They have been deceived by two females, Priscilla and Maximilla by name, whom they hold to be prophetesses, asserting that into them the Paraclete spirit entered…They magnify these females above the Apostles and every gift of Grace, so that some of them go so far as to say that in them there is something more than Christ…They introduce novelties in the form of fasts and feasts, abstinences and diets of radishes, giving these females as their authority.
Hippolytus, in Henry Bettenson, ed., Documents of the Christian Church (London: Oxford, 1963), 77.
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