For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind"
2 Timothy 1v7
"A mind sober and self-controlled, sound because it is disciplined, is the substance of Paul's idea...
A mind is sound when it is humbled an brought into subjection by being centred on One outside itself...
"Doctrine" (2 Timothy 1v8-9, 1 Timothy 1v9-10) has first and foremost a moral significance and we miss its meaning entirely if we make it primarily a theological term. At the same time the teaching was in no sense a mere code of moral precepts: it was teaching of the fact of the risen Christ in whom is God's salvation which imposed a new discipline on life. When under that discipline men and women develop self-control in every aspect and function of living, they are "of a sound mind". "
Extracts from A Sound Mind L.G. Sargent pp9-13
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