The Phrygian Prophets

The enemy of God’s Church, who above all hates the good and loves evil, and leaves no way of plotting against people untried, was at work once more making strange heresies spring up against the Church. Some of these crawled over Asia and Phrygia like venomous reptiles, boasting that Montanus was the Paraclete, and that the women who came from him, Priscilla and Maximilla, were prophetesses of Montanus. [a]