---
title: 'The Presbyterian Diaconate Again'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Jacob Amos Lefevre'
date: 1882-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Presbyterian Polity'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 6'
- 'Ephesians 4'
- 'Titus 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/lefevre-1882-the-presbyterian-diaconate-again
---

# The Presbyterian Diaconate Again

1882 Southern Presbyterian Review debate on the diaconate and church offices, arguing that higher offices include lower functions using logic, metaphysics, and Scripture.

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