may come three chosen and tried men, to prove him who is worthy ; if he be a
man who has a good report from the Gentiles ; if he be without sin, if he be not
irascible, if he be a lover of the poor, if he be chaste, if he be not a drunkard, nor a
fornicator, not avaricious, nor a calumniator, nor a respecter of persons, nor anything
like these. It is a good thing if he have no wife, or if not, that he have one wife ;
who is a sharer in discipline, who is able to explain the Scriptures, but if he know
not letters, let him be meek and humble, and in love to all men let him abound,
lest he be reproved about anything by the masses, let him be a Bishop.