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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- I THE WORD ECCLESIA
- II THE APOSTLES IN RELATION TO THE ECCLESIA
- III EARLY STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF THE ECCLESIA
- IV THE ECCLESIA OF ANTIOCH
- V THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY
- VI ST PAUL AT EPHESUS
- VII THE ‘ECCLESIA’ IN THE EPISTLES
- VIII THE EARLIER EPISTLES OF ST PAUL
- IX THE ONE UNIVERSAL ECCLESIA IN THE EPISTLES OF THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY
- X ‘GIFTS’ AND ‘GRACE’
- XI TITUS AND TIMOTHY IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XII OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIA IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XIII BRIEF NOTES ON VARIOUS EPISTLES, AND RECAPITULATION
- FOUR SERMONS
- APPENDIX: Decoration of Emmanuel College Chapel
- INDEX
- WORKS BY THE LATE Rev. F. J. A. Hort, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
XII - OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIA IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- I THE WORD ECCLESIA
- II THE APOSTLES IN RELATION TO THE ECCLESIA
- III EARLY STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF THE ECCLESIA
- IV THE ECCLESIA OF ANTIOCH
- V THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY
- VI ST PAUL AT EPHESUS
- VII THE ‘ECCLESIA’ IN THE EPISTLES
- VIII THE EARLIER EPISTLES OF ST PAUL
- IX THE ONE UNIVERSAL ECCLESIA IN THE EPISTLES OF THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY
- X ‘GIFTS’ AND ‘GRACE’
- XI TITUS AND TIMOTHY IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XII OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIA IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XIII BRIEF NOTES ON VARIOUS EPISTLES, AND RECAPITULATION
- FOUR SERMONS
- APPENDIX: Decoration of Emmanuel College Chapel
- INDEX
- WORKS BY THE LATE Rev. F. J. A. Hort, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
Summary
From Titus and Timothy themselves we pass naturally to the officers of the Ecclesiae of which they were set for a time in charge.
In Crete, as we saw before, there were apparently no Elders previously; and the duty most definitely named as laid on Titus was to set (or establish or appoint) Elders in the several cities. The verb καθίστημι is used in Acts vi. 3 for the Apostles setting or appointing the Seven over the business of attending to the widows of the Greek speaking part of the community at Jerusalem: it is a word implying an exercise of authority, but has no technical force. In 1 and 2 Timothy it is not used, nor any other word approximately similar in sense.
The qualifications of an Elder in Crete
The first qualifications mentioned (Titus i. 5—9) are not capacities but, so to speak, primary moral conditions affecting men's personal or family relations, “if a man is under no charge or accusation (άνέγκλητος, probably not ‘blameless’ but ‘unblamed’), the husband of one wife, having children that believe (i.e. Christian), who are not accused of riotous living, or, unruly.
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- The Christian EcclesiaA Course of Lectures on the Early History and Early Conceptions of the Ecclesia, and Four Sermons, pp. 189 - 217Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1897