For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Of fear. Of a cowardly fear, and want of courage.
Of sobriety. Though the Protestants here translate of a sound mind, yet they translate the same Greek word by sobriety in divers other places, as in Acts xxvi. 25; 1 Timothy ii. 9 and 15. and chap. iii. 2; Titus i. 8. (Witham)