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194 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. and obscure in the sacred writings ; Rhodon himself promises that he would give solutions to these questions in a work of his own. There is also a commentary of his extant, on the Hexahemeron. But this same Apelles uttered innumerable impieties against the law of Moses, and in many works he reviled the sa cred Scriptures, using no small exertions, as it seems, to refute and overturn them. Thus far, however, respecting these CHAPTER XIV. The false prophets of the Phrygians. BUT, as the enemy of the church of God is the great adveraary of all goodness, the promoter of evil, and omits no method of plotting against men, he was active again in causing new here sies to spring up against the church. Some of these crept like venomous reptiles over Asia and Phrygia, pretending that Montanus was the Paraclete,* but that the two women who followed him, Priscilla and Maximilla, were prophetesses of Montanus. CHAPTER XV. Of the schism of Blastus, at Rome. OTHERS there were that flourished at Rome, at the head of whom was Florinus, who falling from his office as a presbyter of the church, Blastus was very nearly involved in the same fall * Paraclete, the epithet of the holy Spirit, occurring in St. John's gospel. It is the Greek derivative, signifying Comforter or Advocate. Other false teachers besides Montanus, have either assumed or had this epithet applied to them ; among these, the impostor Mahomet is not the least noted. In the gospel of Barnabas, this name, by a mere change of the vowels, is ST«P«X\UTOJ, the most glorious, instead of jrap*x?.>|To;. As this expresses the meaning of Mahomet's name, this gospel of Barnabas is much valued, at least among the African Mahometans. See the Co* ran, Sur. LXI.