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want to marry, incurring judgment because they have violated their first pledge.” For those who have made a promise and set it aside have judgment, but those who have not made a promise but were joined through weakness will not have judgment. But if they were going to have judgment, how did he say, “Let them marry, let them manage their households?” 10. Therefore, everyone who prophesies is found to be consistent, whether in the Old Testament or in the New, as holy John also said in the Apocalypse, “These things the Lord revealed to his servants through his servant John” and “Thus says the Lord.” The one who says these things had a sound mind and was consistent; behold, then, * “Thus says the Lord” and “The vision which he saw.” But this Montanus, who boasts that he is a prophet and who has deceived those deceived by him, recounts things inconsistent with the divine scripture. For he says in his so-called prophecy, “What do you say of the one saved beyond human measure? For the righteous one, he says, will shine a hundredfold more than the sun, and the little ones among you who are saved will shine a hundredfold more than the 2.233 moon.” But the Lord refutes such a one, he who has the authority to grant that the faces of the saints shine, and who brightened the face of Moses and transforms his saints in the future resurrection of their bodies, those who are sown in dishonor and raised in glory, not other bodies than the existing ones, but the existing ones themselves raised whole, receiving glory from him after the resurrection from him who abundantly provides glory to his own saints, since he has the authority to give and to grant as God and Lord. But having the authority to grant this, he did not promise according to Montanus, but says, “Your faces will shine like the sun.” If, therefore, the one who has authority and is truly our master and Lord, Jesus Christ, says that the faces of the righteous will shine like the sun, how does Montanus promise a hundredfold more? Unless perhaps he is like that one who promised those around Adam, saying that “You will be like gods,” and prepared for them to be expelled from their existing glory and the delight of paradise and to be brought down into the corruption of death. 11. Moreover, the same Montanus adds, saying thus, “I am the Lord God Almighty, dwelling in a man.” Therefore, indeed, the divine scripture and the consistency of the teaching of the Holy Spirit secure us well, admonishing us so that we may know what are the imitations of the alien spirit and the things opposed to the 2.234 truth. For when Montanus said this straightway, he gave us occasion to be reminded of the things spoken by the Lord. For thus the Lord says in the gospel, “I have come in my Father's name, and you did not receive me. Another will come in his own name, and you will receive such a one.” Therefore, such a one was found to be entirely out of harmony with the divine scriptures, as would be clear to anyone who reads with understanding. If, therefore, he is out of harmony, he is alien to the holy catholic church, he and the heresy according to him which boasts of having prophets and spiritual gifts, which it has not received, but from which it has departed. Who then, being consistent, would dare to call these men prophets and not rather say that such men are deceivers? For Christ taught us, saying that “I am sending you the Paraclete Spirit” and, giving the signs, he said that “He will glorify me,” as it is possible to see the truth that the holy apostles, having received the Paraclete Spirit, glorified the Lord, but this Montanus glorifies himself; the Lord glorified his Father and the Lord again, Christ, glorified the Spirit, calling it the Spirit of truth, but Montanus glorifies only himself and says he is the Father Almighty and

