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Chapter
XL.
Apollonius,2448
| 2448 Bishop about 196, flourished 210. | an exceedingly talented man,
wrote against Montanus, Prisca and Maximilla a notable and lengthy
volume, in which he asserts that Montanus and his mad prophetesses died
by hanging, and many other things, among which are the following
concerning Prisca and Maximilla, “if they denied that they have
accepted gifts, let them confess that those who do accept are not
prophets and I will prove by a thousand witnesses that they have
received gifts, for it is by other fruits that prophets are shown to be
prophets indeed. Tell me, does a prophet dye his hair? Does a prophet
stain her eyelids with antimony? Is a prophet adorned with fine
garments and precious stones? Does a prophet play with dice and tables?
Does he accept usury? Let them respond whether this ought to be
permitted or not, it will be my task to prove that they do these
things.” He says in the same book, that the time when he wrote
the work was the fortieth year after the beginning of the heresy of the
Cataphrygians. Tertullian added to the six volumes which he wrote On
ecstasy against the church a seventh, directed especially against
Apollonius, in which he attempts to defend all which Apollonius
refuted. Apollonius flourished in the reigns of Commodus and
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