Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 6:3

3 Wherefore brethren , look ye out among you seven men of honest report , full of the holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

As carefully and circumspectly, as ye would in any cases of your own concerns.

A good direction, that obbliges to this day, in all elections of any for the service of God, and his Church.

Of the gifts and graces of the holy Ghost, which were not bestowed on the Apostles onely.

Or prudence, and skill in the word of God, which onely is able to make a man wise unto Salvation, 2 Tim. 3.15.

Marginal references: Deut. 1.13. Chap. 1.21, 22. and 16.2. 1 Tim. 3.7.