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Novice
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
NOVICE. In 1 Timothy 3:5 it is enjoined that the bishop must not be a novice. The Gr. word ( neophytos , lit. ‘newly planted’) was afterwards used in the technical sense of one who has not yet taken religious vows. Here it is general one newly introduced into the Christian community.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Novice'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/n/novice.html. 1909.