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7. δεῖ γὰρ τὸν ἐπίσκοπον ἀνέγκλητον εἶναι, for the ἐπίσκοπος must be ἀνέγκλητος. See Introd. chap. V. for the significance of the titles πρεσβύτερος and ἐπίσκοπος in the Pastoral Epistles. For the singular τὸν ἐπίσκοπον see on 1Ti 3:2.
ὡς θεοῦ οἰκονόμον, as God’s steward, as steward of the οἶκος θεοῦ (1Ti 3:15). The commission of the ἐπίσκοπος is, in the end, from God and not from man; he is God’s steward, the steward of His mysteries (1Co 4:1) and of His manifold grace (1Pe 4:10), not, be it observed, the steward of the Christian community. It is to God, not to man, that he is responsible for the due discharge of his office.
μὴ αὐθάδη, not self-willed. αὐθάδης only occurs once again in N.T., viz. τολμηταί, αὐθάδεις (2Pe 2:10); it signifies self-satisfied and so self-willed, arrogant. Field notes that Aristotle (Magn. Moral. I. 28) counts σεμνότης as the mean between αὐθάδεια and ἀρέσκεια, i.e. between arrogance on the one hand and over-complaisance of manner on the other, an interesting observation. σεμνότης is mentioned as one of the qualities of the ἐπίσκοπος at 1Ti 3:4 (see also on 1Ti 2:2).
μὴ ὀργίλον, not irascible, ‘not soon angry’ as the A.V. felicitously renders. ὀργίλος is a ἄπ. λεγ. in the N.T.; Aristotle reckons πραῢτης as the mean between ὀργιλότης and that incapacity for being roused to anger which he calls ἀοργησία (Nic. Eth. IV. 5); see on 2Ti 2:25. In the Didache (§ 3) we have the precept μὴ γίνου ὀργίλος.
μὴ πάροινον, μὴ πλήκτην. see on 1Ti 3:3.
μὴ αἰσχροκερδῆ. see on 1Ti 3:8, where μὴ αἰσχροκερδεῖς is a note of the διάκονοι. The corresponding qualification for the ἐπίσκοπος in 1 Timothy is ἀφιλάργυρον (see on 1Ti 3:3). See also on Tit 1:11 below.