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For years, Vine’s Expository Dictionary has been the standard word study tool for pastors and laypeople, selling millions of copies. But sixty-plus years of scholarship has shed extensive new light on the use of biblical Greek and Hebrew, creating the need for a new, more accurate, more thorough dictionary of Bible words. William Mounce, whose Greek grammar has been used by more than 100,000...

Pastoral Letters as part of the qualification lists for bishops (1 Tim. 3:2), deacons (3:12), and elders (Tit. 1:6). The exact expression is that he is to be a “one-woman man” (or “one-wife husband”). Probably Paul is requiring the man to be faithful in marriage, and uses an rather unusual expression to covney his meaning. Others think that Paul is prohibiting having a concubine or mistress in addition to a wife. Many Greeks and Romans purchased female prostitutes and kept them as mistresses outside
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