J. Edwards

Whether you consider Irenaeus experiences to be contaminated or not, there is enough evidence in the Eusebius' quotes I provided that the gift of prophecy was accepted in the church at that time. And I did supply you with that quote that, after Montanus' death, when the Montanists could not provide any prophets of their own, someone from the 'Great Church' used the fact that prophecy was to continue until his own age as evidence.

It would seem your historical commentator disagrees with the one who wrote the intro for the one I quoted.

If you really were interested, you would get _The Spirit and the Church_ by Burgess for a rather comprehensive compilation of references to gifts of the Spirit in Ante-Nicene times.