Panarion (Medicine Chest Against Heresies), Haer. 1-64 59.12.1–62.3.8
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. 59, chapter 12
59.12.1Holl GCS 25/31:377
Καὶ ὦ τῆς πολλῆς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ματαιοφροσύνης. πᾶσα δὲ πρόφασις ἑκάστην αἵρεσιν, κἄν τε βραχεῖά τις ὑπῆρξεν, ἀπὸ τῆς ἀληθείας παρείλκυσε καὶ εἰς πολλὴν φορὰν κακῶν κατήγαγεν.
Kai ō tēs pollēs tōn anthrōpōn mataiophrosynēs. pasa de prophasis hekastēn hairesin, kan te bracheia tis hypērxen, apo tēs alētheias pareilkyse kai eis pollēn phoran kakōn katēgagen.
Oh, the great vanity of men! Every pretext, however small, has drawn each heresy from the truth and brought it down into a great flood of evils.
Notes and citation
Summary: Small pretexts lead heresies far astray.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.12.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-12-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.12.2Holl GCS 25/31:377
ὥσπερ γὰρ | εἴ τις διασφαγὴν εὑρὼν ἐν φραγμῷ παρὰ λεωφόρῳ [καὶ] νομίσῃ διὰ ταύτης βαδίζειν καὶ καταλιπὼν τὴν ὁδὸν ἐκεῖσε τρέπηται, νομίσας ἐγγύτατον ἔχειν ὅθεν διακάμψας πάλιν τῆς ὁδοῦ ἐπιλάβοιτο, ἀγνοήσῃ δὲ ὅτι τεῖχός ἐστιν ὑπέρτατον καὶ μακρῷ διαστήματι ᾠκοδομημένον,
hōsper gar | ei tis diasphagēn heurōn en phragmǭ para leōphorǭ [kai] nomisę̄ dia tautēs badizein kai katalipōn tēn hodon ekeise trepētai, nomisas engytaton echein hothen diakampsas palin tēs hodou epilaboito, agnoēsę̄ de hoti teichos estin hypertaton kai makrǭ diastēmati ǭkodomēmenon,
It is as if someone found a gap in a fence by a highway and thought to walk through it, and leaving the road turned there, thinking he would have a very short way from which to turn back and regain the road, not knowing that there is a very high wall built over a great distance;
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: A traveler leaves the road through a gap in a fence.
- The editor deletes καί.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.12.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-12-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.12.3Holl GCS 25/31:377
ἐπιτρέχοι δὲ μὴ εὑρίσκων διὰ ποίας τὴν διέξοδον ποιήσηται, ἀντὶ ἑνὸς σημείου ἤτοι μιλίου προκόπτων κατὰ χεῖρα ἔτι πλέον, μὴ εὑρὼν τὴν ὁδόν, καὶ οὕτως τρέπηται ἐπὶ τὰ πλείω, κάμνων δὲ οὕτω καὶ μὴ εὐπορῶν διὰ ποίας ἐπὶ τὴν ὁδοιπορίαν ἑαυτὸν ἀγάγοι, τάχα γε μήτε εὑρεῖν δυνηθείη, εἰ μή τι ἂν ἀνακάμψῃ διʼ ἧς καὶ εἰσῆλθεν, —
epitrechoi de mē heuriskōn dia poias tēn diexodon poiēsētai, anti henos sēmeiou ētoi miliou prokoptōn kata cheira eti pleon, mē heurōn tēn hodon, kai houtōs trepētai epi ta pleiō, kamnōn de houtō kai mē euporōn dia poias epi tēn hodoiporian heauton agagoi, tacha ge mēte heurein dynētheiē, ei mē ti an anakampsę̄ diʼ hēs kai eisēlthen, —
and he runs along without finding where to make his way out, going on further and further instead of one milestone or mile, not finding the road, and so turns to more, and toiling thus, not knowing how he can bring himself back to the journey, perhaps he could not find it at all, unless he turns back by the way he entered —
Notes and citation
Summary: He can return only by the way he came.
- The sentence continues in 59.12.4.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.12.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-12-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.12.4Holl GCS 25/31:377
οὕτω καὶ ἑκάστη αἵρεσις, ὡς συντομίαν τινὰ ἐφευρεῖν διανοηθεῖσα, παρεξώκειλε μὲν διὰ τῆς μακροδίας, ηὑρέθη δὲ αὐτῇ τεῖχος ἀρραγὲς ἡ τῆς ἀνοίας καὶ ἀγνωσίας παρεμπλοκή·
houtō kai hekastē hairesis, hōs syntomian tina epheurein dianoētheisa, parexōkeile men dia tēs makrodias, hēurethē de autę̄ teichos arrages hē tēs anoias kai agnōsias paremplokē;
so too each heresy, intending to find a shortcut, has run aground through the long way round, and the entanglement of folly and ignorance has turned out to be an unbreakable wall for it;
Notes and citation
Summary: Each heresy’s shortcut becomes a wall of error.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.12.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-12-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.12.5Holl GCS 25/31:377
καὶ οὐκ ἂν εὕροι ἡ τοιαύτη ἐπὶ τὴν ἀληθινὴν ἥκειν ὁδόν, εἰ μή τι ἂν ἑκάστη ἀνακάμψῃ εἰς τὸ ἀρχέτυπον τῆς ὁδοῦ, τουτέστιν τὴν βασιλικήν·
kai ouk an heuroi hē toiautē epi tēn alēthinēn hēkein hodon, ei mē ti an hekastē anakampsę̄ eis to archetypon tēs hodou, toutestin tēn basilikēn;
and such a heresy will not find how to come to the true road, unless each turns back to the original road, that is, the royal road;
Notes and citation
Summary: Heresies must return to the royal road.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.12.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-12-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.12.6Holl GCS 25/31:377–378
ὡς καὶ ὁ νόμος διαρρήδην ἐβόα, τοῦ ἁγίου Μωυσέως λέγοντος τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἐδώμ, ὅτι "τάδε λέγει ὁ ἀδελφός σου Ἰσραήλ· παρὰ τὰ ὅριά σου διελεύσομαι εἰς γῆν ἣν ὤμοσε κύριος τοῖς πατράσιν ἡμῶν δοῦναι, γῆν ῥέουσαν γάλα καὶ μέλι, τὴν γῆν τῶν Ἀμορραίων καὶ Φερεζαίων καὶ Γεργεσαίων καὶ Ἰεβουσαίων καὶ Εὐαίων καὶ Χαναναίων καὶ Χετταέων, [γῆν ῥέουσαν γάλα καὶ μέλι].
hōs kai ho nomos diarrēdēn eboa, tou hagiou Mōyseōs legontos tǭ basilei Edōm, hoti "tade legei ho adelphos sou Israēl; para ta horia sou dieleusomai eis gēn hēn ōmose kyrios tois patrasin hēmōn dounai, gēn rheousan gala kai meli, tēn gēn tōn Amorraiōn kai Pherezaiōn kai Gergesaiōn kai Iebousaiōn kai Euaiōn kai Chananaiōn kai Chettaeōn, [gēn rheousan gala kai meli].
as the Law too cried out expressly, when holy Moses said to the king of Edom: “Thus says your brother Israel: I will pass along your borders into the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give, a land flowing with milk and honey, the land of the Amorites and Perizzites and Girgashites and Jebusites and Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Num 20:14 (quotation, medium confidence) · Num 20:17 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 3:8 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Moses asks Edom for passage.
