“If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.”
If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination — the elder qualifications stress personal integrity and household governance, reflecting the assumption that leadership capacity manifests in domestic management. The requirement that children be believers (pista) and not accusers of excess (anephengktos) presupposes that adult children have made conscious faith-commitments. The one-woman man (mias gynaikos andra) prohibition guards against polygamy or serial remarriage.
Church Fathers on Titus 1:6
The whole life of men in ancient times was one of action and contention; ours on the contrary is a life of indolence. They knew that they were brought into the world for this purpose, that they might labor according to the will of Him who brought them into it; but we, as if we had been placed here but to eat and drink, and lead a life of pleasure, we pay no regard to spiritual things. I speak not only of the Apostles, but of those that followed them. You see them accordingly…
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