Crossword-Solution: EPISKOPOS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
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greedy person
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Sentences with EPISKOPOS (5)
Dei xix, 19); while the priests according to the Greek are "elders." [*Referring to the Greek _episkopos_ and _presbyteros_ from which the English 'bishop' and 'priest' are derived.] Hence the Apostle employs the term "priests" in reference to both, when he says (1 Tim.
But the names of the ministers of the Church seem very primitive, the words "presbyter" and _episkopos_ not being mentioned.
The government is substantially "Episcopal," but the title "episkopos" was in the 2nd century only applied to the chief dignitary who ruled over the "presbyters." But here the title "episkopos" is applied to the presbyters themselves as the overseers of the congregation.
The word _bishop_ carries us back to the introduction of Christianity among the Anglo-Saxons at the close of the sixth century, and then through the Latin to the primitive days of the Church, when an _episkopos_, or overseer, presided over the newly founded congregations in the leading cities of Greece.
For _episkopos_ is not used there as the special title of a superintendent pastor set over other pastors.