- A free combination of Num 20:14–17 with the land formula of Exodus. The editor deletes a repeated “a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.12.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:377–378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-12-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.12.7Holl GCS 25/31:378
οὐκ ἐκκλινοῦμεν δεφιὰ ἢ ἀριστερά, ὕδωρ ἐν ἀργυρίῳ πιόμεθα καὶ βρώματα ἀργυρίου φαγόμεθα· οὐκ ἐκκλινοῦμεν ἐνιεῦθεν ἢ ἐντεῦθεν, ὁδῷ βασιλικῇ βαδιοῦμεν«.
ouk ekklinoumen dephia ē aristera, hydōr en argyriǭ piometha kai brōmata argyriou phagometha; ouk ekklinoumen enieuthen ē enteuthen, hodǭ basilikę̄ badioumen«.
We will not turn aside to the right or the left; we will drink water for silver and eat food for silver; we will not turn aside this way or that; we will walk on the royal road.”
Num 20:17 (quotation, high confidence) · Num 20:19 (allusion, medium confidence) · Deut 2:27 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Israel promises to keep to the royal road.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.12.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-12-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.12.8Holl GCS 25/31:378
ἕστι γὰρ ὁδὸς βασιλική, ἥτις ἐντὶν ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκλησία καὶ ἡ ὁδοιπορία τῆς ἀληθείας. ἑκάστη δὲ τούτων τὴν βασιλικὴν καταλείψασα, κλίνασα δὲ ἐπὶ τὰ δεξιὰ ἢ ἐπὶ τὰ ἀριστερά, ἐπὶ πολὺ λοιπὸν ἑαυτὴν ἐπιδιδοῦσα εἰς πλάνην παρελκυσθήσεται καὶ οὐκέτι μέτρον ἕχει παρʼ ἑκάστῃ αἱρέσει ἡ τῆς πλάνης ἀνοδία.
hesti gar hodos basilikē, hētis entin hē tou theou ekklēsia kai hē hodoiporia tēs alētheias. hekastē de toutōn tēn basilikēn kataleipsasa, klinasa de epi ta dexia ē epi ta aristera, epi poly loipon heautēn epididousa eis planēn parelkysthēsetai kai ouketi metron hechei parʼ hekastę̄ hairesei hē tēs planēs anodia.
For there is a royal road, which is the church of God and the journey of truth. Each of these heresies, having left the royal road and turned to the right or to the left, giving itself up further and further, will be dragged off into error, and the trackless waste of error has no limit in any heresy.
Notes and citation
Summary: The royal road is the church; heresies stray without limit.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.12.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-12-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 59, chapter 13
59.13.1Holl GCS 25/31:378
13. Ἄγε τοίτυν, θεοῦ δοῦλοι, υἱοί τε τῆς ἁγίας θεοῦ ἐκκλησίας, οἱ τὸν κανόνα ἀσφαλῆ γινώσκντες καὶ τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς ἀληθείας βαδίζοντες, μὴ φωναῖς ἀνθελκυσθῶμεν καὶ φωνῇ ἑκάστης παραπεποιημένης ἐπιτηδεύσεως ἀχθῶμεν.
13. Age toityn, theou douloi, huioi te tēs hagias theou ekklēsias, hoi ton kanona asphalē ginōskntes kai tēn hodon tēs alētheias badizontes, mē phōnais anthelkysthōmen kai phōnę̄ hekastēs parapepoiēmenēs epitēdeuseōs achthōmen.
Come then, servants of God and sons of God’s holy church, who know the sure rule and walk the way of truth, let us not be drawn away by voices and led by the voice of each counterfeit practice.
Notes and citation
Summary: The faithful should not be drawn away by heretical voices.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.13.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-13-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.13.2Holl GCS 25/31:378
σφαλεραὶ γὰρ αἱ τούτων ὁδοὶ καὶ ἀνάντης ἡ τρίβος τῆς αὐτῶν παραπεποιημένης ἐννοίας· μεγαλαυχοῦσι καὶ οὐδὲ τὰ μεκρὰ ἴσασιν· ἐλευθερίαν ἐπαγγέλλονται, αὐτοὶ δοῦλοι ὅντες τῆς ἁμαρτίας· τὰ μείζονα αὐχοῦσι καὶ τῶν μικρῶν οὐδʼ ὅλως ἐπελάβοντο.
sphalerai gar hai toutōn hodoi kai anantēs hē tribos tēs autōn parapepoiēmenēs ennoias; megalauchousi kai oude ta mekra isasin; eleutherian epangellontai, autoi douloi hontes tēs hamartias; ta meizona auchousi kai tōn mikrōn oudʼ holōs epelabonto.
For their ways are slippery and the path of their counterfeit thinking is steep; they boast greatly and do not know even small things; they promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of sin; they boast of the greater things and have not taken hold of the small at all.
2 Pet 2:19 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Heretics promise freedom while enslaved to sin.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.13.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-13-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.13.3Holl GCS 25/31:378
Ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τούτων τῶν δὴ Καθαρῶν λεγομένων, ἀκαθάρτων δὲ εἰ δεῖ τᾶληθῆ λέγειν. ἀρκετὸν ἡγοῦμαι ἕως ἐνταῦθα ἱκανῶς εἰρῆσθαι.
Alla kai peri toutōn tōn dē Katharōn legomenōn, akathartōn de ei dei talēthē legein. arketon hēgoumai heōs entautha hikanōs eirēsthai.
But about these so-called Pure — impure, if one must tell the truth — I think enough has been said up to here.
Notes and citation
Summary: The account of the Cathari concludes.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.13.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-13-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.13.4Holl GCS 25/31:378
ταύτην δὲ παραρρίψαντες ὡς βασιλίσκου πρόσωπον, τῷ μὲν προδχήματι τοῦ ὀνόματος ἐξοχωτάτην τινὰ ἐπωνυμίαν κεκτημένου, τῇ δὲ δυντυχίᾳ θάνατον ἐμποιοῦντος. ἡμεῖς δὲ τῇ τοῦ ξύλου τοῦ σταυροῦ δυνάμει τοῦτον παίσαντες ἐπὶ τὰς ἐτέρας πάλιν ὁρμήσωμεν, αὐτὴν ἐπαγόμενοι τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ καθικιτείαν,
tautēn de pararripsantes hōs basiliskou prosōpon, tǭ men prodchēmati tou onomatos exochōtatēn tina epōnymian kektēmenou, tę̄ de dyntychią thanaton empoiountos. hēmeis de tę̄ tou xylou tou staurou dynamei touton paisantes epi tas eteras palin hormēsōmen, autēn epagomenoi tēn tou theou kathikiteian,
Having thrown this heresy aside like the face of a basilisk, which by the pretext of its name has a most eminent title but by its misfortune causes death, let us, having struck it by the power of the wood of the cross, again set out for the others, calling on God’s own help,
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Summary: The heresy is struck like a basilisk.
- The basilisk’s name means “little king.”
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.13.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-13-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.13.5Holl GCS 25/31:378
εἰς τὸ συνοδεῦσαι συμπαραμεῖναι συνεῖναι συνεργῆσαι διαδῶσαι παιδεῦδαι καταξιῶσαι ἡμᾶς τἀληθῆ λέγειν, ἵνα μήτε αὐτοὶ ψευδῶς τι λέγοντες τοῖς αὐτοῖς ὑποπέσωμεν, ὁποίοις αἱ μὴ τἀληθῆ τὸν κόσμον διδάξασαι αἱρέδεις.
eis to synodeusai symparameinai syneinai synergēsai diadōsai paideudai kataxiōsai hēmas talēthē legein, hina mēte autoi pseudōs ti legontes tois autois hypopesōmen, hopoiois hai mē talēthē ton kosmon didaxasai hairedeis.
to travel with us, stay with us, be with us, work with us, give to us, teach us, and count us worthy to speak the truth, so that we ourselves, by saying anything falsely, may not fall into the same things as the heresies that have not taught the world the truth.
