Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
Ver. 1. With the bishops and deacons] The word priest is never used at all for a minister of the gospel by the apostles, no, nor by the more ancient Fathers, as Bellarmine himself confesseth. a And yet how eager were our late factors for Rome to have priested us all, but that God better provided for us!
a De Cultu Sanct. lib. iii. cap. 4.