Great Cloudof Witnesses

Session 1

Council of ConstantinopleA.D. 381

“We believe … in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and the Life-Giver, who proceeds from the Father [and from the Son], who with the Father and the Son is together worshiped and together glorified, who spoke through the prophets.”

Ignatius at the end …

Justin MartyrA.D. 153

“For numberless demoniacs throughout the whole world, and in your city, many of our Christian men exorcising them in the name of Jesus Christ, who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, have healed and do heal, rendering helpless and driving the possessing devils out of the men, though they could not be cured by all the other exorcists, and those who used incantations and drugs.”

Second Apology [Defense]

IrenaeusA.D. 185?

“In like manner do we also hear many brethren in the Church who possess prophetic gifts, and who through the Spirit speak all kinds of languages, and bring to light for the general benefit the hidden things of men and declare the mysteries of God, whom also the apostles term ‘spiritual.’”

--Against Heresies, Book V, chap. 6