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Minister:
This term is used in the Authorized Version to describe various officials of a religious and civil character. Its meaning, as distinguished from servant, is a voluntary attendant on another. In the Old Testament it is applied
(1). to an attendance upon a person of high rank (Exodus 24:13; Joshua 1:1; 2 Kings 4:43).
(2). to the attachés of a royal court (1 Kings 10:5; 2 Chronicles 22:8 compare Psalm 104:4).
(3). To the priests and Levites (Ezra 8:17; Nehemiah 10:36; Isaiah 61:6; Ezekiel 44:11; Joel 1:9, 13). One term in the New Testament betokens a subordinate public administrator (Romans 13:6; 15:16; Hebrews 8:2) one who performs certain gratuitous public services. A second term contains the idea of actual and personal attendance upon a superior, as in Luke 4:20. The minister's duty was to open and close the building, to produce and replace the books employed in the service, and generally to wait on the officiating priest or teacher. A third term, diakonos (from which comes our word deacon) is the one usually employed in relation to the ministry of the gospel: its application is twofold,-in a general sense to indicate ministers of any order, whether superior or inferior, and in a special sense to indicate an order of inferiors ministers. SEE [DEACON].
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