1 Timothy 3:2 (WEB)
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
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 · 18
Jerome
“As if at the present day also there were not many married priests, and as though the Apostle did not describe a bishop as the husband of one wife, having children with all purity.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle described the character of a bishop when he wrote to Timothy, “The bishop, therefore, must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, modest, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach; no brawler, no…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2 sq.
Read the whole comment“I know that; but you should add what follows: such an one “must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, chaste, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach, not given to wine, no striker but patient.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“Why does a priest, who must be a monogamist, urge a widow to marry again?” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment“…opinion that he has violated the precept of the apostle, who in his list of episcopal qualifications commands that a bishop shall be “the husband of one wife.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2.
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Council in Trullo (692)
“I Tim. iii. 2.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…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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Gregory of Nyssa
“It is thus that the inspired Apostle bids us to take thought, in his Epistle to Timothy, laying injunction upon all who hear, when he says that a Bishop must be without reproach.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And so the Apostle has given a pattern, saying that a bishop must be blameless, and in another place: “A bishop must be without offence, as a steward of God, not proud, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of filthy lucre.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment“And let them also first be proved, and so let them serve, being found blameless.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2–10.
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Leo the Great
“…and been admitted to the Sacred Order, contrary to that utterance of the blessed Apostle, in which he proclaims and says to such, “the husband of one wife,” and contrary to that precept of the ancient law which says by way of caution: “Let the priest take a virgin to wife, not a widow, not a divorced woman.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2, unius uxoris virum with the Vulgate, cf. Letter xii. 3.
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Tertullian
“Thence, therefore, among us the prescript is more fully and more carefully laid down, that they who are chosen into the sacerdotal order must be men of one marriage; which rule is so rigidly observed, that I remember some removed from their office for digamy.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Tim. iii. 1, 2; Tit. i. 5, 6; and Ellicott’s Commentary.
Read the whole comment“Come, now, you who think that an exceptional law of monogamy is made with reference to bishops, abandon withal your remaining disciplinary titles, which, together with monogamy, are ascribed to bishops.” — editor's note: See 1 Tim. iii. 1–7; Tit. i. 6–9.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…of our time hath been so reduced to one man and one wife, as that it is not lawful to ordain any as a steward of the Church, save the husband of one wife.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…that they are to be temperate, soberminded, not given to wine, no strikers, apt to teach, blameless in all things, and beyond the reach of the wicked, without finding considerable deflection from the straight line of the rules?” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2. 3; Tit. i. 7.
Read the whole comment“…to say even this, since Scripture can call those who live according to Christ by the name of Christs): and again when by the rules in his letter to Timothy, he gives a model for future Bishops: for if you will apply the law as a test to him who deserves these praises, you will clearly perceive his perfect exactness.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2 et seq.
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Gregory the Great
“But, while praising the desire, he forthwith turns what he has praised to fear when at once he adds, but a bishop must be blameless (1 Tim. iii. 2).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“Quid ad has leges latas possunt dicere, qui sationem abhorrent et generationem? cure “episcopum” quoque, “qui domui recte præsit,” Ecclesiquoæ ducem constituat; domum autem Dominicam “imius mulieris” constituat conjugium.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2, 4; Tit. i. 6.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 12 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 12.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 12.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 13.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 21.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.