WHich are at Philippi] Gr. which are in Philippi. with the Bishops and Deacons] The Synod of Nice forbad two or more Bishops to have their Seats in one Citie; and before that, Cornelius Bishop of Rome upbraids Novatus with ignorance (as Eusebius writeth in his sixt Book of Ecclesiasticall story) for that he knew not that there ought to be but one Bishop in that Church, in which he could not be ignorant that there were forty six Presbyters; and Oecumenius and Chrysostome affirme as much of Philippi, it being but one Citie, it cannot be supposed that there should be in it at the same time, more Bishops, in that restrained sense, as the word Bishop was afterwards taken. Here therefore by 〈in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈in non-Latin alphabet 〉, we are to understand the whole Ministery at Philippi, consisting of Presbyters, to whom the government of the Church was committed; and Deacons, who not onely had the care of the poor, but also assisted the Ministers in their Ecclesiasticall function.