Next on Paul’s list is “the husband of one wife.” What a blow to the Roman Catholic policy of enforced celibacy for its clergy! A great deal of discussion has centered on this verse. Some scholars think that it prohibits polygamy; and that would be the most logical view, especially in view of the fact that polygamy was widely tolerated in the Old Testament. Other scholars think that the verse means that an elder must be married to only one woman at a time and therefore