Gynaeceum Haeretico Fanaticum: A History of False Prophetesses

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[heart] carries, he cannot hold back for even a moment, but instead splashes it forth upon every page. If he does not do it himself, then he does so through other spirits who are worse than himself, or at the very least through those godless and cursed female enthusiasts Female enthusiasts: From the German "Schwärmerinnen," a pejorative term for women involved in radical mystical or Pietist movements who claimed to receive direct revelations from God.. And although Arnold might complain most loudly about this and might object, citing Romans 14:4 Romans 14:4: "Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall." Arnold frequently used this biblical defense to argue that "heretics" were often truer Christians than their orthodox persecutors., that the female persons mentioned by him are pleasing to their Lord, and therefore should be judged neither by me nor by anyone else; yet he will surely know that in this passage [the Apostle] is speaking not of heretics original: "Ketzern", erring spirits, and idolatrous people who have suppressed the truth in unrighteousness, but only of those