Panarion (Medicine Chest Against Heresies), Haer. 1-64 57.2.1–58.3.6
Greek text: Holl, GCS 25/31 (Greek text: Karl Holl, ed., Epiphanius, Bände 1-2 (GCS 25, 1915, and GCS 31, 1922, Leipzig: Hinrichs), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0. The digitized file's own metadata describes it as spanning Holl's volumes 1-3 (1915-1933), but its text in fact ends at Haer. 64 (confirmed: the last division is Haer. 64, on Origen, matching the end of GCS 31); Holl's third volume (GCS 37, 1933) is not present in this digital text.).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Haer. 57, chapter 2
57.2.1Holl GCS 25/31:345
2. Ἐκ τούτου οὖν Νοντιανοὶ ἀπόσπασμα ὄντες αὐτοῦ καὶ οἱ ἐξ αὐτῶν τουτὶ τὸ δόγμα δοξάξουσιν, ἐκ τῶν ῥητῶν τούτων πειρώμενοι συνιστᾶν τὴν κατʼ αὐτοὺς ἐμμανῆ διδασκαλίαν. ἀφʼ ὦν εἶπεν ὁ θεὸς πρὸς Μωυσῆν »ἐγὼ θεὸς τῶν πατέρων ὑμῶμν· ἐγὼ | πρῶτος καὶ ἐγὼ μετὰ ταῦτα· οὐκ ἔσονταί σοι θεοὶ ἔτεροι« καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς.
2. Ek toutou oun Nontianoi apospasma ontes autou kai hoi ex autōn touti to dogma doxaxousin, ek tōn rhētōn toutōn peirōmenoi synistan tēn katʼ autous emmanē didaskalian. aphʼ ōn eipen ho theos pros Mōysēn »egō theos tōn paterōn hymōmn; egō | prōtos kai egō meta tauta; ouk esontai soi theoi eteroi« kai ta hexēs.
From this man, then, the Noetians, being an offshoot of him, and those after them hold this doctrine, trying to establish their mad teaching from these texts: from what God said to Moses, “I am the God of your fathers; I am the first and I am after these things; you shall have no other gods,” and so on.
Exod 3:6 (quotation, medium confidence) · Isa 44:6 (quotation, medium confidence) · Exod 20:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Noetians cite texts about the one God.
- A conflation of Exod 3:6, Isa 44:6 and Exod 20:3.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.2.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:345; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.2.2Holl GCS 25/31:345
ἔλεγον οὖν· ἡμεῖς τοίνυν αὐτὸν οἴδαμεν μόνον. εἰ τοίνυν ἐλθὼν Χριστὸς ἐγεννήθη, αὐτός ἐστι πατήρ, αὐτὸς υἱός· ἄρα <ὁ> αὐτός ἐστι θεὸς ὁ ἀεὶ <ὤν> καὶ νῦν ἐλθών·
elegon oun; hēmeis toinyn auton oidamen monon. ei toinyn elthōn Christos egennēthē, autos esti patēr, autos huios; ara <ho> autos esti theos ho aei <ōn> kai nyn elthōn;
So they said: “We know him alone. If then Christ came and was born, he is Father, he is Son; so he is the same God who always is and has now come.
Notes and citation
Summary: Noetians identify the Father and the Son.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.2.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:345; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.2.3Holl GCS 25/31:345–346
ὡς λέγει ἡ γραφή »οὖτος ὁ θεός σου, οὐ λογισθήσεται ἔτερος πρὸς αὐτόν· ἐξεῦρε πᾶσαν ὁδὸν ἐπιστήμης καὶ ἴδωκεν αὐτὴν Ἰακὼβ τῷ παιδὶ αὐτοῦ Ἰσραὴλ τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ· μετὰ ταῦτα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὤφθη καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συνανεστράφη«.
hōs legei hē graphē »outos ho theos sou, ou logisthēsetai eteros pros auton; exeure pasan hodon epistēmēs kai idōken autēn Iakōb tǭ paidi autou Israēl tǭ ēgapēmenǭ hypʼ autou; meta tauta epi tēs gēs ōphthē kai tois anthrōpois synanestraphē«.
As Scripture says, ‘This is your God; no other shall be reckoned beside him. He found out every way of knowledge and gave it to Jacob his servant and to Israel his beloved. After this he appeared on earth and lived among men.’
Notes and citation
Summary: They cite Baruch 3 on God appearing on earth.
- The quotation is from Baruch 3:36–38, which Epiphanius cites as Scripture (in Hippolytus it is attributed to Jeremiah).
Extrabiblical texts: Bar 3:36-38 (Baruch [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.2.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:345–346; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.2.4Holl GCS 25/31:346
ὁρᾷς, φησί, πάλιν πῶς ἡ θεία γραφὴ ἡμᾶς συνετίζει, τοῦ μὴ ἄλλον καὶ ὄλλον θεὸν ἡγεῖσθαι, φάσκοῦσα ὄτι αὐτὸς θεός ἐστι <ὁ> μόνος ὤν καὶ αὐτὸς ὔστερον ὀφθείς;
horąs, phēsi, palin pōs hē theia graphē hēmas synetizei, tou mē allon kai ollon theon hēgeisthai, phaskousa oti autos theos esti <ho> monos ōn kai autos ysteron ophtheis?
You see,” he says, “again how the divine Scripture instructs us not to think of one God and another, saying that he is God who alone exists and who later appeared.”
Notes and citation
Summary: They claim Scripture teaches one God who appeared.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.2.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:346; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.2.5Holl GCS 25/31:346
πάλιν δὲ ἄλλῳ ῥητῷ κέχρηνται τούτῳ, ὡς λέγει »ἐκοπ[΄ιασεν Αἴγυπτος καὶ ἐμπορία Αἰθιὀπων, καὶ οἱ Σαβαεὶν ἄνδρες ὑψηλοὶ ἐπὶ σὲ διαβήσονται καὶ σοὶ δοῦλοι ἔσονται καὶ πορεύσονται ὀπίσω σου δεδμένοι χειροπέδαις καὶ ἐν σοὶ προσκυνἠσουσι καὶ ἐν σοὶ προσεύξονται, ὄτι ἐν σοὶ θεός ἐστι καὶ οὐκ ἔστι θεὸς πλὴν σοῦ. σὺ γὰρ εἶ θεός, καὶ οὐκ ᾔδειμεν, ὁ θεὸς τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ σωτήρ«.
palin de allǭ rhētǭ kechrēntai toutǭ, hōs legei »ekop[΄iasen Aigyptos kai emporia Aithiopōn, kai hoi Sabaein andres hypsēloi epi se diabēsontai kai soi douloi esontai kai poreusontai opisō sou dedmenoi cheiropedais kai en soi proskynēsousi kai en soi proseuxontai, oti en soi theos esti kai ouk esti theos plēn sou. sy gar ei theos, kai ouk ę̄deimen, ho theos tou Israēl sōtēr«.
Again they use this other text, as it says: “Egypt has toiled, and the merchandise of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans, tall men, shall come over to you and shall be your slaves, and they shall follow behind you bound in manacles, and they shall bow down in you and pray in you, for God is in you and there is no God besides you. For you are God, and we did not know it, the God of Israel, the Savior.”
Isa 45:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 45:15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: They cite Isaiah 45:14–15.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.2.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:346; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.2.6Holl GCS 25/31:346
ὁρᾷς, φησί, πῶς αἱ θεῖαι γραφαὶ ἔνα θεὸν σημαίνουσι καὶ καταγγέλλουσιν αὐτὸν <γενόμενον> ἐμθανῆ; καὶ ὁμολογουμένως εἶς ἐστιν, ὁ αὐτὸς ἀεὶ ὤν.
horąs, phēsi, pōs hai theiai graphai ena theon sēmainousi kai katangellousin auton <genomenon> emthanē? kai homologoumenōs eis estin, ho autos aei ōn.
“You see,” he says, “how the divine Scriptures signify one God and proclaim that he became manifest? And admittedly he is one, being always the same.
Notes and citation
Summary: They say Scripture proclaims one God made manifest.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.2.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:346; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.2.7Holl GCS 25/31:346
καὶ τούτου ἔνεκα οὐ πολλοὺς θεοὺς λέγομεν, ἀλλὰ ἔνα θεόν, τὸν αὐτὸν ἀπαθῆ, αὐτὸν πατέρα τοῦ υἱοῦ, αὐτὸν υἱὸν καὶ πεπονθότα, ἴνα σώσῃ ἡμᾶς ἐν τῷ ἰδίῳ πάθει, καὶ οὐ δυνάμεθα ἄλλον λέγειν· δῆθεν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπιστάτου αὐτῶν μεμαθηκότες ταὐτην τὴν ὁμολογίαν καὶ τὴν πονηρὰν ταύτην ὑπόνοιαν καὶ λυμαντικὴν μαρίαν.
kai toutou eneka ou pollous theous legomen, alla ena theon, ton auton apathē, auton patera tou huiou, auton huion kai peponthota, ina sōsę̄ hēmas en tǭ idiǭ pathei, kai ou dynametha allon legein; dēthen apo tou epistatou autōn memathēkotes tautēn tēn homologian kai tēn ponēran tautēn hyponoian kai lymantikēn marian.
And for this reason we do not speak of many gods, but of one God, the same impassible, himself the Father of the Son, himself the Son and the one who suffered, to save us by his own suffering, and we cannot speak of another.” They have evidently learned this confession from their master, along with this wicked notion and ruinous folly.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Noetian confession makes the one God Father and suffering Son.
- μαρίαν is read as μωρίαν (“folly”).
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.2.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:346; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-2-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.2.8Holl GCS 25/31:346–347
Εἶτα ἄλλα ῥητὰ φέρουσιν εἰς σύστασιν ἑαυτῶν, ὡς ὁ αὐτῶν διδάσκαλος ἔλεγεν ὄτι »καὶ ὁ ἀπόστολος τούτοις μαρτυρεῖ τοῖς λόγοις φάσκων· ὦν οἱ πατέρες, ἐξὦν ὁ Χριστὸς τὸ κατὰ σάρκα, ὁ ὤν ἐπὶ πάντων θεὸς εὐλογητὸς εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, ἀμήν«.
Eita alla rhēta pherousin eis systasin heautōn, hōs ho autōn didaskalos elegen oti »kai ho apostolos toutois martyrei tois logois phaskōn; ōn hoi pateres, exōn ho Christos to kata sarka, ho ōn epi pantōn theos eulogētos eis tous aiōnas, amēn«.
Then they bring other texts to support themselves, as their teacher said: “The apostle too testifies to these words, saying, ‘whose are the fathers, from whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed for ever, amen.’”
Rom 9:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: They cite Rom 9:5.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.2.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:346–347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-2-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.2.9Holl GCS 25/31:347
βούλονται δὲ διηγεῖσθαι μονοκώλως, τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ὡς Θεόδοτος· ἐκεῖνος μὲν φύσει ἀκροτάτως ἄνθρωπον ψιλὸν διηγσάμενος, οὖτος δὲ πάλιν ἄλλην ἀκρότητα μονοτόπως, τὸν αὐτὸν πατέρα θεὸν καὶ υἱὸν καὶ ἄγιον πνεῦμα ἐν σαρκὶ πεπονθότα καὶ γεννηθέντα ἡγησάμενος.
boulontai de diēgeisthai monokōlōs, touton ton tropon hōs Theodotos; ekeinos men physei akrotatōs anthrōpon psilon diēgsamenos, outos de palin allēn akrotēta monotopōs, ton auton patera theon kai huion kai agion pneuma en sarki peponthota kai gennēthenta hēgēsamenos.
They want to explain things one-sidedly, in the same way as Theodotus: he in fact taught at one extreme that Christ was a mere man, while this man, again, at the other extreme, took a single view, holding that the same one, Father, God, and Son and Holy Spirit, suffered and was born in the flesh.
Notes and citation
Summary: Noetus and Theodotus err at opposite extremes.
Topics: Heresy, Trinity, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.2.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-2-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.2.10Holl GCS 25/31:347
οὔτε οὖν ἐκεῖνοι οἱ ἀπὸ Θεοδότου τι ἐν ἀληθείᾳ ἔφασαν οὔτε οὖτος ὁ Νόητος καὶ οἱ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, ἀνόητος δὲ μᾶλλον τῇ δυνάμει, καθάπερ αἱ θεῖαι γραφαὶ ἀμφοτέρους καὶ πάντας τοὺς πεπλανημένους διελέγχουσι.
oute oun ekeinoi hoi apo Theodotou ti en alētheią ephasan oute outos ho Noētos kai hoi apʼ autou, anoētos de mallon tę̄ dynamei, kathaper hai theiai graphai amphoterous kai pantas tous peplanēmenous dielenchousi.
So neither did those who follow Theodotus say anything in truth, nor this Noetus and those who follow him — rather Anoetus (“mindless”) in effect — as the divine Scriptures refute both and all who have gone astray.
Notes and citation
Summary: Both Theodotians and Noetians are refuted by Scripture.
- A pun: Noetus/anoetos, “senseless.”
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.2.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-2-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 57, chapter 3
57.3.1Holl GCS 25/31:347
3. Παντὶ δὲ τῷ τὸν νοῦν εἰς θεὸν * κεκτημένῳ καὶ ἐν θείᾳ γραφῇ καὶ ἐν πνεέυματι ἁγίῳ κατηυγασμένῳ εὐθυέλεγκτος ὁ αὐτῶν λόγος καὶ πάσης ἀνοίας ἔμπλεως φανεῖται.
