23 And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.



Ver. 23. Ordained them elders] Giving their votes by lifting up their hands, after the fashion of the Greeks, ÷åéñïôïíçóáíôåò ; whence that of Cicero, porrexerunt manus, psephisma natum est. Or else laying on their hands, as the apostles used to do in ordaining of ministers. Stephanus saith, that this word when it governeth an accusative case (as here it doth) signifies not to "give suffrage," but to "create, ordain, elect."