Spiritual Gifts and Church Order
Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History 4.18 (reporting Justin, Dialogue 82)
He recounts in the same work that the Jews devised a plot against the teaching of Christ, and he himself replies to Trypho with these words: 'You did not only fail to repent of the evil you did; you chose select men from Jerusalem at that time and sent them into all the earth, proclaiming that the Christian heresy had been shown to be atheistic, and repeating the very charges that all who are ignorant of us bring against us. As a result, you are responsible not only for injustices against yourselves, but against all other people as well.' He also writes that prophetic gifts continued to shine upon the church even until his own day. He recalls the Revelation of John, stating clearly that it belongs to the apostle (Revelation of John). And he cites certain spoken prophecies, convicting Trypho on the grounds that the Jews had cut them out of Scripture.
Greek
ἰστορεῖ δ’ ἐν ταὐτῷ περὶ Ἰουδαίων ὡς κατὰ τῆς τοῦ Χριστοῦ διδασκαλίας ἐπιβουλὴν συσκευασαμένων, αὐτὰ ταῦτα πρὸς τὸν τὸν Τρύφωνα ἀποτεινόμενος· “οὐ μόνον δὲ οὐ μετενοήσατε ἐφ’ οἷς ἐπράξατε κακῶς, ἀλλὰ ἄνδρας ἐκλεκτοὺς ἐκλεξάμενοι τότε ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐξεπέμψατε εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν, λέγοντες αἵρεσιν ἄθεον χριστιανῶν πεφάνθαι καταλέγοντές τε ταῦτα ἅπερ καθ’ ἡμῶν οἱ ἀγνοοῦντες ἡμᾶς πάντες λέγουσιν, ὥστε οὐ μόνον ἑαυτοῖς ἀδικίας αἴτιοι ὑπάρχετε, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασιν ἁπλῶς ἀνθρώποις’’ Γράφει δὲ καὶ ὡς ὅτι μέχρι καὶ αὐτοῦ χαρίσματα προφητικὰ διέλαμπεν ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας, μέμνηταί τε τῆς Ἰωάννου Ἀποκαλύφεως, σαφῶς τοῦ ἀποστόλου αὐτὴν εἶναι λέγων· καὶ ῥητῶν δέ τινων προφητικῶν μνημονεύει, διελέγχων τὸν Τρύφωνα ὡς δὴ περικοψάντων αὐτὰ Ἰουδαίων ἀπὸ τῆς γραφῆς.