1 Timothée 3:13

13 Car ceux qui auront bien rempli ce ministère, s'acquièrent un rang honorable, et une grande assurance dans la foi qui est en Jésus-Christ.

1 Timothée 3:13 Meaning and Commentary

1 Timothy 3:13

For they that have used the office of a deacon well
With diligence and faithfulness, with simplicity and cheerfulness; taking good care of the minister and poor, and of the discipline of God's house:

purchase to themselves a good degree;
not an higher office, as that of presbytery or episcopacy, which is a sense calculated to serve a hierarchy; nor a degree in glory and happiness hereafter; but rather an increase of gifts and grace; or a degree of respect and honour in the church: or the sense is, they possess and enjoy, which is the meaning of the word rendered "purchase", a very honourable office in the church; and which is so to them, they using it well, and discharging it in an honourable manner; unless the apostle should design what the Jews called (atwnmyhmd agrd) , "a degree of faith": ^F2 but that is expressed in the next clause:

and great boldness in the faith, which is in Christ Jesus:
either in the exercise of the grace of faith at the throne of grace; or in asserting the doctrine of faith before men; and in reproving either for error or immorality: all which may be boldly done by those who use this office well.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Zohar in Exod. fol. 36. 3.

1 Timothée 3:13 In-Context

11 De même, que leurs femmes soient graves, non médisantes, sobres, et fidèles en toutes choses.

12 Que les diacres soient maris d'une seule femme, gouvernant bien leurs enfants et leurs propres maisons.

13 Car ceux qui auront bien rempli ce ministère, s'acquièrent un rang honorable, et une grande assurance dans la foi qui est en Jésus-Christ.

14 Je t'écris ceci, espérant d'aller bientôt vers toi,

15 Et afin que tu saches, si je tarde, comment il faut se conduire dans la maison de Dieu, qui est l'Église du Dieu vivant, la colonne et la base de la vérité.