 | Thomas Brown - 1884 - 900 pages
...they not think we eminently need the sympathies and prayers of all? But higher interests are at stake. 'Take heed to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made yon overseers.' This swallows up everything else." -fDr. Buchanan, of Glasgow, addressing his brethren... | |
 | Arthur Lukyn Williams - Bible - 1894 - 702 pages
...humility and self-distrust, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. He must take heed to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made him overseer, to feed the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. And this he must... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 842 pages
...less unto them all; and therefore St. Cyprian, speaking generally of them all, calls them bishops.' The form of government at first established by the...you overseers' — ie, bishops. This explains the Congregational and Presb. view. But as the apostles could not themselves be present in all churches,... | |
 | Alexander Viets Griswold Allen - Church - 1897 - 632 pages
...untechnical designation, in accordance with the usage in Acts xx. 28, where the presbyters are charged to take heed to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers or bishops. But the mention in Philippians is connected with a gift of money made to... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1902 - 1086 pages
...less unto them all ; and therefore Saint Cyprian, speaking generally of them all, calls them bishops." The form of government at first established by the...sometimes 'presbyters,' sometimes 'bishops.' Thus Saint Paul to the elders at Ephesus says: "Take heed to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1906 - 918 pages
...less unto them all ; and therefore Saint Cyprian, speaking generally of them all, calls them bishops." The form of government at first established by the...sometimes 'presbyters,' sometimes 'bishops.' Thus Saint Paul to the elders at Ephesus says: "Take heed to the flock over which the Holy G'host hath made... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1909 - 922 pages
...less unto them all ; and therefore Saint Cyprian, speaking generally of them all, calls them bishops." The form of government at first established by the...sometimes 'presbyters,' sometimes 'bishops.' Thus Saint Paul to the elders at Ephesus says: "Take heed to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made... | |
 | Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams - Education - 1922 - 900 pages
...them all; and therefore St. Cyprian, speaking generally of them all, calls them bishBISHOP 330 ope." The form of government at first established by the...Holy Ghost hath made you overseers," ie, bishops. But as the Apostles could not themselves be present in all churches, and as in a short time strifes... | |
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The form of government at first established by the apostles was, that the laity or people should be subject to a college of ecclesiastical persons appointed for that purpose in every city. These, in their writings, they term sometimes ' presbyters,' sometimes... 
