Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
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Barnes' Notes
Sent it to the elders - Greek: to the presbyters. This is the first mention which we have in the New Testament of elders, or presbyters, in the Christian church. The word literally denotes “aged men,”…
Adam Clarke
And sent it to the elders - These probably mean those who first believed on Christ crucified, either of the seventy disciples mentioned Luke, Luk 10:1, or the one hundred and twenty mentioned, Act…
When our Lord Jesus ascended on high he gave gifts unto men, not only apostles and evangelists, but prophets, who were enabled by the Spirit to foresee and foretel things to come, which not only…
Cambridge Bible
to the elders The Greek word = presbyters. This is the first time we come upon the term in the Christian history. In Act 20:17 they are again mentioned and there called "presbyters," though in the…
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