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Refutatio Omnium Haeresium

Book X, Chapter 21

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St. Hippolytus of Rome (traditional attribution)

The Phrygians, however, derive the principles of their heresy from a certain Montanus, and Priscilla, and Maximilla, and regard these wretched women as prophetesses, and Montanus as a prophet. In respect, however, of what appertains to the origin and creation of the universe, the Phrygians are supposed to express themselves correctly; while in the tenets which they enunciate respecting Christ, they have not irrelevantly formed their opinions. But they are seduced into error in common with the heretics previously alluded to, and devote their attention to the discourses of these above the Gospels, thus laying down regulations concerning novel and strange fasts.

Trans. J. H. MacMahon, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume V, 1886. Public domain.

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