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...so that the greater shall serve the lesser. The fifth is the error of the Cataphrygians, that is, those of Montanus, Prisca, and Maximilla, who say that the prophets were as if possessed, and that they did not prophesy through the Holy Spirit. Against them, it is said in 1 Peter 1: "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." The sixth is the error of Cerdon, who first said that the God of the Law and the Prophets was not the Father of Christ, nor was He a good or just God, but that the Father of Christ was good. The Manichaeans also followed this, rejecting the Law. Against whom it is said in Romans 8: "The law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." And in Romans 1: it is said: "Which He had promised before by His prophets in the holy scriptures, concerning His Son." The seventh is the error of those who assert that certain things pertaining to the perfection of life are of the necessity of salvation. Some of whom very arrogantly called themselves Apostles and think that those who use marriage and possess property have no hope of salvation. Others, however, like the Tatiani, do not eat meat and abstain from it entirely, according to that which the Apostle says in 1 Timothy 4, teaching to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful. They also say that the promise concerning the coming of the Holy Spirit was not completed in the Apostles, but in them, against that which is said in Acts 2. The Eutychians say men cannot be saved unless they pray continuously, because of that which the Lord says in Luke 16: "One ought always to pray, and not to faint," which is understood according to Augustine, that they should not interrupt the works of prayer for any day. Others, however, who are called the passalorynchitae those who pray with a finger to their nose, study silence to such an extent that...