[181]πρεσβυτέριον or συνέδριον; the latter word passed into Aramaic as sanhedrin.
[182]In Jerusalem, however, the high priest presided as the religious head of Israel.
[183]In Judaism priesthood came by birth, not by ordination. The office had little dignity.
[184]A Rabbi’s authority was that of his personal learning. Very few presbyters could have been Rabbis, except in Jerusalem.
[185]The temple worship entered little into the outlook of most Jews. Outside the temple priests had almost no functions.
[186]“Adjuvet et gubernet”; in Greek (Constitutions VIII, 16, 4, Epitome VI, 2) ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι καὶ κυβερνᾶν.
[187]Certain meals held by religious societies of Jews were only a specialized form of family devotions.
[188]Didache 15. 1.
[189]Best studied in the Didascalia.
[190]In very large churches conditions were different.