...proved ; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. Let the deacons be the hushands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. For they that have used the...

...wife:" "one that x ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity :" " Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well." It is a condition of life that tends to the exercise of dispositions of forbearance, of authority,...

...that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity ;"f. ..who says, " Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well ; " J and who prophetically warned the Church against those who in latter times, " giving heed to seducing...

...blameless. II Even so mutt their wives be crave, not slanderers , súber, faithnil in all things. It Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. 13 For they that have used thr office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree, and great...

...presbyter, and elder. They are taken from the lowest order upon the principle advanced by St. Paul," they that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree," in other words, are worthy of promotion. Their ordination is frequently mentioned in the scriptures....

...12 Let the deacons he the hushands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. 13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree, ana great holdness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 14 These things write I unto thee, hoping...

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...proved ; then let them use the 10 office of a deacon, being found blameless. Even so must their wives 11 be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. Let the deacons 12 be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. For they that have...

...gravity : for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God : let the deacons be the husbands of one wife : ruling their children and their own houses well." Here mark, that it is such a ruling of their houses, as is of the same nature as the ruling of the...

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