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NOVICE.—In 1Ti_3:5 it is enjoined that the bishop must not be a novice. The Gr. word (neophytos, lit. ‘newly planted’) was afterwards used in the technical sense of one who has not yet taken religious vows. Here it is general—one newly introduced into the Christian community.