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γαμεῖν θέλουσιν, ἔχουσαι τὸ κρίμα, ὅτι τὴν πρώτην πίστιν ἠθέτησαν». αἱ γὰρ ἐπαγγειλάμεναι καὶ ἀθετήσασαι ἔχουσι κρίμα, αἱ δὲ μὴ ἐπαγγειλάμεναι, ἀλλὰ συναφθεῖσαι δι' ἀσθένειαν κρίμα οὐχ ἕξουσιν. εἰ δὲ κρίμα ἔμελλον ἔχειν, πῶς ἔλεγε «γαμείτωσαν, οἰκοδεσποτείτωσαν;» 10. Πᾶς τοίνυν προφητεύων παρακολουθῶν εὑρίσκεται, κἄν τε ἐν τῇ παλαιᾷ διαθήκῃ κἄν τε ἐν τῇ καινῇ, ὡς καὶ ὁ ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ἐν τῇ Ἀποκαλύψει ἔλεγε «τάδε ἀπεκάλυψε κύριος τοῖς αὐτοῦ δούλοις διὰ τοῦ δούλου αὐτοῦ Ἰωάννου» καί «τάδε λέγει κύριος». ὁ ταῦτα δὲ λέγων ἐρρωμένην εἶχε τὴν διάνοιαν καὶ παρηκολούθει, ἰδοὺ τοίνυν * «τάδε λέγει κύριος» καί «ὅρασις ἣν εἶδεν». ὁ δὲ Μοντανὸς οὗτος ὁ αὐχῶν ἑαυτὸν εἶναι προφήτην καὶ πλανήσας τοὺς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ πεπλανημένους ἀσύστατα κατὰ τῆς θείας γραφῆς διηγεῖται. λέγει γὰρ ἐν τῇ ἑαυτοῦ λεγομένῃ προφητείᾳ «τί λέγεις τὸν ὑπὲρ ἄνθρωπον σῳζόμενον; λάμψει γὰρ φησίν ὁ δίκαιος ὑπὲρ τὸν ἥλιον ἑκατονταπλασίονα, οἱ δὲ μικροὶ ἐν ὑμῖν σῳζόμενοι λάμψουσιν ἑκατονταπλασίονα ὑπὲρ τὴν 2.233 σελήνην». ὁ δὲ κύριος ἐλέγχει τὸν τοιοῦτον, ὁ ἔχων τὴν ἐξουσίαν χαρίσασθαι τὸ λάμπειν τὰ πρόσωπα τῶν ἁγίων καὶ φαιδρύνας τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ Μωυσέως καὶ μεταβάλλων τοὺς ἁγίους αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ μελλούσῃ ἀναστάσει τῶν σωμάτων, τοὺς σπειρομένους ἐν ἀτιμίᾳ καὶ ἐγειρομένους ἐν δόξῃ, οὐκ ἄλλα σώματα παρὰ τὰ ὄντα, ἀλλὰ αὐτὰ τὰ ὄντα ἐγειρόμενα ὅλα, λαμβάνοντα δὲ δόξαν παρ' αὐτοῦ μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν παρὰ τοῦ τὴν δόξαν ἀφθόνως παρέχοντος τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ ἁγίοις, ἐπειδὴ ἔχει τὴν ἐξουσίαν δοῦναι καὶ χαρίσασθαι ὡς θεὸς καὶ κύριος. ἔχων δὲ τοῦ χαρίσασθαι ἐξουσίαν οὐκ ἐπηγγείλατο κατὰ τὸν Μοντανόν, ἀλλά φησι «λάμψει ὑμῶν τὰ πρόσωπα ὡς ὁ ἥλιος». εἰ τοίνυν ὁ ἔχων τὴν ἐξουσίαν καὶ ἀληθῶς ὑπάρχων δεσπότης καὶ κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ὡς ὁ ἥλιος λέγει τὰ πρόσωπα τῶν δικαίων λάμψειν, πῶς ὁ Μοντανὸς ἐπαγγέλλεται περισσότερον ἑκατονταπλασίονα; εἰ μὴ ἄρα ὅμοιος εἴη ἐκείνῳ τῷ ἐπαγγειλαμένῳ τοῖς περὶ τὸν Ἀδὰμ ὅτι ἔσεσθε ὡς θεοὶ φήσαντι καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς ὑπαρχούσης αὐτοῖς δόξης καὶ παραδείσου τρυφῆς παρασκευάσαντι αὐτοῖς τὴν ἐκβολὴν γενέσθαι καὶ εἰς φθορὰν θανάτου κατενεχθῆναι. 11. Ἔτι δὲ προστίθησιν ὁ αὐτὸς Μοντανὸς οὕτως λέγων «ἐγὼ κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ καταγινόμενος ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ». ἄρα γοῦν καλῶς ἡμᾶς ἡ θεία γραφὴ ἐπασφαλίζεται καὶ ἡ ἀκολουθία τῆς τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος διδασκαλίας, νουθετοῦσα ἡμᾶς, ἵνα γινώσκωμεν ποῖά ἐστι τὰ μιμηλὰ τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου πνεύματος καὶ τὰ ἀντίθετα πρὸς τὴν 2.234 ἀλήθειαν. ὅτε γὰρ εὐθὺς τοῦτο εἶπε Μοντανός, ὑπόνοιαν ἡμῖν δέδωκεν ἀναμνησθῆναι τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου εἰρημένα. οὕτως γάρ φησιν ὁ κύριος ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ «ἐγὼ ἦλθον ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ πατρός μου, καὶ οὐκ ἐδέξασθέ με. ἄλλος ἐλεύσεται ἐπὶ τῷ ἰδίῳ ὀνόματι, καὶ δέξονται τὸν τοιοῦτον». ἀσύμφωνος τοίνυν παντάπασιν ὁ τοιοῦτος τῶν θείων γραφῶν ηὑρέθη, ὡς παντί τῳ σαφὲς εἴη τῷ νουνεχῶς ἐντυγχάνοντι. εἰ τοίνυν ἀσύμφωνος ὑπάρχει, ἀλλότριός ἐστι τῆς ἁγίας καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας αὐτὸς καὶ ἡ κατ' αὐτὸν αὐχοῦσα αἵρεσις προφήτας ἔχειν καὶ χαρίσματα, ἃ μὴ εἴληφεν, ἀλλὰ ἐκ τούτων ἀπέστη. τίς τοίνυν τολμήσειε παρακολουθῶν τούτους προφήτας καλεῖν καὶ μὴ μᾶλλον πλάνους εἶναι φήσειεν τοὺς τοιούτους; Χριστὸς γὰρ ἡμᾶς ἐδίδαξε λέγων ὅτι «τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ παράκλητον ἀποστέλλω ὑμῖν» καὶ τὰ σημεῖα διδοὺς ἔλεγεν ὅτι «ἐκεῖνός με δοξάσει» ὡς τὰ ἀληθῆ ἔστιν ἰδεῖν ὅτι οἱ ἅγιοι ἀπόστολοι τὸ παράκλητον πνεῦμα λαβόντες κύριον ἐδόξασαν, οὗτος δὲ ὁ Μοντανὸς ἑαυτὸν δοξάζει· ὁ κύριος τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ ἐδόξασε καὶ ὁ κύριος πάλιν ὁ Χριστὸς τὸ πνεῦμα ἐδόξασε, λέγων αὐτὸ πνεῦμα ἀληθείας, Μοντανὸς δὲ ἑαυτὸν δοξάζει μόνον καὶ λέγει εἶναι πατέρα παντοκράτορα καὶ