Spiritual Gifts and Church Order
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 82
Prophetic gifts remain among us even now, and from them you ought to understand that the things of old which existed in your race have been transferred to us. Just as false prophets arose among the holy prophets who were among you, so now many false teachers have appeared among us, whom our Lord forewarned us to guard against so that we would lack nothing, since He knew beforehand the things that would happen to us after His resurrection from the dead and His ascension into heaven. For He said that we will be killed and hated on account of His name, and that many false prophets and false Christs will come in His name and will deceive many — which is indeed the case (Matthew 24:9, 24).
Greek
Παρὰ γὰρ ἡμῖν καὶ μέχρι νῦν προφητικὰ χαρίσματά ἐστιν, ἐξ οὗ καὶ αὐτοὶ συνιέναι ὀφείλετε, ὅτι τὰ πάλαι ἐν τῷ γένει ὑμῶν ὄντα εἰς ἡμᾶς μετετέθη. Ὅνπερ δὲ τρόπον καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται ἐπὶ τῶν παρ᾿ ὑμῖν γενομένων ἁγίων προφητῶν ἦσαν, καὶ παρ᾿ ἡμῖν νῦν πολλοί εἰσι καὶ ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι, οὓς φυλάσσεσθαι προεῖπεν ἡμῖν ὁ ἡμέτερος κύριος, ὡς ἐν μηδενὶ ὑστερεῖσθαι ἡμᾶς, ἐπισταμένους ὅτι προγνώστης ἦν τῶν μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν νεκρῶν καὶ ἄνοδον τὴν εἰς οὐρανὸν μελλόντων γίνεσθαι ἡμῖν. Εἶπε γὰρ ὅτι φονεύεσθαι καὶ μισεῖσθαι διὰ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ μέλλομεν, καὶ ὅτι ψευδοπροφῆται καὶ ψευδόχριστοι πολλοὶ ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ παρελεύσονται καὶ πολλοὺς πλανήσουσιν · ὅπερ καὶ ἔστι.