Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Timothy 3:10
Let these he proved first — Let a trial be made how they believe. Then let them minister — Let them be fixed in that office.
Let these he proved first — Let a trial be made how they believe. Then let them minister — Let them be fixed in that office.
Verse 10. _LET THESE - BE PROVED_] Let them not be _young_ _converts_, or persons lately brought to the knowledge of the truth. This is the same in spirit with what is required of the bishops, 1 Timot...
AND LET THESE ALSO FIRST BE PROVED - That is, tried or tested in regard to the things which were the proper qualifications for the office. This does not mean that they were to be employed as “preacher...
III. CONCERNING THE HOUSE OF GOD CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The overseer (1 Timothy 3:1)_ 2. The deacon (1 Timothy 3:8) 3. The house of God and the mystery of Godliness (1 Timothy 3:14)...
DEACONS AND DEACONESSES. Certain moral qualities, likewise, are required in deacons. They must be serious, sincere in speech, free from love of wine and (since they administer church funds) from love...
THE LEADERS OF THE CHURCH (1 Timothy 3:1-7)...
,12,13 In the same way, the deacons must be men of dignity, men who are straight, men who are not given to over-indulgence in wine, men who are not prepared to stoop to disgraceful ways of making mone...
PROVED. tested. USE, &c.. serve. App-190. BLAMELESS. Greek. _anenkletos_. See 1 Corinthians 1:8....
_And let these also_ These, as well as the presbyters, for whom 1 Timothy 3:7 defines a very searching test. Bp Ellicott s note, rightly explaining that the first conjunction is -Also," -Moreover," an...
ΚΑῚ … ΔΈ. _And … also_; i.e. the διάκονοι no less than the ἐπίσκοποι. ΔΟΚΙΜΑΖΈΣΘΩΣΑΝ ΠΡΩ͂ΤΟΝ. _Let them first be proved_. This does not refer to any formal examination of the candidates for the diacon...
ΔΟΚΙΜΑΖΈΣΘΩΣΑΝ _praes. imper. pass._ 3pers.pl. от ΔΟΚΙΜΆΖΩ (G1381) одобрять после проверки или исследования (TDNT; ММ), ΕΊΤΑ (G1534) тогда, ΔΙΑΚΟΝΕΊΤΩΣΑΝ _praes. imper. act. 3 pers. pl._ от ΔΙΑΚΟΝΈΩ...
LET THEM USE THE OFFICE, &C.— Let them exercise....
THE DEACONS 1 Timothy 3:8-13 _TEXT 3:8-13_ 8 Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; 9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure...
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. 'And moreover' [ kai (G2532) ... de (G1161)] be proved-not by a period of probation, but by sear...
3 Translators have experienced much difficulty with this opening sentence, because it seemed to lack the principal verb. The A V adds _ so do_, the Revisers _ so do I now_. It is very seldom that any...
5 This passage is primarily intended to break down the bounds in which salvation had hitherto been confined. The testimony of past eras is no basis on which to build in this era. The testimony to the...
3:10 minister, (k-10) _ Diakoneo_ , to serve, as servants or deacons....
CONCERNING THE OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH 1-7. The fourth charge to Timothy, in respect to presbyters....
FIFTH CHARGE TO TIMOTHY—as to deacons and deaconesses....
HOW TO BE A LEADER IN THE CHURCH 1 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 WHAT AN *ELDER MUST BE LIKE (3:1-7) V1 Anyone who aims to be a leader in the church desires a good task. That is true. V2 But...
AND LET THESE ALSO FIRST BE PROVED. — No formal investigation, either in public before the congregation, or in private before Timothy and his fellow presbyters, is here referred to. What is most proba...
CHAPTER 10 ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY; VARIOUS CERTAINTIES AND PROBABILITIES DISTINGUISHED. - 1 Timothy 3:1 THIS passage is one of the most important in the New Testament respecting the Christi...
δοκιμαζέσθωσαν : Chrys. notes that this corresponds to the provision μὴ νεόφυτον in the case of the episcopus. This testing of fitness for the office of deacon may have been effected either by (_a_) a...
The qualifications of the men who are to be ministers; and first (_a_) of the episcopus (vv.1-7) secondly (_b_) of the deacons (1 Timothy 3:8-13) with a parenthetical instruction respecting women chur...
QUALIFICATIONS OF CHURCH OFFICIALS 1 Timothy 3:8 Younger men, referred to as deacons, were appointed to subordinate tasks, especially the relief of the poor, Acts 6:1. Though their service was less i...
Turning to the government of the Church, the apostle deals with two orders, bishops and deacons. The bishop is an overseer, whose duty it is to watch over the flock. The apostle describes the qualific...
QUALIFICATIONS OF DEACONS By using the word "likewise," Paul made it clear that the qualifications of deacons are as important as those of elders. The word deacon comes from the original diakonos, whi...
(1) В¶ This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. (2) A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given t...
