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Albert Barnes on Titus 1:7

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Titus1:7

For a bishop must be blameless. 1Timm 3:2.

As the steward of God. 1Cor 4:1; 1Cor 4:2. A man, in order to perform the duties of such an office, should be one against whom no accusation could lie.

Not self-willed. Comp. 2Pet 2:10. The word-- αυθαδης not elsewhere occur in the New Testament. It means, properly, self-complacent; and then, assuming, arrogant, imperious, Rob. Lex. The gist of the offence--the very "head and front"--is that of being self-complacent; a trait of character which of necessity, makes a man imperious, dogmatical, impatient of contradiction, and unyielding. Such a man, evidently, is not fit for the office of a minister of the gospel.

Not soon angry. 1Timm 3:2, and the margin there.

Not given to wine. 1Timm 3:3.

No striker. 1Timm 3:3.

Not given to filthy lucre. In 1Timm 3:3, "Not greedy of filthy lucre." The same Greek word is used.

(c) "bishop" 1Timm 3:2

Albert Barnes, Notes on the New Testament, Titus 1:7. Public domain.

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