ACC ~ 1 Timothy 3 v6a

YOUTHFULNESS NOT THE ISSUE. CHRYSOSTOM: The point is not that the bishop cannot be a young man but that he must not be a new convert. … For if youth only was an objection, why did he himself appoint Timothy, a young man? … But since there were many then who came over from heathen cultures to be baptized, Paul says, “Do not immediately advance to a station of dignity a novice, that is, one of these new converts.” For, if even before he has proved himself as a disciple he is made a teacher, he will soon be lifted up into insolence. HOMILIES ON 1 TIMOTHY 10.

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