Neither give heed to myths and endless genealogies, which cause questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
But in the few words there always arises certainty to him; nor is he permitted to give his inquiries a wider range than is compatible with their solution; for "endless questions "the apostle forbids.
Nothing! Whence spring those "fables and endless genealogies".
Such an opinion did the Valentinians assert of themselves. When again he mentions "endless genealogies".
Infelicities of a dispersed and mutilated Deity, will that man hesitate at once to pronounce that these are "the fables and endless genealogies "which the inspired apostle