− | “层次”这一英语单词的首次被牛津英语词典引用的使用可能是在1881年,被用来指伪狄奥尼修斯 Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite(5-6世纪)所描述的3个天使的3个阶层。伪狄奥尼修斯使用相关的希腊单词(ἱεραρχία hierarchia) 来指代天界阶层和教会阶层。<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07322c.htm CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hierarchy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 希腊语 ἱεραρχία表示大祭司的统治<ref>[https://www.etymonline.com/word/hierarchy "hierarchy"]. Online Etymology Dictionary.</ref>(源自ἱεράρχης hierarches,“神圣仪式的主持,高阶祭司”,自ἱερεύς hiereus, “祭司”<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Di%28ereu%2Fs ἱερεύς], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Digital Library</ref>,及 ἀρχή arche等“最初的地方或力量,统治”<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da%29rxh%2F ἀρχή], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Digital Library</ref>) | + | “层次”这一英语单词的首次被牛津英语词典引用的使用可能是在1881年,被用来指伪狄奥尼修斯 Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite(5-6世纪)所描述的3个天使的3个阶层。伪狄奥尼修斯使用相关的希腊单词(ἱεραρχία hierarchia) 来指代天界阶层和教会阶层。<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07322c.htm CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hierarchy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 希腊语 ἱεραρχία表示大祭司的统治<ref>[https://www.etymonline.com/word/hierarchy "hierarchy"]. Online Etymology Dictionary.</ref>(源自ἱεράρχης hierarches,“神圣仪式的主持、高阶祭司”,自ἱερεύς hiereus, “祭司”<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Di%28ereu%2Fs ἱερεύς], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Digital Library</ref>,及 ἀρχή arche“最初的地方或力量、统治”等<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da%29rxh%2F ἀρχή], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Digital Library</ref>) |