Ecclesiasticus (2)

Ecclesiasticus

(1), Any person in orders, whether major or minor.

(2) Isidore of Seville speaks of a clerk occupying his dace position in the hiearchy as an "ecclesiastical clerk," in distinction from an irregular clerk.

⇒Bible concordance for ECCLESIASTICISM.

(3) Those who were so connected with a Church as to be unable to leave; its service were called in a special sense "ecclesiastical men." They were not slaves.

⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.