soberminded: 1 Tim. 2:9, 3:2, 1:8. sound in faith. Even Dr. Bernard admits that faith here is subjective, and not objective in the sense of creed. But in truth, the subjective sense is never lost in Paul’s genuine writings. Faith is not a body of truths to be believed, but the spiritual faculty by which truth is assimilated. And old men are to be kept sound in this faculty, as in love and patience. (Cf. Jas. 1:3 for the connexion between ‘faith’ and ‘patience.’) The three graces here named together