Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Ruling (proistamenon). Present middle participle of proisthmi, old word to place before and (intransitive as here) to stand before. See I Thessalonians 5:12; Romans 12:8.
In subjection (en upotagh). See verse I Timothy 3:11.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Timothy 3:4:
Acts 14:23
1 Timothy 2:2
1 Timothy 3:12
1 Timothy 4:6
1 Timothy 5:17
Titus 1:6
2 John 1:1
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