MILZIADE. – Christian writer of the 2nd century from Asia Minor. Literary opponent of the Valentinians (Tertullian, Adv., 5) and of the Montanists (anonymous anti-Montanist, in Eusebius, Hist. eccl., 5, 17, 1).
Against the Montanists, he affirmed the principle that a prophet must not speak in ecstasy (Eusebius, ibid.). Eusebius knew of M. several apologetic writings, a work against the Greeks and another against the Jews, and finally an apology for his philosophy (= Christianity) before the rulers of the world (Eusebius, op. cit., 5, 17, 5). Nothing of any of his writings has been preserved.
BIBL.: J. C. Th. de Otto, in Corpus apol. christian., IX, Jena 1872, pp. 365–73; Ad. Harnack, in Texte und Unters., I, 1–11, Leipzig 1882, pp. 278–82. Erik Peterson