1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

Not proud.{ Ver. 7. Non superbum. St. Jerome says, non tumidum, me authade. See Cornelius a Lapide and Legh's Critica. (2 Peter 2:10.)|} The Greek word is of an extensive signification, which the Protestants have translated self-willed. The Latin interpreter (2 Peter 2:10.) for the same Greek word has put, pleasing themselves; as it were never pleased with others, the unhappy disposition of a proud man. (Witham)