Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Timothy 3:11

11 Even so must their wives be grave , not slanderers , sober , faithful in all things p.

Must their is not in the Greek, but supplyed by our interpreters, and as some think ill, judging that he speaks here not of Deacons Wives, but of Deaconesses, of such women as had the Deacons office, conferred on them, such a one was Phaebe, Rom. 16.1. but it may be understood of either, both ought to be not light, aery, tatling persons, but composed, serious, grave people.

Not Devils, (so it is in the Greek) that is, persons given to railing and accusing others.

Sober, see the sense of that word, verse 2. who have approved themselves every way honest, and such persons as may be trusted.