...family government. 13. They may be candidates for a higher office. For they that have used, discharged, the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree or step towards a higher office. This does not, however, apply to all deacons ; for it is they only...

...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.'yd) These houses Gill considers as embracing " the family, wife, " children and servants." Sometimes...

...should they be required to ' hold lie mystery of the faith in a pure conscience ? And how could ' they purchase to themselves, a good degree, and great boldness in the faith,' as Stephen did, and also Philip, the evangelist, who was one of the seven, did, unless they were, in...

...office seems to have been probationary with respect to a higher office, for it is said, " They that use the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree," ib. 13. But wherein did the office of a deacon consist? The Scriptures have not informed us. Some readers...

...not slanderers, soher, faithlul in al¡ things. 12 Let the deacons he the hushands of one wife, ruhng their children and their own houses well. 13 For they...office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a gonii degree, and great holdness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 14 These Oings write 1 unto...

...well. 1 And let these also be proved ; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless: for they that have used the office of a deacon well,...themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the £".th which is in Christ Jesus. * Even so must their wives be grave ; not slanderers, sober, faithful...

...office. He appears also to be directed as to their promotion, probably to the eldership. It is said, They that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase...themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith, &c. 1 Tim. iii. 13. St. Paul then immediately adds, 1 write these things unto you, that if 1 tarry,...

...and station, and suitably to the character which their hirbanda bear ; to must their wives bf grave. 12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. That is, " Let not any such be admitted Jiacon who has more wives than one, or that hath injuriously...

...: (for if a man know not how to rule hi» 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. 1 Tim. iii. 4, 5. 1 -' (/ have remembrance of thee in my prayeri tigkt and day) when 1 call to remembrance...

...to concede the second, when demanded. The maxim of the apostle would then be naturally adopted — ' They, that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree' — while, at the same time, a body of efficient auxiliaries would be spread over the land, whose services...