Footnote

b The December 15, 1971, issue of The Watchtower clarified this point still further, stating: “Doubtless, not one individual elder, presbyter, overseer or shepherd, but the entire ‘body of elders’ was what the glorified Lord, Jesus Christ, called the ‘angel’ that was symbolized by a heavenly star. . . . The ‘body of elders’ (or presbytery) there at Ephesus was to act like a star in shedding heavenly, spiritual light upon the congregation over which the holy spirit had made them shepherds.”