the apostles were entitled to deference from
other ministers on account of their superior age and experience; and
Paul sometimes refers to this claim. See Philem. 8, 9. On the same
ground all who have recently entered the ministry are bound to yield
precedence to aged pastors, and to respect their advice. See 1 Pet. v. 5.

[238:3] It can scarcely be necessary to remind the reader that the
postscripts to these epistles setting forth that Timothy was "ordained
the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians," and that Titus was
"ordained the first bishop of the Church of the Cretians," are spurious.
See Period i. sec. ii. chap. i. p. 181.

[239:1] 1 Tim. i. 3. Paul says (1 Cor. iv. 17) to the _Corinthians_--"I
have sent unto you Timotheus .... who shall bring you into remembrance
of my ways which be in Christ;" and, according to the mode of reasoning
employed by some, we might infer from this text that Timothy was bishop
of Corinth. "It is a suspicious circumstance," says Dr Burton, "that
several persons who are mentioned in the New Testament, are said to have
been bishops of the places connected with their names. Thus Cornelius is
said to have been bishop of Caesarea, and to have succeeded Zacchaeus,
though it is highly improbable that either of them filled such an
office."--"Lectures," i., p. 182.

[239:2] 1 Tim. vi. 17.

[239:3] See Period i. sect. i. chap, ix. p. 131.

[239:4] Acts xx. 30, 31.

[240:1] The word [Greek: katasteses], here translated "ordain," should
rather be rendered _constitute_, or _establish_.

[240:2] Titus i. 5.

[240:3] Titus iii. 13.

[240:4] Acts vi. 3, xiv. 23; 2 Cor. viii. 19, 23.

[240:5] Acts xxiii. 3.

[240:6] "The whole Sanhedrim were the judges, and sitting to judge him
according to the law."--_Alford on Acts_ xxiii. 3.

[241:1] See Prideaux's "Connections," part ii. books 1 and 8.

[241:2] Acts xxvi. 17, 18. See also, as another illustration, Matt. xvi.
19.

[241:3] 2 Cor. xi. 28.

[241:4] 1 Tim. iv. 12, 13; 2 Tim. ii. 22, 23; Titus ii. 7, 8.

[241:5] 1 Tim. ii. 1, 2, iv. 16, v. 19, 20, 22; 2 Tim. ii. 2, 15, iv. 2,
5; Titus iii, 8, 9.

[242:1] 1 Tim. v. 5, 16, vi. 1, 2, 9, 17; Titus ii. 6, 9, 10.

[242:2] One of the most remarkable instances of an appeal to the sense
of individual obligation in a case where many were concerned may be
found in Gal. vi. 1.

[242:3] Whitby, in his "Preface to the Epistle to Titus," says candidly
of the allegation that Timothy and