In this treatise he also mentions a writer named Miltiades, as having himself composed a certain treatise against the aforesaid heresy. After quoting some of their expressions, he adds, saying: 「Finding these things in a certain writing of theirs directed against the treatise of our brother Miltiades, in which he proves that a prophet ought not to speak in ecstasy, I have made an abridgement.」
And going on further down in it, he enumerates those who had prophesied under the new covenant, among whom he reckons a certain Ammia and Quadratus, speaking thus: 「But the false prophet speaks in a state of frenzied ecstasy, upon which there follow license and fearlessness; beginning indeed from voluntary ignorance, but ending in involuntary madness of soul, as has been said before.」
「But they will not be able to show any prophet, whether under the old covenant or under the new, who was carried by the Spirit after this manner—neither Agabus, nor Judas, nor Silas, nor the daughters of Philip, nor Ammia in Philadelphia, nor Quadratus; nor will they be able to boast of any others who do not belong to them at all.」
And again, after a little, he says this: 「For if, after Quadratus and Ammia in Philadelphia, the women about Montanus succeeded to the prophetic gift, as they assert, let them show who among them succeeded those of Montanus and the women; for the apostle holds that the prophetic gift must continue in the whole church until the final coming. But they would not be able to show anyone, though by now it is some considerable year since the death of Maximilla.」
So much, then, said this man. As for the aforesaid Miltiades, he has left us also other memorials of his own zeal concerning the divine oracles, both in the discourses which he composed against the Greeks and in those against the Jews, replying to each subject separately in two treatises. Moreover, he has also made a defence, addressed to the rulers of this world, on behalf of the philosophy which he pursued.