Philippians — Chapter 1
These annotations are from the original 1582 Rheims New Testament, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Rheims. The archaic spelling is preserved.
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Verse 1
1. Bishops and Deacons.) Bishops and Priests alwaies distinct function. Wicleffe and other Heretikes would proue by this that Priests are not here named; & for that there could not be many Bishops of this one towne, that there is no difference betwixt a Bishop and a Priest, which was the old heresie of Aerius, of which matter, *in other places. For this present it is enough to know that in the Apostles time there were not obserued alwaies proper distinct names of either function, as they were quickly afterward, though they were alwaies diuers degrees & distinct functions. See S. Chrysostom, Oecumenius, Theophylactus, and the rest of the Gracians vpon this place. * See Annot. Tit. 1. v. 5.