Titus 2:2

Verse 2. That the aged men. All aged men--for there is no reason to suppose that the apostle refers particularly to those who were in office, or who were technically elders, or presbyters. If he had, he would have used the common word-- presbuterov presbyter (see Mt 15:2; 16:21; 21:23; 26:3,47,57,59; 1 Ti 5:1,17,19; Tit 1:5 Jas 5:14; 1 Pe 5:1,) instead of the unusual word-- presbuthv an old or aged man--a word which occurs nowhere else in the New Testament except in Lu 1:18, "For I am an old man," and Phm 1:9, "being such an one as Paul the aged." It is in no instance applied to an office.