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Montaʹnists

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Heretics of the second century; so called from Montaʹnus, a Phrygian, who asserted that he had received from the Holy Ghost special knowledge that had not been vouchsafed to the apostles.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Montanists
Montanto
Monteer Cap
Monteith
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