allowed them to claim the moral high ground. This was especially the case where Christian discipline was concerned, in such matters as fasting and the forbidding of digamy,6 for their own requirements were more demanding than those of their Catholic coreligionists. Such things, together with the New Prophets’ claim to receiving Paraclete revelation through their leaders (which formed the basis for their claims) might be seen as a threat. They were a threat to the right of officers, and male officers,