3. Panti de tǭ ton noun eis theon * kektēmenǭ kai en theią graphę̄ kai en pneeumati hagiǭ katēugasmenǭ euthyelenktos ho autōn logos kai pasēs anoias empleōs phaneitai.
To everyone who has his mind … on God and is enlightened by the divine Scripture and the Holy Spirit, their argument will appear easily refuted and full of all folly.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Their argument is easily refuted.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.3.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-3-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.3.2Holl GCS 25/31:347
τὀλμης γὰρ τὸ ἔργον καὶ τυφλώσεως * ἡ διάνοια φάσκουσα τὸν αὐτὸν πατέρα ὄντα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν αὐτὸν υἱὸν καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν πεπονθότα· ὡς καὶ ἀπʼ ὀρθοῦ λογισμοῦ καὶ εὐλόγου κριθήσονται οἱ τὰ τοιαῦτα φάσκοντες.
tolmēs gar to ergon kai typhlōseōs * hē dianoia phaskousa ton auton patera onta kai ton auton auton huion kai ton auton peponthota; hōs kai apʼ orthou logismou kai eulogou krithēsontai hoi ta toiauta phaskontes.
For the deed is one of audacity, and the thinking … of blindness, which says that the same one is Father, the same one is Son, and the same one suffered. So those who say such things will be judged even by right and sound reason.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Identifying Father, Son, and sufferer is audacious and blind.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.3.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.3.3Holl GCS 25/31:347
πῶς γὰρ εἴη πατὴρ ὁ αὐτὸς καὶ υἱὸς ὑπάρχων; εἰ γὰρ υἱὸς ὑπάρχει, πάντως που τινὸς υἱὸς εἴη, ἀφʼ οὖπερ γεγέννηται.
pōs gar eiē patēr ho autos kai huios hyparchōn? ei gar huios hyparchei, pantōs pou tinos huios eiē, aphʼ ouper gegennētai.
For how could the same be Father and also Son? For if he is Son, he must surely be someone’s son, by whom he was begotten.
Notes and citation
Summary: A son must be son of someone else.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.3.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.3.4Holl GCS 25/31:347
εἰ δὲ πατήρ ἐστιν, ἑαυτὸν γεννᾶν ἀδύνατον. πάλιν δὲ τὸ καλούμενον υἱὸς ἑαυτὸν οὐκ ἐγέννησεν, ἀλλὰ ἐκ πατρὸς γεγέννηται. καὶ ὦ τῆς τῶν ἀνθρώπων πολλῆς φρενοβλαβείας καὶ ἀκατορθώτου λογισμοῦ.
ei de patēr estin, heauton gennan adynaton. palin de to kaloumenon huios heauton ouk egennēsen, alla ek patros gegennētai. kai ō tēs tōn anthrōpōn pollēs phrenoblabeias kai akatorthōtou logismou.
And if he is Father, it is impossible for him to beget himself. Again, the one called Son did not beget himself, but was begotten from the Father. Oh, the great madness of men and their crooked reasoning!
Notes and citation
Summary: No one begets himself; the Son is begotten of the Father.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.3.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:347; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-3-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.3.5Holl GCS 25/31:347–348
ἔστι γάρ, ἔστιν τὸ εὔλογον οὐχ ὡς οὖτοι δοξάζουσιν, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἡ ἀλήθεια διὰ τῆς θείας γραφῆς ἡμῖν ὑποδείκνυσιν. εὐθὺς γὰρ φάσκει ὁ κύριος λέγων· »ἰδοὐ, συνἠσει ὁ παῖς μου ὁ ἀγαπητός, ὄν ᾐρέτισα, ὄν ἠγάπησεν ἡ ψυχή μου· θήσομαι τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐπʼ αὐτῷ«.
esti gar, estin to eulogon ouch hōs outoi doxazousin, allʼ hōs hē alētheia dia tēs theias graphēs hēmin hypodeiknysin. euthys gar phaskei ho kyrios legōn; »idou, synēsei ho pais mou ho agapētos, on ę̄retisa, on ēgapēsen hē psychē mou; thēsomai to pneuma mou epʼ autǭ«.
For there is, there is a reasonable account, not as these people think, but as the truth shows us through the divine Scripture. For the Lord says at once: “Behold, my beloved servant will understand, whom I have chosen, whom my soul has loved; I will put my Spirit upon him.”
Isa 52:13 (quotation, medium confidence) · Isa 42:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 12:18 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Isaiah shows the Father speaking of his Son and Spirit.
- A conflation of Isa 52:13 and Isa 42:1 (cf. Matt 12:18).
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.3.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:347–348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-3-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.3.6Holl GCS 25/31:348
καὶ ὁρᾷς πῶς φωνὴ μὲν πατρὸς δείκνυσι σύσει υἱόν, ἐφʼ ᾦ καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ τίθησιν.
kai horąs pōs phōnē men patros deiknysi sysei huion, ephʼ ǭ kai to pneuma autou tithēsin.
And you see how the Father’s voice points to a Son by nature, on whom he also puts his Spirit.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Father’s voice points to a real Son.
- σύσει is read as φύσει.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.3.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-3-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.3.7Holl GCS 25/31:348
εἶτα δὲ αὐτὸς ὁ μονογενής φησι »δόξασόν με, πάτερ, ἐν τῇ δόξῃ ᾖ εἶχον παρὰ σοὶ πρὸ τοῦ τὸν κόσμον γενέσθει«. ὁ δὲ λέγων »πάτερ, δόξασόν με« οὐχ ἑαυτὸν πατέρα καλεῖ, πατέρα δὲ τὸν αὐτοῦ γινώσκει.
eita de autos ho monogenēs phēsi »doxason me, pater, en tę̄ doxę̄ ę̄ eichon para soi pro tou ton kosmon genesthei«. ho de legōn »pater, doxason me« ouch heauton patera kalei, patera de ton autou ginōskei.
Then the Only-begotten himself says, “Glorify me, Father, with the glory which I had with you before the world was made.” He who says “Father, glorify me” does not call himself Father, but knows the Father as his own.
John 17:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Son prays to the Father, so he is not the Father.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.3.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-3-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.3.8Holl GCS 25/31:348
πάλιν δὲ ἐν ἄλλῳ τόπῳ »ἦλθε φωνὴ ἀπʼ ούρανοῦ, οὖτός ἐστιν ὁ υἱός μου, αὐτοῦ ἀκούσατε«. καὶ οὐκ εἶπεν »ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ υἱός μου, ἐμοῦ ἀκούσατε«, οὐδὲ πάλιν »γέγονα υἱάς«, ἀλλά » οὖτος ὁ υἱός μου, αὐτοῦ ἀκούσατε«.
palin de en allǭ topǭ »ēlthe phōnē apʼ ouranou, outos estin ho huios mou, autou akousate«. kai ouk eipen »egō eimi ho huios mou, emou akousate«, oude palin »gegona huias«, alla » outos ho huios mou, autou akousate«.
Again in another place, “A voice came from heaven: This is my Son; listen to him.” And it did not say, “I am my Son; listen to me,” nor again, “I have become a son,” but “This is my Son; listen to him.”
Matt 17:5 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 9:35 (quotation, medium confidence)
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Summary: The voice at the Transfiguration distinguishes Father and Son.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.3.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-3-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.3.9Holl GCS 25/31:348
καὶ τῷ εἰπεῖν »ἐγὼ καὶ ὁ πατήρ μου ἔν ἐσμεν«, οὐκ εἶπεν »ἐγὼ καὶ ὁ πατήρ μου εἶς εἰμι«, ἀλλά » ἐγὼ καὶ ὁ πατήρ μου ἔν ἐσμεν«. τὸ δὲ »ἐγὼ καὶ ὁ πατήρ«, ὅντος τοῦ ἄρθρου τοῦ »ὁ« καὶ τοῦ »καί« ἀνὰ μέσον, σημαίνει πατέρα φύσει πατέρα καὶ υἱὸν φύσει υἱόν.
kai tǭ eipein »egō kai ho patēr mou en esmen«, ouk eipen »egō kai ho patēr mou eis eimi«, alla » egō kai ho patēr mou en esmen«. to de »egō kai ho patēr«, hontos tou arthrou tou »ho« kai tou »kai« ana meson, sēmainei patera physei patera kai huion physei huion.
And in saying, “I and my Father are one,” he did not say, “I and my Father am one,” but “I and my Father are one.” The words “I and the Father,” with the article “the” and the “and” between, signify a Father who is truly Father and a Son who is truly Son.
John 10:30 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The plural “are” in John 10:30 marks two persons.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.3.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-3-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 57, chapter 4
57.4.1Holl GCS 25/31:348
4. Καὶ πάλιν περὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος »ἐὰν ἀπέλθω, ἐκεῖνος ἔρχεται, τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας«. πολὺ δὲ σαφέστατόν ἐστι τοῦτο τό »ἐγὼ ὑπάγω καὶ ἐκεῖνος ἔρχεται«. οὐκ εἶπεν »ἐγὼ ὑπάγω καὶ ἐγὼ ἔρχομαι«, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ »ἐγώ« καί »έκείνος« ἐσήμανεν ἐνυπόστατον τὸν υἱόν, ἐνυπόστατον τὸ ἄγιον πνεῦμα.
4. Kai palin peri tou hagiou pneumatos »ean apelthō, ekeinos erchetai, to pneuma tēs alētheias«. poly de saphestaton esti touto to »egō hypagō kai ekeinos erchetai«. ouk eipen »egō hypagō kai egō erchomai«, alla apo tou »egō« kai »ekeinos« esēmanen enypostaton ton huion, enypostaton to agion pneuma.
And again about the Holy Spirit: “If I go away, he comes, the Spirit of truth.” This “I go and he comes” is very clear indeed. He did not say, “I go and I come,” but by “I” and “he” he signified the Son as subsistent and the Holy Spirit as subsistent.
John 16:7 (quotation, medium confidence) · John 16:13 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: “I go, he comes” shows Son and Spirit are distinct.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.4.2Holl GCS 25/31:348
καὶ πάλιν »τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκπορευόμενον καὶ ἐκ τοῦ έμοῦ λαμβάνον«, ἴνα δείξῃ ένυπόστατον τὸν πατέρα, ἐνυπόστατον τὸν υἱὸν καὶ ἐνυπόστατον τὸ ἄγιον πνεῦμα.
kai palin »to pneuma tēs alētheias to ek tou patros ekporeuomenon kai ek tou emou lambanon«, ina deixę̄ enypostaton ton patera, enypostaton ton huion kai enypostaton to agion pneuma.
And again, “the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father and receives from what is mine,” to show the Father subsistent, the Son subsistent, and the Holy Spirit subsistent.
John 15:26 (quotation, high confidence) · John 16:14 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The Spirit proceeds from the Father and receives from the Son.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.4.3Holl GCS 25/31:348
καὶ πάλιν δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἰορδάνου ἄνωθεν ὁ πατὴρ ἐλάλει, υἱὸς δὲ ἐν Ἰορδάνῃ κατήρχετο, τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα μεσαίτατον ἐν εἴδει περιστερᾶς ἐφαίνετο καὶ ἦλθεν ἐπʼ αὐτόν, καίτοι γε τοῦ πνεύματος μὴ φορέσαντος σάρκα μήτε ένδυσαμένου μένου σῶμα.
kai palin de epi tou Iordanou anōthen ho patēr elalei, huios de en Iordanę̄ katērcheto, to de pneuma mesaitaton en eidei peristeras ephaineto kai ēlthen epʼ auton, kaitoi ge tou pneumatos mē phoresantos sarka mēte endysamenou menou sōma.
And again, at the Jordan the Father spoke from above, the Son went down into the Jordan, and the Spirit appeared in the middle in the form of a dove and came upon him, though the Spirit did not wear flesh or put on a body.
Matt 3:16 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 3:17 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: At Christ’s baptism the three appear distinctly.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:348; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.4.4Holl GCS 25/31:348–349
διὰ δὲ τὸ μὴ ηομίζεσθαι συναλοιφὴν εἶναι πρὸς τὸν υἱόνκ, τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα σχηματίζεται ἐν εἴδει περιστερᾶς διὰ τὸ ἀπτάνεσθαι φύσει ἐνυπόστεατον τὸ πνεῦμα.
dia de to mē ēomizesthai synaloiphēn einai pros ton huionk, to hagion pneuma schēmatizetai en eidei peristeras dia to aptanesthai physei enyposteaton to pneuma.
So that it might not be thought to be merged with the Son, the Holy Spirit took shape in the form of a dove, because the Spirit is by nature subsistent and flies.
Notes and citation
Summary: The dove shows the Spirit distinct from the Son.
- ἀπτάνεσθαι is read by sense as “flies” (ἵπτασθαι?); uncertain.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:348–349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.4.5Holl GCS 25/31:349
πόθεν δὲ ἀλλαχόθεν οὐκ ἔχομεν δεῖξαι κατὰ τούτων τῶν τὴν φρενοβλάβειαν ἑαυτοῖς ἐγκισσώντων; εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἀληθεύει ἠ αὐτῶν διάνοια καὶ ὁ λόγος ὁ ἕωλος καὶ μὴ ἔχων σύστασιν μήτε δύναμιν μήτε συνέσεως λογισμὸν ἤ ἔμφασιν, ἄρα γοῦν ἐκβλητίαι εἰσὶν αἱ γραφαί, αἱ πάντηῃ μὲν πατέρα πατέρα γινώσκουσαι καὶ υἱὸν υἱὸν καὶ ἅγιον πνεῦμα ἅγιον πνεῦμα.
pothen de allachothen ouk echomen deixai kata toutōn tōn tēn phrenoblabeian heautois enkissōntōn? ei men gar alētheuei ē autōn dianoia kai ho logos ho heōlos kai mē echōn systasin mēte dynamin mēte syneseōs logismon ē emphasin, ara goun ekblētiai eisin hai graphai, hai pantēę̄ men patera patera ginōskousai kai huion huion kai hagion pneuma hagion pneuma.
