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574 XIII. THE BANAZ-OVA.
which we have assigned to Pepouza would be intermediate between
it and the cities of Eumeneia, fee, in which the opposition to Mon-
tanism in the Phrygian Church was first roused.
Pepouza was considered by the Montanists to be the earthly centre
of the true Church, the New Jerusalem in this world, and a neigh-
bouring village Tymion was united with it in this honour: to this
city all the Christians were to gather themselves l. There Christ had
manifested Himself to Priscilla, or else to Quintilla, for accounts
apparently varied2.
The Montanists continued to live for centuries in their own quarter
of Phrygia. They had a number of villages, each of which possessed
its own bishop : they used a year of 360 days beginning on 24. March
(IX Kal. Apr.), 3 with a cycle of eight years. They are often called
Pepouzitai from their chief centre Pepouza 4. Many Laws and rescripts
directed against them are given in Codex Theodos. XVI Tit. 5. But
as late as 722 we hear of severe measures taken by Leo III to convert
them, when many of them burned themselves in their own churches 5.
M. Radet has observed that Justinianopolis in the later Notitiae
seems to correspond to Pepouza in Hierocles. This acute and con-
vincing suggestion illuminates the subject6. Its truth is confirmed by
an argument that M. Radet has not employed. In the sixth century
Justinian laid waste with fire and sword the home to which the Mon-
tanists still clung 7: we may confidently think that their centre was
still at Pepouza, and that the reason why Pepouza is not mentioned
which was sometimes called Mysia; tioned as heretics deserving strict re-
but that region does not suit the other pression (so also in 428) Cod. Theodos.
facts. XVI 5, 59. Sozomen VII 18 speaks of
1 irdkixvtiv tl rtjs $>pvylas rljv Hefrvcrav the Montanists or Pepouzitai.
'lepovcrdkrifx avofiaae Comment, of Aris- 5 Theophan. p. 401. Dr. Salmon in
taenus on Cone- Laodic. Canon, in Beve- Diet. Chr. Biogr. s. v. Montanus, thinks
ridge Pandectae Canonum Concil. &c. I that this is false, because the Montanists
p. 456. 6 Ucnov£ai> Ka\ Tipiov 'lepoucra- were destroyed by Justinian. But, like
Xijfi ovopdaas {irokeis hi daw avrm fwcpm Gibbon, we see in Theophanes a proof
Tfis- Qpvyias), mis navraxodev e(t« avvaya- of the failure of Justinian's stern mea-
ydv iBekav Eusebius H. E. V 18. sures. Probably the heresy was never
2 4>atrl yap ovtol ....>} KvivriWav ij really extirpated till the Turkish con-
ITpicrKiXXaji . . . . iv TJj TJen-ov^r] KeKadevSr)- quest.
Kevai, <al rov Xpicrrov 7rpbs avrriv i\rj\v8evai ° After these paragraphs were written,
Epiphanius Haeres. 49, 1. I found that I had myself adopted this
3 Sozomen H. E. VII 18 and 19. view in the Table in JHS 1883 p. 373
4 In a rescript of Honorius and Theo- (CB init.), and afterwards discarded it
dosius, dated a. d. 423, Fhryges quos for the different opinion slated above
Pepuzitas give Priscillianistas vel alio p. 223. See below § 3.
latentiore vocabido appellant are men- 7 Procopius Hist. Arc. 11.
which we have assigned to Pepouza would be intermediate between
it and the cities of Eumeneia, fee, in which the opposition to Mon-
tanism in the Phrygian Church was first roused.
Pepouza was considered by the Montanists to be the earthly centre
of the true Church, the New Jerusalem in this world, and a neigh-
bouring village Tymion was united with it in this honour: to this
city all the Christians were to gather themselves l. There Christ had
manifested Himself to Priscilla, or else to Quintilla, for accounts
apparently varied2.
The Montanists continued to live for centuries in their own quarter
of Phrygia. They had a number of villages, each of which possessed
its own bishop : they used a year of 360 days beginning on 24. March
(IX Kal. Apr.), 3 with a cycle of eight years. They are often called
Pepouzitai from their chief centre Pepouza 4. Many Laws and rescripts
directed against them are given in Codex Theodos. XVI Tit. 5. But
as late as 722 we hear of severe measures taken by Leo III to convert
them, when many of them burned themselves in their own churches 5.
M. Radet has observed that Justinianopolis in the later Notitiae
seems to correspond to Pepouza in Hierocles. This acute and con-
vincing suggestion illuminates the subject6. Its truth is confirmed by
an argument that M. Radet has not employed. In the sixth century
Justinian laid waste with fire and sword the home to which the Mon-
tanists still clung 7: we may confidently think that their centre was
still at Pepouza, and that the reason why Pepouza is not mentioned
which was sometimes called Mysia; tioned as heretics deserving strict re-
but that region does not suit the other pression (so also in 428) Cod. Theodos.
facts. XVI 5, 59. Sozomen VII 18 speaks of
1 irdkixvtiv tl rtjs $>pvylas rljv Hefrvcrav the Montanists or Pepouzitai.
'lepovcrdkrifx avofiaae Comment, of Aris- 5 Theophan. p. 401. Dr. Salmon in
taenus on Cone- Laodic. Canon, in Beve- Diet. Chr. Biogr. s. v. Montanus, thinks
ridge Pandectae Canonum Concil. &c. I that this is false, because the Montanists
p. 456. 6 Ucnov£ai> Ka\ Tipiov 'lepoucra- were destroyed by Justinian. But, like
Xijfi ovopdaas {irokeis hi daw avrm fwcpm Gibbon, we see in Theophanes a proof
Tfis- Qpvyias), mis navraxodev e(t« avvaya- of the failure of Justinian's stern mea-
ydv iBekav Eusebius H. E. V 18. sures. Probably the heresy was never
2 4>atrl yap ovtol ....>} KvivriWav ij really extirpated till the Turkish con-
ITpicrKiXXaji . . . . iv TJj TJen-ov^r] KeKadevSr)- quest.
Kevai, <al rov Xpicrrov 7rpbs avrriv i\rj\v8evai ° After these paragraphs were written,
Epiphanius Haeres. 49, 1. I found that I had myself adopted this
3 Sozomen H. E. VII 18 and 19. view in the Table in JHS 1883 p. 373
4 In a rescript of Honorius and Theo- (CB init.), and afterwards discarded it
dosius, dated a. d. 423, Fhryges quos for the different opinion slated above
Pepuzitas give Priscillianistas vel alio p. 223. See below § 3.
latentiore vocabido appellant are men- 7 Procopius Hist. Arc. 11.