| Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 640 页
...to the Philippians. It is in these words: " Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus, which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons." That is, with the pastors and deacons, who were the only officers in that church. When a number of... | |
| Samuel Allen McCoskry - 1842 - 384 页
...Apostle, in his epistle to the Philippians: " Paul and Timotheus the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus, 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... | |
| John BROWN (Minister of Langton.) - 1842 - 584 页
...words of the Apostle to the Philippians, ' Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons, grace to you and peace,' &c. Philippi is a single city of Macedonia ; and certainly in one city there... | |
| John Shenton Bright - 1842 - 106 页
...however, to the approbation of the church. Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and. deacons: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and/rom the Lord Jesus Christ.—Phil. i. 1, 2.... | |
| 1842 - 40 页
...(Acts xv. 23.) There are other like passages. Presbyters are distinguished from Deacons : " To all the saints in CHRIST JESUS which are at Philippi, with the Bishops [Presbyters] and Deacons." (Philip, i 1.) and again : " A Bishop [a Presbyter] then must be blameless... | |
| 1843 - 718 页
...chapter and verse for authority and example. " Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons," i Phil. i. 1. " This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a a good... | |
| Alexander Viets Griswold - 1843 - 162 页
...we strictly conform to apostolic usage. St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians is addressed " to all the saints in Christ Jesus, which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons." It has often, and very much been urged, as a proof that there were but two orders of ministers in Philippi... | |
| sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1843 - 508 页
...there was such an office as that of bishop. St. Paul addresses his Epistle to the Philippians, "To all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons ; " and as the word bishops is in the plural number, and presbyters are not mentioned, it is thought,... | |
| Protestant association - 1843 - 480 页
...Churches," and at Philippi, where alone he makes explicit mention of the orders of the ministry — " the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons." As, therefore, the orders of the Christian ministry, as existing among ourselves, were not fully developed... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1843 - 106 页
...we find the Bishops thus spoken of. — " Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the Bishops and deacons" (Phil. i. 1). Now Philippi was a city of no very large dimensions : Christianity had not been established... | |
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