A minister, pastor, or elder of the Protestant faith.
Presbyter Quotes in Areopagitica
The Areopagitica quotes below are all either spoken by Presbyter or refer to Presbyter. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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And in their name I shall for neither friend nor foe conceal what the general murmur is; that if it come to inquisitioning again, and licensing, and that we are so timorous of ourselves, and so suspicious of all men, as to fear each book, and the shaking of every leaf, before we know what the contents are, if some who but of late were little better than silenced from preaching, shall come now to silence us from reading, except what they please, it cannot be guessed what is intended by some but a second tyranny over learning: and will soon put it out of controversy that bishops and presbyters are the same to us both name and thing.
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Presbyter Term Timeline in Areopagitica
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...that this project of licensing crept out of the Inquisition,” catching even “some of our presbyters,” Milton writes. In Athens, Greece, “the magistrate” cared only about books that were “either blasphemous...
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...“a second tyranny over learning,” and it will “put out of controversy that bishops and presbyters are the same to us both name and thing,” Milton writes.
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