Notes and citation
Summary: A prayer for help to speak the truth.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.13.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:378; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-13-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.13.6Holl GCS 25/31:378–379
Ἔτι δὲ καὶ οἱ ἐν τῇ Ἀφρικῇ τε καὶ Βθζικανίᾳ, οἱ ἀπὸ Δωνάτου τινὸς Δωνατιανοὶ οὅτω καλούμενοι. τὰ ὅμοια τούτοις φρονοῦντες [εἰσιν], ἀφηνιασταὶ καὶ αὐτοὶ δῆθεν διὰ τὸ μὴ συγκοινωνεῖν τοῖς ἐν τῷ διωγμῷ παραπεσοῦσι, τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἀνατραπήσονται καθάπερ κὰι οἱ ἑτεροζυγοῦντες αὐτοῖς Ναυατιανοὶ εἴτʼ οὖν Καθαροὶ οὕτω καλούμενοι.
Eti de kai hoi en tę̄ Aphrikę̄ te kai Bthzikanią, hoi apo Dōnatou tinos Dōnatianoi hootō kaloumenoi. ta homoia toutois phronountes [eisin], aphēniastai kai autoi dēthen dia to mē synkoinōnein tois en tǭ diōgmǭ parapesousi, tois autois anatrapēsontai kathaper kai hoi heterozygountes autois Nauatianoi eitʼ oun Katharoi houtō kaloumenoi.
Further, those in Africa and Byzacena, called Donatists after one Donatus, who hold views like these, being themselves rebels because they will not have communion with those who fell in the persecution, will be refuted by the same arguments, as will the Novatians, or so-called Cathari, who are yoked with them unequally.
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Notes and citation
Summary: The Donatists are refuted like the Novatians.
- The editor deletes εἰσιν.
Topics: Heresy, Persecution
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.13.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:378–379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-13-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.13.7Holl GCS 25/31:379
διὸ οὐ χρείαν ἐσχήκαμεν περὶ τούτων τι ἐπεργάσασθαι, ἀλλʼ ὁμοῦ αὐτοὺς τοῖς ὁμοίοις αὐτοῖς συνήψαμεν.
dio ou chreian eschēkamen peri toutōn ti epergasasthai, allʼ homou autous tois homoiois autois synēpsamen.
Therefore we have had no need to work at anything further about them, but have joined them together with those like them.
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Summary: The Donatists are grouped with the Novatians.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.13.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-13-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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59.13.8Holl GCS 25/31:379
περιττότερον δὲ οὗτοι πάλιν καὶ χεῖρον ἐξέπεσον. τὴν γὰρ πίστιν κατὰ τὸν Ἄρειον φρονοῦσιν· ἀνατραπήσονται δὲ ὡσαύτως περὶ πίστεως ἧς κακῶς φρονοῦσιν, ὡς καὶ ὁ Ἄρειος ἀνετράπη διὰ λόγων ἀληθείας, τὰ αὐτὰ τούτοις φρονῶν καὶ οὗτοι ἐκείνῳ. καὶ ταύτην δὲ πάλιν παρελευσόμενοι ἐπὶ τὰς ἐξῆς βαδιοῦμεν, ὥσπερ ἑρπετὰ δεινὰ καταπεπατηκότες ἐν κυρίῳ
perittoteron de houtoi palin kai cheiron exepeson. tēn gar pistin kata ton Areion phronousin; anatrapēsontai de hōsautōs peri pisteōs hēs kakōs phronousin, hōs kai ho Areios anetrapē dia logōn alētheias, ta auta toutois phronōn kai houtoi ekeinǭ. kai tautēn de palin pareleusomenoi epi tas exēs badioumen, hōsper herpeta deina katapepatēkotes en kyriǭ
But these have fallen further and worse again. For they hold the faith as Arius does; they will likewise be refuted about the faith which they hold wrongly, as Arius too was refuted by words of truth, since he held the same as they, and they as he. And passing this one too, we will go on to the next, having trampled dreadful reptiles, as it were, in the Lord.
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Summary: The Donatists are also said to be Arian.
- Epiphanius’s claim that the Donatists hold Arian doctrine is given as he states it.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray number in the digital text): παρελευσόμενοι 9 ἐπὶ → παρελευσόμενοι ἐπὶ.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 59.13.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-59-13-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 60, chapter 1
60.1.1Holl GCS 25/31:379
Ἀγγελικῶν αἵρεσιν * ἀκηκόαμεν καὶ τὸ ὄνομα μόνον ἐνηχήθημεν, οὐ πάνυ δὲ σαφῶς ἴσμεν τίς ἡ τοιαύτη αἵρεσις, διὰ τὸ τάχα ποτὲ καιρῷ αὐτὴν ἐνστᾶσαν ὕστερον λῆξαι καὶ καταλυθῆναι εἰς τέλος. τὸ δὲ ὄνομα διὰ ποίαν αἰτίαν ἔσχεν οὐκ ἴσμεν.
Angelikōn hairesin * akēkoamen kai to onoma monon enēchēthēmen, ou pany de saphōs ismen tis hē toiautē hairesis, dia to tacha pote kairǭ autēn enstasan hysteron lēxai kai katalythēnai eis telos. to de onoma dia poian aitian eschen ouk ismen.
We have heard of a heresy of Angelics … and have only had the name echo in our ears, but we do not know clearly what this heresy is, because perhaps it arose at some time and later ceased and was altogether dissolved. Why it had this name we do not know.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: The Angelics are known only by name.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 60.1.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-60-1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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60.1.2Holl GCS 25/31:379
ἤτοι γὰρ παρὰ τὸ τινὰς ὐπὸ ἀγγέλων τὸν κόσμον γεγενῆσθαι φάσκειν (καὶ εἰ αὐτὴ τοῦτο φάσκουσα τῷ ὀνόματι τούτῳ κέκληται, οὐκ ἔχω λέγειν) ἤτοι διὰ τὸ ἐν τάξει ἀγγέλων ἑαυτοὺς σεμνύνειν καὶ βίῳ ἐξοχωτάτῳ ἄγεσθαι (οὐδὲ τοῦτο διαβεβαιοῦμαι), ἢ καὶ ἀπὸ τόπου τινὸς εἰληφότες τοὔνομα, ἐπειδὴ χῶρός τίς ἐστιν Ἀγγελινὴ ἐπέκεινα τῆς Μεσοποταμίας χώρας κείμενος.
ētoi gar para to tinas ypo angelōn ton kosmon gegenēsthai phaskein (kai ei autē touto phaskousa tǭ onomati toutǭ keklētai, ouk echō legein) ētoi dia to en taxei angelōn heautous semnynein kai biǭ exochōtatǭ agesthai (oude touto diabebaioumai), ē kai apo topou tinos eilēphotes tounoma, epeidē chōros tis estin Angelinē epekeina tēs Mesopotamias chōras keimenos.
Either because some say the world was made by angels (and whether this heresy is called by this name because it says so, I cannot say), or because they pride themselves on being in the order of angels and leading a most eminent life (I do not affirm this either), or they took the name from some place, since there is a region called Angeline lying beyond the land of Mesopotamia.