From what other source can we not show it against these people who wreathe themselves with madness? For if their thinking is true, their stale talk, which has no consistency or force or reasoned sense or meaning, then the Scriptures are to be thrown out, which everywhere know the Father as Father, the Son as Son, and the Holy Spirit as Holy Spirit.
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Summary: If Noetus were right, Scripture would have to be rejected.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.4.6Holl GCS 25/31:349
Ἀλλὰ τί φάσκεις, ὦ οὗτος; μὴ πολυθεΐαν ἡγήσοιντο οἱ τὸ σέβας ἀληθινῶς τῇ τριάδι ποσφέροντες, οἵτινές εἰσιν υἱοὶ τῆς ἀληθείας καὶ τῆς μόνης ἀποστολικῆς καὶ καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας; καὶ οὐχ οὕτως.
Alla ti phaskeis, ō houtos? mē polytheïan hēgēsointo hoi to sebas alēthinōs tę̄ triadi pospherontes, hoitines eisin huioi tēs alētheias kai tēs monēs apostolikēs kai katholikēs ekklēsias? kai ouch houtōs.
But what do you say, my good man? Will those who truly offer worship to the Trinity, who are sons of the truth and of the only apostolic and catholic church, be thought to hold polytheism? Not so.
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Summary: Worship of the Trinity is not polytheism.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.4.7Holl GCS 25/31:349
τίς γὰρ οὐκ ἐρεῖ ἕνα θεὸν εἶναι τῆς ἀληθείας, πατέρα παντοκράτορα, ἐξ οὗπερ ὀ μονογενὴς υἱὸς ἐν ἀληθείᾳ θεὸς Λόγος, ἐνυπόστατος Λόγος, γεγεννημέιος ἀηλθινῶς ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἀνάρχως καὶ ἀχρόξνως;
tis gar ouk erei hena theon einai tēs alētheias, patera pantokratora, ex houper o monogenēs huios en alētheią theos Logos, enypostatos Logos, gegennēmeios aēlthinōs ex autou anarchōs kai achroxnōs?
For who will not say that there is one God of truth, the Father Almighty, from whom is the only-begotten Son, truly God the Word, a subsistent Word, truly begotten from him without beginning and without time?
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Summary: One God the Father, from whom the Son is eternally begotten.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.4.8Holl GCS 25/31:349
διὸ ἕνα θεὸν ἀσφαλῶς κηρύττει ἡ ἐκκλησία, πατέρα καὶ υἱόν· διότι »ἐγὼ ἐν τῷ πατρὶ καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἐν ἐμοί, καὶ οἱ δύο ἕν ἐσμεν«, τουτέστιν μία θεότης καὶ ἓν θέλημα καὶ μία κυριότης.
dio hena theon asphalōs kēryttei hē ekklēsia, patera kai huion; dioti »egō en tǭ patri kai ho patēr en emoi, kai hoi dyo hen esmen«, toutestin mia theotēs kai hen thelēma kai mia kyriotēs.
Therefore the church firmly proclaims one God, Father and Son; because “I am in the Father and the Father in me, and the two are one,” that is, one Godhead, one will, and one lordship.
John 14:10 (quotation, high confidence) · John 10:30 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Father and Son share one Godhead, will, and lordship.
- A combination of John 14:10 and John 10:30.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.4.9Holl GCS 25/31:349
ἐξ αὐτοῦ δὲ τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα ἐκπορεύεται, ἐνυπόστατον ὂν καὶ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ τέλειον, τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας, τὸ φωτίζον τὰ πάντα, τὸ ἐκ τοῦ υἱοῦ λαμβάνον, τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ πατρός. τὸ πενῦμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ.
ex autou de tou patros kai to pneuma ekporeuetai, enypostaton on kai en alētheią teleion, to pneuma tēs alētheias, to phōtizon ta panta, to ek tou huiou lambanon, to pneuma tou patros. to penyma tou Christou.
And from the Father himself the Spirit proceeds, being subsistent and truly perfect, the Spirit of truth, who enlightens all things, who receives from the Son, the Spirit of the Father, the Spirit of Christ.
John 15:26 (allusion, high confidence) · John 16:14 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The Spirit proceeds from the Father and is the Spirit of Christ.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.4.10Holl GCS 25/31:349
διὸ μίαν θεότητα οἶδεν ἡ ἐκκλησία· εἷς θεὸς ὁ τῆς ἀηλθείας πατήρ, πατὴρ τελείος ἐνυπόστατος καὶ υἱὸς υἱὸς τέλειος ἐνυπόστατος καὶ ἅγιον πνεῦμα ἅγιον πνεῦμα τέλειον ἐνυπόστατον, μία θεότης καὶ δεσποτεία μία κυριότης.
dio mian theotēta oiden hē ekklēsia; heis theos ho tēs aēltheias patēr, patēr teleios enypostatos kai huios huios teleios enypostatos kai hagion pneuma hagion pneuma teleion enypostaton, mia theotēs kai despoteia mia kyriotēs.
Therefore the church knows one Godhead: one God, the Father of truth, a perfect subsistent Father, and the Son, a perfect subsistent Son, and the Holy Spirit, a perfect subsistent Holy Spirit, one Godhead and sovereignty, one lordship.
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Summary: The church confesses one Godhead in three perfect subsistences.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.4.11Holl GCS 25/31:349
διὸ πανταχοῦ σαφῶς κεκηρύχασιν αἰ θεῖαι γραφαὶ ἕνα θεόν, τουτέστιν τριάδα ὀμοούσιον, ἀεὶ οὖσαν τῆς αὐτῆς θεότητος, τῆς αὐτῆς κυριότητος.
dio pantachou saphōs kekērychasin ai theiai graphai hena theon, toutestin triada omoousion, aei ousan tēs autēs theotētos, tēs autēs kyriotētos.
Therefore everywhere the divine Scriptures have clearly proclaimed one God, that is, a consubstantial Trinity, always of the same Godhead and the same lordship.
Notes and citation
Summary: Scripture proclaims one God as a consubstantial Trinity.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:349; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.4.12Holl GCS 25/31:349–350
καὶ διέπεσεν ἐκ πανταχόθεν ὀ τῆς ἀνοησίας σου λόγος, ὦ Νόητε. τοίνυν φωνάς, σκοπῖν ἐξ ὑπαρχῆς χρὴ καὶ οὕτως τὰ αὐτοῦ κεφάλαια ἀνατρέπειν.
kai diepesen ek pantachothen o tēs anoēsias sou logos, ō Noēte. toinyn phōnas, skopin ex hyparchēs chrē kai houtōs ta autou kephalaia anatrepein.
And the argument of your mindlessness has collapsed on every side, Noetus. Now we must examine the texts from the beginning and so overturn his chapters.
Notes and citation
Summary: Noetus’s proof-texts will now be examined.
- φωνάς, σκοπῖν is read as “the texts … examine” by sense.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.4.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:349–350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-4-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 57, chapter 5
57.5.1Holl GCS 25/31:350
5. Πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ἐπιδὴ παρήγαγε τὸ κεφάλαιον ὅτι »εἷς θεός, ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα καὶ ἡμεῖς εἰς αὐτόν, καὶ εἷς κύριος Ἰησοῦς χριστός, διʼ ὃς τὰ πάντα καὶ ἡμεῖς διʼ αὐτοῦ«, οὐχ ὁρᾷς ὅτι λέγων »εἷς θεός, ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα καὶ ἡμεῖς εἰς αὐτόν«, πῶς τὴν μίαν ἀρχὴν σημαίνει ἵνα μή εἰς πολλὰς ἀρχὰς τρέψὴ τὴν διάνοιαν καὶ εἰς πολυθεΐαν ἀγάγῃ τῆς πολυθεΐας;
5. Prōton men oun epidē parēgage to kephalaion hoti »heis theos, ex hou ta panta kai hēmeis eis auton, kai heis kyrios Iēsous christos, diʼ hos ta panta kai hēmeis diʼ autou«, ouch horąs hoti legōn »heis theos, ex hou ta panta kai hēmeis eis auton«, pōs tēn mian archēn sēmainei hina mē eis pollas archas trepsē tēn dianoian kai eis polytheïan agagę̄ tēs polytheïas?
First, then, since he brought forward the chapter, “one God, from whom are all things and we for him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through him,” do you not see that in saying “one God, from whom are all things and we for him” he signifies the one first principle, so as not to turn the mind to many principles and lead it into polytheism?
1 Cor 8:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: 1 Cor 8:6 signifies one principle, not polytheism.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.5.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-5-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.5.2Holl GCS 25/31:350
ὁρᾷς γὰρ πῶς ἑνὶ ὀνόματι κέχρηται καἲ μιᾷ ὀνομασίᾳ, οὐκ ἀρνούμενος τὸν μονογενῆ θεόν. οἶδε γὰρ αὐτὸν κύριον καὶ οἶδεν αὐτὸν θεόν· διὸ ἀσφαλιζόμενος λέγει »καὶ εἷς κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, διʼ οὗ τὰ πάντα«.
horąs gar pōs heni onomati kechrētai kai mią onomasią, ouk arnoumenos ton monogenē theon. oide gar auton kyrion kai oiden auton theon; dio asphalizomenos legei »kai heis kyrios Iēsous Christos, diʼ hou ta panta«.
For you see how he uses one name and one title without denying the only-begotten God. For he knows him as Lord and knows him as God; therefore, for safety’s sake, he says, “and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things.”
1 Cor 8:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul knows the Son as both Lord and God.
- The digital text repeats a clause; the repetition is removed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (repeated words in the digital text): »καὶ εἷς αὐτὸν κύριον καὶ οἶδεν αὐτὸν θεόν· διὸ ἀσφαλιζόμενος λέγει → .
Topics: Trinity, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.5.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-5-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.5.3Holl GCS 25/31:350
καὶ ἐπὶ μὲν τοῦ κυρίου τοῦτο λέγων οὐ τοὺ αὐτὸν ἐσήμανεν εἶναι πατέρα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν, ἀλλὰ ἔσειξε τὸν μὲν πατέρα πατέρα ὄντα, τὸν δὲ υἱὸνυ υἱὸν ἀηξθῶς,
kai epi men tou kyriou touto legōn ou tou auton esēmanen einai patera kai ton auton, alla eseixe ton men patera patera onta, ton de huiony huion aēxthōs,
And in saying this about the Lord he did not signify that the same one is Father and the same one Son, but showed the Father to be Father and the Son to be truly Son,
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul distinguishes Father and Son.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.5.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-5-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.5.4Holl GCS 25/31:350
ἐπειδὴ τῷ εἶναι »εἷς θεός« ἐπὶ τῷ πατρὶ οὐχ ὡς ἀρνούμενος ἐπὶ τῷ υἱῷ τὸ εἶναι θεὸς <ἐλεγεν> (εἰ γὰρ μὴ θεός, οὔτε κύριος· ἐπιδὴ δὲ κύριος, καὶ θεός), ἀλλὰ εἰς μίαν ὀνομασίαν ἄγειν ἀναγκαζόμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ὁ ἅγιος ἀπόστολος ἔφραζεν ἡμῖν τὴν πίστιν, ἐιαργῶς ἔνα κύριον σημαίνων, ἄρα γε καὶ θεόν.
epeidē tǭ einai »heis theos« epi tǭ patri ouch hōs arnoumenos epi tǭ huiǭ to einai theos <elegen> (ei gar mē theos, oute kyrios; epidē de kyrios, kai theos), alla eis mian onomasian agein anankazomenos hypo tou hagiou pneumatos ho hagios apostolos ephrazen hēmin tēn pistin, eiargōs ena kyrion sēmainōn, ara ge kai theon.
since in saying “one God” of the Father he did not speak as denying that the Son is God (for if he is not God, neither is he Lord; since he is Lord, he is also God). Rather, being compelled by the Holy Spirit to bring it under one title, the holy apostle expressed the faith to us, clearly signifying one Lord, and therefore also God.
Notes and citation
Summary: Calling the Son “Lord” implies he is God.
Topics: Trinity, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.5.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-5-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.5.5Holl GCS 25/31:350
Ἀλλὰ μηδεὶς νομιζέτω, ἐπιδὴ λέγει ἕνα καὶ ἕνα, μὴ ἄρα παρέλιπε τὸν ἀριθμὸν τὴς τριάδος, ἐπειδὴ οὐκ ὠνόμασε τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα. ὀιομάσας γὰρ πατέρα καὶ υἱὸν θεὸν καὶ κύριον, ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ ὠνόμασεν. οὐ γὰρ ἐπιδὴ εἶπεν »εἷς θεός«, περὶ πατρός.
Alla mēdeis nomizetō, epidē legei hena kai hena, mē ara parelipe ton arithmon tēs triados, epeidē ouk ōnomase to hagion pneuma. oiomasas gar patera kai huion theon kai kyrion, en pneumati hagiǭ ōnomasen. ou gar epidē eipen »heis theos«, peri patros.
