[239:2] 1 Tim. vi. 17.

[239:3] See Period i. sect. i. chap, ix. p. 131.

[239:4] Acts xx. 30, 31.

[240:1] The word [Greek:  katasteses], here translated “ordain,” should rather be rendered constitute, or establish.

[240:2] Titus i. 5.

[240:3] Titus iii. 13.

[240:4] Acts vi. 3, xiv. 23; 2 Cor. viii. 19, 23.

[240:5] Acts xxiii. 3.

[240:6] “The whole Sanhedrim were the judges, and sitting to judge him according to the law.”—­Alford on Acts xxiii. 3.

[241:1] See Prideaux’s “Connections,” part ii. books 1 and 8.

[241:2] Acts xxvi. 17, 18.  See also, as another illustration, Matt. xvi. 19.

[241:3] 2 Cor. xi. 28.

[241:4] 1 Tim. iv. 12, 13; 2 Tim. ii. 22, 23; Titus ii. 7, 8.

[241:5] 1 Tim. ii. 1, 2, iv. 16, v. 19, 20, 22; 2 Tim. ii. 2, 15, iv. 2, 5; Titus iii, 8, 9.

[242:1] 1 Tim. v. 5, 16, vi. 1, 2, 9, 17; Titus ii. 6, 9, 10.

[242:2] One of the most remarkable instances of an appeal to the sense of individual obligation in a case where many were concerned may be found in Gal. vi. 1.

[242:3] Whitby, in his “Preface to the Epistle to Titus,” says candidly of the allegation that Timothy and Titus were bishops respectively of Ephesus and Crete—­“Now, of this matter, I confess I can find nothing in any writer of the first three centuries, nor any intimation that they bore that name.”

[242:4] 1 Tim. i. 3; 2 Tim. iv. 10, 12, 21; Titus i. 5, iii. 12.

[242:5] Hence Fulgentius speaks of “cathedra Joannis Evangelistae Ephesi.”  Lib.  “De Trinitate,” c. 1.  Contradictory traditions sometimes happily annihilate each other.

[243:1] Homer, “Iliad,” ii. v. 156.

[243:2] Mark x. 42-45.

[244:1] 1 Pet. v. 3.

[244:2] Acts i. 15, 21-23, 26.

[244:3] 2 Cor. viii. 19, 23.  See also 1 Cor xvi. 3.

[244:4] Acts vi. 3, xiv. 23.  See also 1 Tim. iii. 10, compared with 1 John iv. 1.

[244:5] Clemens Romanus states that, in the apostolic age, ecclesiastical appointments were made “with the approbation of the whole church.”  “Epist. to Corinthians,” Sec. 44.

[245:1] Acts vi. 6; 1 Tim. v. 22.

[245:2] See Selden, “De Synedriis,” lib. i. c. 14.

[245:3] Acts xiii. 1-3.

[245:4] Acts xiv. 23.

[245:5] 1 Tim. iv. 14.  That the preposition [Greek:  meta] here indicates the instrumental cause, see Acts xiii. 17, xiv. 27.

[245:6] Acts vi. 6.  Some have thought it strange that Paul gives no instructions to Titus respecting the ordination of deacons in Crete.  See Titus i. 8.  This was unnecessary, as the elders, when ordained, could afterwards ordain deacons.

[245:7] Rom. xvi. 1.

[245:8] [Greek:  diakonon].

[246:1] 1 Tim. v. 3, 4, 9.

[246:2] Rom. xvi 2.

[247:1] 1 Cor. xii. 12, 21, 26.