1 TIMOTHY 3:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.”
Let deacons be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households well — the requirements return to masculine deacons, emphasizing monogamy and household leadership. Diaconal office, like episcopacy, requires demonstrated capacity for domestic stewardship.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 3:12
This must be understood therefore to relate to Deaconesses. For that order is necessary and useful and honorable in the Church. Observe how he requires the same virtue from the Deacons, as from the Bishops, for though they were not of equal rank, they must equally be blameless; equally pure.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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