The History of the Christian Church

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The History of the Christian Church
Heinrich Wilhelm Josias Thiersch
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The last and most severe measure held over the blas- phemer and seducer was the anathema — corresponding to the Jewish Cherem or Schammatha — the delivering into the power of Satan. (1 Cor. V. 4, 5 ; 1 Tim. I. 20. ) Yet even this was not unto eternal perdition, but, if possible, to the saving of the soul ; and w^as performed in the firm persuasion that, without human intervention, divine chastisements could, beyond the pale of the Church, find out and speak savingly to him who would not hear Go...d's voice in His Church.
We find in Paul's Churches deacons and elders, exactly as in Jerusalem. The deacon's office was a stepping- 150 THE LABORS OF PAUL.
stone to that of the elder or bishop, yet quite distinct from it. (1 Tim. Iii. 8; Phil. I. 1. ) The nature of the case led to this; and Clement of Rome expressly states, that the Apostles set the first fruits of 'their ministry as deacons and bishops in every new place. (Clem. Rom. I ad Cor. 42. ) The widows who were maintained by the Church (1 Tim.


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