“When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.”
I am reminded of your genuine faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, in you as well — the genealogy of faith: from Lois through Eunice to Timothy traces both literal descent and spiritual inheritance. Anupokritos pistis (genuine, non-hypocritical faith) spans generations.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 1:5
This is another commendation, that Timothy came not of Gentiles, nor of unbelievers, but of a family that served Christ from the first. Acts 16:1-3 For Timothy, it says, “was the son of a certain woman which was a Jewess, and believed.” How a Jewess? How believing? Because she was not of the Gentiles, “but on account of his father, who was a Greek, and of the Jews that were in those quarters, he took and circumcised him.” Thus, as these mixtures of Jews and Gentiles took…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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