Orthodox Forge

The Fathers

Miltiades

2nd century

Who he was

  • An Apology for Christian Philosophy which he addressed to ‘temporal rulers.
  • Against the Greeks, in two books.
  • Against the Jews, also in two books.
  • Against the Montanists deals with the question That a Prophet Should not Speak in Ecstasy, and explains that the Montanistic prophets were pseudo-prophets.
  • Against the Valentinian Gnostics is another anti-heretical treatise of Miltiades.

What he wrote

  • He was a Greek Christian apologist from Asia Minor.
  • A contemporary of Tatian, he was, most probably, also a pupil of St. Justin.
  • His works are lost but are described by later writers such as Eusebius, St. Jerome, and Tertullian.
  • Tertullian (adv. Valentin. 5) names him with St. Justin the Martyr and Irenaeus as a writer against heresy, giving him the appellation, evidently in an honorable sense,“Sophista Ecclesiarum.”

Read alongside