But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,
Scholars who reject such opinions do so upon a priori attitudes which they bring to the consideration.  For example, the notion that church government is something that "developed" in the early church, or that Paul was "feeling his way along" in the formulation of his doctrine - these and other such assumptions enter into the rejection of that which is, on the face of it, rather simple truth revealed in the New Testament.