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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John Chrysostom
AD 407
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust.
Let it not suffer diminution. It is not your own. You are entrusted with the property of another, do not lessen it.
Avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.
Well did he thus call it. For where there is not faith, there is not knowledge; when anything springs from our reasonings, it is not knowledge. Or perhaps he says this, because some then assumed the name of Gnostics, as knowing more than others.