But let no one think, since he speaks of one and one, that he has omitted the number of the Trinity, because he did not name the Holy Spirit. For in naming Father and Son, God and Lord, he named them in the Holy Spirit. For not because he said “one God” of the Father,
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul speaks in the Spirit, so the Trinity is not omitted.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.5.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-5-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.5.6Holl GCS 25/31:350
»ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα«, ἠρνήσατο αὐτὸν [τὸ] εἶναι κύριον· οὐδὲ πάλιν ἐπιδὴ εἶπε »καὶ εἷς κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός«, ἠρνήσατο εἶναι αὐτὸν θεόν,
»ex hou ta panta«, ērnēsato auton [to] einai kyrion; oude palin epidē eipe »kai heis kyrios Iēsous Christos«, ērnēsato einai auton theon,
“from whom are all things,” did he deny that he is Lord; nor again, because he said, “and one Lord Jesus Christ,” did he deny that he is God,
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Cor 8:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Neither title excludes the other.
- The editor deletes τό.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.5.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-5-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.5.7Holl GCS 25/31:350
ἀλλὰ καθάπερ ἐπὶ τῷ πατρὶ ἠρκέσθη ἐπὶ τῇ μιᾷ ὀνομασίᾳ, λέγων »εἷς θεός«, σὺν δὲ τῷ θεὸς δῆλον ὅτι ἔστι καὶ κύριος, οὕτω καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ υἱῷ ἠρκέσθη τῷ »εἷς κύριος«· σὺν δὲ τῷ »[εἷς] κύριος« σύνεστι καὶ τὸ θεός.
alla kathaper epi tǭ patri ērkesthē epi tę̄ mią onomasią, legōn »heis theos«, syn de tǭ theos dēlon hoti esti kai kyrios, houtō kai epi tǭ huiǭ ērkesthē tǭ »heis kyrios«; syn de tǭ »[heis] kyrios« synesti kai to theos.
but just as for the Father he was content with the one title, saying “one God,” and with “God” it is plain that he is also Lord, so too for the Son he was content with “one Lord”; and with “Lord” goes “God” as well.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Each title implies the other for Father and Son.
- The editor deletes the second εἷς.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.5.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:350; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-5-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.5.8Holl GCS 25/31:350–351
λέγων ἐν περὶ πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ, οὐ κοῦφος ἦν ἀπὸ πνεύματος ἁγίου, ἀλλὰ ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ, ὠς ἔφην, ἐφθέγγετο. εἴωθε δὲ ἀεὶ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα οὐ σύστασιν ἑαυτοῦ ποιούμενον *, ἵνα μὴ ἡμῖν ὑπογραμμὸν δώσει τοῦ περὶ ἑαυτῶν * καὶ ἡμᾶς τὴν σύστασιν <ἑαυτῶν> ποιήσασθαι.
legōn en peri patros kai huiou, ou kouphos ēn apo pneumatos hagiou, alla en pneumati hagiǭ, ōs ephēn, ephthengeto. eiōthe de aei to hagion pneuma ou systasin heautou poioumenon *, hina mē hēmin hypogrammon dōsei tou peri heautōn * kai hēmas tēn systasin <heautōn> poiēsasthai.
Speaking of Father and Son, he was not empty of the Holy Spirit, but, as I said, he spoke in the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is always accustomed not to commend itself …, so as not to give us an example … of commending ourselves.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Spirit does not commend itself, as an example for us.
- The edition marks two gaps (*); the sense is partly uncertain.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.5.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:350–351; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-5-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.5.9Holl GCS 25/31:351
ἄρα οὖν »εἷς θεὸς ὁ πατήρ, ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα, καὶ εἷς κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, διʼ οὗ τὰ πάντα [ἢ διʼ ὃν τὰ πάντα]», καὶ ἓν τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, οὐκ ἀλλότριον θεοῦ, ἐνυπόστατον δὲ ὄν, διότι πνεῦμα θεοῦ καὶ πνεῦμα ἀληθείας καὶ πνεῦμα πατρὸς καὶ πνεῦμα Χριστοῦ.
ara oun »heis theos ho patēr, ex hou ta panta, kai heis kyrios Iēsous Christos, diʼ hou ta panta [ē diʼ hon ta panta]», kai hen to hagion pneuma, ouk allotrion theou, enypostaton de on, dioti pneuma theou kai pneuma alētheias kai pneuma patros kai pneuma Christou.
So then, “one God the Father, from whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things,” and one Holy Spirit, not alien to God, but subsistent, because he is the Spirit of God, the Spirit of truth, the Spirit of the Father, and the Spirit of Christ.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Cor 8:6 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: One God, one Lord, and one subsistent Holy Spirit.
- The editor deletes “or on account of whom are all things.”
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.5.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:351; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-5-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 57, chapter 6
57.6.1Holl GCS 25/31:351
6. Εἰ δὲ χρεία εἰπεῖν καὶ περὶ τοῦ »ἐκοπίασεν Αἴγυπτος καὶ ἑμπορία Αίθιόπων, καὶ οἱ Σαβαεὶν ἄνδρες ὑψηλοὶ ἐπὶ δὲ διαβήσονται [καὶ τό »σὺ εἶ θεός καὶ οὐκ ῃδειμεν«] κὰι σοὶ δοῦλοι ἔσονται, καὶ πορεύσονται ἀπίσω σου δεδεμένοι χεροπέσαις καὶ ἐν σοὶ προσκυνήσουσι καὶ ἐν σοὶ προσεύξονται, ὅτι ἐν σοὶ θεός ἐστι καὶ οὐκ ἔστι θεὸς πλὴν σοῦ· σὺ γὰρ εἶ θεός. καὶ οὐκ ᾔδειμεν, ὁ θεὸς τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ σωτήρ«, λέξει δέ. »οὐχ ὁρᾷς, φησίν, ὅτι εἷς θεός ἐστιν.
6. Ei de chreia eipein kai peri tou »ekopiasen Aigyptos kai hemporia Aithiopōn, kai hoi Sabaein andres hypsēloi epi de diabēsontai [kai to »sy ei theos kai ouk ę̄deimen«] kai soi douloi esontai, kai poreusontai apisō sou dedemenoi cheropesais kai en soi proskynēsousi kai en soi proseuxontai, hoti en soi theos esti kai ouk esti theos plēn sou; sy gar ei theos. kai ouk ę̄deimen, ho theos tou Israēl sōtēr«, lexei de. »ouch horąs, phēsin, hoti heis theos estin.
If we must also speak about “Egypt has toiled, and the merchandise of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans, tall men, shall come over to you and shall be your slaves, and they shall follow behind you bound in manacles, and they shall bow down in you and pray in you, for God is in you and there is no God besides you; for you are God, and we did not know it, the God of Israel, the Savior,” he will say, “Do you not see that God is one,
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Isa 45:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 45:15 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Noetus’s use of Isa 45:14–15 is taken up.
- The editor deletes an intruded “and ‘you are God, and we did not know it’.”
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.6.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:351; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-6-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.6.2Holl GCS 25/31:351
ἐκ τῶν τοσούτων ἡρτῶν, ὧν ὑπεδείξαμεν«, οὐ νοῶν τὰ εἰρημένα, ἀλλὰ πανούργως περικόπτων τὰς γραφάς, λοξὰ μὲν διηγούμενος, ἀνθυπερβάτως δὲ εἰσάγων τοὺς λόγους, οὐκ ἀκολούθως καὶ περι πόδα φθέγγεται οὔτε καθʼ εἱρμὸν διηγεὶται ὁ Νόητος ἢ οἱ ἐξ αὐτοῦ Νοητιανοί [νοοῦσιν].
ek tōn tosoutōn hērtōn, hōn hypedeixamen«, ou noōn ta eirēmena, alla panourgōs perikoptōn tas graphas, loxa men diēgoumenos, anthyperbatōs de eisagōn tous logous, ouk akolouthōs kai peri poda phthengetai oute kathʼ heirmon diēgeitai ho Noētos ē hoi ex autou Noētianoi [noousin].
from all these texts that we have shown?” He does not understand what is said, but craftily cuts up the Scriptures, explaining them crookedly and bringing in the words out of order; Noetus, and the Noetians who follow him, do not speak consistently and to the point, nor explain in sequence.
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Notes and citation
Summary: Noetus cuts Scripture out of context.
- The editor deletes νοοῦσιν.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.6.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:351; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-6-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.6.3Holl GCS 25/31:351
ὥσπερ γὰρ κακῷ κυνὶ ὄνομα Λέων <ἐπιτιθέασιν> καὶ τοὺς μησὲ ὅλως ὁρῶντας καλοῦσι πολὺ βλέποντας καὶ τὰς χολὰς γλυκείας φασὶ καὶ τὸ ὄξος μέλι τινὲς ἐπωνόμασαν καὶ τὰς Ἐρινύας Εὐμενίδας φασὶ και ὠνόμασαν, οὕτωνς καὶ οὗτος καὶ οἱ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, Νοήτου ἔχων ὄνομα,
hōsper gar kakǭ kyni onoma Leōn <epititheasin> kai tous mēse holōs horōntas kalousi poly blepontas kai tas cholas glykeias phasi kai to oxos meli tines epōnomasan kai tas Erinyas Eumenidas phasi kai ōnomasan, houtōns kai houtos kai hoi apʼ autou, Noētou echōn onoma,
For just as people give a bad dog the name Lion, and call those who cannot see at all “Sharp-sighted,” and say bile is sweet, and some have named vinegar honey, and call the Furies the Kindly Ones, so this man and his followers, bearing the name Noetus (“sensible”),
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Summary: Like names that mean the opposite, “Noetus” hides senselessness.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.6.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:351; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-6-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.6.4Holl GCS 25/31:351–352
ἀνόητος ὑπάρχειι καὶ οἱ ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἀνοητοῦντες, μηδὲ ὅλως τὴν ἀκολούθίαν ὧν τε φάσκει καὶ ὧν προβάλλονται νοοῦντες, ὡς καὶ πληροῦσθαι ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς τὸ εἰρημένον ὑπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου »μήτε ἃ γέγουσι νοοῦντες μήτε περὶ τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται«.
anoētos hyparcheii kai hoi ex autou anoētountes, mēde holōs tēn akolouthian hōn te phaskei kai hōn proballontai noountes, hōs kai plērousthai epʼ autous to eirēmenon hypo tou hagiou apostolou »mēte ha gegousi noountes mēte peri tinōn diabebaiountai«.
is senseless, and his followers are senseless, not understanding at all the sequence of what he says and what they put forward, so that the word of the holy apostle is fulfilled in them: “understanding neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertions.”
1 Tim 1:7 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Noetus and his followers fulfill 1 Tim 1:7.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.6.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:351–352; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-6-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 57, chapter 7
57.7.1Holl GCS 25/31:352
7. Ὁρᾶτε γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες ἀδελφοί, πῶς ἀνώτερον ἄφη ἡ θεία γραφή, μᾶλλον δὲ αὐτὸς ὁ κύριος, ὡς ἔχει Ἠ ἀρχὴ τοῦ κεφαλαίου· ὅθεν καὶ δεικτέον ἐστἲ περὶ τῆς πάσης ἐν αὐτῷ κεφαλαίῳ ἀληθείας τε καὶ ὑποθέσεως ὅτι »ἐρωτήσατε με περὶ τῶν υἰῶν μου καὶ τῶν θυγατέρων μου, κὰι <περὶ> τῶν ἔργων τῶν χειρῶν μου ἐντείλασθέ μοι. ἐγὼ ἐποήσα, φησί.
7. Horate gar, ō andres adelphoi, pōs anōteron aphē hē theia graphē, mallon de autos ho kyrios, hōs echei Ē archē tou kephalaiou; hothen kai deikteon esti peri tēs pasēs en autǭ kephalaiǭ alētheias te kai hypotheseōs hoti »erōtēsate me peri tōn uiōn mou kai tōn thygaterōn mou, kai <peri> tōn ergōn tōn cheirōn mou enteilasthe moi. egō epoēsa, phēsi.
For see, brothers, what the divine Scripture, or rather the Lord himself, said above, as the beginning of the chapter has it; from there the whole truth and subject of this chapter must be shown: “Ask me about my sons and my daughters, and command me concerning the works of my hands. I made,” he says,
Isa 45:11 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Isaiah 45 is read from its beginning.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.7.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:352; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-7-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.7.2Holl GCS 25/31:352
τὴν γῆν καὶ ἄνθρωπον ἐπʼ αὐτῆς, ἐγὼ τῇ χειρί μου ἐστερέωσα τὸν οὐρανόν, ἐγὼ πᾶσι τοῖς ἄστροις ἐνετειλάμην, ἐγὼ ἤγειρα μετὰ δικαιοσύνης βασιλέα καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ ὁδοὶ αὐτοῦ εὐθεῖαι. οὗτος οἰκοδομήσει τὴν πόλιν μου κὰι τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν ἐπιστρέψει, οὐ μετὰ λύτρων οὐδὲ μετὰ δώρων, εἶπε κύριος σαβαώθ«.
tēn gēn kai anthrōpon epʼ autēs, egō tę̄ cheiri mou estereōsa ton ouranon, egō pasi tois astrois eneteilamēn, egō ēgeira meta dikaiosynēs basilea kai pasai hai hodoi autou eutheiai. houtos oikodomēsei tēn polin mou kai tēn aichmalōsian epistrepsei, ou meta lytrōn oude meta dōrōn, eipe kyrios sabaōth«.
