Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
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ER 2351
Jerome compares presbyters to the senate of the bishop. Jerome, "Commentary on Isaiah", AD 404-410.
2.3.3.  Senatus quoque consulta dicuntur et principes quondam romani consules appellati sunt, uel a consulendo ciuibus, uel a regendo cuncta consilio. Et nos habemus in ecclesia senatum nostrum, coetum presbyterorum.
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Inter senes autem et principes hoc fuisse reor in ueteri populo, quod nunc est inter presbyteros et episcopos.
 
(ed. Adriaen 1963)
 
 
 
 
2.3.3. The senate gave advices (consulta), and the princes of the Romans at that time were called consuls, either because they were advising the citizens, or because they were ruling everything by their advices. We also have our senate, that is the assemly of the presbyters.
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In the old people [of Israel] the regard between the elders and the princes was such as it is now between the presbyters and bishops.
 
(trans. S. Adamiak)

About the source:

Author: Jerome
Title: Commentary on Isaiah, Commentarii in Esaiam
Origin: Bethlehem (East)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
Jerome (ca. 347 - 419) wrote his "Commentary on Isaiah" in Bethlehem, between AD 404 and 410. It is his longest extant work.
Edition:
M. Adriaen ed., Hieronymus: Commentariorum in Esaiam libri I-XI, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 73, Turnhout 1963.
M. Adriaen ed., Hieronymus: Commentariorum in Esaiam libri XII-XVIII, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 73A, Turnhout 1963.

Categories:

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
    Ecclesiastical administration
      Theoretical considerations - On priesthood
        Theoretical considerations - On church hierarchy
          Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER2351, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2351