Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsPhilippians 1

Bishops and deacons.

^[1] Wicleffe and other Heretics would prove by this that Priests are not here named, and for that there could not be many Bishops of this one town, that there is no difference betwixt a Bishop and a Priest, which was the old heresy of Ærius, of which matter, ^[2] in other places: for this present it is enough to know that in the Apostles' time there were not observed always proper distinct names of either function, as they were quickly afterward, though they were always diverse degrees & distinct functions. See S. Chrysostom, Oecumenius, Theophylactus, and the rest of the Græcians upon this place.

• 1 Bishops and Priests always distinct functions.
• 2 * See Annot. Tit. 1. v. 5.