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•“able to teach”— skillful in teaching,
and derives from the word meaning “sound doctrine”
•“not given to drunkenness”
•“not violent, but gentle”– not someone
who is quick to use his fists
•“gentle”– yielding rights or “genial”–
meek in the face of insults
•“not quarrelsome” – “peaceful” and
“averse to fighting” (Hendriksen)
•“not a lover of money” – literally not
a lover of silver. False teachers are “experts in greed” (2
Peter 2:14).