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Okay back to the word study.
Soophronein / soophroneoo is a fairly common verb used by the major and minor dramatists historians orators and philosophers in Classical and Hellenistic Greek literature and appears also in the Gospels and Epistles of the New Testament.
However NT translators use a variety of expressions to translate it into modern English.
think soberly think sensibly think / be modest
however it actually literally means means to be safe minded soo + phron so why the modern translations. The Greeks used this and related words to express also ideas about modesty as a virtue but the word(s) as much mean keeping yourself safe by being moderate and sensible avoiding excess.
Its moderation or commonsense expressed as sensible behaviour and thinking.
Pauls usage of soophronein in Romans 2:3 is a good example of this as he contrasts thinking and thinkly safely / sensibly with hyperphronein.
He also uses it in his letters to Titus in chapter 2 and to Timothy 1 Tim 2:9 and 2:15.
Its wide usage I hope supports my belief NT scholars should read the Classics and vice versa!?
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