Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 12 — [19] Inscientiam: the general reading being scientiam, the sense of which is not clear.
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 12
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[20] Sacerdotum: I am in doubt as to what this term here includes, but think it probable that all ranks of the clergy were to be summoned. The words sacerdos and antistes in early ecclesiastical Latin very often mean the bishop (episcopus) specifically rather than the presbyter (sacerdos secundi ordinis), because it was the bishop who offered the "sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving" (i.e. the Eucharist), and the presbyter only in his default; but the term sacerdos does certainly often include the presbyters and also the deacons (sacerdotes tertii ordinis) when in connexion with the p…
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