{"id":172,"date":"2009-09-08T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2009\/09\/08\/elder-bishop-titus-15-7\/"},"modified":"2009-09-08T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T16:44:00","slug":"elder-bishop-titus-15-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2009\/09\/08\/elder-bishop-titus-15-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder = Bishop (Titus 1:5-7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This passage equates the two Greek words, presbuterous (elders) and episkopon (bishop).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tit 1:5-7  For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">elders (\u03c0\u03c1\u03b5\u03c3\u03b2\u03c5\u03c4\u03b5\u0301\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2) <\/span>in every city as I directed you, namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion. For the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">overseer (\u03b5\u0313\u03c0\u03b9\u0301\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03bd) <\/span>must be above reproach as God&#8217;s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain&#8230; (NASB)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This passage equates the two Greek words, presbuterous (elders) and episkopon (bishop). Tit 1:5-7 For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders (\u03c0\u03c1\u03b5\u03c3\u03b2\u03c5\u03c4\u03b5\u0301\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2) in every city as I directed you, namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eoc","category-episkopate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}