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3 articles found for “Eunice”

• Lois and Eunice

  Lois and Eunice were the grandmother and mother of Timothy, a coworker of the apostle Paul. These New Testament women are mentioned in 2 Timothy 1:5 as the ones who passed their faith on to Timothy.

• Lois

  Lois is a woman mentioned in the New Testament book of 2 Timothy, the maternal grandmother of Timothy and the mother of Eunice. Paul wrote that the "unfeigned faith" that was in her had been passed on to her daughter and grandson.

• Henry Ward Beecher

  Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) was a nineteenth-century American Congregationalist preacher and abolitionist who served as pastor of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York, for about forty years.