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1 Timothy 3:1–2. If anyone, he says, desires the presbytery, then he must be impeccable
in good deeds, which cannot be done without presbytery - that is, not to bind oneself to anyone’s gifts and gifts.
(let it be) so that he does not possess absolutely any other woman as his wife.
Likewise, let his children not follow the example of the sons of Eli (1 Sam. 2:12), but let them obey their fathers and all the people with all purity and constancy (1 Tim. 3:4).
After all, if he cannot keep his sons in obedience, then how can he observe order in the church of God (1 Tim. 3:5)?
1 Timothy 3:6. Not... a convert [he must be], lest, having become exalted, he falls
into pride, which is the main thing
1 Timothy 3:8. Let there be deacons also
holy servants - in their souls pure from covetousness, and in their bodies free from passions.
And let them be strong during persecution
1 Timothy 3:9. in the sacraments ah of faith,
and faithfully serve the sacrament of the Body of Christ
in the pureness of your conscience.
1 Timothy 3:10. And let them be tested first
in some matters lower than the deacon's office.
1 Timothy 3:11. Their wives do the same
Let them not be the handmaids of the devil, but meek. With their shamelessness, let them not blaspheme their husbands and let them not slander their neighbors before their husbands, as their stewards, but let them always be vigilant in good deeds, and let them be
- Let them not fall into magic and spells.
1 Timothy 3:14. This is me... writing to you
not because I have lost hope of seeing you;
1 Timothy 3:15. but if I delay... so that... you will know... how you should behave in the house of God, which is [the Church of the living God], a pillar of strength and truth
in the midst of the world, for it is only thanks to the Church that the world stands.
And it is reliably attested that
1 Timothy 3:16. greatness is... mystery
this truth that we preach.
that is, through the justification of the Holy Spirit,
with signs and wonders,
thanks to the teaching of His Gospel, and
Angels and disciples at the time when the cloud took Him (Acts 1:9).
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