Menno Simons on ... wordly titles
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kind reader, did you ever hear or read that the holy apostles and prophets
were covetous of such high, vain names as are the learned and the preachers
of the world. It is true the word Rabbi or Master was applied to the ambitious
Scribes and Pharisees, but not to the apostles and prophets. For we do
not read of Doctor Isaiah, of Master Ezekiel and of Lords Paul and Peter.
No, no. All those who have rightly taught the word of the Lord, were in
their time not honored with such high-sounding names. [p. 266]
All excerpts are from The complete works of Menno Simon (Elkhart, Ind., 1871).