Does Jerome Undermine Apostolic Succession?
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The Presbyters and the Church in Alexandria
Jerome's commentary on Titus explicitly distinguishes between a commandment of the Lord and a custom or tradition of the church. In letter 146 he seems to indicate that this change was a decision of the presbyters themselves. This kind of hybrid model is remembered in alexandria for a long time as part of the development it's how things are unfolding. The way an army elects a general and the way a group of deacons appoint one of their number to be the arch deacon now most scholars think it's disputed but what most scholars think is this is talking about ordination.
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