Not a novice (μη νεοφυτον). Our "neophyte." Vernacular word from Aristophanes on, in LXX, and in papyri in the original sense of "…

Not a novice. In the margin, it reads, one newly come to the faith. The Greek word, which occurs nowhere else in the New Testamen…

Not a novice.—In the Church of Ephesus, which, when Paul wrote these charges to Timothy, had been established some years,…

The overseer must not be “a recent convert” (GK 3745), for there is the danger that such a person might “become conceited” (GK 5605) or puffed up w…

Not a novice: Since there were many men of distinguished ability and learning who at that time were brought to the faith, Paul forbids tha…

Not a novice
Or one newly planted, the Arabic version adds, "in the faith"; meaning not a young man, for so was Timo…

If a man desired the pastoral office, and from love to Christ and the souls of men, was ready to deny himself and undergo hardships by devoting him…

1. Previously, the Apostle outlined the qualities a bishop should po e in himself. Now he describes the qualities he should have in his rela…