2 Timothy 3:15 (WEB)
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Fathers and councils · 5
Clement of Alexandria
““Thou, O Timothy,” he says, “from a child hast known the holy letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 15.
Read the whole comment“For we are taught of God, being instructed in the truly “sacred letters” by the Son of God.” — editor's note: ίερἀ γράυυατα (2 Tim. iii. 15), translated in A. V. “sacred Scriptures:” also in contradistinction to the so-called sacred letters of the Egyptians, Chaldeans,…
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And indeed that which I am about to say is wonderful, yea it is of those things which are very miraculous; yet not far from the truth, as ye may be able to learn from the sacred writings.” — editor's note: The word in the Syriac is ‘priestly.’ But in this and in other places, it appears to be for the Greek ῾Ιερός. Cf. τὰ ἱερὰ γράμματα. 2 Tim. iii. 15.
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Jerome
“He writes to Timothy who had been trained in the holy writings from a child exhorting him to study them diligently and not to neglect the gift which was given him with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 14, 15.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“We learn this from the words written among many other exhortations to Timothy, the disciple instructed from a babe in the Holy Scriptures by the glorious faith of his grandmother and mother: Understand what I say, for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Tim. i. 5; iii. 15.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.20.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.20.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.20.