tfAiw, decorous, orderly [of good behaviour]) What the cuppuv is within, the xoapios is without. Hesychius defines XCC/A/OUS as <x,ve<7ri\7)<7rrovg ; Plato, XOO/A/O/ xa! suxoXo/, men moderate and good- natured. The new man bears somewhat of a sacred-festival character, and is at variance with every species of pollution, con fusion, disorder, excess, violence, laxity, assumption, harshness, depravity, mutilation, meanness; he sparingly and in private obeys the necessity of nature, and of the material food, which is put in motion by ingestion, digestion, and egestion, and keeps all the traces of the corruptible body concealed; Phil. iv. 8. — <piX6%svovy hospitable) to strangers, especially to the needy and exiles, whom many treat with disdain, — didanrtxbv, apt to teach) See 2 Tim. ii. 24, note.
3. MTJ Tapo/i/ov, not given to wine) 'AXX' g-rm/xJj, but patient, lenient, reasonable, is to be referred to this expression. For vapoivia here, as everywhere else, not only signifies drunkenness, comp. ver. 8 ; Tit. ii. 3, but also the violent and unreasonable conduct towards others, proceeding from it. — w ^.rtKrrtv, no
striker) with the tongue or the hand. For there is nothing to prevent this word from being taken in its proper sense, 2 Cor. xi. 20, note.1 Refer to it aX>.' a^c^/ov, but no brawler, not using the fists ; comp. 2 Tim. ii. 24.
4. ToD idiov o/'xou, his own house) Many men, for instance, are mild abroad, but are the less disposed to restrain their passion at home, which they direct against their wives, etc. — xaXug T/?o/<rra//,gvov, one who ruleth ivell) To this ap/Xapyu/>/a chiefly refers. — ,asra wdffqs tfg/a.vonjro?, with all gravity [propriety]) so that there may be no luxury [affurfa, riotous living] : Tit. i. 6.
5. O-j/c oTdsj if a man does not know) Paul intimates that the man who rightly rules his own house will have well-behaved children. — KUS, how) It requires higher qualifications to rule the Church, than a family.
6. MJ? veopurov) not a man recently converted from heathenism. Such persons might be more easily and more safely set over others who have also been newly converted, Acts xiv. 23, than over old and experienced .Christians, who were numerous, and among whom the number of candidates was greater. It is a metaphor taken from plants; John xv. 2, note, [Rom. vi. 5, 11, 17, 18 ; 1 Cor. iii. 6, 7.] The young plants generally exhibit a luxuriant verdure ; the newly converted man has not yet been macerated by the cross.2 The antithesis is an aged disciple, Acts xxi. 16 [Mnason of Cyprus, a^a/w ^.a^rJj], — rv<pu0fis, lifted up with pride) The same word occurs, ch. vi. 4, note ; 2 Tim. iii. 4. — rupw is xa/u, to burn : rvpo$, a smoking heat without flame : whence they are said rvpovffdai, whom wine, as w7ell as those whom a high opinion of their knowledge and pride [haughti ness], render no longer masters of themselves, and affect with giddiness [puffed up, having the head turned with conceit] : see Is. xxviii. 7, Lutheran version. — s/c xpipa, into condemnation) i.e. into the same condemnation into which the devil fell, being
1 " If any strike you on the face" under the plea of divine zeal ; Isa. Iviii. 4 ; 1 Kings xxii. 24 ; Neh. xiii. 25 ; Acts xxiii. 2. — ED.
2 In every kind of life, it may be observed, that those who immediately begin at the highest point of elevation can hardly adopt wise measures for their own advantage, scarcely condescend to inferiors, cannot be affected by the condition of the afflicted, and cannot rule themselves, and maintain moderation in all things ; but all these qualities particularly apply to the office of a bishop. — V. g.