“the earth and man upon it; I established the heaven with my hand; I commanded all the stars; I raised up a king with righteousness, and all his ways are straight. He shall build my city and turn back the captivity, not with ransom nor with gifts, says the Lord of hosts.”
Isa 45:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 45:13 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: God says he raised up a righteous king.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.7.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:352; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-7-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.7.3Holl GCS 25/31:352
εἶτα λοιπόν »ἐκοπίασεν Αἴγυπτος καὶ Ἡ ἐμπορία Αἰθιόπων« καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς »ὅτι ἐν σοὶ ὁ θεός ἐστιν«.
eita loipon »ekopiasen Aigyptos kai Hē emporia Aithiopōn« kai ta hexēs »hoti en soi ho theos estin«.
Then it goes on, “Egypt has toiled, and the merchandise of the Ethiopians,” and so on, “for God is in you.”
Isa 45:14 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The disputed verse follows in context.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.7.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:352; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-7-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.7.4Holl GCS 25/31:352
ἐν τίνι δὲ φαίημεν ἀλλʼ ἢ ἐν τῇ ἐν τῷ πατρῴῳ Λόγῳ· καὶ γὰρ ἀλθῶς θεὸς Λόγος ὁ υἱὸς κὰι ἐν αὐτῷ Ὁ πατὴρ γινώσκεται, ὡς λέγει »ὁ ἑμρακὼς ἐμὲ ἑύρακεν τὸν πατέρα« καί »ἐγὼ ἐδόξασά σου τὸ ὄνομα ἐπὶ τῆς γὴς«.
en tini de phaiēmen allʼ ē en tę̄ en tǭ patrǭǭ Logǭ; kai gar althōs theos Logos ho huios kai en autǭ Ho patēr ginōsketai, hōs legei »ho hemrakōs eme heuraken ton patera« kai »egō edoxasa sou to onoma epi tēs gēs«.
In whom shall we say, but in the Father’s Word? For the Son is truly God the Word, and in him the Father is known, as he says, “He who has seen me has seen the Father,” and “I have glorified your name on earth.”
John 14:9 (quotation, high confidence) · John 17:4 (quotation, medium confidence)
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Summary: God is “in” the Son, in whom the Father is known.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.7.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:352; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-7-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.7.5Holl GCS 25/31:352–353
εἶτα πάλιν »ἐγὼ ἤγειρα βασιλέα«. οὐχ ὁρᾷς ὅτι φωνή ἐστι πατρὸς ἰδιάζουσα ἡ ἐγείρασα ἐξ αὐτῆς τὸν ἀηθινὸν Λόγον βασιλέα ἐπὶ πάντας, τὸν ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἀληθινῶς γεννηθέντα ἀνάρχως καὶ ἀχρόνως;
eita palin »egō ēgeira basilea«. ouch horąs hoti phōnē esti patros idiazousa hē egeirasa ex autēs ton aēthinon Logon basilea epi pantas, ton ex autou alēthinōs gennēthenta anarchōs kai achronōs?
Then again, “I raised up a king.” Do you not see that it is the Father’s own voice, which raised up from itself the true Word as king over all, truly begotten from him without beginning and without time?
Isa 45:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Father raised up the Son as king.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.7.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:352–353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-7-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.7.6Holl GCS 25/31:353
ὃν καὶ ἤγειρε πάλιν, αὐτὸν τὸν βασιλέα, ὡς λέγει ὀ ἅγοι ἀπόστολος φάσκων »εἰ δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ ἐγείραντος Χριστὸν ἐν ὑμῖν, ὁ ἐγείρας Χριστὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν ζωογονήσει κὰι τὰ θνητὰ σώματα Ὑμῶν, διὰ τοῦ ἐνοικοῦντος πνεύματος αὐτοῦ ἐν ὑμῖν«,
hon kai ēgeire palin, auton ton basilea, hōs legei o hagoi apostolos phaskōn »ei de to pneuma tou egeirantos Christon en hymin, ho egeiras Christon ek nekrōn zōogonēsei kai ta thnēta sōmata Hymōn, dia tou enoikountos pneumatos autou en hymin«,
Whom he also raised again, the King himself, as the holy apostle says: “If the Spirit of him who raised Christ is in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you,”
Rom 8:11 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The Father raised Christ, as Paul says.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.7.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-7-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.7.7Holl GCS 25/31:353
ὅπως συνᾴδοι τὰ προφητικὰ τοῖς ἀποστολικοῖς καὶ τὰ ἀποστολικὰ τοῖς εὐαγγελικοῖς καὶ τὰ εὐαγγελικὰ τοῖς ἀποστολικοῖς καὶ τὰ ἀποστολικὰ τοῖς προφητικοῖς· ἐκεῖ γάρ »<ἐγὼ> ἤγειρα βασιλέα«, καὶ ὧδε· »ὁ ἐγείρων Χριστόν ἐν νεκρῶν«.
hopōs synądoi ta prophētika tois apostolikois kai ta apostolika tois euangelikois kai ta euangelika tois apostolikois kai ta apostolika tois prophētikois; ekei gar »<egō> ēgeira basilea«, kai hōde; »ho egeirōn Christon en nekrōn«.
so that the prophetic writings agree with the apostolic, the apostolic with the gospel, the gospel with the apostolic, and the apostolic with the prophetic: for there, “I raised up a king,” and here, “he who raises Christ from the dead.”
Isa 45:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Prophet and apostle agree on the Father raising the Son.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.7.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-7-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.7.8Holl GCS 25/31:353
τὸ δέ »ἐν σοὶ θεός ἐστιν« <δείκνυσιν>, ὡς μυστηριωδῶς τὰ πάντα κα]θαυμασίως διηγεῖται ἡ θεία γραφή. ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐν ναῷ ἐν σαρκὶ <κατοκιοῦσα> προεωρᾶτο κὰι προκατηγγέλλετο τῇ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐλπίδι διὰ τῆς πρὸς τὸν θεὸν ἐπιστροφῆς ἠ θεότης.
to de »en soi theos estin« <deiknysin>, hōs mystēriōdōs ta panta ka]thaumasiōs diēgeitai hē theia graphē. hōsper gar en naǭ en sarki <katokiousa> proeōrato kai prokatēngelleto tę̄ tōn anthrōpōn elpidi dia tēs pros ton theon epistrophēs ē theotēs.
And “God is in you” shows how the divine Scripture relates all things mysteriously and wonderfully. For the Godhead, dwelling in the flesh as in a temple, was foreseen and foretold for the hope of men through their turning to God.
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Summary: “God is in you” foretells the Godhead dwelling in flesh.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.7.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-7-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.7.9Holl GCS 25/31:353
ὁ γὰρ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ θεὸς Λόγος, ὡς ἐν πόλει ἀγίᾳ κὰι ἐν ναῷ ἁγίῳ [τουτέστιν] ἐν τῇ ἁγία ἐνανθρωπήσει καὶ ἐνσάρκῳ παρουσίᾳ θεὸς ὢν κατοικῶν, ἐπὶ τῷ ναῷ ἀγίῳ λέγει »λύσατε τὸν ναὸν τοῦτον καὶ ἐν τρισὶν ἠμέραις ἐγερῶ αὐτόν«,
ho gar huios tou theou theos Logos, hōs en polei agią kai en naǭ hagiǭ [toutestin] en tę̄ hagia enanthrōpēsei kai ensarkǭ parousią theos ōn katoikōn, epi tǭ naǭ agiǭ legei »lysate ton naon touton kai en trisin ēmerais egerō auton«,
For the Son of God, God the Word, being God, dwelling as in a holy city and a holy temple, in the holy incarnation and coming in the flesh, says of the holy temple, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up,”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
John 2:19 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The Word dwells in his flesh as in a temple.
- The editor deletes τουτέστιν.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.7.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:353; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-7-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.7.10Holl GCS 25/31:353–354
διότι μυστικῶς τὰ πάντα οἰκονομεῖ <ὁ> θεὸς Λόγος ἀποσταλεὶς ἀπὸ πατρὸς ἐν σαρκὶ καὶ σύνδεσμον ἀγάπης πνευματικῆς δεικνὺς ἐφέλκεται σάρκα, σμικρύνας ἑαυτὸν μέγας ὢν θεός, αὐτὸς ὁ Λόγος ἐκ παρθένου διὰ πνεύματος ἁγίου γεννηθείς, υἱὸς θεοῦ εἷς ὤν, ἑαυτὸν σαρκὶ καὶ πνεύματι ἔνα τελέσας, ὠς λε; γει »ὁ καταβὰς αὐτός ἐστι καὶ ὁ ἀναβάς, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, ὁ ὢν ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ«.
dioti mystikōs ta panta oikonomei <ho> theos Logos apostaleis apo patros en sarki kai syndesmon agapēs pneumatikēs deiknys ephelketai sarka, smikrynas heauton megas ōn theos, autos ho Logos ek parthenou dia pneumatos hagiou gennētheis, huios theou heis ōn, heauton sarki kai pneumati ena telesas, ōs le? gei »ho katabas autos esti kai ho anabas, ho huios tou anthrōpou, ho ōn en tǭ ouranǭ«.
because God the Word, sent from the Father in the flesh, arranges all things mysteriously, and showing a bond of spiritual love he draws flesh to himself, making himself small though he is great God, the Word himself born of a virgin through the Holy Spirit, being one Son of God, making himself one in flesh and spirit, as he says: “He who came down is himself also he who went up, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.”
John 3:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 4:10 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Word, born of the Virgin, is one in flesh and spirit.
- A combination of Eph 4:10 and John 3:13.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.7.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:353–354; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-7-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 57, chapter 8
57.8.1Holl GCS 25/31:354
8. Τϊ οὖν ἐρεῖ Νόητος ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ ἀνοησίᾳ; μὴ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ σὰρξ ἦν; δῆλον ὅτι οὐκ ἦν. πῶς οὖν ὁ καταβὰς ἐξ οὐρανοῦ αὐτός ἐστιν καὶ ὁ ἀναβάς; ἀλλʼ ἵνα τὸν ἐλθόντα Λόγον σημάῃ οὐ κάτωθεν ὄντα, ἀλλʼ ἄνωθεν κατελθόντα, ἐπειδὴ ἐνηνθρώπησε ἐν σαρκί, οὐκ ἀπὸ σπέρματος ἀνδρός, ἐκ πνεύματος δὲ καὶ σαρκὸς τελειώσας τὴν αὐτοῦ οἰκονομίαν,
8. Tï oun erei Noētos en tę̄ autou anoēsią? mē en tǭ ouranǭ sarx ēn? dēlon hoti ouk ēn. pōs oun ho katabas ex ouranou autos estin kai ho anabas? allʼ hina ton elthonta Logon sēmaę̄ ou katōthen onta, allʼ anōthen katelthonta, epeidē enēnthrōpēse en sarki, ouk apo spermatos andros, ek pneumatos de kai sarkos teleiōsas tēn autou oikonomian,
What then will Noetus say in his senselessness? Was flesh in heaven? Plainly it was not. How then is he who came down from heaven himself also he who went up? It is to signify that the Word who came was not from below but came down from above, since he became man in the flesh, not from a man’s seed, but completed his dispensation from Spirit and flesh;
John 3:13 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The Word came down from heaven and was made flesh.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.8.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:354; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-8-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.8.2Holl GCS 25/31:354
διὰ τοῦτο μίαν ἑνότητα σημαίνων τῆς τοῦ Λόγου συνενώσεως καὶ τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως φάσκει τὸν ἄνωθεν ἥκοντα ἄω ἀνιέναι ἐν τελειώσει θεότητος.,
dia touto mian henotēta sēmainōn tēs tou Logou synenōseōs kai tēs enanthrōpēseōs phaskei ton anōthen hēkonta aō anienai en teleiōsei theotētos.,
therefore, signifying one unity of the Word’s joining and of his becoming man, he says that he who came from above goes up in the perfection of Godhead.
Notes and citation
Summary: The incarnate Word ascends in full Godhead.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.8.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:354; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-8-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.8.3Holl GCS 25/31:354
καὶ γὰρ νῦν ὁ μὴ ὤν ποτε σάρξ, ἀλλὰ πνεῦμα, σὰρξ γέγονεν ἐκ πνεύματος καὶ παρθόνου, ὁ προσενεχθεὶς πατρὶ τέλειος Λόγος, ὅς πρὸ τούτου ἐν οὐρανῷ οὐκ ἦν σάρξ.
kai gar nyn ho mē ōn pote sarx, alla pneuma, sarx gegonen ek pneumatos kai parthonou, ho prosenechtheis patri teleios Logos, hos pro toutou en ouranǭ ouk ēn sarx.
For now he who once was not flesh but spirit has become flesh from the Spirit and the Virgin, the perfect Word offered to the Father, who before this was not flesh in heaven.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Word, not flesh before, became flesh from the Virgin.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.8.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:354; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-8-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.8.4Holl GCS 25/31:354
τί οὖν ἦν ὁ ἐν οὐρανᾦ ἀλλὰ ὁ Λόγος ὁ ἀπʼ οὐρανοῦ ἀποσταλείς, ἔχων τὴν εἰς μίαν θεότητα ἕνωσιν κατὰ δύναμιν πατρὸς συνηνωμένην, ἵνα δείξῃ ὅτι ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ <ἐν> οὐρανῷ ὁ αὐτὸς θεὸς Λόγος ὑπῆρχεν, ἄτρεπτος ὤν καὶ ἀναλλοίωτος.
ti oun ēn ho en ouranǭ alla ho Logos ho apʼ ouranou apostaleis, echōn tēn eis mian theotēta henōsin kata dynamin patros synēnōmenēn, hina deixę̄ hoti epi gēs kai <en> ouranǭ ho autos theos Logos hypērchen, atreptos ōn kai analloiōtos.
