Vincent Word Studies - Titus 2:2 - 2:2

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Vincent Word Studies - Titus 2:2 - 2:2


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Aged men (πρεσβύτας)

Only here, Luk 1:18; Phm 1:9. To be understood of natural age, not of ecclesiastical position. Note that 1 Timothy 3, in treating of church officers, deals only with Bishops and Deacons. Nothing is said of Presbyters until chapter verse, where Timothy's relations to individual members of the church are prescribed. These church members are classified in this and the following verses as old men, old women, younger men, servants. In lxx πρεσβύτης is occasionally interchanged with πρεσβευτής ambassador. See 2Ch 32:31; 1 Macc. 13:21; 14:21, 22; 2 Macc. 11:34.