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Elders

From: A Dictionary of Biblical Words and Phrases

By: Alfred Taylor Schofield

This word is used in four principal ways; (1) The Jewish elders spoken of throughout the Gospels; (2) Christian elders or bishops (overseers) see Titus 1:5-7⁵For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: ⁶If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. ⁷For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; (Titus 1:5‑7); (3) Those advanced in years 1 Peter 5:5⁵Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. (1 Peter 5:5)., and (4) the twenty-four enthroned elders of the Revelation, typifying doubtless heavenly saints in their character of the royal priesthood of twenty-four courses (see 1 Chron. 24-25.)

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