_1 Cor. 2:6_—“_We speak wisdom, however, among the perfect,_” or, as the Am. Revisers have it, “_among them that are fullgrown_”; _Phil. 3:15_—“_Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded._” Men are often called perfect, when free from any fault which strikes the eyes of the world. See _Gen. 6:9_—“_Noah was a righteous man, and perfect_”; _Job 1:1_—“_that man was perfect and upright._” On τέλειος, see Trench, Syn. N. T., 1:110. The τέλειοι are described in _Heb. 5:14_—“_Solid food is for the mature_ (τελείων) _who on account of habit have their perceptions disciplined for the discriminating of good and evil_” (Dr. Kendrick’s translation). The same word “_perfect_” is used of Jacob in _Gen. 25:27_—“_Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents_” = a harmless man, exemplary and well‐balanced, as a man of business. Genung, Epic of the Inner Life, 132—“_’Perfect’_ in Job = Horace’s ‘integer vitæ,’ being the adjective of which ‘integrity’ is the substantive.” Fifthly, the Scriptures distinctly deny that any man on earth lives without sin. _1 K. 8:46_—“_there is no man that sinneth not_”; _Eccl. 7:20_—“_Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not_”; _James 3:2_—“_For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also_”; _1 John 1:8_—“_If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us._” T. T. Eaton, Sanctification: “1. Some mistake regeneration for sanctification. They have been unconverted church members. When led to faith in Christ, and finding peace and joy, they think they are sanctified, when they are simply converted. 2. Some mistake assurance of faith for sanctification. But joy is not sanctification. 3. Some mistake the baptism of the Holy Spirit for sanctification. But Peter sinned grievously at Antioch, after he had received that baptism. 4. Some think that doing the best one can is sanctification. But he who measures by inches, for feet, can measure up well. Some regard sin as only a voluntary act, whereas the sinful nature is the fountain. Stripping off the leaves of the Upas tree does not answer. 6. Some mistake the power of the human will, and fancy that an act of will can free a man from sin. They ignore the settled bent of the will, which the act of will does not change.” Sixthly, the declaration: “ye were sanctified” (1 Cor. 6:11), and the designation: “saints” (1 Cor. 1:2), applied to early believers, are, as the whole epistle shows, expressive of a holiness existing in germ and anticipation; the expressions deriving their meaning not so much from what these early believers were, as from what Christ was, to whom they were united by faith.