1 Timothy 1:1-20. We enter now on the confidential communications of the apostle to some of his fellow-labourers, and tonight on the epistles to Timothy. The two have much in common, but they have als...
10_And let those be first tried _He wishes that they who are chosen should not be unknown, but that their integrity should be ascertained, like that of the bishops. And hence it is evident, that they...
The apostle next points out to Timothy the qualities necessary for a bishop or a deacon, as well as for the wife of the latter. [4] He supposes here that there were some who desired to undertake this...
AND LET THESE ALSO FIRST BE PROVED,.... Not that they should be tried in any part of the deacon's office, to see how capable they are of performing it; but their internal and external characters are t...
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being _found_ blameless. Ver. 10. _Being found blameless_] The world will look round about them, and expect (though unjus...
_Let these also_ (The word _also_ implies that the same rule was to be observed with relation to bishops) _first be proved_ “By the examination,” says Whitby, “of the soundness of their faith, and the...
PROVED; tried in regard to their previous Christian life, and their qualifications for the office....
THE OFFICE OF DEACONS....
AND LET THESE ALSO FIRST BE PROVED; THEN LET THEM USE THE OFFICE OF A DEACON, BEING FOUND BLAMELESS....
If before we have seen personal conduct that is to be consistent with assembly character, this chapter, while dealing with personal character still, connects it directly with the order of the assembly...
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. 1. Proved - What must a deacon do to be proved? Why is this an important requirement? 2. Blameles...
“THESE MEN MUST FIRST BE TESTED”: Put to the test, examined. Translations: “Let them also be tested first” (RSV); “they must first undergo. scrutiny” (NEB). 1 TIMOTHY 3:10 “THEN LET THEM SERVE AS DEA...
8-13 The deacons were at first appointed to distribute the charity of the church, and to manage its concerns, yet pastors and evangelists were among them. The deacons had a great trust reposed in them...
The higher officers ought to BE PROVED, (as well as these of a lower order), as by examination or conference, so (which possibly is here more intended) by an observation of their lives and conversatio...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII not even God could bind, in like manner, no Peter, whoever he may be; and if any one who is not a Peter, and does not possess the things here spoken of, imagines...
1 Timothy 3:10 But G1161 let G1381 these G3778 also G2532 first G4412 tested G1381 (G5744) then G1534 deacons...
1 Timothy 3:10. LET THESE ALSO FIRST BE PROVED. Not, as the English word suggests, by an experimental probationary period of service, though this is not perhaps excluded, but tested in whatever might...
FIRST BE PROVED (δοκιμαζεσθωσαν πρωτον). Present passive imperative third plural of δοκιμαζω, old and common verb, to test as metals, etc. (1 Thessalonians 2:4, and often in Paul). How the proposed...
CONTENTS: Qualifications of elders and deacons. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Satan. CONCLUSION: Those having places of authority in the church must be blameless, not lying under any scandal, watchful ag...
1 Timothy 3:1. _This is a true saying,_ an indubitable word, _if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work,_ a laudable sphere of labour and usefulness. But by the idea of a primiti...
THEY SHOULD BE TESTED FIRST. _MacKnight_ thinks this was done by announcing the names of the candidates to the congregation, so that any charge of misconduct could be searched out. God's servants are...
_Likewise must the deacons be grave._ THE IDEAL DEACON I. Deacons should be of noble character (1 Timothy 3:8). 1. They were to be grave--_i.e._, of serious deportment--not sharing in the follies a...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 3:8 Along with elders (vv. 1 Timothy 3:1), deacons have specific responsibilities in the NT church (see...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 3:10 Deacons should be TESTED, presumably under the leadership of the overseers. ⇐...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Timothy 3:8. DEACONS.—Originally dispensers of the Church’s bounty, they came to be regarded as the subordinates of the presbyters. NOT GREEDY.—Like the first purse...
EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 3:1 _Faithful is the saying _for _this is a true saying_,_ _A.V.; _seeketh _for _desire_,_ _A.V. FAITHFUL IS THE SAYING (see above, 1 Timothy 1:15, note). This manifestly refers...
Ver. 10. _But these also,_ or, And _these too, let them first be proved_ καὶ οὗτοι δὲ : not enough that they seem to have all the qualifications previously mentioned, but let this further precaution b...
Tonight we will be studying First Timothy three and four. It is interesting as Paul writes to Timothy on several occasions, he uses phrases that are interesting to me. He said, This is a faithful sayi...
1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 John 4:1; 1 Timothy 3:13; 1 Timothy 3:2; 1 Ti
These also [κ α ι ο υ τ ο ι δ ε]. As well as the Bishops. No mention is made of a proving of the Bishops, but this may be fairly assumed. Comp. not a novice, ver. 6. Be proved [δ ο κ ι μ α ζ ε σ θ ω σ...
Here Timothy is directed not to put any person suddenly into the office of. deacon, but to first to prove them for some considerable time; and their sufficiency being approved, let them be ordained, a...