Epiphanius, The Panarion, Vol. 2
Translated by Frank Williams
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Against those who are called Phrygians or Montanists{1} or, also Tascodrugians. Number 28, but 48 of the series.For reference: Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis 2nd. rev. ed. bks. 2&3. De Fide, The
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48.1.2 For the Montanists had their beginning about the nineteenth year of Hadrian’s successor Antoninus Pius{2}…
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48.1.3-4 These Phrygians too, as we call them, accept every scripture of the Old and the New Testaments and likewise affirm the resurrection of the dead. But they boast of having one Montanus as a prophet, and Priscilla and Maximilla as prophetesses, and by paying heed to them lost their wits. (4) They agree with the holy catholic church about the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,{3} but have separated themselves by “giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils”{4} and saying “We must receive the gifts of grace as well.”
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48.1.7 The Phrygians are truly not “of” the saints themselves. They “went out” by their contentiousness, and “gave heed” to spirits of error and fictitious stories.
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48.2.1 If we must receive gifts of grace, and if there must be gifts of grace in the church, why do they have no more prophets after Montanus, Priscilla and Maximilla?{7}
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48.2.3 Maximilla and her like will be proved false prophets, since they dared to receive inspiration after the end of the prophetic gifts—not from the Holy Spirit but from devils’ imposture—and delude her audience.
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48.2.4 And see how they can be refuted from the very things they say! Their so-called prophetess, Maximilla, says, “After me there will be no prophet more, but the consummation.”
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48.2.5 Everything the prophets have said, they also said rationally and with understanding; and the things they said have come true and are still coming true.
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48.2.8 Accusations. have estranged themselves from the truth
. surrendered themselves to destruction and
. to being caught outside the fold and dragged off
. deserted the truth and
. hazarded themselves in shipwreck
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. gone astray
.The Lord has set his seal on the church
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48.3.1 …the same saints, filled with the Holy Spirit, delivered all the prophecies for our benefit{11}—[delivered them] in the true Spirit, with sound mind and rational intellect….
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48.3.2 Accusations. false prophets
. ravening wolves?{13}
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48.3.4 A prophet always spoke with composure and understanding, and delivered his oracles by the Holy Spirit’s inspiration.{14} He said everything with a sound mind….
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48.3.4 A prophet always spoke with composure and understanding, and delivered his oracles by the Holy Spirit’s inspiration.{14} He said everything with a sound mind….
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48.3.11 But when the Phrygians profess to prophesy, it is plain that they are not sound of mind and rational. Their words are ambiguous and odd, with nothing right about them. (4.1) Montanus, for instance, says, “Lo, the man is as a lyre, and I fly over him as a pick. The man sleepeth, while I watch. Lo, it is the Lord that distracteth the hearts of men, and that giveth the heart to man.{20}
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48.4.2 Accusations. false religion
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48.4.4 Accusations. Phrygians are undertaking to combine falsehood with truth
. they pile up{21} texts to make a false case
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48.4.4 …say that certain scriptures bear a resemblance to it , the holy scripture has said, “God sent an ‘ecstasy’ upon Adam, and he slept.”{22}
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48.4.3 For the Holy Spirit never spoke in him. Such expressions as “I fly,” and “strike,” and “watch,” and “The Lord distracteth men’s hearts,” are the utterances of an ecstatic. They are not the words of a rational man, but of someone from a different stamp from the Holy Spirit who spoke in the prophets.
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48.5.1 For it is indeed plain that the sacred scripture was right to call this ecstasy. When someone is asleep, all his senses leave him and take a rest. Though the sense of sight is there, for example, it does not see; the eye is closed, and the mover in the man, the spirit of soul, is at rest.….
48.6.1 Beloved, I have needed to gather all this material the various kinds of ecstasy because of the text, “The Lord sent an ecstasy upon Adam, and he slept.”
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48.6.3 In Adam’s case, however, God further called it ecstasy because it made him insensitive to pain for a time, because of the side God meant to take from him and make into his wife.
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48.7.1 But if I also have to speak of “I said in my ecstasy, all men are liars,”{27}the meaning of this, again, is different. These are not the words of a madman and an ecstatic―far from it!—(2) but of someone who is very surprised, and is taking more notice than usual things that are fit to be said and done. For since the prophet was astonished, he also speaks with astonishment here.
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48.7.3 The prophets fell into trances, not into distraction. Peter too was in an “ecstasy,”{28} not because he was irrational but because he saw things other than what men usually see in the everyday world.
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48.8.1 But even though they choose to reply, “The former gifts are not like the latter,”{35} how can they prove it? The holy prophets and the holy apostles prophesied alike.
