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200 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, let them show us what women among them succeeded Montana* and his women. For the apostle shows that the gift of prophecy should be in all the church until the coming of the Lord, but they can by no means show any one at this time, the fourteenth year from the death of Maximilla." Thus far of this author. But the Miltiades mentioned by him has left other monuments of his study in the holy Scriptures, both in the works that he wrote against the Greeks, and those against the Jews. Both treatises are composed in two separate volumes. He has, moreover, writ ten a work against the philosophers of the age, in favour of the philosophy which he embraced. CHAPTER XVIII. Apolknius also refutes the Phrygian heresy, and those whom he has mentioned. BUT the heresy of the Phrygians, as it was called, still con tinuing to prevail in Phrygia, Apollonius undertook to refute it in a particular work which he wrote; on the one hand correcting their false predictions in reference to what they said, and on the other describing the life that those led who were its founders. Hear him in his own words respecting Montanus : " But who," says he, " is this new teacher ? His works and his doctrines sufficiently show it. This is he that taught the dissolutions of marriage, he that imposed laws of fasting, that called Pepuza and Tymium, little places in Phrygia, a Jerusalem, in order to collect men from every quarter thither ; who established exactors of money, and under the name of offerings, devised the artifice to procure pre sents ; who provided salaries for those that preached his doctrine, that it might grow strong by gormandizing and gluttony." Thus far concerning Montanus ; and further on he writes concerning his prophetesses : " We show, therefore," says he, " that these same leading prophetesses, as soon as they were filled with the spirit, abandoned their husbands. How then can they utter this falsehood, who call Prisca a virgin ?" He afterwards proceeds