PRESBUTEROS

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Sun May 28 07:38:10 EDT 2000


At 07:15 AM 5/28/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>The feminine form of PRESBUTEROS appears at 1 Tim 5:2; could this be a 
>reference to female ministry or merely an "elder woman"; the context does 
>not make this clear (to me but it's early in the morning here). There have 
>been catacomb inscriptions found with the feminine form. More importantly 
>does it appear eleswehere in the NT in feminine form?

it does indeed refer to women elders.  cf rom 16:1ff.  that women did in
fact occupy positions of leadership in the early church has been amply
demonstrated in the little book titled "When Women Were Priests".

best,

jim

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