| 单词 | ruling elder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasruling elder ruling elder n. a nominated or elected official of any of various Christian churches, esp. the Presbyterian Church; cf. elder n.3 4a.The term is usually restricted to lay officials, ministers being referred to as teaching elders or ruling and teaching elders. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > elder > [noun] priestOE senior1382 presbyter1528 lay elder1593 ruling elder1593 presbyter-bishop1654 lay presbyter1656 society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > kirk-session > member of elder1526 presbyter1581 lay elder1593 ruling elder1593 elderling1606 1593 R. Bancroft Suruay Holy Discipline 158 That ruling elders are not comprehended vnder the name of Bischop. 1693 Cramond Kirk Session III. 28 Mar. Sir Georg Hamilton..he being ruleing elder for this paroch. 1736 Gentleman's Mag. June 342/1 A few ignorant Artificers in Market-Towns, or Farmers in Country-Parishes,..under the Character of Ruling Elders. a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) I. 142 Thrice-great as a ruling-elder (indeed, a very long-headed, strictly orthodox man). 1945 J. T. Cox Pract. Church of Scotl. 104 All are elders—ministers being teaching or preaching as well as ruling elders, and the others ‘ruling elders’ only. In practice the terms ‘elder’ and ‘ruling elder’ are restricted to such as are members of a Kirk Session, exclusive of the minister or ministers of the charge. 2004 L. R. Taylor in S. B. Cowan Who runs Church? v. 272 Most Baptists still prefer that, ordinarily, a minister (rather than a ruling elder or deacon) administer baptism and communion. < as lemmas |
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