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Eunice
Happily conquering, the mother of Timothy, a believing Jewess, but married to a Greek (Acts 16:1). She trained her son from his childhood in the knowledge of the Scriptures (2 Tim 3:15). She was distinguished by her “unfeigned faith.”
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- 2 Timothy 1:5 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.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