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Summary: Three possible reasons for the name are offered.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 60.1.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-60-1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 60, chapter 2
60.2.1Holl GCS 25/31:379
2 Ἤδη δὲ ἐν ὑπομνήσει σου γινομένου τοῦ ἀκροατοῦ οὐκ εἰς κατάγνωσιν <ἡμῶν> ἐν ὑπονοίαις γενήσῃ. ἐπηγγειλάμεθα γὰρ τῶν μὲν τὰς ῥίζας καὶ τὰς τροφὰς ἤ τι τῶν [ἐν τοῖς] παρʼ αὐτοῖς γινομένων δηλῶσαι, ἄλλων δὲ μόνον τῷ ὀνόματι ἐπιμνημονεῦσαι·
2 Ēdē de en hypomnēsei sou ginomenou tou akroatou ouk eis katagnōsin <hēmōn> en hyponoiais genēsę̄. epēngeilametha gar tōn men tas rhizas kai tas trophas ē ti tōn [en tois] parʼ autois ginomenōn dēlōsai, allōn de monon tǭ onomati epimnēmoneusai;
Since you, the reader, have already been reminded, you will not condemn us for conjectures. For we promised to show the roots and nourishment of some, or something of what is done among them, and of others only to mention the name;
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Epiphanius explains why some heresies are only named.
- The editor deletes ἐν τοῖς.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 60.2.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-60-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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60.2.2Holl GCS 25/31:379
ὡς δὲ ἡ θεία δύναμις παρεσκεύασε καὶ ἐβοήθησεν, ἕως ταύτης τῆς αἱρέσεως τὰς πάσας διεξελθόντες οὐδεμίαν ἐάσαμεν ἀνερμήνευτον, πλὴν μιᾶς ταύτης.
hōs de hē theia dynamis pareskeuase kai eboēthēsen, heōs tautēs tēs haireseōs tas pasas diexelthontes oudemian easamen anermēneuton, plēn mias tautēs.
and as the divine power prepared and helped us, going through all of them up to this heresy, we have left none unexplained except this one.
Notes and citation
Summary: Only this heresy has been left unexplained.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 60.2.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-60-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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60.2.3Holl GCS 25/31:379–380
τάχα δὲ διὰ τὸ ἐπαρθεῖσαν τῷ τύφῳ ἀλίγον καιρὸν [καὶ] ὕστερον λῆξαι τὴν ταύτης κατάληψιν οὐ πάνυ σαφῶς ἔγνωμεν.
tacha de dia to epartheisan tǭ typhǭ aligon kairon [kai] hysteron lēxai tēn tautēs katalēpsin ou pany saphōs egnōmen.
Perhaps because it was puffed up with conceit for a short time and later ceased, we have not clearly obtained an understanding of it.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: It was short-lived.
- The editor deletes καί.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 60.2.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:379–380; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-60-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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60.2.4Holl GCS 25/31:380
ταύτης δὲ μόνου ἐπιμνησθέντες τῆς ὀνομασίας ἐν τάχει ὥσπερ ἐκτρώματι τῷ ταύτης ὀνόματι χρησάμενοι παρελευσόμεθα τὸν τόπον.
tautēs de monou epimnēsthentes tēs onomasias en tachei hōsper ektrōmati tǭ tautēs onomati chrēsamenoi pareleusometha ton topon.
Having mentioned only its name, and having quickly used its name as of a miscarriage, we will pass by this place,
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Summary: Epiphanius passes on.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 60.2.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:380; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-60-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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60.2.5Holl GCS 25/31:380
ἐπὶ τὰς ἑτέρας δὴ διασκοποῦντες τὴν ὁρμὴν ποιεῖσθαι καὶ αἰτούμενοι τὸν τῶν ὅλων δεσπότην παραφανῆναι ἡμῖν καὶ τὰ ἀκριβῆ τῶν παρʼ αὐτοῖς γινομένων ἐπιδείξαντα τῷ σμικρῷ ἠμῶν νῷ πάντα κατὰ ἀκρίβειαν σημᾶναι,
epi tas heteras dē diaskopountes tēn hormēn poieisthai kai aitoumenoi ton tōn holōn despotēn paraphanēnai hēmin kai ta akribē tōn parʼ autois ginomenōn epideixanta tǭ smikrǭ ēmōn nǭ panta kata akribeian sēmanai,
making our start on examining the others and asking the Master of all to appear to us and, by showing the precise facts of what is done among them, to indicate everything precisely to our small mind,
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Summary: A prayer for accurate knowledge.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 60.2.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:380; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-60-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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60.2.6Holl GCS 25/31:380
ἵνʼ ἑαυτοῖς τε καὶ τοῖς πέλας τὴν διόρθωσιν ποιησώμεθα τοῦ φεύγειν τὰ φαῦλα, ἐν δὲ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς κὰι ἀληθεστάτιος τὸ ἑδραῖον ἑαυτοῖς ἐν θεῷ προσπορίσασθαι.
hinʼ heautois te kai tois pelas tēn diorthōsin poiēsōmetha tou pheugein ta phaula, en de tois agathois kai alēthestatios to hedraion heautois en theǭ prosporisasthai.
so that we may bring about correction for ourselves and our neighbors, to flee what is bad, and gain for ourselves firmness in God in what is good and most true.
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Summary: The aim is correction and firmness in the good.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 60.2.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:380; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-60-2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 61, chapter 1
61.1.1Holl GCS 25/31:380
Μετὰ δὲ τούτους ἄλλοι ἑαυτοὺς Ἀποστολικοὺς ὠνόμασαν, βούλονται δὲ καὶ Ἀποτακτικοὺς ἑαυτοὺς λέγειν· φυλάττεται γὰρ παρʼ αὐτοῖς τὸ μηδὲν κεκτὴσθαι.
Meta de toutous alloi heautous Apostolikous ōnomasan, boulontai de kai Apotaktikous heautous legein; phylattetai gar parʼ autois to mēden kektēsthai.
After these others named themselves Apostolics; they also want to call themselves Apotactics (“Renouncers”), for they keep the rule of owning nothing.
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Summary: The Apostolics or Apotactics renounce property.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.1.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:380; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.1.2Holl GCS 25/31:380
εἰσὶ δὲ καἲ οὗτοι ἀπόσπασμα τῶν Τατιανοῦ δογμάτνω, Ἐγκρατιτῶν τε καὶ Τατιανῶν καὶ Καθαρῶν, οἵτινες φύσει γάμον οὐ παραδέχονται· παρήλλακται δὲ παρʼ αὐτοῖς καὶ τὰ μυστήρια.
eisi de kai houtoi apospasma tōn Tatianou dogmatnō, Enkratitōn te kai Tatianōn kai Katharōn, hoitines physei gamon ou paradechontai; parēllaktai de parʼ autois kai ta mystēria.
These too are an offshoot of Tatian’s doctrines, of the Encratites, Tatianists and Cathari, who do not accept marriage at all; and among them the mysteries are also altered.
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Summary: They reject marriage and alter the sacraments.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.1.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:380; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.1.3Holl GCS 25/31:380
σμενύνονται δὲ δῆθεν ἀκτημοσύνην, σχίζουσι δὲ μάτην οὗτοι καὶ βλάπτουσι τῆν ἁγίαν θεοῦ ἐκκλησίαν, διὰ τοῦ ἐθελοθρῃσκεύειν ἐκπεσόντες τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ φιλανθρωπίας.
smenynontai de dēthen aktēmosynēn, schizousi de matēn houtoi kai blaptousi tēn hagian theou ekklēsian, dia tou ethelothrę̄skeuein ekpesontes tēs tou theou philanthrōpias.
