Monday, July 06, 2020

Priest / Presbyter (Elder)

Something people don’t always realise on the origin of the English word, “priest”:

Word Origin “priest”

Old English prēost, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch priester, German Priester, based on ecclesiastical Latin presbyter ‘elder’, from Greek presbuteros ‘elder’ (used in the New Testament to denote an elder of the early church), comparative of presbus ‘old (man)’.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/priest?q=priest

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