8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;



Ver. 8. Not doubletongued] äéëïãïõò . That can turn their tales, and tune their fiddles to the base of the times, saying as the company says, being as the planet Mercury, good in conjunction with good, and bad with bad. Lingua in vitulis marinis duplex est, {a} Sea calves are double tongued. Ministers must neither be sea calves nor moon calves; double tongued, nor unstable, or double minded, Jam_1:8. {See Trapp on "Act_2:3"}



{a} Tyriosque bilingues. Virg. Bartholin. in Anatom.