This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ... the power to ordain them; yet all those bishops were so far from differing in order, that they did not differ in degree: besides, the bishop of Meletius's party in Egypt were, by the council of Nice, denied power to ordain any officers, presbyters, or others, without the leave or concurrence of the other bishops in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ... the power to ordain them; yet all those bishops were so far from differing in order, that they did not differ in degree: besides, the bishop of Meletius's party in Egypt were, by the council of Nice, denied power to ordain any officers, presbyters, or others, without the leave or concurrence of the other bishops in that region; and yet by the same synod were confirmed in the office and dignity of bishops; so that depriving them of that power of ordaining, which other bishops had, did neither degrade them, nor make them officers of another species.' But it seems probable to some, that Chrysostom and Jerome speak only of the Greek church, (or some part of it, ) where the former was bishop, and where the latter did most reside and write. Whereas in those places where the presbyters did impose hands in ordaining, as they did in Africa, and other parts of the Latin church, there is not anything which belongs to ordination, which the presbyters did not actually perform: for, that they imposed hands as consenters, and not as ordainers, is a mere shifi, without reason to countenance it; and it may be said as reasonably, that when two bishops or more imposed hands with the metropolitan in the ordaining of a bishop, they concurred not as ordainers, but consenters. And in the Greek church, it is sufficiently signified by the synod at Ancyra/ that at the time when the synod was holden, and afier, the city presbyters might ordain with the bishop's consent, though he were absent; and that before this restraint they might have done more. However, hereby it appears, that the difference between bishops and presbyters, in respect of their power, was in some places in a manner nothing, in other places nothing at all; so that till the usurpations, beginning in the fourth age, ...
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