A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

The sense of the word is explained two ways, both are mentioned by H. Stephanus in Thes: ling: Gr: Tom: 3, pag: 545. and both of them make against that which this Querist drives at. First the sense is conceived to be this, qui sum & ipse Presbyter: so the Tigurine, who am also an Elder so the English translators. Now the Text running thus, The Elders who are among you I exhort, who am also an Elder, i. e. I who give this exhortation unto you Elders, as I am an Apostle, so my Apostleship doth not exclude me from being one of you, for I am also an Elder: Thus (I say) this very Text makes against the Querist, for even here we see that they who were commonly called Elders, were not Apostles. But there is a second sense, which makes yet more against the Querist: For H. Stephanus expresseth the sense of [Greek or Hebrew] thus, qu• & ipse è seniorum & Presbyterorum Collegio est, he who is of the Assembly or College of Elders commonly called the Presbytery: Hierome did happily intend the same thing by the word Compresbyter. And likewise Beza by his rendering ego una Presbyter, i. e. I who am together with you a Presbyter, or you and I being Presbyters all of us together. And so the Text ⟨p. 106⟩may be red thus, The Elders who are among you I exhort, who am also of your Presbyteries. There were Presbyteries among them, or Assemblies of Elders properly so called, and of these Presbyteries Peter was also a member, and when he was present in any of the Presbyteries in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, a•d bithynia, he joined and acted as an Elder, and as in a Presbytery. This sense I prefer to the other. For if he had intended no more but to tell them that he also was an Elder, I should think he would have chosen another & plainer expression as [Greek or Hebrew]. The Elders who are among you I exhort, for I also am an Elder. or thus, [Greek or Hebrew] The Elders who are among you I exhort, as being my self also an Elder. Or thus, [Greek or Hebrew]; The Elders who are among you I exhort, I my self also being an Elder. But now when he purposely chooseth the word [Greek or Hebrew], he intimateth somewhat more then that he was an Elder. viz: that he was Presbyterated together with them, as being also of their Presbyteries, or Assemblies of Elders.

The sense of the word is explained two wayes, both are mentioned by H. Stephanus in Thes: ling: Gr: Tom: 3, pag: 545. and both of them make against that which this Querist drives at. First the sense is conceived to be this, qui sum & ipse Presbyter: so the Tigurine, who am also an Elder so the English ranslators. Now the Text running thus, The Elders who are among you I exhort, who am also an Elder, i. e. I who give this exhortation unto you Elders, as I am an Apostle, so my Apostleship doth not exclude me from being one of you, for I am also an Elder: Thus (I say) this very Text makes against the Querist, for even here we see that they who were commonly called Elders, were not Apostles. But there is a second sense, which maks yet more against the Querist: For H. Stephanus expresseth the sense of thus, qu & ipse è seniorum & Presbyterorum Collegio est, he who is of the Assembly or Colledge of Elders commonly called the Presbytery: Hierome did happily intend the same thing by the word Compresbyter. And likewise Beza by his rendering ego una Presbyter, i. e. I who am together with you a Presbyter, or you and I being Presbyters all of us together. And so the Text