It is argued that ``eternal inflation'' must have a beginning in time. Conditions are formulated for a spacetime to describe an eternally inflating universe without a beginning, and it is shown that these conditions cannot be satisfied. A rigorous proof is given for a two-dimensional spacetime, and a plausibility argument for four dimensions.
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