forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

 (iii) It tells us what to avoid. Timothy is to avoid profitless tales like those which old women tell to children. It is easy to get lost in side-issues and to get entangled in things which are at best embroideries. It is on the great central truths that a man must ever feed his mind and nourish his faith. 