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To: annalex; kosta50
"That is for Hebrew priests, who are in your colorful language, "killed and taken over". Our priests are presbyters."

So far as I know, today and for the past 2000 years anyway, the word for priest in Greek (other than παπας) is ἱερεύς, with small spelling variations over the centuries.

Πρεσβευτερος, I think, means either an old man or a representative, though we do call the wife of a priest a πρεσβευτερα. Certainly in English, though, we call priests Presbyters.

213 posted on 11/05/2009 4:11:15 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis
But ἱερεύς seems to only apply to pagan and Hebrew priests in patristic literature, no?
219 posted on 11/05/2009 10:11:03 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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