2 Timothy 1:5

2 Timothy 1:5. When I call to remembrance. Warm as the words sound, there is just the shadow of a misgiving in them. He has to call to mind the past in order to feel confident for the future.

Thy grandmother Lois. We now see the reason of his reference to his own family. His remembrance of their piety had helped him. A like remembrance might help his disciple. The form of expression, ‘which dwelt,' suggests the thought that mother as well as grandmother was dead. We learn from Acts 16:1, that the former, and therefore probably the latter also, was a Jewess.

And I am persuaded. The Greek ‘but' suggests a mental contrast in the slight misgiving implied in ‘I am persuaded.' We do not commonly say, ‘I am sure you will feel' when we are quite sure.