They were appointed as elders, or overseers, who could “exhort by the teaching that is healthful and... reprove those who contradict. ”
क्यों? क्योंकि दूसरे इलाकों की कलीसियाओं की तरह, उस द्वीप की हर कलीसिया में भी कुछ पुरुषों को “प्राचीन ” ठहराया गया था ।