Calvin's on 1 Timothy 3:12

COM commentary-section · status:draft · license:PD

Let the deacons be Since he mentioned wives, he lays down the same injunction about deacons as he had formerly down about bishops; namely, that each of them — satisfied within having but one wife — shall set an example of a chaste and honorable father of a family, and shall keep his children and his whole house under holy discipline. And this refutes the error of those who understand this passage as referring to domestic servants. (65) (65) “ Des serviteurs domestiques, et non pas des diacres de l’Eglise .” — “To domestic servants, and not to the deacons of the Church.” return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-13" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-1ti-3-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/1ti-3-12

Source

• source-manifest/cal — Calvin's Commentaries (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological