...plainly speak him to be vested with apostolical superiority over that church ; so chap. i. ver. 5. For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set things in order that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee. For in...

...continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. And when they had ordained them elders in every church,...commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed. And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia. And when they had preached the...

...adorned for her husband. u ACTS, xiii. 2 : As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted. do. xiv. 23 : When they had ordained them elders in every church,...prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord. 2 COR. vi. 5 : In watchings, in fastings. an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh...

...enter into the kingdom of God. 23 And when they had "ordained 10 them elders in every Church, and had d prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed. 9 many afflictions. Gen. Pu. " chosen. Pu. b Ps. xxxiv. 19: Many are the afflictions of the righteous:...

...them, therefore, to continue in the profession of Christianity, notwithstanding these evils. 23. And when they had ordained them elders in every church,...prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they believed. These elders seem to have been chosen by the apostles, from among the most eminent...

...deserve examination. One of these, namely, Titus io he mentions ; the other is Acts , xiv. 23 : "And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with Fasting," &c. The original word translated ordained in this lut 492 passage, is Xctporov/jiravrcr : now any person...

...those engaged in the inferior ministry, when " having ordained them elders in every church, and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they believed":" the same Lord Jesus therefore may be well deemed on this occasion to have been the object of the Apostles'...

...ordained him. For this cause, says he to Titus in his letter to him, (i. 5.) for this cause I left Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee. Unless duly and regularly authorized,...

...and Barnabas, " when they had ordained them elders, presbuterous, in every Church, and had pray. «d with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed." And many other passages of the same import might be easily adduced. But it is not necessary. The institution...

...apart to the work of the ministry themselves, proceeded through the cities of Lystra, Iconium, $c. And when they had ordained them Elders in every church,...fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed. Our adversaries (says Dr. Miller) will perhaps say, that PAUL alone performed these ordinations,...