They pride themselves, supposedly, on having no possessions, but they vainly split and harm God’s holy church, having fallen away from God’s love for mankind through self-chosen religion.
Col 2:23 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Their poverty is pride and divides the church.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.1.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:380; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-1-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.1.4Holl GCS 25/31:380–381
οὔτε γὰρ <παρ᾿> αὐτοῖς παραπεπτωκότος τινὸς εἴσδεξις ἔτι γίνεται, τὰ ὅμοια δὲ τοῖς ἀνωτέρω λελεγμένοις φρονοῦσι περί τε τοῦ γάμου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων πραγμάτων.
oute gar <par᾿> autois parapeptōkotos tinos eisdexis eti ginetai, ta homoia de tois anōterō lelegmenois phronousi peri te tou gamou kai tōn allōn pragmatōn.
For among them there is no longer any readmission of one who has fallen, and they hold views like those described above about marriage and other matters.
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Summary: They do not readmit the fallen.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.1.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:380–381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-1-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.1.5Holl GCS 25/31:381
καὶ οἱ μὲν Καθαροὶ ταῖς ῥηταῖς μόνον γραφαῖς κέχρηνται, οὗτοι δὲ ταὶς λεγομέναις Πράξεσιν Ἀνδρέου τε καὶ Θωμᾶ τὸ πλεῖστον ἐπερενδονται, παντάπασιν ἀλλότριοι τοῦ κανόνος τοῦ ἐκκλησιαστικοῦ ὑπάρχοντες.
kai hoi men Katharoi tais rhētais monon graphais kechrēntai, houtoi de tais legomenais Praxesin Andreou te kai Thōma to pleiston eperendontai, pantapasin allotrioi tou kanonos tou ekklēsiastikou hyparchontes.
The Cathari use only the canonical Scriptures, but these rely mostly on the so-called Acts of Andrew and of Thomas, being entirely alien to the church’s canon.
Notes and citation
Summary: They rely on the apocryphal Acts of Andrew and Thomas.
- No entry for the Acts of Andrew or Acts of Thomas exists in the extrabiblical list.
Extrabiblical texts: Acts Andr. (Acts of Andrew; allusion); Acts Thom. (Acts of Thomas; allusion)
Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.1.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-1-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.1.6Holl GCS 25/31:381
Εἰ γὰρ βδελυρός ἐστιν ὁ γάμος, ἄρα ὅλοι ἀκάθαρτοι ὑπάρχουσι <οἱ> διὰ γάμου γεγεννημένοι. καὶ εἰ μόνον τυγχάνει ἡ ἁγία θεοῦ ἐκκλησία τῶν τῷ γάμῳ ἀποταξαμένων, οὐκέτι ὁ γάμος ἐκ θεοῦ ὑπάρχει.
Ei gar bdelyros estin ho gamos, ara holoi akathartoi hyparchousi <hoi> dia gamou gegennēmenoi. kai ei monon tynchanei hē hagia theou ekklēsia tōn tǭ gamǭ apotaxamenōn, ouketi ho gamos ek theou hyparchei.
For if marriage is abominable, then all who have been born through marriage are impure. And if God’s holy church consists only of those who have renounced marriage, marriage is no longer from God.
Notes and citation
Summary: If marriage were abominable, all born of it would be impure.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.1.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-1-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.1.7Holl GCS 25/31:381
καὶ εἰ οὐχ ὑπάρχει, ἡ πᾶσα παιδοποιουμένη ὑπόθεσις ἀλλοτρία ὑπάρχει θεοῦ, καὶ εἰ ἀλλοτρία ὑπάρχει θεοῦ ἡ παιδοποιουμένη ὑπόθεσις. ἄρα καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀλλότριοι θεοῦ ὑπάρχουσιν ἀπὸ τοιούτων γεγεννημένοι.
kai ei ouch hyparchei, hē pasa paidopoioumenē hypothesis allotria hyparchei theou, kai ei allotria hyparchei theou hē paidopoioumenē hypothesis. ara kai autoi allotrioi theou hyparchousin apo toioutōn gegennēmenoi.
And if it is not, the whole business of begetting children is alien to God; and if the begetting of children is alien to God, then they themselves are alien to God, having been born of such.
Notes and citation
Summary: Rejecting marriage condemns themselves.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.1.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-1-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.1.8Holl GCS 25/31:381
ποῦ τοίνυν τὸ εἰρημένον ὅτι »ἃ ὁ θεὸς συνέζευξεν, ἄνθρωπος μὴ χωριζέτω;« |τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἐπάναγκες † χωρίζειν [ἀπὸ] ἀνθρώπου ὑπάρχει, τὸ δὲ μετὰ προαιρέσεως ἐγκρατεύεσθαι οὐκ ἀνθρώπου ἔδειξεν, ἀλλὰ θεοῦ τὸ ἔργον.
pou toinyn to eirēmenon hoti »ha ho theos synezeuxen, anthrōpos mē chōrizetō?« |to men gar epanankes † chōrizein [apo] anthrōpou hyparchei, to de meta proaireseōs enkrateuesthai ouk anthrōpou edeixen, alla theou to ergon.
Where then is the saying, “What God has joined together, let not man separate”? For to separate by compulsion belongs to man, but to practice continence by free choice he showed to be the work not of man but of God.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Matt 19:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Forced separation is human; chosen continence is God’s work.
- The edition marks a corrupt word (†); the editor deletes ἀπό. A stray page number is removed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (leaked page reference in the digital text): [ἀπὸ] D 565 ἀνθρώπου → [ἀπὸ] ἀνθρώπου.
Topics: Marriage, Divorce and remarriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.1.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-1-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.1.9Holl GCS 25/31:381
καὶ ἔχει μὲν ἡ κατὰ φύσιν ἀνάγκη πολλάκις μέμψιν, ὅτι οὐ μετὰ εὐλογίας τὸ ἐπάναγκες ἐπιτελεῖται, ἀλλὰ ἐκτὸς τοῦ κανόνος βέβηκεν· οὐ γὰρ ἐπάναγκες ἡ θεοσέβεια, ἀλλὰ ἐκ προσιρέσεως ἡ δικαιοσύνη.
kai echei men hē kata physin anankē pollakis mempsin, hoti ou meta eulogias to epanankes epiteleitai, alla ektos tou kanonos bebēken; ou gar epanankes hē theosebeia, alla ek prosireseōs hē dikaiosynē.
And compulsion of nature often incurs blame, because what is compelled is not done with blessing but has gone outside the rule; for godliness is not by compulsion, but righteousness is by free choice.
