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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God’s Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

and also in 1 Peter 5:2. Pastors had charge of a given church, but it is not at all certain that at this time any one man had the sole responsibility over a given church. Both in Acts 20:28 and in 1 Peter 5:2 the role of pastor is defined as that of “overseer,” and in 1 Peter 2:25 Christ is called “pastor and overseer of your souls”* As teachers these people presumably instructed a given congregation in the facts and the faith of the Christian religion. In a number of languages pastors and teachers
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