The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
Sober, temperate, modest The word which we have translated sober, Erasmus has translated (vigilantem) watchful. As the Greek wordνηφάλεος (52) admits of either signification, the readers may make their own choice. I have preferred to translateσώφρονα, temperate, instead of sober, becauseσωφροσύνη has a more extensive meaning than sobriety. Modest means one who conducts himself with decency and propriety. 