themselves, as " servants of Jesus Christ," " to all the saints in...Christ Jesus, which are at Philippi, with the bishops," then the interchangeable appellation of presbyters,} or elders, " and the deacons" Here are certainly... | |
 | John Greene - 1834 - 400 pągines
...Church at Philippi," Mr. Hall observed, "he first addresses the church, then the bishops and deacons. To all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. The body of the common people, in primitive times, decided on all weighty matters that arose in the... | |
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Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2. 
