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202 A Source Book for Ancient Church Historythe leader of the New-Nicene party in the Arian controversy.V. infra, § 66, c.Sabellianism is Judaism imported into the preaching of theGospel under the guise of Christianity. For if a man calls Father,Son, and Holy Spirit one, but manifold as to person [prosopon],and makes one hypostasis of the three, what else does he do thandeny the everlasting pre-existence of the Only begotten?…Now Sabellius did not even deprecate the formation of thepersons without the hypostasis, saying, as he did, that the sameGod, being one in substance, 62 was metamorphosed as the needof the moment required and spoken of now as Father, now as theSon, and now as Holy Spirit.§ 41. Later Montanism and the Consequences of its Exclusionfrom the Church[182]In the West Montanism rapidly discarded the extravagant chiliasmof Montanus and his immediate followers; it laid nearlyall the stress upon the continued work of the Holy Spirit in theChurch and the need of a stricter moral discipline among Christians.This rigoristic discipline or morality was not acceptableto the bulk of Christians, and along with the Montanists wasdriven out of the Church, except in the case of the clergy, towhom a stricter morality was regarded as applicable. In this waya distinctive morality and mode of life came to be assigned tothe clergy, and the separation between clergy and laity, or ordoand plebs, which was becoming established about the time ofTertullian, at least in the West, was permanently fixed. (See §42, d.)Tertullian, De Exhortatione Castitatis, 7. (MSL, 2:971.)62 Not οὐσία, but ὑποκειμένω.