A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…

And I pray you tell me / whether Erasmus or the Greek Scholiast / be more to be believed in this point / out of whom is taken that which is in the latter end of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus / where they both are called the first elected Bishops that ever were / either of Ephesus or Creta. For my part I think they were neither Bishops nor Archbishops / but Evangelists / as shall appear afterwards: But it may be sufficient to have set against Erasmus authority / the authority of the Scholiast. And if here you will cavil and say that the Scholiast which sayeth he was Bishop / denieth not but that he also was an Archbishop / because an archbishop is a bishop / it may be answered casely / that the Scholiast did not speak nor write so unproperly / as to call them by the general name of bishop / whom he might as easily have called (if the truth would have let him) by a more proper and particular name of archbishop. And further in this division of the ministers / the archbishop and the bishop are members of one division / and therefore one of them can not be affirmed and said of an other / for that were contrary to the nature of a true division.

And I pray you tell me / whether Erasmus or the Greeke Scholiast / be more to bee beeleeued in thys poynte / out of whome is taken that whyche is in the latter ende of the Epystles to Tymothe and Tytus / where they bothe are called the first elected Byshoppes that euer were / eyther of Ephesus or Creta. For my parte I thyncke they were neyther Byshoppes nor Archbyshoppes / but Euangelistes / as shall appeare afterwardes: But it maye be suffycient to haue sette agaynste Erasmus authoritie / the authoritie of the Scholiaste. And if heere you will cauill and say that the Scholiaste whych sayeth hee was Byshoppe / denyeth not but that he also was an Archbyshoppe / because an archbyshop is a byshop / it may be answered casely / that the Scholiaste dyd not speake nor wryte so vnproperly / as to call them by the generall name of byshop / whome he myght as easely haue called (if the truth woulde haue let hym) by a more proper and particular name of archbyshop. And further in thys dyuision of the mynisters / the archbyshop and the byshop are members of one dyuision / and therefore one of them can not be affirmed and sayde of an other / for that were contrary to the nature of a true dyuision.