Elders
group · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
elders · the elders · fathers · first born · older brother · older men · parents
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Elders2 mentions
Protrepticus (Greek) · De Corona (Latin)
Philosophy, as the elders say, is a long-lasting counsel, wooing the eternal love of wisdom;
in the texts
Exhortation to the Newly Baptized
Older persons to whom the addressee should yield as to fathers.
Yield to elders as to fathers;
Protrepticus
Traditional teachers whose saying about philosophy as a long counsel is cited and then subordinated to piety.
Philosophy, as the elders say, is a long-lasting counsel, wooing the eternal love of wisdom;
Areopagiticus
Older citizens whose honor and authority are part of the old civic order.
To contradict one’s elders or to be impudent to them was then considered more reprehensible than it is nowadays to sin against one’s parents;
for it delivered the poor from want by providing them with work and with assistance from the wealthy, the young from excesses by engaging them in occupations and by watching over them, the men in public life from the temptations of greed by imposing punishments and by letting no wrong-doer escape detection, and the older men from despondency by securing to them public honors and the devotion of the young.
De Corona
Heavenly elders depicted seated and crowned in the vision.
The elders too sit crowned, and with the same gold the Son of man Himself glitters above the cloud.
Cyropaedia
Older persons and especially the older brother, to whom custom, law, and training assign precedence.
but precedence in counsel and leadership in everything that may be thought expedient, that I commit to the first born, who naturally has a wider experience.
I, too, was thus trained by my country and yours to give precedence to my elders—not merely to brothers but to all fellow-citizens—on the street, in the matter of seats, and in speaking;