Notes and citation
Summary: Godliness is by choice, not compulsion.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.1.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-1-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.1.10Holl GCS 25/31:381
τὰ δὲ φύσει εἰς θεοσέβειαν ἐπάναγκες * φανερά ἐστιν, ἅ τῇ φύσει ἐπιμεμέτρηται, οἷον τὸ μή πορνεύειν τὸ μὴ μοιχεύειν τὸ μὴ ἀσελγαίνειν τὸ μὴ ἐν ταὐτῷ δευτερογαμεῖν τὸ μὴ ἁρπάζειν τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν τὸ μὴ μεθύσειν τὸ μὴ ἀδηφαγεῖν τὸ μὴ εἰδωλολατρεῖν τὸ μὴ φονεύειν τὸ μὴ μεθμακεύειν τὸ μὴ καταρᾶσθαι τὸ μὴ λοιδορεῖν τὸ μὴ ὀμνύναι, ἀγανακετεὶν τε καὶ ταχὺ καταπραΰνεσθαι, ὀργίζεσθαι καὶ μὴ ἁμαρτάνειν, μὴ ἐπιδύνειν ἥλιον ἐπὶ τῷ παροργισμῷ·
ta de physei eis theosebeian epanankes * phanera estin, ha tę̄ physei epimemetrētai, hoion to mē porneuein to mē moicheuein to mē aselgainein to mē en tautǭ deuterogamein to mē harpazein to mē adikein to mē methysein to mē adēphagein to mē eidōlolatrein to mē phoneuein to mē methmakeuein to mē katarasthai to mē loidorein to mē omnynai, aganaketein te kai tachy katapraÿnesthai, orgizesthai kai mē hamartanein, mē epidynein hēlion epi tǭ parorgismǭ;
But the things that are by nature necessary for godliness … are plain, measured out to nature: such as not to commit sexual immorality, not to commit adultery, not to be licentious, not to have a second marriage at the same time, not to rob, not to wrong, not to get drunk, not to be gluttonous, not to worship idols, not to murder, not to practice sorcery, not to curse, not to revile, not to swear; to be angry and quickly calmed, to be angry and not sin, not to let the sun set on one’s anger;
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Eph 4:26 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The necessary commandments are listed.
- The edition marks a gap (*). “A second marriage at the same time” means bigamy.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.1.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-1-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.1.11Holl GCS 25/31:381–382
τὸ δὲ γάμῳ συναφθῆναι μετὰ εὐνομίας * ἡ φύσις δηλώσει ἐκ θεοῦ κεκτισμένη καὶ ἐπιτραπεῖσα καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ὅσα ἐστὶ τοιαῦτα θατέρως ἔχει τῆς ἐπιτροῆς τὸ μέτρον.
to de gamǭ synaphthēnai meta eunomias * hē physis dēlōsei ek theou kektismenē kai epitrapeisa kai ta alla hosa esti toiauta thaterōs echei tēs epitroēs to metron.
but to be joined in marriage with good order … nature, created and permitted by God, will show, and the other such things have the measure of permission in the other way.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Marriage in good order is permitted by God.
- The edition marks a gap (*); the last clause is obscure.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.1.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:381–382; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-1-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 61, chapter 2
61.2.1Holl GCS 25/31:382
2. Ἀλλʼ ὡς περὶ τούτων εἰπεῖν προειλήφαμεν, ἐν ὀλίγῳ χώρῳ οὗτοι ὑπάρχουσι, περὶ τὴν Φρυγίαν τε καὶ Κιλικίαν καὶ Παμφυλίαν.
2. Allʼ hōs peri toutōn eipein proeilēphamen, en oligǭ chōrǭ houtoi hyparchousi, peri tēn Phrygian te kai Kilikian kai Pamphylian.
But as we said before about them, these are found in a small area, around Phrygia, Cilicia and Pamphylia.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Apostolics live in Phrygia, Cilicia, and Pamphylia.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.2.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:382; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.2.2Holl GCS 25/31:382
τί οὖν; ἆρα ἐκκόπτεται ἡ ἐκκλησία ἡ ἀπὸ γῆς περάτων ἄρχι γῆς περάτων; καὶ οὐκέτι <στήσεται ὅτι> »εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν καὶ εἰς τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ ῥήματα αὐτῶν«; οὐδὲ οὐκέτι τὸ παρὰ τοῦ σωτῆρος εἰρημένον στήσεται τό »ἔσεσθέ μοι μάρτυρες ἄχρι ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς;«
ti oun? ara ekkoptetai hē ekklēsia hē apo gēs peratōn archi gēs peratōn? kai ouketi <stēsetai hoti> »eis pasan tēn gēn exēlthen ho phthongos autōn kai eis ta perata tēs oikoumenēs ta rhēmata autōn«? oude ouketi to para tou sōtēros eirēmenon stēsetai to »esesthe moi martyres achri eschatou tēs gēs?«
What then? Is the church, which is from the ends of the earth to the ends of the earth, cut off? And will it no longer stand that “their voice has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the world”? Nor will what was said by the Savior stand, “You will be my witnesses to the end of the earth”?
Ps 19:4 (18:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 10:18 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 1:8 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: A small sect cannot be the worldwide church.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.2.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:382; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.2.3Holl GCS 25/31:382
εἰ μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν σεμνότητι ὁ γάμος καὶ κατὰ θεὸν ὁ γάμος καὶ ζωὴν ἔχων ὀ γάμος, * γεννηθῶσιν ἄνευ γάμου· εἰ δὲ ἀπὸ γάμου γεννῶνται, ἄρα βέβηλοί εἰσι διὰ τὸν γάμον. εἰ δὲ αὐτοὶ μόνοι οὐκ εἰσὶ βέβηλοι.
ei men gar ouk estin en semnotēti ho gamos kai kata theon ho gamos kai zōēn echōn o gamos, * gennēthōsin aneu gamou; ei de apo gamou gennōntai, ara bebēloi eisi dia ton gamon. ei de autoi monoi ouk eisi bebēloi.
For if marriage is not in honor, and marriage is not according to God, and marriage does not have life, … let them be born without marriage. But if they are born from marriage, they are profane because of marriage. But if they alone are not profane,
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: If marriage were profane, so would they be.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.2.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:382; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.2.4Holl GCS 25/31:382
καίτοι γε ὄντες ἀπὸ γάμον. οὐ βέβηλος ὁ γάμος, διότι ἄνευ αὐτοῦ οὐδεὶς γεννηθήσεταί ποτε ἐν κόσμῳ.
kaitoi ge ontes apo gamon. ou bebēlos ho gamos, dioti aneu autou oudeis gennēthēsetai pote en kosmǭ.
though they are from marriage, marriage is not profane, because without it no one will ever be born in the world.
Notes and citation
Summary: Marriage is not profane.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.2.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:382; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.2.5Holl GCS 25/31:382
καὶ πολλή τίς ἐστιν ἡ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πλάνη, διὰ ποικιλίας καὶ διὰ πολλῶν προφάσεων ἐργασαμένη τὸ φαῦλον τῇ ἀνθρωπείᾳ φύσει καὶ πλανήσασα ἕκαστον διὰ προφάσεως ἀπὸ τῆς ἀληθείας.
kai pollē tis estin hē tōn anthrōpōn planē, dia poikilias kai dia pollōn prophaseōn ergasamenē to phaulon tę̄ anthrōpeią physei kai planēsasa hekaston dia prophaseōs apo tēs alētheias.
Great is the error of men, which in varied ways and through many pretexts has worked what is bad in human nature and led each astray from the truth by some pretext.
Notes and citation
Summary: Human error takes many pretexts.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.2.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:382; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 61, chapter 3
61.3.1Holl GCS 25/31:382
3. Καὶ ἔχει μὲν οὖν ἀποταξίαν ἡ ἐκκλησία, ἀλλὰ οὐ βδελύττεται τὸν γάμον, καὶ ἔχει ἀκτημοσύνην, ἀλλʼ οὐ κατεπαίρεται τῶν ἐν κτήσει δικαιοσύνης ὑπαρχόντων καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων γονέων ἐχόντων. ὅπερ ἑαυτοῖς τε καὶ τοῖς ἐπιδεομένοις ἐπαρκέσειεν.
