The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-12-19

wrought miracles in the name (not
Of q dead man, butt of a living
and life giving Saviour, to demon
strate the truth of their doctrines.
The Apostles had no successors ex-
cept as preachers, and all who are
called of God, and qualified by
grace and education to preach the
q 81 assaeh, their true sucsl
cessors.
ELDERS. We read of Elders OF
Israel, who were the heads Of the
tribes, or rather of the great fami-
lies in Israel, who, in the infancy,
and before the settlement of the
Hebrew commonwealth, had a kind
of government over their families,
and over the whole people. When
Moses was sent into Egypt to de-
liver Israel, he assembled the
elders of Israel, and told them that
the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, had appeared to him. (Ex'
iii. 15.) Moses appointed seventy
elders of Israel, to whom God
communicated part of that legis-
lator's spirit; they began to pro-
phecy, and ceased not afterwards
The members of the Sanhedrim
were also called elders, and likewise
the officers of theSynagogue. The
name, therefore, is borrowed from
the Jewish people, and is employed
by the New Testament writer's as
an old term, applicable to the new
state of things. The word may
properly be translated preSbyters, a;
this term is derived from the ori
ginal Greek Qresbuteroi.) 1t is
probable that those thus caIleC
were usually wise and aged men
whose long tried experience an(
fidelity pointed them out as thu
suitable almoners ofthe benevolen
donations for the poor, and fittet
to perform other religious duties
They preached, confuted gain
sayers Grit. i. 81, and visited tn
sick (James V. 14. That tn
elders or presDyters were the sam
as the bishops or OcerScers, is evi
dent from Acts Xx. 17-28; Tit.
81. Such is the view of Ham
mond, Robinson, and many Others
The word Bishop Is Of HebreN
origin. 'Now therefore," said Jc
seph, wet him Pharaoh] appoin
officers over the land" HebreN
(pckidim) visitors, or overseer'
The original term pakid) is i
several instances rendered by tn
Greek Of the Scptuagint, and theme
transferred into the Greek Of th
New Testament, (episcopos) oVel
seer, from which comes the Englis
word bishop its usual represents
tive in the writings Of the Apostle
This word has in nsome way becom
appropriated as a title OF ecclesia'
tical officers, though the genuir
import of the original is-a perso
charged with the oversight an
management of any business wha
ever, whether sacred or civil. Thu
Chron xxxiv. 12-17, Oversee
of them that did the work.
bishops OF them that did the worl
) If the translators OF the Englis
Bible had not been warped by II
circumstances in which they we
{ placed, their usual fidelity to tt
original would doubtless have Il
them to render this word by
> plain corresponding term, 'ove
u seers.' In like manner 'ecclesi
. would have been rendered 'congr
. CATION or assembly instead
: church. 1t is surely taking u
: warrantable liberties with the or
. cles of God to affix in a version
u technical character to words al
y phrases which are not thus mark
in the original. .
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i sire to emulate the generosity
lie city governments and other corr
D. rofions in continuing the wages