Titus 1:6
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What does Titus 1:6 mean?
If any be blameless
In his outward life and conversation, not chargeable with any
notorious crime; (See Gill on 1 Timothy
3:2),
the husband of one wife; (See Gill on 1 Timothy 3:2):
having faithful children;
legitimate ones, born in lawful wedlock, in the same sense as
such are called godly and holy, in ( Malachi 2:15
) ( 1
Corinthians 7:14 ) for by faithful children cannot be meant
converted ones, or true believers in Christ; for it is not in the
power of men to make their children such; and their not being so
can never be an objection to their being elders, if otherwise
qualified; at most the phrase can only intend, that they should
be brought up in the faith, in the principles, doctrines, and
ways of Christianity, or in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord.
Not accused of riot;
or chargeable with sins of uncleanness and intemperance, with
rioting and drunkenness, chambering and wantonness; or with such
crimes as Eli's sons were guilty of, from which they were not
restrained by their father, and therefore the priesthood was
removed from the family: "or unruly" not subject, but disobedient
to their parents; (See Gill on 1
Timothy 3:4). (See Gill on 1
Timothy 3:5).
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