Assertion: epistle | /r/CapableOf | exist as society
Facets:
value: with special officers
type: OTHER
value: from the day of pentecost
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: It seems an error to suppose, as has often been done, that these epistles contain the germ of monarchical episcopacy; for the Christian church had already, from the day of Pentecost, existed as a society with special officers for the functions of extension, discipline and administration.
text: It seems an error to suppose, as has often been done, that these epistles contain the germ of monarchical episcopacy; for the Christian church had already, from the day of Pentecost, existed as a society with special officers for the functions of extension, discipline and administration.