{Deacons} (diakonous). Accusative case of general reference
like the preceding with dei einai understood. Technical sense
of the word here as in  Php 1:1  which see (two classes of church
officers, bishops or elders, deacons). {Grave} (semnous). See
 Php 4:8 . Repeated in verse  11  Tit 2:2 . {Not double-tongued}
(m(8820)dilogous). Rare word (dis, leg(935c)) saying same thing twice.
Xenophon has diloge(935c) and dilogia. In Pollux, but LXX has
digl(9373)sos (double-tongued, Latin _bilinguis_). Only here in
N.T. One placed between two persons and saying one thing to one,
another to the other. Like Bunyan's Parson "Mr. Two-Tongues."
{Not given to much wine} (m(8820)oin(9369) poll(9369) prosechontas). "Not
holding the mind (	on noun understood as usual with prosech(935c),
 1Ti 1:4 ) on much wine" (oin(9369), dative case). That attitude
leads to over-indulgence. {Not greedy of filthy lucre} (m(880a)aischrokerdeis). Old word from aischros ( Eph 5:12 ) and
kerdos ( Php 1:21 ). "Making small gains in mean ways" (Parry).
Not genuine in verse  3 . In N.T. only here and  Tit 1:7  (of
bishops).