What then was he in heaven but the Word sent from heaven, having union into one Godhead, joined by the power of the Father, to show that on earth and in heaven the same God the Word existed, unchangeable and unalterable?
Notes and citation
Summary: The same unchangeable Word is in heaven and on earth.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.8.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:354; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-8-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.8.5Holl GCS 25/31:354
Λόγος γὰρ ἦν, θεὸς ἦν ἄεί, πνεῦμα ἦν, δύναμις ἦν, ὅς τὸ κοινὸν ὄνομα κα]παρὰ ἀνθρώποις χωρητὸν ἀνελάμβανεν εἰς ἑαυτόν, οὕτω καλούμενος υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου, υἱὸς ὤν θεοῦ·
Logos gar ēn, theos ēn aei, pneuma ēn, dynamis ēn, hos to koinon onoma ka]para anthrōpois chōrēton anelambanen eis heauton, houtō kaloumenos huios anthrōpou, huios ōn theou;
For he was the Word, he was always God, he was spirit, he was power, who took to himself the common name that men can grasp, being thus called Son of Man while being Son of God;
Notes and citation
Summary: The Son of God took the name Son of Man.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.8.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:354; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-8-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.8.6Holl GCS 25/31:354
καὶ ἐν προφήταις προωνομάζετο, ὅπερ οὔπω ἐν σαρκὶ ἦν, διὰ τὸ μέλλον ἐν αὐτῷ τελειοῦσθαι, ὡς καὶ Δανιὴλ ἔφη »εἶδον ὡς υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου ἐρχόμενον ἐπὶ τῶν νεφελῶν«.
kai en prophētais proōnomazeto, hoper oupō en sarki ēn, dia to mellon en autǭ teleiousthai, hōs kai Daniēl ephē »eidon hōs huion anthrōpou erchomenon epi tōn nephelōn«.
and he was named beforehand in the prophets by what he was not yet in the flesh, because of what was to be fulfilled in him, as Daniel too said: “I saw one like a son of man coming on the clouds.”
Dan 7:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel called him Son of Man before the incarnation.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.8.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:354; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-8-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.8.7Holl GCS 25/31:354–355
διὸ δικαίως ἐν οὐρανῷ <ὄντα> τῷ ὀνόματι τούτῳ τὸν Λόγον, <ὅν> εἶδε πνεύματι ἁγίῳ, ὁ προφήτης υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου ἐκάλει, τὸ <μέλλον> πρὶν γενέσθαι ἀταθεωρῶν καὶ πρὶν τοῦ ἐν σαρκὶ γενεσθαι υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου ἀποκαλῶν.
dio dikaiōs en ouranǭ <onta> tǭ onomati toutǭ ton Logon, <hon> eide pneumati hagiǭ, ho prophētēs huion anthrōpou ekalei, to <mellon> prin genesthai atatheōrōn kai prin tou en sarki genesthai huion anthrōpou apokalōn.
Therefore rightly the prophet called by this name, Son of Man, the Word who was in heaven, whom he saw in the Holy Spirit, beholding the future before it happened and calling him Son of Man before he came to be in the flesh.
Notes and citation
Summary: The prophet named the Word by his future title.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.8.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:354–355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-8-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.8.8Holl GCS 25/31:355
διὸ τὰ πρῶτα ὕστερα σημαίνων ὁ μονογενὴς φάσκει »ὁὐδεὶς ἀναβέβηκεν εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν. εἰ μὴ ὁ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταβάς, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου«· οὐχ ὅτι δὲ ἄνω ἦν σάρξ, ἀλλὰ <ὅτι> ἄνωθεν κατήρχετο, τούτῳ τῷ ὀνόματι μέλλων καλεῖσθαι.
dio ta prōta hystera sēmainōn ho monogenēs phaskei »houdeis anabebēken eis ton ouranon. ei mē ho ek tou ouranou katabas, ho huios tou anthrōpou«; ouch hoti de anō ēn sarx, alla <hoti> anōthen katērcheto, toutǭ tǭ onomati mellōn kaleisthai.
Therefore the Only-begotten, signifying the first things by the later, says, “No one has ascended into heaven except he who came down from heaven, the Son of Man”; not that flesh was above, but that he came down from above, being about to be called by this name.
John 3:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: John 3:13 names the Word by his later title.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.8.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-8-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 57, chapter 9
57.9.1Holl GCS 25/31:355
9. Ἀλλὰ τί ἐστιν ὅ ἐρεῖς. ὦ οὗτος, ὅτι »οὗτος, φησίν, ὁ θεος ἡμῶν, καὶ οὐ λογισθήσετα ἄλλος«. καὶ καλῶς πάνυ ἔφη, ὡς καὶ ὁ ἀπόστολος διαβεβαιοῦται λέγων »ὧν οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἐξ ὧν ὁ Χριστὸς τὸ κατὰ σάρκα, ὁ ὤν ἐπὶ πάντων θεός«.
9. Alla ti estin ho ereis. ō houtos, hoti »houtos, phēsin, ho theos hēmōn, kai ou logisthēseta allos«. kai kalōs pany ephē, hōs kai ho apostolos diabebaioutai legōn »hōn hoi pateres kai ex hōn ho Christos to kata sarka, ho ōn epi pantōn theos«.
But what is it you will say, my good man — that “This,” it says, “is our God, and no other will be reckoned”? And it said this very well, as the apostle too affirms, saying, “whose are the fathers, and from whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is God over all.”
Rom 9:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Baruch 3 and Rom 9:5 speak rightly of Christ as God.
Extrabiblical texts: Bar 3:36 (Baruch [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.9.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-9-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.9.2Holl GCS 25/31:355
θαυμαστῶς [<δὲ> διηγεῖται· οὗτος γὰρ ὁ ὤν ἔστιν ἐπὶ πάντων θεός· ἐπειδὴ γὰρ αὐτὸς διδάσκει ἡμᾶς λέγων »πάντα μοι παρεδόθη ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρός μου«, διὰ τοῦτο ἐπὶ πάντων ἐστὶ θεός.
thaumastōs [<de> diēgeitai; houtos gar ho ōn estin epi pantōn theos; epeidē gar autos didaskei hēmas legōn »panta moi paredothē hypo tou patros mou«, dia touto epi pantōn esti theos.
He relates it wonderfully: for this is he who is God over all. For since he himself teaches us, saying, “All things have been handed over to me by my Father,” therefore he is God over all.
Matt 11:27 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ is God over all because all was given him by the Father.
- The digital text has a stray bracket before δέ.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.9.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-9-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.9.3Holl GCS 25/31:355
οὕτω γὰρ καὶ Ἰωάννης μαρτυρεῖ λέγων »ὅ ἦν ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς. ὅ ἠκούσαμεν καὶ τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ἑωράκαρεν, καὶ αἱ χεῖρες ἡμῶν ἐψηλάφησαν«, καὶ πάλιν φησὶν ἐν τῇ Ἀποκαλύψει »ὁ ὤν ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς καὶ ἐρχόμενος παντοκράτωρ«.
houtō gar kai Iōannēs martyrei legōn »ho ēn apʼ archēs. ho ēkousamen kai tois ophthalmois heōrakaren, kai hai cheires hēmōn epsēlaphēsan«, kai palin phēsin en tę̄ Apokalypsei »ho ōn apʼ archēs kai erchomenos pantokratōr«.
So too John testifies, saying, “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard and seen with our eyes, and our hands have handled”; and again he says in the Revelation, “who is from the beginning and who is coming, the Almighty.”
1 John 1:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 1:8 (quotation, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: John’s letter and Revelation testify to Christ.
- Rev 1:8 reads “who is and who was and who is to come”; Epiphanius’s form differs.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.9.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-9-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.9.4Holl GCS 25/31:355
καλῶς κατὰ πάντα εἶπε· ἐν τῷ γὰρ εἰπεῖν »πάντα μοι παρεδόθη ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρός μου«, καὶ <τὸν παρτέρα> ἀκριβῶς ὑπετίθετο.
kalōs kata panta eipe; en tǭ gar eipein »panta moi paredothē hypo tou patros mou«, kai <ton partera> akribōs hypetitheto.
He spoke well in every way; for in saying, “All things have been handed over to me by my Father,” he also precisely presupposed the Father.
Matt 11:27 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: “Handed over by my Father” presupposes the Father.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.9.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:355; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-9-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.9.5Holl GCS 25/31:355–356
ἐπὶ πάντας μὲν οὖν ὤν θεός, ἔχων δὲ δἴδιον αὐτοῦ πατἰρα, * ἐν τῷ λέγειν »ἀπέρχομαι πρὸς τὸν πατέρα«. εἰ δὲ ἦν αὐτὸς πατήρ, πρὸς ποῖον ἄρα πατέρα ἄπεισι, ὦ ἀνόητε;
epi pantas men oun ōn theos, echōn de didion autou patira, * en tǭ legein »aperchomai pros ton patera«. ei de ēn autos patēr, pros poion ara patera apeisi, ō anoēte?
So he is God over all, but has his own Father, … in saying, “I go to the Father.” If he were himself the Father, to what Father does he go, you senseless man?
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
John 14:28 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: “I go to the Father” refutes Noetus.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.9.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:355–356; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-9-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 57, chapter 10
57.10.1Holl GCS 25/31:356
10. Ἤ γὰρ πάλιν λέγει »ἵνα ὦσιν ἕν, ὡς ἐγὼ καὶ σὺ ἕν ἐσμεν;« ἀεὶ γὰρ ἠ γραφὴ ἀσφαλιζομένη τὰς κατὰ τὸ ἄκρον πτώσεισ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐκ πανταχόθεν τὸν νοῦν συνάγει ἐπὶ τὴν μέσην τῆς ἀληθείως ὁδόν.
10. Ē gar palin legei »hina ōsin hen, hōs egō kai sy hen esmen?« aei gar ē graphē asphalizomenē tas kata to akron ptōseis tōn anthrōpōn ek pantachothen ton noun synagei epi tēn mesēn tēs alētheiōs hodon.
Or again he says, “that they may be one, as I and you are one.” For Scripture, always guarding against men’s falls to the extremes, gathers the mind from every side to the middle way of truth.
John 17:22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Scripture guides to the middle way between extremes.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.10.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:356; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-10-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.10.2Holl GCS 25/31:356
καὶ πρὸς τούτους μὲν τοὺς νομίζοντας ἀλλότριον εἶται τοῦ πατρὸς τὸν υἱόν, φημὶ δὲ ὡς ὁ Ἄρειος νομέζει καὶ ἄλλαι αἱρέσεις, λέγει »ἐγὼ καὶ ὁ παρτὴρ ἕν ἐσμεν«·
kai pros toutous men tous nomizontas allotrion eitai tou patros ton huion, phēmi de hōs ho Areios nomezei kai allai haireseis, legei »egō kai ho partēr hen esmen«;
And to those who think the Son alien to the Father — I mean as Arius thinks, and other heresies — he says, “I and the Father are one”;
John 10:30 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Against Arius, John 10:30 affirms unity.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.10.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:356; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-10-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.10.3Holl GCS 25/31:356
πρὸς δὲ τοὺς νομίζοντας τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναλ πατέρα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι υἱὸν διὰ τὸ εἰρηκέναι »ἐγὼ καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἕν ἐσμεν«, λέγει »ποίησον αὐτοὺς ἵνα ὦσιν ἕνκαθὼς κἀγὼ καὶ σὺ ἕν ἐσμεν«, ἵνα καταισχύνῃ Νόητον καὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ σχολήν, παραγαγὼν εἰς μέσον τὴν τῶν μαθητῶν ἕνωσιν.
pros de tous nomizontas ton auton einal patera kai ton auton einai huion dia to eirēkenai »egō kai ho patēr hen esmen«, legei »poiēson autous hina ōsin henkathōs kagō kai sy hen esmen«, hina kataischynę̄ Noēton kai tēn autou scholēn, paragagōn eis meson tēn tōn mathētōn henōsin.
but to those who think that the same one is Father and the same one Son because he said, “I and the Father are one,” he says, “Make them to be one, as I and you are one,” to shame Noetus and his school, by bringing forward the unity of the disciples.
John 10:30 (quotation, high confidence) · John 17:22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Against Noetus, John 17 compares the unity to the disciples’ unity.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.10.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:356; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-10-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.10.4Holl GCS 25/31:356–357
πῶς γὰρ ἠδύνατο Πέρος καὶ Ἰωάννης καὶ οἱ καθεξῆς εἶναι ἕν ὡς κατὰ συναλοιφήν; ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ εἶναι ἐν μιᾷ ἑνότητι θεότητος καὶ ἐν μιᾷ γνώμῃ καὶ δυνάμει, εἰς τὸ ἀποκρούσασθαι πᾶσαν ὑπόνοιαν κατὰ θάτερον τῆς ἀληθείας ἐπανισταμένην *·
pōs gar ēdynato Peros kai Iōannēs kai hoi kathexēs einai hen hōs kata synaloiphēn? alla dia to einai en mią henotēti theotētos kai en mią gnōmę̄ kai dynamei, eis to apokrousasthai pasan hyponoian kata thateron tēs alētheias epanistamenēn *;
For how could Peter and John and the rest be one as by merging? But it is because they are in one unity of Godhead and in one mind and power, to repel every notion that rises against the truth on either side …
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Unity is of Godhead and will, not merging of persons.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.10.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:356–357; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-10-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.10.5Holl GCS 25/31:357
* Φίλιππος [δὲ] ὁ ἅγιος ἀπόστολος φάσκων ὅτι »δεῖξον ἡμῖν τὸν πατέρα σου«. ὁ δὲ εἶπεν »ὁ ἑωρακὼς ἐμὲ ἑώρακε τὸν πατέρα«, καὶ οὐκ εἶπεν »ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ πατήρ«,
* Philippos [de] ho hagios apostolos phaskōn hoti »deixon hēmin ton patera sou«. ho de eipen »ho heōrakōs eme heōrake ton patera«, kai ouk eipen »egō eimi ho patēr«,
… Philip the holy apostle, saying, “Show us your Father.” And he said, “He who has seen me has seen the Father,” and he did not say, “I am the Father,”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
John 14:8 (quotation, high confidence) · John 14:9 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Jesus told Philip he who sees him sees the Father, not that he is the Father.
