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Excerpt from Church of the Sub-Apostolic Age: Its Life, Worship, and Organization, in the Light of the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
Occurs only once (acts xx. And then as another name for the elders, and as descriptive of their functions. Nothing could be more manifest than that, in the terminology of the writer, the primary official title is elder, and that of bishop only secon dary, and descriptive of work. When it is recognised, further, that the primary official title of the members of the Jewish Synedrion was elders that (as is pointed out in the following pages) these same Jewish elders were also, in a secondary way, called both.
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