double honor?

Double honor? What does that mean? I had a conversation with a friend about a month ago concerning some questions that I had on the validity of paying pastors. 1 Timothy 5:17 says "The eldars who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching" I found three different versions of this in commentaries. 1. A minister of the church is to be double paid.
2. A minister is to recieve honor and also pay.
3. A minister is to recieve double honor as in, honor for being a minister and added honor for working hard at it.
Concerning the first, I have to be honost. The only people I believe seeing this scripture as a definition to the verse are those ministers who are greedy. Double pay? Double pay from what? I don't even see what is suppose to be the right pay amount. It seems odd to me that this scripture would be talking about paying someone double. It doesn't flow with scripture at all. If we were to take a look at what the early church was doing in the book of Acts and see that they all sold their properties and shared among one another so that there was no want. That would mean that there wasn't one person or a group of people being paid, in money, to do what God had already told them to do. Every recieved what they needed, despite what part of service they were doing in the church. Paul also referances in scripture that they should reflect what he taught them and how he worked while he was with them. He worked so that he wouldn't be an extra burden to those that he was serving. The other interesting thing about this scripture is that if you were to look at the importance that Paul is puting on where the church's money should be going, the first and formost should go to the poor and the widow. Exactly where the tithes and offering were going to in the book of Malachi.
I will touch on 2 and 3 in further blogs.
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