1 Timothy 3:3

not given to wine Margin R.V. expresses exactly the usage of the word, -not quarrelsome over wine," like the term so painfully familiar in our police-courts, -drunk and disorderly": again peculiar to these Epp., here and Titus 1:7. For the simpler word with St Paul, cf. 1 Corinthians 5:11, -a drunkard," Ephesians 5:18, -be not drunken with wine."

no striker The necessity for specifying this and the preceding qualification, so elementary as they seem to us, shews a state of society in which the plainest, most obvious meaning for -husband of one wife" is the one most likely to have been meant, as argued above.

not greedy of filthy lucre Omit as not having ms. support and having come in from the parallel passage Titus 1:7.

patient, not a brawler R.V. rightly - gentle, not contentious," -patient" being too weakan attitude of the mind, and -brawler" going beyondthe mental attitude; whereas both words express -an activeattitude of the mind" in contrast to the actsof quarrelling and striking; - gentle," i.e. -anxious to shew considerateness and forbearance" according to the now well-known meaning of Philippians 4:5, -forbearance," margin R.V. -gentleness," (cf. 1 Peter 2:18), -offering to give up one's just rights": not contentious, not aggressive, averse to disputing, nearly as Conybeare renders -peaceable"; only here and Titus 3:2.

not covetous Rather, with R.V. no lover of money; the word only occurs here and in Hebrews 13:5, and represents the -avaricious" rather than the -covetous," which is pleonektês, a frequent word with St Paul in his other epistles; cf. 1 Corinthians 5:10, -with the covetous and extortioners." See Trench, N. T. Syn. § 24. The qualification interprets in a practical concrete form for daily life the Master s word, -He that loveth his life loseth it, and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal."