From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 07:38:10 EDT
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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