opinion of the community [NICNT]. An overseer must be entirely faithful to his wife, and he does not act as pagans often did by having immoral relationships with another woman [NTC]. The Greek phrase refers to a ‘one-woman kind of man’ [ICC, NAC, WBC]. He can have only one wife at a time [WP]. QUESTION—What is meant by νηφάλιος ‘sober’? 1. It is understood in its literal sense, having reference to being temperate in the consumption of wine [ECC, EGT, Herm]. Since this quality is also required of