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Reply Concerning Philip's Ministry

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 7, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 19, No. 6.

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Reply Concerning Philip's Ministry

By J. N. Loughborough

REPLY.—I suppose Philip must have been ordained an evangelist after he was chosen to the office of a deacon. Probably, "having," as Paul says [1 Tim. iii, 13], "used the office of a deacon well, he purchased to himself a good degree and great boldness in the faith." This would seem to imply that some who were first chosen to be deacons might afterward attain to a higher degree, as I understand Philip did when he became an evangelist. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.