1 Timothy 3:12 (WEB)
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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
“What the holiness of second marriage is, appears from this—that a person twice married cannot be enrolled in the ranks of the clergy, and so the Apostle tells Timothy, “Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.”” — editor's note: See 1 Tim. iii. 12. Most ancient writers interpreted S. Paul’s words as referring to second marriages after loss of first wife, however happening. And certain…
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Council in Trullo (692)
“…that those admitted to the ranks of the clergy will have been already married, but distinctly says that they must have been the “husband of one wife,” by which all antiquity and every commentator of gravity recognizes that digamists are cut off from the possibility of ordination, but there is nothing to…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii., 2 and 12; Titus i., 6.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Council in Trullo, Excursus on the Marriage of the Clergy.
Cited together in Council in Trullo, Excursus on the Marriage of the Clergy.
Cited together in Council in Trullo, Excursus on the Marriage of the Clergy.
Cited together in Council in Trullo, Excursus on the Marriage of the Clergy.