And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
From a child, х apo (G575) brefous (G1025)] - 'from an infant.' It is in the tenderest age that the most lasting impressions of faith may be made. Two grounds of continuance in the truth: that it was from no ordinary persons Timothy received it; and not lately, but from infancy.
Holy Scriptures - the Old Testament, taught by his Jewess mother: an undesigned coincidence, 2 Timothy 1:5; Acts 14:1-3.
Able - in themselves: though through men's own fault they often do not in fact make men savingly wise. Wise unto (attaining) salvation - contrast "folly" (2 Timothy 3:9); 'strivings about words,' "profane and vain babblings" (2 Timothy 2:14; 2 Timothy 2:16). Wise also in extending it to others.
Through faith - as the instrument. Each knows divine things only so far as his own experience extends. He who has not faith has not wisdom or salvation.
Which is in - i:e., rests on Christ Jesus: in the Old, as in the New Testament (Revelation 19:10).