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[other member ; and that it soli litetitgelit7 on all of I
them, as expressed by Piriac.(l Epistle iv. 10),".ac-
cording 4111 they had received tarq at to minister the same
one to another a: good steward: ef the manifold grace of
GoD," speaking agreeably to oracles—not seeking
to please men, but speaking the truth in love, that they
might grow up unto him in all thing: who is VIP 111.4 D,
run ilNoturso--edifying the body in love (Eph. iv.
15, 16) •
As it belonged to every male member to teach and
to exhort the. congregatiott, so also it is evident any
male member might be called upon t to be the m. u:h
of the assembly in prayer to GOD ; for Nut: afterin-
forming Timorny (2 tpistle ii.) what sort of suppli-
cations and intercessions should be offered up for
King's and Magistrates, proceeds (ver. 8.) to mention
by whom I will therefore that MEN PRAY, every
where, lifting to holy hands, without wrath and doubting."
—That the word " men" is not here put for believers
generally ; as if he had said, " I will that disciples
pray every where," is evident; for it is preceded in
the original by the article ; and " THE•MEN" [roc);
av4cts] are put in contrast with THE women in the
verses that follow.—" Let THE WOMEN letzim in silence
—I infer not a woman to teach—but TO BS IN =NATE."
The Apostle, in short, after enjoining that the male
members were to offer up the prayers of the congre-
gation, reminds them by the latter words that this
could not be done by females, since they were not per-
mitted to speak, but commanded to keep silence in the assem-
blies (1 Cor. xiv. 34, 35). Nor is it possible to assign
any other meaning to the words, as they stand in the
original, unless we affirm that men are commanded
to pray every where, but women to pray no where.—
That the term every where, or in every place, when
connected by the Apostle with what he enjoins as
duty, always alludes to places where Christian con-
gregations were settled ; and that what TiNtoTtry re-
ceived as directions to be every where attended to,
was communicated by him to every congregation
which he visited, appears irrefragably from what'
Nut himself says to the Corinthians (1 Epistle iv.
17.) respecting this very TIMOTHY and the instruc-
tions he gave him : " I beseech you, be ye followers of
me. For this cause have bent unto you Ttmorar, my be,
loved son and faithful in the LORD, who shall bring you
into remembrance if' my ways which be in CHRIST, as I
teach EVERY WHERE, IN EVERY CONGREGATION.

BIBLICtS."

• It appears plainly by the letter of Alexander, Bishop of Je-
rusalem, and 'lleoctistus of Czsarea to Demetrius, Bishop of
Alexandria, that in their time, which was that of Origen, the
custom had not yet become general for the Clergy, as the Office-
bearers came through time to be called, to monopolize the privi-
lege of speaking in the congregation. Origen, before he was
called into office, having gone into Palestine, had, by desire of
the Bishops, preached there ; at this Demetrius, when he learnt
it, took offence ; on which occasion Alexander and Theoctistus
wrote to him as follows :—" Whereas you say in your letter, that
it wag never before seen or practised, That Laymen should preach
in the presence of Bishops : you therein deviate from the truth
for, wheresoever any are found that are able to profit the brethrer,
the Holy Bishops, of their own accord, ask them to preach unto
the people. Evelpis was thus desired by Neon, Bishop of La-
randa, and Paulinus by Celsus of iconium, and Theodorus by
Atticus of Synnada, our most blessed brethren." Euseb. lib vi.
cap. xix.
As express injunctions arc given to the Corinthians to avoid
every kind of confusion in their public assemblies, and as it was
the special province of the Angel, or presiding elder, to see that
this was attended to, we may infer that the person who at any
time acted as the mouth of the congregation in this particular ser-
vice, when not the presiding elder himself, would be one called',
up at the time by him.

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