Brewer's: Montanists

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

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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