TwoNoteableCorruptions
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Nonsense.
I just checked carefully and saw that the Trinitarian exposition in Against Praxeas has nothing doctrinally connected to the Montanist issues.
You just put up a false pretense in order to separate the Tertullian “three are one” from the Cyprian references.
No. I'm sorry, but you really are in denial (no matter how much you deny it) of Tertullian's Montantism.
GREEK TEXT: “...μισόκαλός γε μὴν ἐς τὰ μάλιστα καὶ φιλοπόνηρος ὢν ὁ τῆς ἐκκλησίας τοῦ θεοῦ πολέμιος μηδένα τε μηδαμῶς τῆς κατὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀπολιπὼν ἐπιβουλῆς τρόπον, αἱρέσεις ξένας αὖθις ἐπιφύεσθαι κατὰ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐνήργει· ὧν οἳ μὲν ἰοβόλων δίκην ἑρπετῶν ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀσίας καὶ Φρυγίας εἷρπον, τὸν μὲν δὴ παράκλητον Μοντανόν, τὰς δ᾿ ἐξ αὐτοῦ γυναῖκας, Πρίσκιλλαν καὶ Μαξίμιλλαν, ὡς ἂν τοῦ Μοντανοῦ προφήτιδας γεγονυίας αὐχοῦντες...” - ( [Βιβλίον Ε´] ΙΔ Περὶ τῶν κατὰ Φρύγας ψευδοπροφητῶν. ΕΥΣΕΒΙΟΥ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΕΙΑΣ, ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΗ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Eusebius Caesariensis - Historia ecclesiastica.)
http://users.uoa.gr/~nektar/orthodoxy/history/eysebios_ecclesia_historia.htm#%CE%95
EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA (circa. 260-340 C.E.): “...The enemy of God’s Church, who is emphatically a hater of good and a lover of evil, and leaves untried no manner of craft against men, was again active in causing strange heresies to spring up against the Church. For some persons, like venomous reptiles, crawled over Asia and Phrygia, BOASTING THAT MONTANUS WAS THE PARACLETE, and that the women that followed him, Priscilla and Maximilla, were prophetesses of Montanus...” - (Book 5. Chapter 14,[ XIV ]“The False Prophets of the Phrygians,” in "Ecclesiastical History" or: "History of the Church" Translated by Arthur Cushman McGiffert. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 1. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890.)
EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA (circa. 260 to 340 C.E. ): “...The enemy of God’s Church, who is emphatically a hater of good and a lover of evil, and leaves untried no manner of craft against men, was again active in causing strange heresies to spring up against the Church.[1564] For some persons, like venomous reptiles, crawled over Asia and Phrygia, BOASTING THAT MONTANUS WAS THE PARACLETE, and that the women that followed him, Priscilla and Maximilla, were prophetesses of Montanus.[1565]...” - (Book 5. Chapter 14,[ XIV ] “The False Prophets of the Phrygians,” in “Ecclesiastical History” or: “History of the Church,” Translated by Arthur Cushman McGiffert. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 1. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890.)
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2501.htm
[FOOTNOTE 1564]: Cf. Bk. IV. chap. 7, note 3.
[FOOTNOTE 1565]: On Montanus and the Montanists, see chap. 16.
[FOOTNOTE]: Gk., ( τὸν μὲν δὴ παράκλητον Μοντανόν )
[FOOTNOTE]: Gk., ( δή ) = “...Particle used to give greater exactness, to the word or words which it influences (prob. a shortened form of ἤδη, Lat. jam) now, in truth, indeed, surely, really...” - (Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.)
[FOOTNOTE]: Gk., ( προφήτιδας ) = noun pl fem acc “prophetesses” used of the demon possessed Pythian prophetess at Delphi.
[FOOTNOTE]: Gk., ( γεγονυίας ) = part pl perf act fem acc “become”
[FOOTNOTE]: Gk., ( αὐχοῦντες ) = “...I. like καυχάομαι, to boast, plume oneself, Hdt., Eur.; τινι or ἐπί τινι on a thing, id=Eur., Anth. II. c. acc. et inf. to boast or declare loudly that, protest that, Hdt., Thuc., Eur...” - (Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.)
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.x.xv.html