- The edition marks a gap (*); the editor deletes δέ.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.10.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:357; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-10-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.10.6Holl GCS 25/31:357
ἀλλὰ τῷ »ἐμέ« σημαίνων ἑαυτὸν ἔλεγεν· τῷ δέ »ἑώρακε τὸν πατέρα«, οὐχ ἑαυτὸν ἔλεγεν. ἄλλο γὰρ τό »τὸν πατέρα« καὶ ἄλλο τό »ἐμέ« καὶ ἄλλο <τό> »ἐγώ«, καὶ ἕτερον τό »ἐμέ«.
alla tǭ »eme« sēmainōn heauton elegen; tǭ de »heōrake ton patera«, ouch heauton elegen. allo gar to »ton patera« kai allo to »eme« kai allo <to> »egō«, kai heteron to »eme«.
but by “me” he spoke signifying himself, while by “has seen the Father” he did not mean himself. For “the Father” is one thing, and “me” another, and “I” another, and “me” something different.
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Summary: “Me” and “the Father” are distinct.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.10.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:357; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-10-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.10.7Holl GCS 25/31:357
εἰ γὰρ ἦν αὐτὸς ὁ πατήρ, ἔλεγεν »ἐγώ εἰμι«· ἐπειδὴ δὲ οὐκ αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ πατήρ, ἀλλὰ ὁ υἱός, ἀληθῶς λέγει »ὁ ἐμὲ ἑωρακὼς ἑώρακε τὸν πατέρα«, ἵνα ἀποκρούσηται τὴν τοῦ Ἀρείου βλασφημίαν τὴν τὸν υἱὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς ἀπαλλοτριοῦσαν.
ei gar ēn autos ho patēr, elegen »egō eimi«; epeidē de ouk autos estin ho patēr, alla ho huios, alēthōs legei »ho eme heōrakōs heōrake ton patera«, hina apokrousētai tēn tou Areiou blasphēmian tēn ton huion apo tou patros apallotriousan.
For if he were himself the Father, he would have said, “I am.” But since he is not himself the Father, but the Son, he says truly, “He who has seen me has seen the Father,” to repel the blasphemy of Arius, which estranges the Son from the Father.
John 14:9 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The Son is not the Father, yet not alien from him.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.10.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:357; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-10-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.10.8Holl GCS 25/31:357
Διὸ τῆς πάσης γραφῆς σαφῶς περὶ ἀληθείας ἡμῖν τὴν ὁδὸν ὑποτιθεμένης <ἐνταῦθα> λήξωμεν καὶ τοῦτον τὸν Νόητον καὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ αἴρεσιν, Νοητιανῶν φημι, σὺν ταῖς ἄλλαις αἱρέσεσι παρωσάμενοι, ὥσπερ ὀστρακέτην τὸν καλούμενον δράκοντα, τὸν μὴ δυνάμενον κάμπτεσθαι ἐν τῷ καταδιώκειν ἄνθρωπον, μήτε δεξιὰ μήτε εὐώνυμα, ἐκκλίναντες <τε> ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτοῦ τε καὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ σχολῆς μοχθηρίας,
Dio tēs pasēs graphēs saphōs peri alētheias hēmin tēn hodon hypotithemenēs <entautha> lēxōmen kai touton ton Noēton kai tēn autou airesin, Noētianōn phēmi, syn tais allais hairesesi parōsamenoi, hōsper ostraketēn ton kaloumenon drakonta, ton mē dynamenon kamptesthai en tǭ katadiōkein anthrōpon, mēte dexia mēte euōnyma, ekklinantes <te> apo tēs autou te kai tēs autou scholēs mochthērias,
Therefore, since all Scripture clearly sets before us the way of truth, let us stop here, having thrust aside this Noetus and his heresy, I mean that of the Noetians, with the other heresies, like the serpent called the ostraketes, which cannot bend to right or left when it pursues a man; and having turned aside from the wickedness of him and his school,
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Summary: Noetus is set aside like a serpent that cannot turn.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.10.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:357; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-10-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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57.10.9Holl GCS 25/31:357–358
ἐπὶ τὰς ἑξῆς δυνάμει τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν νοῦν ἀκοντίσωμεν, πρὸς διήγησιν καὶ ἔλεγχον τῶν ἐν αὐταῖς ἐπινενοημένων κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας ξενολεξιῶν.
epi tas hexēs dynamei tou theou ton noun akontisōmen, pros diēgēsin kai elenchon tōn en autais epinenoēmenōn kata tēs alētheias xenolexiōn.
let us by the power of God direct our mind to the next ones, to describe and refute the strange talk invented in them against the truth.
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Summary: Epiphanius moves on.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 57.10.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:357–358; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-57-10-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 58, chapter 1
58.1.1Holl GCS 25/31:358
Περὶ Οὐαλησίων ἀκηκόαμεν πολλάκις, οὐ μέντοι γε ἔγνωμέν που. τίς ἤ πόθεν ὡρμᾶτο ἤ τί λέγων ἤ νουθετῶν ἤ φθεγγόμενος <ὑπῆρχεν> ὁ Οὐἀλης οὗτος.
Peri Oualēsiōn akēkoamen pollakis, ou mentoi ge egnōmen pou. tis ē pothen hōrmato ē ti legōn ē nouthetōn ē phthengomenos <hypērchen> ho Oualēs houtos.
We have often heard of the Valesians, but we do not really know who this Vales was, or where he came from, or what he said, urged, or taught.
Notes and citation
Summary: Little is known of Vales, founder of the Valesians.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.1.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:358; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.1.2Holl GCS 25/31:358
καὶ τὸ μὲν ὄνομα Ἀραβικὸν ὑπάρχον τινὰ ὐπόνοιαν ἡμῖν φέρεσθαι, ὡς ἐν ὑπονοίᾳ *, καθάπερ ἔφην, τινὰς ὄντας ἐν Βακάθοις τῆς Φιλαδελφηιῆς χώρας πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδάνου.
kai to men onoma Arabikon hyparchon tina yponoian hēmin pheresthai, hōs en hyponoią *, kathaper ephēn, tinas ontas en Bakathois tēs Philadelphēiēs chōras peran tou Iordanou.
The name, being Arabic, gives us some suspicion, as … by suspicion, as I said, that they are some people in Bacatha in the territory of Philadelphia beyond the Jordan.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: They are thought to live near Philadelphia beyond the Jordan.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.1.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:358; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.1.3Holl GCS 25/31:358
καὶ οἰ μὲν ἐπιχώριοι τούτους Γνωστικοὺς βούλονται λέγειν, οὐκ εἰσὶ δὲ τῶν Γιωστικῶν· ἕτερα γὰρ τούτων τὰ γρονήματα. τὰ δὲ εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐλθόντα περὶ αὐτῶν τοῦτορ ἔχει τὸν τρόπον.
kai oi men epichōrioi toutous Gnōstikous boulontai legein, ouk eisi de tōn Giōstikōn; hetera gar toutōn ta gronēmata. ta de eis hēmas elthonta peri autōn toutor echei ton tropon.
The local people want to call them Gnostics, but they are not Gnostics, for their views are different. What has come to us about them is as follows.
Notes and citation
Summary: They are not Gnostics.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.1.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:358; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-1-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.1.4Holl GCS 25/31:358
Ἐν μὲν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ οἱ πλείους συνήγοντο ἕως καιροῦ τινος, ἕως εἰς πλάτος ἦλθεν ἡ αὐτῶν ἄνοια καὶ ἀπεβλήθησαν τῆς ἐκκλησίας. εἰσὶ δὲ πάντες ἀπόκοποι πλὴν ὀλίγων, καὶ αὐτοὶ δὲ περὶ ἀρχῶν καὶ ἐξουσιῶν * καὶ ἄλλων οὕτως δοξάζουσι.
En men tę̄ ekklēsią hoi pleious synēgonto heōs kairou tinos, heōs eis platos ēlthen hē autōn anoia kai apeblēthēsan tēs ekklēsias. eisi de pantes apokopoi plēn oligōn, kai autoi de peri archōn kai exousiōn * kai allōn houtōs doxazousi.
Most of them used to assemble in the church for some time, until their folly became widely known and they were expelled from the church. All of them except a few are castrated, and they too hold such views about principalities and powers … and other things.
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Notes and citation
Summary: The Valesians, mostly castrated, were expelled from the church.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.1.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:358; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-1-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.1.5Holl GCS 25/31:358
καὶ ὅταν λάβωσιν ἄνθρωπον εἰς μαθητείαν, καθʼ ὅσον μὲν χρόνον οὔπω τῶν μορίων ἀπετμήθη. ἐμψύχωι τὐ μεταλαμβάιει· ὅταν δὲ πείσωσι τὸν τοιοῦτον ἤ μετὰ ἀνάγκης αὐτὸν ἀποτέμωσι, τότε πᾶν ὁτιοῦ μεταλαμβάνει ὡς ἤδη πεπαυμέιος ἀγῶιος καὶ μηκέτι ἐπικίνδυνος ὤν εἰς τὸ ἐποτρύνεσθαι διὰ τῶν ἐδεσμάτων εἰς ἡδονὴν ἥκειν ἐπιθυμίας.
kai hotan labōsin anthrōpon eis mathēteian, kathʼ hoson men chronon oupō tōn moriōn apetmēthē. empsychōi ty metalambaiei; hotan de peisōsi ton toiouton ē meta anankēs auton apotemōsi, tote pan hotiou metalambanei hōs ēdē pepaumeios agōios kai mēketi epikindynos ōn eis to epotrynesthai dia tōn edesmatōn eis hēdonēn hēkein epithymias.
When they take a man as a disciple, so long as he has not yet had his parts cut off he partakes of no animal food; but when they persuade him, or castrate him by force, then he partakes of anything at all, as one whose contest is now over and who is no longer in danger of being roused by foods to the pleasure of desire.
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Summary: Castrated disciples may eat anything; others abstain from animal food.
- Hostile report, given as Epiphanius writes it.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.1.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:358; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-1-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.1.6Holl GCS 25/31:358
οὐ μόνον δὲ τοὺς ἰδίους τοῦτον ἀπαρτίζουσι τὸν τρόπον, ἀλλὰ πολλάκις καὶ ξέιους παρερχομένους καὶ παρʼ αὐτοῖς ἐπιξενωθέντα ταύτῃ διέθεντο τῇ ἀγωγῇ. ὡς πολὺς περὶ τούτου θρυλεῖται λόγος.
ou monon de tous idious touton apartizousi ton tropon, alla pollakis kai xeious parerchomenous kai parʼ autois epixenōthenta tautę̄ diethento tę̄ agōgę̄. hōs polys peri toutou thryleitai logos.
And they treat not only their own people in this way, but often strangers passing through and staying with them as guests have been subjected to this treatment, as there is much talk about it.
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Summary: Rumor says they castrate guests too.
- Epiphanius reports this as current talk.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.1.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:358; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-1-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.1.7Holl GCS 25/31:358
ἀρπάζουσι γὰρ τοὺς τοιούτους ἔνδον καὶ ὀπίσω ἐπὶ συμψελίοις δήσαντες μετὰ ἀνάγκης τὸ χειρότευκτον ἐργάζονται τῆς τῶν μελῶν ἀφαιρέσεως.
arpazousi gar tous toioutous endon kai opisō epi sympseliois dēsantes meta anankēs to cheiroteukton ergazontai tēs tōn melōn aphaireseōs.
For they seize such people inside, tie them to benches behind, and by force perform the removal of the members with their own hands.
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Summary: Guests are said to be castrated by force.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.1.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:358; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-1-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.1.8Holl GCS 25/31:358–359
καὶ ταῦτά ἐστιν ἅ περὶ τούτων εἰς ἡμᾶς ἧκεν. οὕσπερ γνόντες ἐν ποίῳ τόπῳ τὴν καταμονὴν ἔχουσι καὶ ὡς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦτο πολὺ τυγχάνει ἐν τοῖς μέρεσιν ἐκείνοις. καὶ ὡς τῆς αἱρέσεως ἕτερον ὄνομα οὐ κατειλήφαμεν, ἐιομίσαμεν ταύτην εἶναι.
kai tauta estin ha peri toutōn eis hēmas hēken. housper gnontes en poiǭ topǭ tēn katamonēn echousi kai hōs to onoma touto poly tynchanei en tois meresin ekeinois. kai hōs tēs haireseōs heteron onoma ou kateilēphamen, eiomisamen tautēn einai.
