 | John Jackson - 1855 - 146 páginas
...Bishops considered themselves fas invested with a rank and character similar to those of the high priests among the Jews, while the presbyters represented the...through artifice or design. The notion, however, once entertained, produced its natural effects ; and the effects were pernicious." — Mosh. Ch. Hist.,... | |
 | Vincent L. Milner - 1855 - 444 páginas
...the Christian church succeeded to the character, rights, and privileges of the Jewish priesthood ; and accordingly the bishops considered themselves...represented the priests, and the deacons the Levites. This notion, which was first introduced in the reign of Adrian, proved a source of very considerable... | |
 | 1856 - 604 páginas
...bishops considered themselves invested with a rank and character similar to those of the high-priests among the Jews, while the presbyters represented the priests, and the deacons the Levites." During the third century considerable additions were made to the kingdom of Christ ; and many were... | |
 | Charles E. Glass - 1876 - 230 páginas
...that the ministers of the Christian Church succeeded to all the privileges of the Jewish priesthood, and accordingly the bishops considered themselves...represented the priests, and the deacons the Levites. This notion, which was first introduced in the reign of Adrian, proved the source of very considerable... | |
 | Alonzo Trévier Jones - 1891 - 1046 páginas
...came in proper succession from the high-priests, the priests, and the Levites of the Levitical law. "Accordingly, the bishops considered themselves as...represented the priests, and the deacons the Levites." — Moxheim.* These distinctions were established as early as the middle of the second century. This... | |
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T ii n°Pes of seeing their government restored to its ' former lustre, and their country arising out of ruins. And, accordingly, the bishops considered themselves as invested with a rank and character similar to those of the high-priest among the Jews,... 
