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He left the priesthood to get married.
It is hardly surprising that some laypeople exploited this situation and probed the boundaries which separated them from the priesthood in ways that were displeasing to the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
His was a priesthood of all believers.
With regard to celibacy, occupations seem to make little difference, with the obvious exception that male celibacy was heavily dominated by the priesthood.
Europeans, as ' foreign missionaries ', could apply for ordination into priesthood.
It occupies, with strangely close analogy, the position of the priesthood of former times.
Formerly, the ordained priesthood had been allimportant, while, under the new vision, each baptized person was to participate in the priesthood of the whole.
The doctrine of the priesthood of all believers was carried to the nth degree, while its adventist theology added an urgency to the work.
They had a married priesthood, though no written books.
