2 Timothy 3:14

3. So he should also be true, according to the Scriptures, inspired to furnish and qualify the minister of God, 2 Timothy 3:14-17.

14. But Resuming Timothy’s contrast of character over against the errorists.

Knowing of whom The whom is plural, referring not (as Alford) to Timothy’s parents, but to Paul and the original apostolic eye and ear witnesses of the doings and teachings of Christ. This perfect preservation of the original type was the bulwark of the Church of St. Paul and Timothy against the Gnostics and all other heretics. And when that doctrine was recorded in the apostolic writings and became the rule of faith, it is the bulwark alike to the present day, against all innovations and variations, whether of Romanism or Rationalism.