3. Kai echei men oun apotaxian hē ekklēsia, alla ou bdelyttetai ton gamon, kai echei aktēmosynēn, allʼ ou katepairetai tōn en ktēsei dikaiosynēs hyparchontōn kai ek tōn idiōn goneōn echontōn. hoper heautois te kai tois epideomenois eparkeseien.
The church does have renunciation, but does not abhor marriage; it has poverty, but does not exalt itself over those who have possessions in righteousness and hold them from their own parents, which may suffice for themselves and for those in need.
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Summary: The church has renunciation without despising marriage or property.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.3.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:382; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-3-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.3.2Holl GCS 25/31:382–383
καὶ ἀπέχονται μὲν βρωμάτων πολλοί, ἀλλὰ οὐ φυσιοῦνται κατὰ τῶν μὴ ἀπεχομένων »ὁ γὰρ ἐσθίων τὸν μή ἐσθίοντα μὴ ἐξουθενείτων, καὶ ὁ μὴ ἐσθίων τὸν ἐσθίοντα μὴ κρινέτω· κυρίῳ γὰρ ἐσθίει καὶ πίνει, καὶ κυρίῳ οὐκ ἐσθίει καὶ οὐ πίνει«.
kai apechontai men brōmatōn polloi, alla ou physiountai kata tōn mē apechomenōn »ho gar esthiōn ton mē esthionta mē exoutheneitōn, kai ho mē esthiōn ton esthionta mē krinetō; kyriǭ gar esthiei kai pinei, kai kyriǭ ouk esthiei kai ou pinei«.
And many abstain from foods, but are not puffed up against those who do not abstain: “For let him who eats not despise him who does not eat, and let him who does not eat not judge him who eats; for he eats and drinks to the Lord, and to the Lord he does not eat and does not drink.”
Rom 14:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 14:6 (quotation, medium confidence)
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Summary: Those who abstain do not judge those who eat.
- A free rendering of Rom 14:3, 6.
Topics: Fasting
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.3.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:382–383; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.3.3Holl GCS 25/31:383
καὶ ὁρᾷς μίαν ὁμόνοιαν καὶ μίαν ἐλπίδα καὶ μίαν πίστιν ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, ἑκάστῳ χαριζομένην κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν δύναμιν καὶ κατὰ τὸν ἴδιον ἀγὼνα τοῦ καμάτου.
kai horąs mian homonoian kai mian elpida kai mian pistin en tę̄ ekklēsią, hekastǭ charizomenēn kata tēn idian dynamin kai kata ton idion agōna tou kamatou.
And you see one concord, one hope and one faith in the church, given to each according to his own ability and his own contest of labor.
Notes and citation
Summary: The church has one faith with different callings.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.3.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:383; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.3.4Holl GCS 25/31:383
ἔοικε δὲ ἡ ἁγία τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκλησία νηΐ. ναῦς δὲ οὐκ ἀπὸ ἑνὸς ξύλου σκευάζεται, ἀλλʼ ἐκ διαφόρων, καὶ τὴν μὲν τρόπιν ἀπὸ ἑνὸς ξύλου κέκτηται, ἀλλὰ οὐ μονοβόλως, τὰς δὲ ἀγκύρας <ἐξ> ἑτέρου· περιτόναιά τε καὶ σανίδες καὶ τὰ ἐγκοίλαι, στάματά τε κὰι μέρη πρύμνης καὶ τοίχων καὶ ζυγμάτων, ἱστίου τε καὶ πηδαλίων, ἵκνων τε καὶ αὐτχενίων, οἰάκων τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων πάντων, ἐκ διαφόρων ξύλων ἔχει τὴν συναγωγήν.
eoike de hē hagia tou theou ekklēsia nēï. naus de ouk apo henos xylou skeuazetai, allʼ ek diaphorōn, kai tēn men tropin apo henos xylou kektētai, alla ou monobolōs, tas de ankyras <ex> heterou; peritonaia te kai sanides kai ta enkoilai, stamata te kai merē prymnēs kai toichōn kai zygmatōn, histiou te kai pēdaliōn, hiknōn te kai autcheniōn, oiakōn te kai tōn allōn pantōn, ek diaphorōn xylōn echei tēn synagōgēn.
God’s holy church is like a ship. A ship is not built from one timber, but from various kinds; it has its keel from one timber, though not in one piece, and its anchors from another; its ropes and planks and ribs, its beams and parts of stern, sides and thwarts, mast and rudders, ribs and cleats, tillers and all the rest, it has put together from various timbers.
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Summary: The church is like a ship made of many timbers.
- Several technical ship terms are uncertain.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.3.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:383; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-3-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.3.5Holl GCS 25/31:383
ἑκάστη δὲ τούτων τῶν αἱρέσεων μονόξυλός τις οὖσα οὐ τὸν χαρακτῆρα τῆς ἐκκλησίας ὑποφαίνει· ἡ δὲ ἁγία τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκλησία ἔχει μὲν γάμον σεμνὸν και τιμᾷ τὸν τοιοῦτον, ἐπειδὴ »τίμοις ὁ γάμος κὰι Ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος«,
hekastē de toutōn tōn haireseōn monoxylos tis ousa ou ton charaktēra tēs ekklēsias hypophainei; hē de hagia tou theou ekklēsia echei men gamon semnon kai timą ton toiouton, epeidē »timois ho gamos kai Hē koitē amiantos«,
Each of these heresies, being made of a single timber, does not show the character of the church. But God’s holy church has honorable marriage and honors it, since “marriage is honorable and the bed undefiled,”
Heb 13:4 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The church honors marriage.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.3.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:383; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-3-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.3.6Holl GCS 25/31:383
ἔχει <δὲ> ἐγκράτειαν θαυμασιωτάτην καὶ ἐπαινεῖ τὴν τοιαύτην, ἐπειδὴ ἀγῶνα ἀγωνίζεται καὶ κατεφρόνησε τοῦ βίου, ὡς ἔτι δυνατωτέρα, ἔχει δὲ παρθενίαν καὶ ὑπερδοξάζει τὴν τοιαύτην ἐνάρετόν τινα οὖσαν καὶ πτερῷ κουφοτάτῳ κεκοσμημένην, ἔχει ἀποταξαμένους τῷ κόσμῳ καὶ μὴ πεφυσιωμένους κατὰ τῶν ἔτι ἐν κόσμῶ ὑπαρχόντων.
echei <de> enkrateian thaumasiōtatēn kai epainei tēn toiautēn, epeidē agōna agōnizetai kai katephronēse tou biou, hōs eti dynatōtera, echei de parthenian kai hyperdoxazei tēn toiautēn enareton tina ousan kai pterǭ kouphotatǭ kekosmēmenēn, echei apotaxamenous tǭ kosmǭ kai mē pephysiōmenous kata tōn eti en kosmō hyparchontōn.
