Titus 1:6

6. If Perhaps it was a contingency whether many such men could be found in Crete, but the words do not necessarily so imply.

Blameless Possessed of such known innocence of character as makes imputation of wrong at the start improbable.

One wife Note on 1 Timothy 3:2; 1 Timothy 4:9.

Children Notes 1 Timothy 3:4-5.

Accused Refers to children. There is a common but fallacious notion prevalent that ministers’ children, instead of being after Paul’s model, are worse than other people’s children. A modern Greek proverb is, that “the parson’s son is the devil’s grandson.” Impartial statistics, however, show that in this country, at any rate, the reverse is the truth. The fallacy arises from the fact that people demand a ministerial rectitude of ministers’ children. When a minister’s son, therefore, commits a gross fault, it is usually told with the awful addendum, “and a minister’s son, too!” No one thinks of exclaiming, “and a lawyer’s,” or, “a mechanic’s, son, too!” The transgressing minister’s son will be remembered for a quarter of a century as standing proof that ministers’ sons are the worst of young men.