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Although the parts of an Ecclesiastical Doctor are one thing, and the parts of a preaching Pastor are another in publicly treating Sacred Scripture, and the ends of each office are not entirely the same, yet if you have fulfilled what is the Doctor's, you will easily ascend afterward to those things which are the Pastor's. For that office of the Doctor, like a lower step, fortifies and prepares for that higher way of the Pastor, since in this one thing, regarding the public treatment of Scripture (for I do not include the administration of the Sacraments, from which a simple Doctor should abstain, in my judgment), the entire difference between these offices is placed: that the Doctor performs these two things, namely, that he teaches sound doctrine and argues against those who contradict; but the Pastor adds this besides, that from this sound doctrine, as Paul says, he exhorts—that is, as he explains elsewhere, he corrects the manners of men. Therefore, the Pastor uses Sacred Scripture not only to teach and refute (which the Ecclesiastical Doctor also must do by reason of his office) but also to correct, to rebuke, to reprove, to exhort, and to console, as the same Paul explained in various places. Andreas Hyperius has excellently pursued this opinion of his in his work On Theological Study.
Difference between doctor and pastor
Ti. 1:6
2 Tim. 3:16
2 Tim. 4:2
1 Tim. 4:1
Rom. 5:4