1 Timothy 3:12

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife,.... See Gill on Ti1 3:2.

ruling their children and their own houses well. These qualifications are the same with those of the bishop or elder; See Gill…

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife - notes, 1Ti 3:2. Ruling their children and their own houses well - notes, 1Ti 3:4-5.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife - This is the same that is required of the bishops. See on Ti1 3:2 (note) Ti1 3:4 (note), and Ti1 3:5 (note).

We have here the character of deacons: these had the care of the temporal concerns of the church, that is, the maintenance of the ministers and provision for the poor: they served tables, while the…

rulingtheir children The sentence gives compendiously the same requirements as to domestic relationships for deacons as for presbyters; the briefer form of the latter clause favours the interpreting…