I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

 Finally the Pastorals condemn those who, as the King James Version has it, have given themselves to "the oppositions of science falsely so-called." First, we must note that here the word science is used in its original sense; it simply means knowledge (gnosis, G1108) . What is being condemned is a false intellectualism and a false stressing of human knowledge. 