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Asterius Urbanus, ANF Vol. 7, Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries
Alexander Roberts, D.D. and James Donaldson, LL.D.

Number of quotes: 5


Book ID: 366 Page: 335

Section: 2D3A

I. "...against this heresy that bears the name Miltiades..."

II. And this person was carried away in spirit;{13} and suddenly being seized with a kind of frenzy and ecstasy, he raved, and began to speak and to utter strange things, and to prophesy in a manner contrary to the custom of the Church, as handed down from early times and preserved thenceforward in a continuous succession. And among those who were present on that occasion, and heard those spurious utterances, there were some who were indignant, and rebuked him as one frenzied, and under the power of demons, and possessed by the spirit of delusion, and agitating the multitude, and debarred him from speaking any more;

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Book ID: 366 Page: 336

Section: 2D3A

And those few who were thus deluded were Phrygians. But the same arrogant spirit taught them to revile the Church universal under heaven, because that false spirit of prophecy found neither honour from it nor entrance into it.

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they were in consequence of that expelled from the Church and debarred from communion.{5}

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Quote ID: 402

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Book ID: 366 Page: 336

Section: 2D3A

And let not the spirit of Maximilla say (as it is found in the same book of Asterius Urbanus {14}), “I am chased like a wolf from the sheep; I am no wolf. I am word, and spirit, and power.”

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Book ID: 366 Page: 337

Section: 2D3A

Alcibiades,{3} in which he proves the impropriety of a prophet’s speaking in ecstasy, I made an abridgment of that work.

IX.

But the false prophet falls into a spurious ecstasy, which is accompanied by a want of all shame and fear. For beginning with a voluntary (designed) rudeness, he ends with an involuntary madness of soul, as has been already stated. But they will never be able to show that any one of the Old Testament prophets, or any one of the New, was carried away in spirit after this fashion.

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Book ID: 366 Page: 337

Section: 2D3A

For if, after Quadratus and the woman Ammia in Philadelphia, as they say, the women who attached themselves to Montanus succeeded to the gift of prophecy, let them show us which of them thus succeeded Montanus and his women. For the apostle deems that the gift of prophecy should abide in all the Church up to the time of the final advent. But they will not be able to show the gift to be in their possession even at the present time, which is the fourteenth year only from the death of Maximilla.{4}

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