 Miletus, from which place he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church, and said to them, among other things : Acts 20 : 28 — 30. " Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers,...  The diocesan statutes of the Roman Catholic bishops of the province of ... - Page xxviiiby Dublin province, Dublin, R.C. Province of - 1837 - 107 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1850 - 716 pages
...SON of GOD ; as on account of the same person of CHRIST, which was of two natures, the Apostle says : "The HOLY GHOST has made you overseers to rule the Church of GOD, Which He purchased by His Blood." For GOD had not in His own nature substance, but in man which He assumed,... | |
 | Abel Stevens - 1847 - 220 pages
...Testament, and in each case it is evidently synonymous with presbyter. It is first found in Acts xx, 17, " Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, (imaKO-novc;,) to feed the church of God which he hath purchased with his own... | |
 | Nathaniel Smith Richardson - 1847 - 420 pages
...Order of the Ministry. This is implied in St. Paul's address to the Elders of the Church at Ephesus. " Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers." Acts xx. 28. Itis asserted in St. Paul's Epistle to Timothy, " If any man... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - 1847 - 560 pages
...called the presbyters of the church of that city, to whom on their arrival among other things he said, Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit placed you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood. Here... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1847 - 500 pages
...the midst of Israel."1 Hence Paul, unable to reach the church itself, sent for kElders, and said, " Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit hath made you overseers." Hence, when the seven churches in Asia were addressed by the Saviour,... | |
 | James Taylor (Headmaster of the Free Grammar School, Wakefield.) - 1855 - 592 pages
...whole^ctoxx, * Fulgectina on faith to Peter the deacon, ch. 10. flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to rule the Church of God, which He hath purchased with His own Blood.' In those sacrifices, therefore, what was to be given us was figuratively signified ; but in this sacrifice,... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1856 - 400 pages
...things, and not the last only) thou shall save thyself and those who hear thee." — 1 Tim., iv., 16. " Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers."*— Acts, xx., 28. Nevertheless, we are also required to renew directly our... | |
 | Robert Cooney - 1856 - 420 pages
...divine order, while we hear the Holy Apostle thus addressing the presbyters of the church of Ephesus," Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Episkopoi—bishops. Presbyters are here called bishops, and the injunction which is... | |
 | 1857 - 394 pages
...clear. But I shall instance only in those words of St. Paul to the Asian bishops, ' Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood." Where... | |
 | Rev. James Gardner - 1858 - 1042 pages
...and these were the very presbyters whom the Apostle had summoned to meet him, for he says to them, ' Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers.' Perhaps prejudice or partyzeal had some influence in rendering the word overseers,... | |
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