I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
Whom am a fellow-elder ... The authority of the eldership is in the group sharing the office and is not to be exercised individually, each elder himself being subject, as is the whole church, to the eldership.  Zerr noted that "Thayer defines the word elder as a fellow-elder."[5]