When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Ver. 5. In thy grandmother Lois, and mother] A sweet happiness to any child to have a good mother and grandmother. For these have great opportunity of dropping good things into their little Lemuels, as being much about them. The mothers of the kings of Judah are constantly mentioned; and as they were good or evil, so were their children. Partus sequitur ventrem, The birth follows the belly. The grandmothers also, as they often love their nephews better than their own immediate children (for love descendeth), so if they be religious (expertus loquor) they have a strong influence upon them, and are a means of much good unto them, as was Naomi, no doubt, to Obed, Ruth 4:16, though she were but his grandmother-in-law.