An Exposition Of The Epistles Of Saint Paul And Of The Catholic Epistles Volumes 1 2 PDF Download

Excerpt from An Exposition of the Epistles of St. Paul, and of the Catholic Epistles, Vol. 2: Consisting of an Introduction to Each Epistle, an Analysis of Each Chapter, a Paraphrase of the Sacred Text, and a Commentary, Embracing Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Dogmatical, Interspersed With Moral Reflections Others, taking the word Bishops in its ordinary ecclesiastical acceptation, understand it of the clergy of the first order only 3 and, although in conformity with the discipline of the Church, and the Apostolical canons, there could be only one Bishop at Philippi 3 still, as this Epistle was intended as a circular for the neighbouring Churches, it is most likely, the Apostle includes the Bishops of these places. The omission of the Priests may be easily accounted for on the ground, that the Bishop alone, aided by the Deacons, in consequence of the paucity of the faithful in these Churches, performed all the requisite priestly functions. St. Gregory Thaumaturgus had only seventeen souls under his charge when he entered on his Episcopal Office (see I Tim. Iii. 8, 93 Titus, i. The Apostle places Bishops and Deacons last among those whom he salutes. Although included in the entire Church, which he addressed in the first instance, he now, by way of special honour, addresses them in particular - (see I Tim. Iii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.