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  • noun Plural form of evangelist.

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  • Matthew, calls him your Evangelist; he also uses the term evangelists in the plural number.

    Evidence of Christianity William Paley 1774

  • These are commonly called evangelists from the general nature of their work, but were not those extraordinary officers which were afterward in the Christian church under that title and appellation.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Eusebius calls the evangelists the imitators of the apostles, but in the earliest period they were held by most people simply to be apostles.

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • The other thing that's interesting is that his definition of what it meant to be a Christian was there was a-- an evolving sense today of sort of -- there's some big name evangelists who are out there who are talking about expanding ...

    CNN Transcript May 15, 2007 2007

  • I don't think that the evangelists, that is going to matter.

    CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2006 2006

  • Religious service and leadership in the one section under the direction of college and theological seminary men can hardly be put in the same class with the highly emotional expression of religious impulses of the mountain section led by once-a-month absentee pastors with no education, or, worse still, by wandering so-called evangelists of doubtful morality.

    Church Cooperation in Community Life

  • The system of religion recorded by the evangelists is a complete system to all the purposes of true religion, natural or revealed.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • At the opposite extreme we find blatant blackguardism by so-called evangelists, who were educated in a mule-pen and dismissed without a diploma, yet who set up as instructors of the masses in the profound mysteries of the Almighty.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • The younger of the evangelists was the first to speak.

    A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Frank Boreham 1915

  • Other missionaries were most probably called evangelists (cf. Acts, xxi, 8; Eph., iv, 11; II Tim., iv, 5).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

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