1 Timothy 3:5

for if a man know not but, the force of the adversative conjunction being, -You may think me needlessly particular in requiring this, but a straw will shew how the wind blows, a bad parent will make a bad pastor." The negative is to be taken closely with the verb -is ignorant." There is a preference, especially in later Greek, for the stronger negative where there is an antithesis or where there is special emphasis by the negativing of a single word. Cf. Winer, § 55, 2; James 2:11; 1 Timothy 5:8; 2 Timothy 2:14.

Both the words -rule" and -take care" have an obvious bearing on St Paul's conception of the ministry as being especially for government. So too what follows.