 | Thomas Powell (Wesleyan minister.) - 1838 - 192 pàgines
...some that were simply Bishops. The next passage is, 1 Tim. iii. I — 5 : '* This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a good work. A Bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given... | |
 | Fayette Mace - 1838 - 132 pàgines
...Paul, in his first epistle to Timothy, gave him the following instruction : " This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work— A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife." The same injunction was laid on the deacons.... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1839 - 616 pàgines
...Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. 1 Tim. iii. 1 — 7. This is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given... | |
 | 1839 - 612 pàgines
...we have some directions that will guide our inquiries upon this subject : " This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must he blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given... | |
 | John Donne - 1839 - 634 pàgines
...dignity to the function and office of the ministry, ho proposes it so, It is a true saying, if any man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good -work*: it is a work, not an occasion and opportunity of ease. And lastly, when he provokes men to glorify... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840 - 478 pàgines
...apostle's maxim was a maxim no longer : " If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desirethagoodwork." Many then desired the office of a bishop, if without...chose to be idle. Indeed, it must be owned, the term emoveoinj, charge, oversight, used by the apostle, necessarily implies work. These two are indistinguishable.... | |
 | 1840 - 588 pàgines
...Minister. — The Lord bless us and keep us. Amen. Lesson 1. 1 Tim. iii. 1 — 6. This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a good work. A Bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigi. lant, sober, of good behaviour, given... | |
 | George Punchard - 1840 - 240 pàgines
...the choice and ordination of church officers. First. In respect to bishops. " This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop, then, must be blameless," etc. 1 Tim. 3: 1—6. Secondly. In respect to deacons. " Likewise... | |
 | George Punchard - 1840 - 254 pàgines
...the choice and ordination of church officers. First. In respect to bishops. " This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop, then, must be blameless," etc. 1 Tim. 3: 1—6. Secondly. In respect to deacons. " Likewise... | |
 | Henry Budd - 1841 - 820 pàgines
...office, when considered as a compensation for the trammels of it. " This is " indeed " a true saying, If a man desire the office of a Bishop he desireth a good work." 1 Tim. iii. 1. But then, he must seek it as " a good work," and as an eminent opportunity of benefiting... | |
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This is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 
