1 Timothy 3:11 (WEB)
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
Catechism · 1
“The Lord Jesus chose men (viri) to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mk 3:14-19; Lk 6:12-16; 1 Tim 3:1-13; 2 Tim 1:6; Titus 1:5-9; St. Clement of Rome, Ad Cor. 42, 4; 44, 3: PG 1, 292-293; 300.
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“If his child be unchaste, he himself cannot be a bishop, and he offends God in the same way as didEli the priest, who had indeed rebuked his sons, but because he had not put away the offenders, fell backwards and died before the lamp of God went out.“Women in like manner must be chaste,” and so on.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 11.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“For a lady remarkable for her devotion and admitted to the order of deaconesses was an intimate friend of his mother.” — editor's note: The earliest authorities for the order are St. Paul, Rom. xvi. 1, and probably 1 Tim. iii. 11; and Pliny in his letter to Trajan, if ancilla = διάκονος
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History III.10.