I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
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Barnes' Notes
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers - Paul reckoned among his forefathers the patriarchs and the holy men of former times, as being of the same nation with himself, though it may be that he…
Adam Clarke
Whom I serve from my forefathers - Being born a Jew, I was carefully educated in the knowledge of the true God, and the proper manner of worshipping him.
With pure conscience - Ever aiming to please…
Here is, I. The inscription of the epistle Paul calls himself an apostle by the will of God, merely by the good pleasure of God, and by his grace, which he professes himself unworthy of. According to…
Timothy's inheritance of Personal Faith and Ministerial Gifts a double ground of Appeal
From what St Paul was himself follows now the first appeal to Timothy, based on his affectionate remembrance of…
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