Tim. 4:14: but this is to be understood, as that some did it by the appointment of the presbytery, and most likely their προεστὼς , or prolocutor, which it may be was St. Paul himself. For in his second Epistle to Timothy, 1:6, he saith to him, “Stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the laying on of my hands”: where note by the way, that by the Holy Ghost, is not meant the third person in the Trinity, but the gifts necessary to the pastoral office. We read also, that St.