t was arranged that
"this whole proceeding should be communicated _to the people_, that they
might see those established in the Church, whom they had so long seen
and mourned wandering and straying."--Cyprian, Epist. xlvi. p. 136.
Edit. Baluzius, Venice, 1728.

[228:1] That "the church" here signifies the eldership, see Vitringa,
"De Synagoga," p. 724.

[228:2] Matt, xviii. 15, 17.

[228:3] In our English version the original word [Greek:(paradosin)] is
improperly rendered _tradition_.

[228:4] Thess. iii. 6.

[228:5] Matt. v. 45.

[229:1] 2 Thess. iii. 14, 15.

[229:2] For an account of the excommunication of the Druids, see Caesar,
"De Bello Gallico," vi. 13. Many things in the Latin excommunication are
doubtless borrowed from paganism.

[229:3] As an example of this, see an old form of excommunication in
Collier's "Ecclesiastical History," ii. 273. Edit. London, 1840.

[230:1] Eph. iv. 11, 12.

[230:2] 1 Cor. xii. 28.

[230:3] 2 Tim. iv. 5.

[230:4] Acts xxi. 8, viii. 5.

[230:5] 1 Tim. i 3, v. 1, 7, 17; Tit. i. 5.

[231:1] Acts viii. 13; 2 Tim. i. 6. This latter text is often quoted,
though erroneously, as if it referred to the ordination of Timothy. The
ordainer usually laid on only his right hand. See "Con. Carthag." iv.
can. iii. iv. In conferring extraordinary endowments both hands were
imposed. See Acts xix. 6.

[231:2] John xiv. 26, xvi. 13, xx. 22.

[231:3] Matt. x. 1, xxviii. 18, 19.

[231:4] John xx. 26, xxi. 1; Acts i. 3; 1 Cor. ix. 1.

[231:5] Such is the opinion of Chrysostom and others. See Alford on this
passage.

[231:6] Acts vi. 2-4.

[231:7] In the Peshito version helps and governments are translated
_helpers_ and _governors_.

[232:1] It is remarkable that the lay council of the modern synagogue
are called Parnasim or Pastors. See Vitringa, "De Synagoga," pp. 578,
635.

[232:2] Mr Alford observes that in 1 Cor. xii. 28, "we must not seek for
a _classified_ arrangement"--the arrangement being "rather suggestive
than logical." Hence "helps" are mentioned _before_ "governments." In
the same way in Eph. iv. 11, "pastors" precede "teachers."

[232:3] Acts xx. 28; 1 Pet. v. 2.

[232:4] Acts xx. 17, 28; Titus i. 5, 7; 1 Pet. v. 1, 2.

[232:5] 1 Tim. iii. 1, 2, 5.

[232:6] 1 Pet. v. 1, 2, 4 The identity of elders and pastors is more
distinctly exhibited in the original here, and in Acts xx. 17, 28, as
the word translated _feed_ signifies literally _to act as a shepherd_