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48.9.6 But if, from frailty, someone needs to contract a second marriage after the death of his wife, the rule of the truth does not prohibit this—that is, provided he is not a priest.But these people do forbid it—“forbidding to marry,”{44} as scripture says.
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48.9.3 For I have said before—as has just been said by the most holy apostles and I shall now repeat—that it was to make us secure and distinguish the character of the holy catholic church from the imposture of the sects, that Paul said how arrogantly the sects which forbid matrimony and prescribe abstinence from foods prohibit God’s good ordinances by law.
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48.9.6 Accusations. They expel anyone who has contracted a second marriage….
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48.10.1 We find then that every prophet, whether in the Old Testament or in the New, prophesies with understanding….
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48.10.3 But this Montanus, who has deceived his victims with his boast of being a prophet, describes things which are not consistent with sacred scripture. For in his so-called prophecy he says, “Why sayest thou, [Only] he that is more than man can be saved?{49} For the righteous shall shine an hundredfold brighter than the sun; and the least of you that are saved, an hundredfold brighter than the moon.”48.10.6 …says that the faces of the righteous will shine as the sun, how can Montanus promise a hundred times more? (7) Only if he is like the one who promised Adam, “Ye shall be as gods,”{51}….
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48.11.1 This same Montanus goes on to add, “I am the Lord God, the Almighty, dwelling in a man.”….
48.11.4 Montanus is thus in total disagreement with the sacred scriptures, as any attentive reader can see. And since he is in disagreement, < he himself >, and the sect which like him boasts of having prophets and gifts, are strangers to the holy catholic church. He did not receive these gifts; he departed from them.
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Accusations. 48.11.5 deceivers
. 48.11.6 And in fact it is plain that the holy apostles glorified the Lord after receiving the
Paraclete Spirit, while this Montanus glorifies himself
. 48.11.6 Montanus, however, glorifies only himself, and says that he is the Father almighty, and that < the deceitful spirit* > which dwells in him < is the Paraclete* >--proof positive that he is not the Father, was not sent by the Father, and has received nothing from the Father.
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(8) But Montanus intruded himself by saying that he was somebody, proof that he is not Christ, was not sent by Christ, and has received nothing from Christ.
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48.11.9 For the actual true Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, showed that he was a Son; but Montanus even says that he is the Father.
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48.12.1 AccusationsWhen you Phrygians say you left the church over gifts of grace{59} how can we believe you? Even though you are disguised with the title of “Christian,” you have launched another enemy attack on us. You have taken up the barbarians’ quarrel and mimicked the enmity of the Trojans, who were also Phrygians!
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Accusations48.12.3 And in turn, you introduce us to—Maximilla! Even your names are different and scary, with nothing pleasant and melodious about them….
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48.12.4 At once this Maximilla, who belongs to these so-called Phrygians—listen to what she says, children of Christ! “Hearken not unto me, but hearken unto Christ!{60}12.5 Even where she seemed to be glorifying Christ, she was wrong.
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12.6 But in the act of lying she is telling the truth, even against her will. She is right to say not to listen to her, but to Christ. Unclean spirits are often forced to denounce themselves…
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12.8 Now how can those who have heard this from her and believed her care to listen to her—when they have learned from her not to listen to her, but to the Lord! In fact if they had any sense they shouldn’t listen to her, since her oracles are of the earth.
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48.11.9 This pathetic little nobody, Montanus, says in turn, “Neither angel nor messenger, but I the Lord, God the Father, have come.”{57} In so saying he will be exposed as a heretic, for he is not glorifying Christ, whom every regular gift which has been given in the holy church truly glorified.
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48.11.10 For we shall find that Montanus is outside the body of the church and the Head of all, and “does not hold the Head, from whom the whole body, knit together, increaseth,”{58} as scripture says, For the actual true Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, showed that he was a Son; but Montanus even says that he is the Father.
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48.12.2 Things that are different from gifts and—as your own prophets say—not the same kind that the Lord promises, cannot be gifts.
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Accusations48.12.11 The blindness of deceit is stone blind
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48.13.1 In turn the same Maximilla—this “rational knowledge and teaching,” if I may be sarcastic—says, “The Lord hath sent me perforce, willing and not willing, to be votary, herald and interpreter of this burden and covenant and promise, to impart the knowledge of God.”{68}
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Accusations48.13.7 For Maximilla also said that she compelled the willing and the unwilling [to know God]—so that her very words make her a liar. She neither taught the knowledge of God—which she did not know—to the willing, nor compelled the unwilling [to learn it].
