1 Timothy 3:5. For. Literally ‘ but,' the reason being implied rather than stated in the imaginary case which the apostle puts as involving obvious unfitness.

Take care. The change of words assumes that ‘presiding,' the position of authority, involves watchful carefulness over those subject to it. The contest between ‘his own house' and the ‘Church of God ‘presupposes the definition of that Church as the house or family of God, which we find in 1 Timothy 3:15.

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