Titus 1:6 (WEB)
if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
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 · 12
Jerome
“For he does not say: Let a bishop be chosen who marries one wife and begets children; but who marries one wife, and has his children in subjection and well disciplined.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 2, 4; Tit. i. 6.
Read the whole comment“…holy, temperate; holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.”” — editor's note: Tit. i. 5–9.
Read the whole comment“For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God.”” — editor's note: Tit. i. 5–7.
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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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Ambrose of Milan
“…is the Master of virtues, and he teaches that gainsayers are to be convicted with patience, who lays down that one should be the husband of a single wife, not in order to exclude him from the right of marriage (for this is beyond the force of the precept), but that by conjugal chastity he may preserve the grace…” — editor's note: Tit. i. 6.
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Basil the Great
“For it is written “But when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 28. i.e. Because the Son then shall be subjected, He is previously ἀνυπότακτος, not as being “disobedient” (1 Tim. i. 9), or “unruly” (Tit. i. 6,…
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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.
Read the whole comment“…marriages are, the discipline of the Church and the prescription of the apostle declare, when he suffers not men twice married to preside (over a Church), when he would not grant a widow admittance into the order unless she had been “the wife of one man;” for it behoves God’s altar to be set forth pure.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 2; Tit. i. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And this they have understood more acutely who have been of opinion, that neither is he to be ordained, who as a catechumen or as a heathen had a second wife.” — editor's note: Tit. i. 6
Read the whole comment“…one is without sin; for had he said so, every one would be rejected as unfit, none would be ordained: but he says, “If any one is without crime” [E.V. blame], such as, murder, adultery, any uncleanness of fornication, theft, fraud, sacrilege, and others of that sort.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. iii. 10; Tit. i. 6.
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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 · 24
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
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Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in To His Wife I.7.
Cited together in To His Wife I.7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 21.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in To His Wife I.7.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 12.
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 On Monogamy Chapter 12.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 12.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 12.
Cited together in Council in Trullo, Excursus on the Marriage of the Clergy.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.