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Historia Ecclesiastica

Book V, Chapter 14. The False Prophets of the Phrygians

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Eusebius of Caesarea

The enemy of God’s Church, who is emphatically a hater of good and a lover of evil, and leaves untried no manner of craft against men, was again active in causing strange heresies to spring up against the Church. For some persons, like venomous reptiles, crawled over Asia and Phrygia, boasting that Montanus was the Paraclete, and that the women that followed him, Priscilla and Maximilla, were prophetesses of Montanus.

Trans. Arthur Cushman McGiffert, A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series, Volume I, 1890. Public domain.

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