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2Ti 1:5. Ὑπόμνησιν λαμβάνων, receiving a remembrance) [a reminiscence reminding me] Some external occasion, or a message from Timothy, had brought his faith to Paul’s remembrance [not as Engl. Vers. “When I call to remembrance”]. Ammonius says, “ἀνάμνησις is, when a man comes to the remembrance of things past-ὑπόμνησις, when they are suggested to him by another [whether person, or thing].-πίστεως, of faith) Among all the virtues of Timothy, faith is most to the purpose which Paul has in view.-ἐνῴκησε, dwelt in) This word conveys the idea of continuance [had its fixed dwelling in].-πρῶτον) first, perhaps before the birth of Timothy. So far the remembrance of Paul reaches. What the condition of the parents of Lois was, is not mentioned.-μάμμῃ, grandmother) The remembrance of the dead is pleasant to intimate friends, especially to those whose death is at hand, and to the posterity of the dead.-μητρὶ, mother) She had married a Greek.-Εὐνείκῃ, Eunice) That name is found in Hesiod’s Theogony. Lois seems to have been the mother of Eunice, and both were dead.