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To: Chaguito
Acts 20:17,28 presbuteros = elders = episkopos = bishops = poimen = pastors = the same people/functions, namely the elders of Ephesus church. Just a point of info.

episkopos=bishop
presbyteros=elder
diakoneo=deacon
poimen=pastor/shepherd

How do you figure them all to be interchangeable?

1,737 posted on 05/07/2008 4:33:04 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

All words are used by Paul in the same conversation addressed to the same group of men, the elders of the church at Ephesus.


1,740 posted on 05/07/2008 4:46:19 PM PDT by Chaguito
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