ACTS 20:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.”
'Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers (episkopos, bishops). Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood' — The governance language (episkopos, shepherd, poimainō) establishes pastoral responsibility. The flock's purchase through Christ's blood (aima Christou) sacralizes the church and binds leadership to sacrificial stewardship.
Church Fathers on Acts 20:28
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers (or, bishops) to feed the Church of God (see note 3), which He has purchased with His own blood. Acts 20:28 Do you mark? He enjoins them two things. Neither success in bringing others right of itself is any gain — for, I fear, he says, lest by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away 1 Corinthians 9:27; nor the being diligent for…
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