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In this work he mentions a writer, Miltiades, stating that he also
wrote a certain book against the above-mentioned heresy. After
quoting some of their words, he adds:
"Having found these things in a certain work of theirs in opposition
to the work of the brother Alcibiades, in which he shows that a
prophet ought not to speak in ecstasy, I made an abridgment."
A little further on in the same work he gives a list of those who
prophesied under the new covenant, among whom he enumerates a certain
Ammia and Quadratus, saying "But the false prophet falls into an
ecstasy, in which he is without shame or fear. Beginning with
purposed ignorance, he passes on, as has been stated, involuntary
madness of soul. They cannot show that one of the old or one of the
new prophets was thus carried away in spirit. Neither can they boast
of Agabus, or Judas, or Silas, or the daughters of Philip, or
Ammia in Philadelphia, or Quadratus, or any others not belonging to
them."
And again after a little he says: "For if after Quadratus and
Ammia in Philadelphia, as they assert, the women with Montanus
received the prophetic gift, let them show who among them received it
from Montanus and the women. For the apostle thought it necessary
that the prophetic gift should continue in all the Church until the
final coming. But they cannot show it, though this is the fourteenth
year since the death of Maximilla."
He writes thus. But the Miltiades to whom he refers has left other
monuments of his own zeal for the Divine Scriptures, in the
discourses which he composed against the Greeks and against the Jews,
answering each of them separately in two books. And in addition he
addresses an apology to the earthly rulers, in behalf of the philosophy
which he embraced.
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