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has left behind in the treatises which he composed against the Greeks and against the Jews, having addressed each subject separately in two writings, and furthermore he has also made a defense to the secular rulers on behalf of the philosophy which he pursued. 5.18.1 Apollonius also, an ecclesiastical writer, instituted a refutation of the heresy called that of the Phrygians, while it was still flourishing then in Phrygia, and has composed his own treatise against them, correcting word by word their current prophecies as being false, and refuting the kind of life the leaders of the heresy led; hear him saying these things in his own words concerning Montanus: 5.18.2 "But who this recent teacher is, his works and his teaching show. This is the one who taught dissolutions of marriages, who laid down laws for fasting, who named Pepuza and Tymion Jerusalem—and these are small towns of Phrygia—wishing to gather there those from everywhere, who appointed collectors of money, who in the name of offerings contrives the taking of gifts, who provides salaries to those who preach his doctrine, so that through gluttony the teaching of the doctrine might be strengthened." 5.18.3 And these things are about Montanus; and concerning his prophetesses, continuing he writes thus: "We show then that these first prophetesses themselves, from when they were filled with the spirit, left their husbands. How then were they lying when they called Priscilla a virgin?" 5.18.4 Then he adds, saying: "Does it seem to you that all scripture forbids a prophet to receive gifts and money? When, therefore, I see the prophetess having received both gold and silver and costly garments, how should I not reject her?" 5.18.5 Again, continuing, concerning one of their confessors, he says these things: "Moreover, Themison, who was clothed in plausible covetousness, who did not bear the sign of confession, but with a sum of money put off his bonds, when he ought on this account to have been humble, boasting as a martyr, dared, imitating the apostle, by composing a certain catholic epistle, to instruct those who had believed better than he, to contend with the words of empty sound, and to blaspheme the Lord and the apostles and the holy church." 5.18.6 And again concerning another of those honored among them as martyrs, he writes thus: "But that we may not speak of more, let the prophetess tell us the things concerning Alexander, who calls himself a martyr, with whom she dines, and to whom many also do reverence; whose robberies and other daring deeds for which he has been punished, it is not for us to speak of, but the treasury has it. 5.18.7 Who then 5.18.7 forgives whom their sins? Does the prophet forgive the robberies of the martyr, or the martyr the covetousness of the prophet? For when the Lord had said, 'Possess neither gold nor silver nor two tunics,' these have transgressed in entirely the opposite way with regard to the possessions of these forbidden things. For we will show that those called prophets and martyrs among them are making money not only from the rich, but also from the poor and orphans and widows. 5.18.8 And if they have confidence, let them stand on this and let them debate on these points, so that if they are convicted, they may at least for the future cease from transgressing. For the fruits of the prophet must be tested; 5.18.9 for from the fruit the tree is known. But so that for those who wish the facts about Alexander may be known, he was judged by Aemilius Frontinus, proconsul in Ephesus, not on account of the Name, but for the robberies which he dared, being already a transgressor; then, having falsely appealed to the name of the Lord, he was released, deceiving the faithful there, and his own parish, from where he was, did not receive him because he was a robber, and those who wish to learn the facts about him have the public archive of Asia; 5.18.10 whom the prophet, though with him for many years, does not know. We, in refuting him, through him also refute the nature of the prophet. The same thing we are able to prove in the case of many, and if

