2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience… Remembrance hath in it four things — apprehension, reposition, retention, and production. A notion or thing is by the external or internal sense presented to the eye of reason; she perceives it, that's apprehension; then it is committed unto memory as a place of conservation, that's reposition; afterwards kept there in safety, that's retention; and lastly, when occasion is given, it is called out again, and that's production. A man takes a shalt in his hand, puts it in his quiver, retains it there for a time, and, when he would recreate himself, pulls it forth again, this is a plain emblem of remembrance. (J. Barlow, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; |