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Eusebius of Caesarea (engraving), Jan Goeree

Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History V.14: The False Prophets of the Phrygians

Jan Goeree, Eusebius of Caesarea (engraving), c. 1700 · Public domainJan Goeree, Eusebius of Caesarea (engraving), c. 1700

SectionEusebius of CaesareaPublic domainBook V

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.

Reproduced in full. Translation: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (Schaff and Wace, 1890), public domain (Public domain).

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