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καταλέλοιπεν ἔν τε οἷς πρὸς Ἕλληνας συνέταξε λόγοις καὶ τοῖς πρὸς Ἰουδαίους, ἑκατέρᾳ ἰδίως ὑποθέσει ἐν δυσὶν ὑπαντήσας συγγράμμασιν, ἔτι δὲ καὶ πρὸς τοὺς κοσμικοὺς ἄρχοντας ὑπὲρ ἧς μετῄει φιλοσοφίας πεποίηται ἀπολογίαν. 5.18.1 Τῆς δὲ κατὰ Φρύγας καλουμένης αἱρέσεως καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος, ἐκκλησιαστικὸς συγγραφεύς, ἀκμαζούσης εἰς ἔτι τότε κατὰ τὴν Φρυγίαν ἔλεγχον ἐνστησάμενος, ἴδιον κατ' αὐτῶν πεποίηται σύγγραμμα, τὰς μὲν φερομένας αὐτῶν προφητείας ψευδεῖς οὔσας κατὰ λέξιν εὐθύνων, τὸν δὲ βίον τῶν τῆς αἱρέσεως ἀρχηγῶν ὁποῖός τις γέγονεν, διελέγχων· αὐτοῖς δὲ ῥήμασιν περὶ τοῦ Μοντανοῦ ταῦτα λέγοντος ἄκουε· 5.18.2 «ἀλλὰ τίς ἐστιν οὗτος ὁ πρόσφατος διδάσκαλος, τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡ διδασκαλία δείκνυσιν. οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ διδάξας λύσεις γάμων, ὁ νηστείας νομοθετήσας, ὁ Πέπουζαν καὶ Τύμιον Ἱερουσαλὴμ ὀνομάσας πόλεις δ' εἰσὶν αὗται μικραὶ τῆς Φρυγίας, τοὺς πανταχόθεν ἐκεῖ συναγαγεῖν ἐθέλων, ὁ πρακτῆρας χρημάτων καταστήσας, ὁ ἐπ' ὀνόματι προσφορῶν τὴν δωροληψίαν ἐπιτεχνώμενος, ὁ σαλάρια χορηγῶν τοῖς κηρύσσουσιν αὐτοῦ τὸν λόγον, ἵνα διὰ τῆς γαστριμαργίας ἡ διδασκαλία τοῦ λόγου κρατύνηται». 5.18.3 καὶ ταῦτα μὲν περὶ τοῦ Μοντανοῦ· καὶ περὶ τῶν προφητίδων δὲ αὐτοῦ ὑποκαταβὰς οὕτω γράφει· «δείκνυμεν οὖν αὐτὰς πρώτας τὰς προφήτιδας ταύτας, ἀφ' οὗ τοῦ πνεύματος ἐπληρώθησαν, τοὺς ἄνδρας καταλιπούσας. πῶς οὖν ἐψεύδοντο Πρίσκιλλαν παρθένον ἀποκαλοῦντες;» 5.18.4 εἶτ' ἐπιφέρει λέγων· «δοκεῖ σοι πᾶσα γραφὴ κωλύειν προφήτην λαμβάνειν δῶρα καὶ χρήματα; ὅταν οὖν ἴδω τὴν προφῆτιν εἰληφυῖαν καὶ χρυσὸν καὶ ἄργυρον καὶ πολυτελεῖς ἐσθῆτας, πῶς αὐτὴν μὴ παραιτήσωμαι;» 5.18.5 αὖθις δ' ὑποκαταβὰς περί τινος τῶν κατ' αὐτοὺς ὁμολογητῶν ταῦτά φησιν· «ἔτι δὲ καὶ Θεμίσων, ὁ τὴν ἀξιόπιστον πλεονεξίαν ἠμφιεσμένος, ὁ μὴ βαστάσας τῆς ὁμολογίας τὸ σημεῖον, ἀλλὰ πλήθει χρημάτων ἀποθέμενος τὰ δεσμά, δέον ἐπὶ τούτῳ ταπεινοφρονεῖν, ὡς μάρτυς καυχώμενος, ἐτόλμησεν, μιμούμενος τὸν ἀπόστολον, καθολικήν τινα συνταξάμενος ἐπιστολήν, κατηχεῖν μὲν τοὺς ἄμεινον αὐτοῦ πεπιστευκότας, συναγωνίζεσθαι δὲ τοῖς τῆς κενοφωνίας λόγοις, βλασφημῆσαι δὲ εἰς τὸν κύριον καὶ τοὺς ἀποστόλους καὶ τὴν ἁγίαν ἐκκλησίαν». 5.18.6 καὶ περὶ ἑτέρου δὲ αὖθις τῶν κατ' αὐτοὺς τετιμημένων ὡς δὴ μαρτύρων οὕτω γράφει· «ἵνα δὲ μὴ περὶ πλειόνων λέγωμεν, ἡ προφῆτις ἡμῖν εἰπάτω τὰ κατὰ Ἀλέξανδρον, τὸν λέγοντα ἑαυτὸν μάρτυρα, ᾧ συνεστιᾶται, ᾧ προσκυνοῦσιν καὶ αὐτῷ πολλοί· οὗ τὰς λῃστείας καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τολμήματα ἐφ' οἷς κεκόλασται, οὐχ ἡμᾶς δεῖ λέγειν, ἀλλὰ ὁ ὀπισθόδομος ἔχει. 5.18.7 τίς οὖν 5.18.7 τίνι χαρίζεται τὰ ἁμαρτήματα; πότερον ὁ προφήτης τὰς λῃστείας τῷ μάρτυρι ἢ ὁ μάρτυς τῷ προφήτῃ τὰς πλεονεξίας; εἰρηκότος γὰρ τοῦ κυρίου μὴ κτήσησθε χρυσὸν μήτε ἄργυρον μηδὲ δύο χιτῶνας, οὗτοι πᾶν τοὐναντίον πεπλημμελήκασιν περὶ τὰς τούτων τῶν ἀπηγορευμένων κτήσεις. δείξομεν γὰρ τοὺς λεγομένους παρ' αὐτοῖς προφήτας καὶ μάρτυρας μὴ μόνον παρὰ πλουσίων, ἀλλὰ καὶ παρὰ πτωχῶν καὶ ὀρφανῶν καὶ χηρῶν κερματιζομένους. 5.18.8 καὶ εἰ πεποίθησιν ἔχουσιν, στήτωσαν ἐν τούτῳ καὶ διορισάσθωσαν ἐπὶ τούτοις, ἵνα ἐὰν ἐλεγχθῶσιν, κἂν τοῦ λοιποῦ παύσωνται πλημμελοῦντες. δεῖ γὰρ τοὺς καρποὺς δοκιμάζεσθαι τοῦ προφήτου· 5.18.9 ἀπὸ γὰρ τοῦ καρποῦ τὸ ξύλον γινώσκεται. ἵνα δὲ τοῖς βουλομένοις τὰ κατὰ Ἀλέξανδρον ᾖ γνώριμα, κέκριται ὑπὸ Αἰμιλίου Φροντίνου ἀνθυπάτου ἐν Ἐφέσῳ, οὐ διὰ τὸ ὄνομα, ἀλλὰ δι' ἃς ἐτόλμησεν λῃστείας, ὢν ἤδη παραβάτης· εἶτ' ἐπιψευσάμενος τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ κυρίου, ἀπολέλυται, πλανήσας τοὺς ἐκεῖ πιστούς, καὶ ἡ ἰδία παροικία αὐτόν, ὅθεν ἦν, οὐκ ἐδέξατο διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν λῃστήν, καὶ οἱ θέλοντες μαθεῖν τὰ κατ' αὐτὸν ἔχουσιν τὸ τῆς Ἀσίας δημόσιον ἀρχεῖον· 5.18.10 ὃν ὁ προφήτης συνόντα πολλοῖς ἔτεσιν ἀγνοεῖ. τοῦτον ἐλέγχοντες ἡμεῖς, δι' αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν ὑπόστασιν ἐξελέγχομεν τοῦ προφήτου. τὸ ὅμοιον ἐπὶ πολλῶν δυνάμεθα ἀποδεῖξαι, καὶ εἰ