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Digitized by Google ni.] Presbyters. 79 2. In regard to the second of these functions, the theory upon which the public worship of the primitive Churches proceeded was that each community was complete in itself, and that in every act of public worship every element of the community was present.
When the episcopal system had established itself, there V was a bishop wherever in later times there would have been a parish church. From the small province of proconsular Asia, which was about t...he size of Lin- colnshire, 42 bishops were present at an early council *^ : in the only half-converted province of North Africa 470 episcopal towns are known by name ®^ It is therefore reasonable to expect that the bishop, as the chief officer of the community, presided whenever the community met together. The offerings at the Eucharist were made to him : they were distributed by the deacons : in the account of the Eucharist which is given by Justin Martyr the presbyters have no place at all ^^ : and in the later and more elaborate ritual which is preserved in the Apostolical Constitutions their place is altogether insignificant •^.
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Montf.
Digitized by Google ni.] Presbyters. 79 2. In regard to the second of these functions, the theory upon which the public worship of the primitive Churches proceeded was that each community was complete in itself, and that in every act of public worship every element of the community was present.
When the episcopal system had established itself, there V was a bishop wherever in later times there would have been a parish church. From the small province of proconsular Asia, which was about t...he size of Lin- colnshire, 42 bishops were present at an early council *^ : in the only half-converted province of North Africa 470 episcopal towns are known by name ®^ It is therefore reasonable to expect that the bishop, as the chief officer of the community, presided whenever the community met together. The offerings at the Eucharist were made to him : they were distributed by the deacons : in the account of the Eucharist which is given by Justin Martyr the presbyters have no place at all ^^ : and in the later and more elaborate ritual which is preserved in the Apostolical Constitutions their place is altogether insignificant •^.
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