O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust, avoiding profane and vain utterances, and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge:
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
In fine, they have a name derived from Simon, the author of these most impious doctrines, being called Simonians; and from them "knowledge, falsely so called".
1. In the first book, which immediately precedes this, exposing "knowledge falsely so called".
of language, they style ignorance of the truth knowledge: and Paul well says
