acknowledge. recognize, or own.
direct. rightly divide: i.e. dividing and thus showing what is right or pleasing to God. Hebrew. yashar. Numbers 23:27. Compare Judges 14:3; Judges 14:7. 1Sa 18:20, 1 Samuel 18:26. Rendered by Septuagint orthotomeo, the same word as in 2 Timothy 2:15.