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.

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