Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Ver. 3. Which we have heard and known] Hearing and seeing are the two learned senses, whereby knowledge, yea, life, entereth into the soul, Proverbs 2:2; Pro 2:10 Isaiah 55:3 .
And our fathers have told us] Have delivered down to us from hand to hand, whetting upon us the written word, Deuteronomy 6:7, and adding thereunto, for explication, many other things fit to be known.