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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 199 say that they had vast numbers that were martyrs for Christ. But they do not confess Christ in truth." And a little after, he adds : " Hence, whenever those that are called martyrs by the church, on account of enduring martyrdom for the true faith, happen to fall in with those called martyrs of the Phrygian heresy, they always separate from them and undergo death, having no communion with them, because they do not assent to the spirit of Montanus and the women, and that all this is true, and happened in our own times at Apamea on the Menander, is manifest from those who suffered martrydom with Caius and Alexander of Eumenia." CHAPTER XVII. Of Miltiades and his works. IN the same work he also makes mention of the historian Mil tiades, who also wrote a book against the same heresy. After quoting some passages from them, he adds : " As I found these statements in one of their works against another work written by our brother Alcibiades, in which he demonstrates the impro priety of a prophet's speaking in ecstasy. This work I have abridged." After stating other matters, he enumerates those who had prophesied under the New Testament. Among these he mentions one Ammias and Quadratus. " But the false prophet," says he, " is carried away by a vehement ecstasy, accompanied by want of all shame and fear. Beginning, indeed, with a de signed ignorance, and terminating, as beforesaid, in involuntary madness. They will never be able to show that any of the Qld or any of the New Testament, were thus violently agitated and carried away in spirit. Neither will they be able to boast that Agabus, or Judas, or Silas, or the daughters of Philip, or Am mias in Philadelphia, or Quadratus, or others that do not be long to them, ever acted in this way." Again, after a little, he says: "If after Quadratus and Ammias in Philadelphia, the wo men that followed Montanus succeeded in the gift of prophecy,