Antony eagerly lifts up his head, and gazes at them without uttering a word; then, treading right over them:
"Doctors, magicians, bishops and deacons, men and phantoms, back! back! Ye are all lies!"
The Heresiarchs—"We have martyrs, more martyrs than yours, prayers more difficult, higher outbursts of love, and ecstasies quite as protracted."
Antony—"But no revelation. No proofs."
Then all brandish in the air rolls of papyrus, tablets of wood, pieces of leather; and strips of cloth; and pushing them one before the other:
The Corinthians—"Here is the Gospel of the Hebrews!"
The Marcionites—"The Gospel of the Lord! The Gospel of Eve!"
The Encratites—"The Gospel of Thomas!"
The Cainites—"The Gospel of Judas!"
Basilides—"The treatise of the spirit that has come!"
Manes—"The prophecy o
