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Ver. 14. But do thou ( óὺ äὲ emphatic, in contrast to the deceivers in the preceding verse) continue in the things which thou didst learn (lit., in what things thou didst learn), and wert assured of— ἐðéóôþèçò —not, were committed to thee, as the Latin and Gothic versions, which would have required å ̓ ðéóôåõ ́ èçò . Hesychius, ἐðéóôþèç : åðëçñïöïñç ́ èç , persuasus est, certum et exploratum habuit. (See much more to the same effect in Suicer, in voce.) The things had not only been learned by Timothy, but learned in such a way as to give them a firm place in his belief. Knowing of whom thou didst learn them—namely, of persons who were entitled to the fullest confidence, utterly incapable of practising the deceit, by which others are misled to their ruin. The reference must primarily be to his mother Lois, and his grandmother Eunice.