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Modest
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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"orderly, well-arranged, decent, modest" (akin to kosmos, in its primary sense as "harmonious arrangement, adornment;" cp. kosmikos, of the world, which is related to kosmos in its secondary sense as the world), is used in 1 Timothy 2:9 of the apparel with which Christian women are to adorn themselves; in 1 Timothy 3:2 (RV, "orderly;" AV, "of good behavior"), of one of the qualifications essential for a bishop or overseer. "The well-ordering is not of dress and demeanor only, but of the inner life, uttering indeed and expressing itself in the outward conversation" (Trench, Syn., xcii). In the Sept., Ecclesiastes 12:9 .
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Modest'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/m/modest.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Modest'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/m/modest.html. 1940.
