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Refutation of All Heresies
St Hippolytus of Rome, ANF 5
Book 10, 21. The Phrygians or Montanists
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.1
Notes
- The Ms. has the obviously corrupt reading παραδοσεις, which Duncker alters into παραδοζους(strange).