1 Timothy 1:4

Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians

Where is the boasting of those who are styled prudent? For our God, Jesus Christ, was, according to the appointment[125]

Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians

Be not deceived with strange doctrines, "nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies,"[46]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I

as certain men have set the truth aside, and bring in lying words and vain genealogies, which, as the apostle says,[2]

Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus

which the unlearned receive, and those of slender knowledge have taught, not "giving heed to endless genealogies,"[71]

Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul

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.[18]

Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics

nothing! Whence spring those "fables and endless genealogies,"[74]

Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics

Such an opinion did the Valentinians assert of themselves. When again he mentions "endless genealogies,"[350]

Tertullian Against the Valentinians

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[42]