“But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;”
Rather, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined — the positive virtues form the inverse of vice: hospitality (philoxenos) opens the household, love of good (philagathos) pursues virtue, sophrosyne (self-control) masters passion, dikaios (upright) honors justice, hosios (holy/pious) reveres God, and enkratēs (disciplined) exercises mastery over appetites. Together these define the character consonant with proclaiming sound doctrine.
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