The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 2: D-G by Merrill C. Tenney & Zondervan

Author:Merrill C. Tenney & Zondervan [Tenney, Merrill C. & Zondervan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias, Reference, Encyclopedias & Subject Guides, Bible Study & Reference, Religion, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles, Christian
ISBN: 9780310876977
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2010-07-20T05:00:00+00:00

Eunatan yoo-nay’tuhn. KJV Apoc. form of ELNATHAN (1 Esd. 8:44).

Eunice yoo’nis ( G2332, “good victory”). The daughter of LOIS and mother of TIMOTHY (2 Tim. 1:5). Eunice’s husband was a Gentile (Acts 16:1), but she was Jewish, as was also her mother. Timothy had not been circumcised (see CIRCUMCISION), undoubtedly because his father was a Gentile, but he was brought up by his mother and his grandmother in the Jewish faith. Paul wrote of Timothy that from a child his mother had taught him to know the holy Scriptures (2 Tim. 3:15). Eunice, her mother Lois, and Timothy were probably converted to Christianity during PAUL’S first missionary journey at LYSTRA, where the apostle had been stoned and left for dead. On his second missionary journey, when he returned to Lystra, Paul was evidently so impressed with the fervency of Timothy’s spirit that he decided to take him along. Paul said that Timothy witnessed his persecutions and afflictions at Lystra (2 Tim. 3:11). Without doubt the young missionary had a very remarkable mother. (On the question whether Timothy would have been considered Jewish through a matrilineal principle, see the articles by S. J. D. Cohen and C. Bryan, respectively in JBL 105 [1986]: 251 – 68 and 107 [1988]: 292 – 94. Cf. also F. M. Gillman, Women Who Knew Paul [1989].)

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