Priests, these are the bishops of the old system, have changed their name to presbyters, perhaps, and they look like revolutionaries, but they're manipulative, controlling actions haven't essentially changed at all.

牧师，这些是旧制度的主教，或许已经把名字变为长老，他们看起来像革命者，但其实他们的操纵，控制的行为并没有改变什么。

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Now of course, the presbyters had seized control in the first place because they disapproved of the tactics of suppression and intervention that had been deployed by the bishops, or the prelates, of the old church.

当然，现在长老首先掌握了控制权,因为他们对旧教会主教和教士的,镇压和干预策略非常反对。

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But if,per chance,there came,also, anyone who had followed the Presbyters," the elders, "I made inquiry concerning the words of the Presbyters, what Andrew or what Peter had said, or what Philip or what Thomas or James,or what John or Matthew, or any of the other disciples of the Lord said.

但如果碰巧有谁，曾跟随过长老“，即长者，“我就会问他们长老之言，安得烈之言，彼得之言，腓力，多马，雅各布，约翰，马太，或主的其他门徒之言。

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those church officials essentially appointed by Archbishop William Laud, were replaced in the early 1640s by means of the success of the Puritan revolutionaries and were replaced by presbyters: ministers who were chosen by individual congregations.

那些教会的要员本质上都是罗得主教任命的，他在17世纪40年代被清教的革命者和,长老所取代：,就是被每个教会的会众选出的教会的牧师。

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And he says this about his own little research: "I shall not hesitate to put down for you with my interpretations whatsoever things I well learned at one time from the Presbyters," just meaning the old guys,elders,"and well remembered, confidently asserting truthfulness for them.

对于他自己的研究，他这样说：,“我会毫不犹豫地写下,我曾经从长老那里学到和记住的,一切东西，而且加上我的诠释“,长老指长者，前辈，“并自信地肯定他们的真实性。

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