9.  And he was seconded, as was said before, by that most impious Manes also, who combined what was bad in every heresy On Manes, see Cat. vi. 20. ff.; who being the very lowest pit of destruction, collected the doctrines of all the heretics, and wrought out and taught a yet more novel error, and dared to say that he himself was the Comforter, whom Christ promised to send.  But the Saviour when He promised Him, said to the Apostles, But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high Luke xxiv. 49..  What then? did the Apostles who had been dead two hundred years, wait for Manes, until they should be endued with the power; and will any dare to say, that they were not forthwith full of the Holy Ghost?  Moreover it is written, Then they laid their hands on and they received the Holy Ghost Acts viii. 17.; was not this before Manes, yea, many years before, when the Holy Ghost descended on the day of Pentecost?