 | Joseph Milner - 1809 - 540 sider
...ordination of new converts, and supports itself by that well known canon of still higher authority, "not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil." A third provides for the chastity of the clergy The council were even proceeding to restrain those... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 sider
...striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; one that ruleth well his own house? having his children in subjection with...he fall into reproach, and the snare of the devil. IT Or this : For the Epistle. Acts xx. 17. FROM Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus, and called the Elders... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 sider
...4. One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity: Ver. 5. (For if a. man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God ?) Ver. 6. Not a novice, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil.... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 430 sider
...tous; 4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity ; 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God;) 6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up wittupride, he /Et l««>l> Oixou TExra /itfTa Efa<7>;$ Tlg s... | |
 | Samuel Davies - 1810 - 390 sider
...qualification of ministers in common, " that they rule" or presidef " over their houses well : for," says he, " if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God ?" This implies, that it belongs to the province of every minister, to rule and take care of the church... | |
 | John Gill - 1810 - 620 sider
...from the scriptures, that their sin was, 1. Pride; and which seems probable from 1 Tim. iii. 6, Nat a novice, lest being lifted up -with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil; being guilty of the sunn- sin, he is in danger of the same condemnation, pride goes before destruction,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 sider
...procured his fall. Paul, in his advice to Timothy, about the choice of a minister, tells him not to choose a novice, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. According to this text the procuring cause of the devil's ruin and destruction was the pride of his... | |
 | John Brown - 1812 - 338 sider
...family ; for says Paul ( 1 Tim. iii. 4, 5), " a bishop," or overseer, " must be one who rules " well his own house, having his children in subjection with...house, how shall he take care of the church of God ?") Now it is evidently here affirmed, that a power, corresponding in some measure to that which is... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1812 - 420 sider
...his first Bin must have been pride; which appears to be intimated in the apostle's words to Timothy. "Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil." It is certain, however, that Satan once belonged to the highest order of created beings, and was, perhaps,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1813 - 470 sider
...loving money г 4 Ruling his own house well, having his children in sub5 jection with all seriousness. For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the 6 church of God ? Not a new convert, lest being puffed up, 7 he fall into the condemnation of the devil.... | |
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One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation... 
