The Greek word as well as the word bishop, etymologically means to act as an overseer, or to take the oversight. Desireth a good work. A very important duty. A bishop then must be blameless. None must be appointed because they desire the place.
None are eligible unless they fill the following qualifications.
The husband of one wife. A married man, and having only one wife. In those loose times of divorce, men might be converted who had successively several wives. Divorce for unscriptural reasons would not free a man from his first, lawful wife. Hence the limitation to those who had only one living wife.