他是一个守旧教会教友。

He is a conservative member of the church.

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And one of the ways we think this--one of the reasons we think this is because in some of the old manuscripts of Ephesians, "To the Ephesians" is not there.

我们之所以这样认为的原因之一,就是以弗所书的一些旧稿里，“致以弗所教会“这样的说法并不存在。

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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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