Montanus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters
Montanist leader to whom the Pepuzeni falsely applied the name Paraclete.
for they blasphemed against the Holy Spirit, lawlessly and shamelessly applying the name of the Paraclete to Montanus and Priscilla.
Adversus Praxean
Prophet of the New Prophecy movement whose prophecies the bishop of Rome had acknowledged.
but Praxeas, by asserting falsehoods about these very prophets and their churches, and by defending the authority of the bishop's predecessors, compelled him both to recall the letters of peace already sent out and to draw back from his purpose of receiving the spiritual gifts.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
Founder of the New Prophecy movement, defended by Tertullian as orthodox in doctrine.
Not that Montanus and Priscilla and Maximilla preach another God, nor that they unbind Jesus Christ, nor that they overthrow any rule of faith or hope, but simply that they teach men to fast more often than to marry.
Even if from John the Paraclete had fallen silent, we should ourselves have stood forth as prophets to ourselves for this cause above all—not now, I say, for entreating the wrath of God, nor for obtaining His protection or grace, but for fortifying through our very selves the condition of the last times, proclaiming all "lowliness of mind," since the prison must be learned by heart, and hunger and …