“blaspheme against the Holy Spirit” (Luke 12:10). The high moral code of the Montanists, and, above all, their refusal to compromise, won over Tertullian himself in 207. He became leader of the sect in north Africa, where they were often known, not as Montanists, but as Tertullianists. Like many other inspirationist and adventist sects, they found it hard to keep together, but the Montanist Church did survive until finally destroyed under Justinian in the sixth century. In the Church as a whole,