5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
1 Timothy 3:5 —
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Commentary
Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-7)The two epistles to Timothy, and that to Titus, contain a scripture-plan of church-government, or a direction to ministers. Timothy, we suppose, was an evangelist who was left at Ephesus, to take care of those whom the Holy Ghost had made bishops there, that is, the presbyters, as appears by Acts 20:28; where the care of the church was committed to the presbyters, and they were called bishops. It ...
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