This is what has come to us about them. We know in what place they live, and that this name is common in those parts; and since we have not learned another name for the heresy, we have supposed that this is it.
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Summary: Epiphanius identifies them tentatively.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.1.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:358–359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-1-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 58, chapter 2
58.2.1Holl GCS 25/31:359
2. Πολλὴ δὲ φρενοβλάβεια τῶν τοιούτων. εἰ μὲν γὰρ τὸ ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ βούλονται πληροῦν τό »ἐὰν σκανδαλίζῃ σε ἓν τῶν μελῶν σου, ἀπόκοψον ἀπὸ σοῦ, συμφέρει γάρ σοι εἰσελθεῖν εἰς βασιλείαν οὐρανῶν ἢ χωλὸν ἢ τυφλὸν ἢ κυλλόν«, πῶς δύναται ἐν βασιλείᾳ τινὰ εἶναι ἠκρωτηριασμένον;
2. Pollē de phrenoblabeia tōn toioutōn. ei men gar to en tǭ euangeliǭ boulontai plēroun to »ean skandalizę̄ se hen tōn melōn sou, apokopson apo sou, sympherei gar soi eiselthein eis basileian ouranōn ē chōlon ē typhlon ē kyllon«, pōs dynatai en basileią tina einai ēkrōtēriasmenon?
The madness of such people is great. If they want to fulfill the saying in the gospel, “If one of your members causes you to stumble, cut it off from you; for it is better for you to enter the kingdom of heaven lame or blind or maimed,” how can anyone be mutilated in the kingdom?
Matt 18:8 (quotation, medium confidence) · Matt 5:29 (allusion, medium confidence) · Mark 9:45 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Mutilation cannot fit the perfect kingdom.
- A free combination of Matt 18:8–9 and Mark 9:43–47.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.2.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.2.2Holl GCS 25/31:359
εἰ γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν τὰ πάντα ἐστὶ τελειοῦσα, οὐδὲν ἀτελὲς ἔχει ἐν ἑαυτῇ. καὶ ὁπότε τοῦ σώματός ἐστιν ἀνάστασις, πάντα τὰ μέλη ἀναστήσεται καὶ οὐδʼ ὁπότερον αὐτῶν καταλειφθήσεται.
ei gar hē basileia tōn ouranōn ta panta esti teleiousa, ouden ateles echei en heautę̄. kai hopote tou sōmatos estin anastasis, panta ta melē anastēsetai kai oudʼ hopoteron autōn kataleiphthēsetai.
For if the kingdom of heaven perfects all things, it has nothing imperfect in itself. And since there is a resurrection of the body, all the members will rise and neither of them will be left behind.
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Summary: In the resurrection all members rise.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.2.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.2.3Holl GCS 25/31:359
καὶ εἰ ὅλως τὶ μέλος οὐκ ἐγείρεται, οὐδὲ τὸ πᾶν σῶμα ἀναστήσεται. καὶ εἰ τὸ ἓν μέλος τὸ σκανδαλίζον αὐτὸ μόνον καταλιμπάνεται, οὐδὲ ὅλως ἀναστήσεται οὐδὲ ὁπότερον τῶν μελῶν· πάντα γὰρ ἡμᾶς ἐσκανδάλισεν.
kai ei holōs ti melos ouk egeiretai, oude to pan sōma anastēsetai. kai ei to hen melos to skandalizon auto monon katalimpanetai, oude holōs anastēsetai oude hopoteron tōn melōn; panta gar hēmas eskandalisen.
And if any member at all is not raised, neither will the whole body rise. And if the one member that causes stumbling is alone left behind, then none of the members will rise at all; for all of them have caused us to stumble.
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Summary: If the offending member stayed behind, none would rise.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.2.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.2.4Holl GCS 25/31:359
τίς δὲ ἀναρρήξει αὐτοῦ τὴν καρδίαν τὴν πάντῃ σκανδαλίζουσαν; »ἔσωθεν, γάρ φησιν, ἐκπορεύονται πορνεῖαι μοιχεῖαι ἀσέλγειαι καὶ τὰ τούτοις ὅμοια«. τίς οὖν ῥήξει τὴν ἑαυτοῦ καρδίαν;
tis de anarrēxei autou tēn kardian tēn pantę̄ skandalizousan? »esōthen, gar phēsin, ekporeuontai porneiai moicheiai aselgeiai kai ta toutois homoia«. tis oun rhēxei tēn heautou kardian?
And who will tear out his heart, which causes stumbling in every way? “For from within,” it says, “come forth acts of sexual immorality, adulteries, licentiousness, and the like.” Who then will tear his own heart?
Mark 7:21 (quotation, medium confidence) · Matt 15:19 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Sin comes from the heart, which no one can cut out.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.2.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.2.5Holl GCS 25/31:359
εἰ δὲ οὐκ ἐγείρεται τὸ σῶμα κατὰ τὴν τινῶν ἄνοιαν καὶ ἀσέβειαν, πῶς οὖν ἄρα διοίσει ὁ παρὰ τούτων ὁριζόμενος λόγος; τῶν γὰρ ὅλων μελῶν ἁπάντων μὴ εἰσεχομένων εἰς βασιλείαν οὐρανῶν τίς ἔτι χρεία παρὰ ἓν μέλος γίνεσθαι, τῶν ἄλλων μὴ τοῦτο πληρούντων;
ei de ouk egeiretai to sōma kata tēn tinōn anoian kai asebeian, pōs oun ara dioisei ho para toutōn horizomenos logos? tōn gar holōn melōn hapantōn mē eisechomenōn eis basileian ouranōn tis eti chreia para hen melos ginesthai, tōn allōn mē touto plērountōn?
But if the body is not raised, as some foolishly and impiously say, how will the argument these people lay down hold? If no members at all enter the kingdom of heaven, what need is there to do this to one member, when the others do not fulfill it?
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Summary: Without bodily resurrection their act is pointless.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.2.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.2.6Holl GCS 25/31:359
εἰ δὲ ἐγείρεται τὸ σῶμα (ἐγείρεται γάρ), πῶς ἐνδέχεται ἔτι ἐν βασιλείᾳ οὐρανῶν ἐν σώματι λώβησις γίνεσθαι; ἢ πῶς οὐκ ἔσται ἀπρεπὴς ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἐπισινῆ σώματα ἔχουσα πρὸς δόξαν ὄντα τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ;
ei de egeiretai to sōma (egeiretai gar), pōs endechetai eti en basileią ouranōn en sōmati lōbēsis ginesthai? ē pōs ouk estai aprepēs hē basileia tōn ouranōn episinē sōmata echousa pros doxan onta tōn en autę̄?
But if the body is raised (and it is raised), how can there still be mutilation in the body in the kingdom of heaven? Or how will the kingdom of heaven not be unseemly, having maimed bodies, when they are meant for the glory of those in it?
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Summary: Maimed bodies would be unfit for the kingdom’s glory.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.2.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.2.7Holl GCS 25/31:359
εἰ δὲ ὅλως καὶ τμηθείη τὸ μέλος τὸ σκανδαλίζον, ἄρα τέτμηται καὶ οὐχ ἥμαρτεν· τμηθὲν δὲ καὶ μὴ ἁμαρτῆσαν, αὐτὸ ἔδει πρῶτον πάντων ἀναστῆναι μὴ ἁμαρτῆσαν.
ei de holōs kai tmētheiē to melos to skandalizon, ara tetmētai kai ouch hēmarten; tmēthen de kai mē hamartēsan, auto edei prōton pantōn anastēnai mē hamartēsan.
And if the member that causes stumbling were indeed cut off, then it has been cut off and has not sinned; and having been cut off and not having sinned, it ought to rise first of all, since it did not sin.
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Summary: The severed member, having not sinned, would deserve to rise first.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.2.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-2-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 58, chapter 3
58.3.1Holl GCS 25/31:359
3. Οἱ δὲ εἰς τὸ πρόχειρον τοῦτο ἔργον εὔτολμοι ἀπὸ πάντων ἑαυτοὺς ἠθέτηςάν τε καὶ ἀπηλλοτρίωσαν. οὔτε γὰρ ἔτι ἄνδρες εἰσὶ διὰ τὸ ἀφῃρημένον οὔτε γυναῖκες δύνανται εἶναι διὰ τὸ παρὰ φύσιν.
3. Hoi de eis to procheiron touto ergon eutolmoi apo pantōn heautous ēthetēsan te kai apēllotriōsan. oute gar eti andres eisi dia to aphę̄rēmenon oute gynaikes dynantai einai dia to para physin.
Those who are bold for this ready deed have set themselves aside and estranged themselves from everything. For they are no longer men, because of what has been removed, nor can they be women, because it is against nature.
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Summary: The castrated are neither men nor women.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.3.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:359; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-3-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.3.2Holl GCS 25/31:359–360
προὔλαβεν δὲ καὶ ἡ τοῦ στεφάνου τοῦ ἀγῶνος καὶ βραβείου τού- του ἐπωνυμία. οὐδὲ ὁπότεροι γὰρ φανήσονται οὗτοι τῶν τριῶν τάξεων τῶν εὐνούχων τῶν ὑπὸ κυρίου εἰιρημένων. »εἰσί, γάρ φησιν, εὐνοῦχοι, οἳ ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτῶν ἐγεννήθησαν«.
proulaben de kai hē tou stephanou tou agōnos kai brabeiou tou- tou epōnymia. oude hopoteroi gar phanēsontai houtoi tōn triōn taxeōn tōn eunouchōn tōn hypo kyriou eiirēmenōn. »eisi, gar phēsin, eunouchoi, hoi ek koilias mētros autōn egennēthēsan«.
They have also forfeited the name of the crown of the contest and of its prize. For they will not appear to belong to any of the three orders of eunuchs spoken of by the Lord. “For there are,” he says, “eunuchs who were born so from their mother’s womb.”
Matt 19:12 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: They fit none of the Lord’s three kinds of eunuchs.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.3.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:359–360; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.3.3Holl GCS 25/31:360
ἐκεῖνοι γὰρ ἀναίτιοί εἰσι τῆς αὐτῶν εὐνουχίας, οὔτε μὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἔχοντες διὰ τὸ οὕτως γεγεννῆσθαι οὔτε πάλιν ἔπαινον. μὴ δυνάμενοι πράττειν <τὶ τῶν τοιούτων>, τῶν ἀφροδισίων φημί, ἐπειδὴ μὴ πέφυκεν αὐτοῖς τὰ παιδοποιὰ ὄργανα τὰ ἐκ θεοῦ κεκτισμένα.
ekeinoi gar anaitioi eisi tēs autōn eunouchias, oute mēn hamartian echontes dia to houtōs gegennēsthai oute palin epainon. mē dynamenoi prattein <ti tōn toioutōn>, tōn aphrodisiōn phēmi, epeidē mē pephyken autois ta paidopoia organa ta ek theou kektismena.
For those are not responsible for their being eunuchs, having neither sin, because they were born so, nor again praise, being unable to do any such thing, I mean sexual relations, since the organs for begetting children created by God were not formed in them.
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Summary: Eunuchs from birth have neither sin nor praise.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.3.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:360; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.3.4Holl GCS 25/31:360
ἀλλʼ οὔτε μισθὸν ἔχουσιν εὐνουχίας βασιλείαν οὐρανῶν, |διὰ τὸ ἀγῶνος μὴ μεμυῆσθαι.
allʼ oute misthon echousin eunouchias basileian ouranōn, |dia to agōnos mē memyēsthai.
But neither do they have the kingdom of heaven as the reward of being eunuchs, because they have not been initiated into the contest.
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Summary: They have no reward, having had no struggle.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.3.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:360; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-3-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.3.5Holl GCS 25/31:360
εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐπιθυμιῶν μεμύηνται οἱ τοιοῦτοι, μὴ δυνάμενοι πράττειν ὃ μὴ δεῖ πράττειν καὶ μὴ πράττοντες μισθὸν οὐκ ἔχουσιν. οὐ γὰρ διὰ τὸ μὴ βούλεσθαι τὸ ἔργον παρʼ αὐτοῖς οὐ πέπρακται, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι.
ei de kai epithymiōn memyēntai hoi toioutoi, mē dynamenoi prattein ho mē dei prattein kai mē prattontes misthon ouk echousin. ou gar dia to mē boulesthai to ergon parʼ autois ou pepraktai, alla dia to mē dynasthai.
And even if such people have been acquainted with desires, being unable to do what ought not to be done and not doing it, they have no reward. For the deed was not left undone by them because they did not want it, but because they could not.
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Summary: Inability to sin earns no reward.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.3.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:360; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-3-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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58.3.6Holl GCS 25/31:360
καὶ αὕτη μὲν ἡ ἀγωγὴ τῆς πρώτης ὑπὸ κυρίου εἰρημένης εὐνουχίας, τῆς διὰ τῶν μητέρων γεννωμένης ἐν εὐνουχίᾳ, ἐξ ὧν οὐ δύνανται οὗτοι ὑπάρχειν διὰ τὸ χειρότευκτον.
kai hautē men hē agōgē tēs prōtēs hypo kyriou eirēmenēs eunouchias, tēs dia tōn mēterōn gennōmenēs en eunouchią, ex hōn ou dynantai houtoi hyparchein dia to cheiroteukton.
This is the condition of the first kind of eunuchs spoken of by the Lord, those born eunuchs from their mothers; these people cannot be of them, because the thing was done by hand.
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Summary: The Valesians are not eunuchs from birth.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 58.3.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:360; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/57-2-1/#p-58-3-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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