Even Justinian, about A.D. 530, enacts laws against the Montanists or Tertullianists.
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The martyrs appear to have been Montanists.
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The Montanists, towards the termination of the second century, created much confusion by their extravagant doctrines and their claims to inspiration.
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These orthodox theologians had outlawed the pessimistic visions of the Gnostics, Marcionites and Montanists and had settled for the middle road.
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The last of these works was against the Montanists and their pretended prophets, who began to appear in Phrygia about the year 171.
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The Montanists launched in the second century a movement, borne along on a mountain-wave of enthusiasm, for a "spiritual" Church composed only of "spiritual" persons.