Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

42 POPERY COXDEMNliB EY
ers ; and It would be a pity to lose any information
on such a precious subject.
'' I myself a
" priest," sumpreshuteros^ " exhort the priests
*'
who are amongst you," tons preshuterous en
" iwiin parakalo . . .
." feed the flock of God
" which is amongst you ;" poimenate to en umin
" poimnion ..." superintending," ephcopoiintes:
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not domineering over the Clergy." kataku-
" rieiientes ion klercn *."
Granting the R. all
the supremacy which this
passage can afford him, it amounts to no more
than what the apostle Paul exercised. " From
*'
Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the
''
eiders of the church, and said unto them,
" Take heed, therefore, unto yourselves, and
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to all the flock over which the Koly Ghost
" hath made you bishops, to feed the church
" of God, which he hath purchased whh his
'*
own blood f."
I cannot bid adieu to this part of his proof,
without complimenting him upon his extensive
knowledge of Greek j and also upon the accuracy
of his quotation. In his Greek, with a
true Popish spirit, he has made Peter exhort the
priests to domineer. In his version, he translates
ion kleron the clergy j or, as he farther
explains it in the same page,
the inferior clergy.
Formerly the church considered the proper
meaning of this word to be,
* P. 154. 7 Acts, XX. 17.— 28.
a lot or an inheritance=