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Originally Posted by LUKE2447
Actually the prohibition against elders might not be a prohibition at all but reference he must be a husband of his first wife. As the use of the word on allows for such a interpretation. Otherwise he could not be divorced which would be a bad thing and not a quality of leadership in the home WHICH was points of the other qualifications.
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If I remember correctly the "husband of one wife" is more literally translated out of the Greek as "man of one woman".