{"query": "Easton: Bishop", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9330b5966e58", "title": "Easton: Bishop", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An overseer. In apostolic times, it is quite manifest that there was no difference as to order between bishops and elders or presbyters (Acts 20:17-28; 1 Pet. 5:1, 2; Phil. 1:1; 1 Tim. 3). The term bi"}, {"id": "card_n_955e5c1a3a84", "title": "Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans VIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything"}, {"id": "card_n_967bf20f6584", "title": "Ignatius to the Magnesians III", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now it becomes you also not to treat your bishop too familiarly on account of his youth, but to yield him all reverence, having respect to the power of God the Father, as I have known even holy presby"}, {"id": "card_n_66c39f9d4003", "title": "Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans IX", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Moreover, it is in accordance with reason that we should return to soberness [of conduct], and, while yet we have opportunity, exercise repentance towards God. It is well to reverence both God and the"}, {"id": "card_n_629215d497c4", "title": "Ignatius to the Ephesians V", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For if I, in this brief space of time, have enjoyed such fellowship with your bishop—I mean not of a mere human, but of a spiritual nature—how much more do I reckon you happy who are so joined to him "}, {"id": "card_c_045e52453e7c", "title": "Easton: Bishop cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 20:17 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_98d9ac9bf8b2", "title": "Ignatius to the Magnesians II", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Since, then, I have had the privilege of seeing you, through Damas your most worthy bishop, and through your worthy presbyters Bassus and Apollonius, and through my fellow-servant the deacon Sotio, wh"}, {"id": "card_n_28f9af0f8613", "title": "Ignatius to the Trallians VII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Be on your guard, therefore, against such persons. And this will be the case with you if you are not puffed up, and continue in intimate union with Jesus Christ our God, and the bishop, and the enactm"}, {"id": "card_n_3811a848b810", "title": "Ignatius to the Ephesians VI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now the more any one sees the bishop keeping silence, the more ought he to revere him. For we ought to receive every one whom the Master of the house sends to be over His household, as we would do Him"}, {"id": "card_n_76acd94704fd", "title": "Ignatius to the Magnesians XIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Study, therefore, to be established in the doctrines of the Lord and the apostles, that so all things, whatsoever ye do, may prosper both in the flesh and spirit; in faith and love; in the Son, and in"}, {"id": "card_n_71735bc51520", "title": "Ignatius to the Ephesians IV", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Wherefore it is fitting that ye should run together in accordance with the will of your bishop, which thing also ye do. For your justly-renowned presbytery, worthy of God, is fitted as exactly to the "}, {"id": "card_n_7631a5d8b208", "title": "Ignatius to the Philadelphians VII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For though some would have deceived me according to the flesh, yet the Spirit, as being from God, is not deceived. For it knows both whence it comes and whither it goes, and detects the secrets [of th"}, {"id": "card_n_06f1586c8409", "title": "Ignatius to the Trallians III", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In like manner, let all reverence the deacons as an appointment of Jesus Christ, and the bishop as Jesus Christ, who is the Son of the Father, and the presbyters as the sanhedrim of God, and assembly "}, {"id": "card_n_7c3d84e677ea", "title": "Ignatius to Polycarp V", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Flee evil arts; but all the more discourse in public regarding them. Speak to my sisters, that they love the Lord, and be satisfied with their husbands both in the flesh and spirit. In like manner als"}, {"id": "card_n_661b5dad1af4", "title": "Ignatius to Polycarp VI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Give ye heed to the bishop, that God also may give heed to you. My soul be for theirs that are submissive to the bishop, to the presbyters, and to the deacons, and may my portion be along with them in"}, {"id": "card_n_2f621f849ea7", "title": "Ignatius to the Magnesians VI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Since therefore I have, in the persons before mentioned, beheld the whole multitude of you in faith and love, I exhort you to study to do all things with a divine harmony, while your bishop presides i"}, {"id": "card_n_3d10ff8c281b", "title": "Ignatius to the Trallians II", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For, since ye are subject to the bishop as to Jesus Christ, ye appear to me to live not after the manner of men, but according to Jesus Christ, who died for us, in order, by believing in His death, ye"}, {"id": "card_n_169b98e54db2", "title": "Ignatius to the Ephesians I", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I have become acquainted with your name, much-beloved in God, which ye have acquired by the habit of righteousness, according to the faith and love in Jesus Christ our Saviour. Being the followers of "}, {"id": "card_n_cf6928dba910", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_003: To Simplicianus then I went, the father of Ambrose (a Bishop now) in receivin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To Simplicianus then I went, the father of Ambrose (a Bishop now) in receiving Thy grace, and whom Ambrose truly loved as a father. To him I related the mazes of my wanderings. But when I mentioned th"}, {"id": "card_n_5393868bcbac", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_016: Then didst Thou by a vision discover to Thy forenamed Bishop where the bodies...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Then didst Thou by a vision discover to Thy forenamed Bishop where the bodies of Gervasius and Protasius the martyrs lay hid (whom Thou hadst in Thy secret treasury stored uncorrupted so many years), "}]}