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NASB | 1 Timothy 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 3:2 Now an overseer must be blameless and beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
Subject: Serious study on this passage |
Bible Note: I have compiled a list of works by highly respected interpreters of Scripture that reject the notion that "husband of one wife" means "married only once." They are generally listed in the order of the quality of their treatment or the respect with which I have of them on other topics. I hope they are useful. George W. Knight III The New International Greek Testament Commentary: The Pastoral Epistles Eerdmans 1992 p.155-160, 223, 289 Cleon Rogers Jr. The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the New Testament Zondervan 1998 p. 492 John MacArthur Jr. The MacArthur New Testament Commentary: 1 Timothy Moody 1995 p. 104 to 105, 207 See also MacArthur Study Bible Spiros Zodhiates The Complete Word Study New Testament AMG 1991 Zodhiates has several works in print that address 1 Tim. 3:2, in addition to the work cited above see also his Study Bible Francis Turretin Institutes of Elenctic Theology P and R p.252-253 Charles Hodge Systematic Theology Vol. 3 (Henrickson Publishers, 1999), p. 389. A. T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament: Concise Edition (Nashville: Holman Reference, 2000), p. 328. Ralph Earle The Expositor's Bible Commentary: 1 Timothy Zondervan 1996 paperback edition p. 138, 152 D. Edmond Hiebert The Expositors Bible Commentary: Titus Zondervan 1996 paperback edition p.204 D. Edmond Hiebert First Timothy Moody 1957 p. 64-65, 95-96 William D. Mounce Word Biblical Commentary: Pastoral Epistles Nelson 2000 p170-173, 287 Matthew Poole Commentary on the Holy Bible Several editions and publishers in print, see comments on 1 Ti. 3:2 (Charles Spurgeon on Poole- "If I must have only one commentary, and had read Matthew Henry as I have, I do not know but what I should choose Poole. He is a very prudent and judicious commentator . . . not so pithy and witty by far as Matthew Henry, but he is perhaps more accurate, less a commentator, and more an expositor.") R. C. H. Lenski New Testament Commentaries Hendrickson p. 579-582 John Calvin Commentary on 1 Timothy 3:2, numerous editions, also available online Robert Reymond, A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith Nelson p. 899 John Gill Exposition of the New Testament several editions and publishers, also available online at wwww.crosswalk.com see comments on 1 Tim. 3:2 Gordon H. Clark 1 Timothy Trinity p.54-56 NASB/NIV Study Bible Zondervan 2000 R. C. Sproul Ed. New Geneva Study Bible Nelson 1995 p. 1911 D. A. Carson Ed. New Bible Commentary, 21st Century Edition 1994 Adam Clarke, Clarkes Commentary: NT, vol. 6B Ages Software 1997, p. 138. J. R. Dummelow The One Volume Bible Commentary, J. Vernon McGee Thru The Bible Commentary Nelson 1991 A. C. Hervey The Pulpit Commentary Funk and Wagnalls 1911 p. 50-51 William Barclay Daily Study Bible Series: The Letters to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon Revised Edition Westminster 1975 p. 75-79, 110 Eugene Stock Practical Truths from the Pastoral Epistles Kregel 1983 previous edition Plain Talks on the Pastoral Epistles R. Scott 1914 p. 185-186 |