Support for Like Deacons But Ranking Below Them They are a group by themselves, not just the wives of the deacons nor all the women who belong to the church.…On the other hand, the fact that no special and separate paragraph is used in describing their necessary qualifications, but that these are simply wedged in between the stipulated requirements for deacons, with equal clarity indicates that these women are not to be regarded as constituting a third order in the church, the office of deaconess, on par with and endowed with authority equal to that of deacons (William Hendricksen, Pastoral Epistles, NTC, 346; Donald Guthrie, The Pastoral Epistles, 85; See my p.
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