2 Timothy 3:15

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,.... That is, all holy Scripture; for of that only the apostle is speaking; and he means the whole of it; not only the books of the Old Testament, but of…

And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures - That is, the Old Testament; for the New Testament was not then written; see the notes at Joh 5:39. The mother of Timothy was a pious…

From a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures - The early religious education of Timothy has been already sufficiently noticed; see Ti2 1:5, and the preface to the first epistle. St. Paul…

Here the apostle, to confirm Timothy in that way wherein he walked,

I. Sets before him his own example, which Timothy had been an eye-witness of, having long attended Paul (Ti2 3:10): Thou hast fully…

from a child Lit. from a babe; the word occurs four times in St Luke's -Gospel of the Infancy," ch. 1 and 2, and again Luk 18:15; Act 7:19.

thou hast known Lit. -thou knowest," the perfect having this…