he should be a man who rules his own household well, and whose children are kept under control and are well-behaved.

The Presiding-Officer should not be a recent convert, that he may not be blinded by pride and fall under the same condemnation as the Devil.

Any one who fails to provide for his own relations, and especially for those under his own roof, has disowned the Faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

But you should exclude the younger widows from the list; for, when they grow restive under the yoke of the Christ, they want to marry,