1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:



Ver. 1. With the bishops and deacons] The word priest is never used at all for a minister of the gospel by the apostles, no, nor by the more ancient Fathers, as Bellarmine himself confesseth. {a} And yet how eager were our late factors for Rome to have priested us all, but that God better provided for us!



{a} De Cultu Sanct. lib. iii. cap. 4.