[CynicalBear]

Only the Catholics try to make presbuteros into priest. It’s the smoke and mirrors approach using Samaritan religious principles.

[Cronos]

Nah, it's only the idiots who take the modern meaning in Modern English and use it to reference a translation of presbuteros into priest and twist it to being a translation from hierus

here's something from www.dictionary.com for ya

Origin: before 900; Middle English prest ( e ), priest, Old English prēost, ultimately < Late Latin presbyter presbyter

[Cronos]

Nah, it's only the idiots who take the modern meaning in Modern English and use it to reference a translation of presbuteros into priest and twist it to being a translation from hierus

here's something from www.dictionary.com for ya

Origin: before 900; Middle English prest ( e ), priest, Old English prēost, ultimately < Late Latin presbyter presbyter

And from the Oxford dictionary: Old English prēost, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch priester, German Priester, based on ecclesiastical Latin presbyter 'elder' (see presbyter)

[Cronos]

Nah, it's only the idiots who take the modern meaning in Modern English and use it to reference a translation of presbuteros into priest and twist it to being a translation from hierus

here's something from www.dictionary.com for ya

Origin: before 900; Middle English prest ( e ), priest, Old English prēost, ultimately < Late Latin presbyter presbyter

And from the Oxford dictionary: Old English prēost, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch priester, German Priester, based on ecclesiastical Latin presbyter 'elder' (see presbyter)

and from webster's dictionary Origin of PRIEST

Middle English preist, from Old English prēost, ultimately from Late Latin presbyter — more at presbyter First Known Use: before 12th century

So, it's not just the "Catholic Church" who says priest is derived from presbuteros -- why don't you, Cynical bear learn how wrong your beliefs are before continually talking about them?

[Cronos]

Cynical bear: Only the Catholics try to make presbuteros into priest.

here's something from www.dictionary.com for ya

Origin: before 900; Middle English prest ( e ), priest, Old English prēost, ultimately < Late Latin presbyter presbyter

And from the Oxford dictionary: Old English prēost, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch priester, German Priester, based on ecclesiastical Latin presbyter 'elder' (see presbyter)

and from webster's dictionary Origin of PRIEST

Middle English preist, from Old English prēost, ultimately from Late Latin presbyter — more at presbyter First Known Use: before 12th century

So, it's not just the "Catholic Church" who says priest is derived from presbuteros -- Cynical bear, this is just one of the wrong beliefs you have about orthodoxy, yes? yes.