1 Timothy 3:5 (WEB)
(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
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 · 3
Jerome
“Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 1–7.
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Tertullian
“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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Ambrose of Milan
“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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