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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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elders in birth of the
congregacion or church / and said vnto them / take
hede vnto youre selves and vnto the hole flocke / ouer which the
holy gost hath made
you episcopos ad regendum ecclesiam dei / bisshopes
or ouersears to gouerne the church of god. There is presbiteros
called an elder in
birth which same is immediatly called a bisshope or
ouersear / to declare what persons are ment. Herof ye se that I
haue no moare erred then there awne texte which they haue vsed
sens the scripture was first in the latine tongue / and that
their awne texte vnderstondeth
by presbiteros nothinge saue an elder. And they were
called elders / because of their age / grauite and sadnesse /
as thou maist se by the texte: and bisshopes or ouersears by
the reason of their offices . And all that were called elders
(or prestes if they so will) were
called bisshopes also / though they haue diuided the
names now / Which thinge thou maist evidently se by the first
chapter of titus.
And the .xx. of the actes and other places moo.
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church] ed., curch 1531, Church 1573
or] om.
1573
is] om.
1573
were] 1573, vere [1531]
the .xx. of the actes]
Actes xx. 1573
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And when he layeth Timothe vn to my charge / how he was younge / then he weneth that he hath wonne his gylden spores.
But I wolde praye him to shew me where he readeth that Paul
calleth him presbiteros / preast or elder.
I durst not then
call him Episcopus propirly. For those ouersears which we now
call bisshopes aftir the greke worde / were all waye bydynge in
one place / to gouerne the
congregacion there. Now was Timothe an apostle. And
Paul also
writeth that he will come shortly agayne. Wel / will
he saye / it cometh yet all to one. For if it becometh the
lower ministre to be of a sad and discrete age / moch more it
becometh the hyer. It is trueth.
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will come] ed., come 1531,
came 1573
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