ecclesiasts

Noun

ecclesiast (plural ecclesiasts)

1. A member of the Athenian ecclesia (public legislative assembly).
2. (rare) A member of any ecclesia (church or other assembly).
   • ... way of Grace, Charity, and this new way was to treat everyone as if he is your brother And that unlike the chosen race of the Jews you don't have to be born into this set of people the ecclesia which is the Greek word for Church, so to join the right church we automatically become an...2006, Richard Higgins, Gods Agenda with 2006 Apocalypse Calendar, →ISBN, page 133
3. A cleric; someone (such as a priest) who administers a church (ecclesia) or other religious gathering/group.
   • As we have seen, the Waldensians took the apostolic lives led by their barbes as proof that they spoke the truth, just as, contrariwise, it proved the priests who lived unworthy lives had no power. Again, Monet Rey gives the most precise explanation of the matter in 1494:
     The ecclesiasts had and...2007, Gabriel Audisio, Preachers by Night: The Waldensian Barbes (15th-16th Centuries), →ISBN

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