48.14.1 Phrygians also venerate a deserted spot in Phrygia, a town once called Pepuza though it is now leveled, and say that the heavenly Jerusalem will descend there.{73}
48.14.2 And so they resort there, celebrate certain mysteries{74} on the site, and, as they suppose, sanctify < themselves >. For this breed is also to be found in Cappadocia and Galatia—and in Phrygia as I said, which is why the sect is called the Phrygian. But they are in Cilicia too and, for the most part, in Constantinople.
48.14.3 But to omit nothing that bears on the name of every sect I have discussed, I shall also speak, in its turn, of the Tascodrugians’. For this name is used either in this sect itself, or the one after it, which is called the sect of the Quintillianists—for this name too originates with these people themselves.
48.14.4
They are called Tascodrugians for the following reason. Their word for “peg” is “tascus,” and “drungus” is their word for “nostril” or “snout.” And since they put their licking finger, as we call it, on their nostril when they pray, for dejection, if you please, and would-be righteousness, some people have given them the name Tascodrugians, or “nose-pickers.”{75}
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48.14.6 At a certain festival they pierce a child—just a little baby—all over its body with bronze needles and get its blood for sacrifice, if you please.{76}
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48.15.1 I promised to withhold nothing about any sect I know, but to disclose what I have learned by word of mouth, and from treatises, documents, and persons who truly confirmed my notion. (2) Thus, by writing no more than I know, I will < not > appear to be guilty of inventing my own false charges against people….
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48.15.3 I give all the facts, as I said, with accuracy, about each sect, and make these shocking disclosures for the readers’ correction.
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48.15.6 I have crushed its poison, and the venom on its hooked fangs, with the cudgel of the truth of the cross.
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48.15.7 For this sect and the sect of Quintillianists do the same thing. They stab the body of an innocent child and get its blood to drink, and delude their victims by < pretending* >, if you please, that this is initiation in the name of Christ.
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49.1.1 The Quintillianists in their turn, who are also called Pepuzians and known as Artotyrites and Priscillianists, are the same as the Phrygians and derive from them, but in a certain way are different. (2) For the Quintillianists or Priscillianists say that either Quintilla{2} or Priscilla—I cannot say for certain, but one of them, as I said, slept in Pepuza and, as the deluded woman said Christ came to her and slept beside her, thus: (3) “Christ came to me in the form of a woman,”{3} she said, “dressed in a white robe, imbued me wisdom, and revealed to me that this place is holy, and that Jerusalem will descend from heaven here.” (4) And so even to this day, they say, certain women—men too—are initiated there on the site, so that those women or men may await Christ and see him.{4} (5) (They have women they call prophetesses.{5} I am not sure, though, whether this custom is theirs or the Phrygians; they are associated and have the same ideas.)
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49.2.2 They cite many texts pointlessly, and give thanks to Eve because she was the first to eat from the tree of wisdom.{6} And as scriptural support for their ordination of women as clergy, they say that Moses’ sister was a prophetess.{7} What is more, they say, Philip had four daughters who prophesied.{8}
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49.2.3 In their church seven virgins often come in carrying lamps, if you please, dressed in white, to prophesy to the people. (4) They deceive the congregation with a show of some sort of inspiration and, as though urging them to the mourning of penitence,{9} get them all weeping, shedding tears and pretending to mourn for humankind.
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49.2.6 …they call them Artotyrites because they set forth bread and cheese in their mysteries and celebrate their mysteries with them.{12}
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49.3.1 But every human illusion deserting the right faith and opting for something impossible, and for various frenzies and secret rites.
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49.3.3 And they have overlooked the apostle’s command, “I suffer not a woman to speak, or to have authority over a man,”{14}….
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50.2.3 Shame on the people who get themselves into all kinds of quarrels!
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51.22.5-7 Greeks, I mean the idolaters, celebrate this day on the eighth before the Kalends of January, which Romans call Saturnalia…(6) For this division between signs of the Zodiac, which is a solstice, comes on the eighth before the Kalends of January, and the day begins to lengthen because the light is receiving its increase. And it completes a period of thirteen days until the eighth before the Ides of January, the day of Christ’s birth... (7) The Syrian sage, Ephrem, testified to this calculation in his commentaries when he said, “Thus the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, his birth in the flesh or perfect incarnation which is called the Epiphany, was revealed after a space of thirteen days from the beginning of the increase of the light. For this too must needs be a type of the number of our Lord Jesus Christ and his twelve disciples, since, [added to the disciples], he made upnumber of the thirteen days of the light’s increase.”{112}
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