and it has most wonderful continence and praises it, since it contends in a contest and has despised this life as being stronger still; it has virginity and glorifies it above all as virtuous and adorned with the lightest wing; it has those who have renounced the world and are not puffed up against those still in the world,
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Summary: The church praises continence, virginity, and renunciation.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.3.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:383; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-3-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.3.7Holl GCS 25/31:383
ἀλλὰ χαίροντας τοῖς τοιούτοις εὐλαβεστάτιοις οὖσι, καθάπερ καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι, αὐτοὶ μὲν ἀκλτήμονες ὑπάρχοντες, * καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ σωτήρ, πάντων δεσπότης ὤν,
alla chairontas tois toioutois eulabestatiois ousi, kathaper kai hoi apostoloi, autoi men akltēmones hyparchontes, * kai autos ho sōtēr, pantōn despotēs ōn,
but rejoice in such people who are most devout, just as the apostles, being themselves without possessions, …, and the Savior himself, being Master of all,
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: The apostles and the Savior owned nothing.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.3.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:383; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-3-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.3.8Holl GCS 25/31:383–384
ἐν σαρκὶ γενόμενος οὐδὲν ἀπὸ τῆς γὴς ἐκτήσατο, ἀλλὰ οὐκ ἀπεβάλετο τὰς αὐτῷ τε καὶ τοῖς αὐτοῦ μαθηταῖς διακονούσας γυνῖκας· λέγει γὰρ »αἴτινες ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τῆς Γαλιλαίας, διακονοῦσαι αὐτῷ καὶ τοῖς μετʼ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν ἰδίων ὑπαρχόντων«.
en sarki genomenos ouden apo tēs gēs ektēsato, alla ouk apebaleto tas autǭ te kai tois autou mathētais diakonousas gynikas; legei gar »aitines ēkolouthēsan autǭ apo tēs Galilaias, diakonousai autǭ kai tois metʼ autou apo tōn idiōn hyparchontōn«.
having come in the flesh acquired nothing from the earth, but did not reject the women who served him and his disciples; for it says, “who followed him from Galilee, ministering to him and those with him from their own possessions.”
Matt 27:55 (quotation, medium confidence) · Luke 8:3 (quotation, medium confidence)
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Summary: Women supported Jesus from their means.
- A combination of Matt 27:55 and Luke 8:3.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.3.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:383–384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-3-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 61, chapter 4
61.4.1Holl GCS 25/31:384
4. Ἐπεὶ πῶς ἄρα πληρωθήσεται τὸ εἰρημένον »δεῦτε ἐκ δεξιῶν μου οἱ εὐλογημένοι, οἷς ὁ πατήρ μου ὁ ἐπουράνιος ἔθετο τὴν βασιλείαν πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου· ἐπείνασα γὰρ καὶ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν, ἐδίψησα καὶ ἐποτίσατέ με, γυμνὸς ἤμην καὶ περισβάλετέ με«;
4. Epei pōs ara plērōthēsetai to eirēmenon »deute ek dexiōn mou hoi eulogēmenoi, hois ho patēr mou ho epouranios etheto tēn basileian pro katabolēs kosmou; epeinasa gar kai edōkate moi phagein, edipsēsa kai epotisate me, gymnos ēmēn kai perisbalete me«?
Otherwise how will what was said be fulfilled: “Come, you blessed on my right, for whom my heavenly Father prepared the kingdom before the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was naked and you clothed me”?
Matt 25:34 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 25:35 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 25:36 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Works of mercy require possessions.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.4.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-4-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.4.2Holl GCS 25/31:384
πόθεν δὲ ταῦτα οὗτοι εἶχον πράττειν, εἰ μὴ ἀπὸ δικαίων πόνων <ὧ ν> ἐπετέλουν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἰδίων ὑπάρξεων ἐν δικαιοςύνῃ;
pothen de tauta houtoi eichon prattein, ei mē apo dikaiōn ponōn <hō n> epeteloun kai apo tōn idiōn hyparxeōn en dikaiosynę̄?
From where could they do these things, except from the just labors they performed and from their own possessions in righteousness?
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Summary: Charity comes from honest property.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.4.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-4-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.4.3Holl GCS 25/31:384
καὶ εἰ μὲν αὐτοὶ <οἱ> ἀποταξάμενοι καὶ ἀποστολικὸν βίον βιοῦντες μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἦσαν μεμιγμένοι, οὐκ ἀλλότριος ἦν ὁ χαρακτὴρ οὔτε ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ διατάξεως ἀπεξενωμένος·
kai ei men autoi <hoi> apotaxamenoi kai apostolikon bion biountes meta tōn allōn ēsan memigmenoi, ouk allotrios ēn ho charaktēr oute apo tēs tou theou diataxeōs apexenōmenos;
And if those who have renounced and live the apostolic life were mixed with the others, their character would not be alien nor estranged from God’s ordering;
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Summary: Renouncers within the church are acceptable.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.4.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-4-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.4.4Holl GCS 25/31:384
καὶ εἰ γυναιφὶν ἀπετάξαντο διʼ ἐγκράτειαν, ἐπαινετὴ ἦν ἡ προαίρεσις, εἴπερ τὸν γάμον οὐκ ἐβδελύξαντο, ἀλλὰ τοῖς ἔτι ἐν γάμῳ <οὖσιν> κοινωνοῖς ἐχρήσαντο [ἄν], εἰδότες ἑκάστου τὸ μέτρον καὶ τὴν τάξιν.
kai ei gynaiphin apetaxanto diʼ enkrateian, epainetē ēn hē proairesis, eiper ton gamon ouk ebdelyxanto, alla tois eti en gamǭ <ousin> koinōnois echrēsanto [an], eidotes hekastou to metron kai tēn taxin.
and if they renounced wives for the sake of continence, their choice would be praiseworthy, provided they did not abhor marriage but had communion with those still in marriage, knowing each one’s measure and order.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: Renouncing marriage is praiseworthy if marriage is not despised.
- The editor deletes ἄν.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.4.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-4-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.4.5Holl GCS 25/31:384
ἡ γὰρ τοῦ θεοῦ ναῦς πάντα ἐπιβάτην δέχεται, δίχα λῃστοῦ· γνοῦσα γὰρ λῃστὴν καὶ πειρατὴν τοῦτον οὐκ εἰσδέχεται οὐδὲ φυγάδα καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἰδίων δεσποτῶν ἀφηνιάζοντα.
hē gar tou theou naus panta epibatēn dechetai, dicha lę̄stou; gnousa gar lę̄stēn kai peiratēn touton ouk eisdechetai oude phygada kai apo tōn idiōn despotōn aphēniazonta.
For God’s ship receives every passenger except a robber; knowing him to be a robber and pirate, it does not take him aboard, nor a runaway who has rebelled against his own masters.
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Summary: God’s ship takes all but robbers.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.4.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-4-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.4.6Holl GCS 25/31:384
οὕτω καὶ ἡ ἁγία τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκληςία οὐ δέχεται πορνείαν, οὐ δέχεται μοιχείαν, οὐ δέχεται ἐπαρνησιθεΐαν, οὐ δέχεται τοὺς ἀθετοῦντας τὴν δεσποτείαν τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ διατάξεως καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ ἀποστόλων,
houtō kai hē hagia tou theou ekklēsia ou dechetai porneian, ou dechetai moicheian, ou dechetai eparnēsitheïan, ou dechetai tous athetountas tēn despoteian tēs tou theou diataxeōs kai tōn autou apostolōn,
So too God’s holy church does not accept sexual immorality, does not accept adultery, does not accept denial of God, does not accept those who set aside the authority of the ordering of God and his apostles,
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Summary: The church rejects immorality, adultery, and apostasy.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.4.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-4-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.4.7Holl GCS 25/31:384
δέχεται δὲ τὸν μὲν μεγάλῃ πραγματείᾳ, τὸν δὲ ἐν ἐμπειρίᾳ ναυτικῶν, τὸν δὲ κυβερνήτην καὶ * ἐπιστήμονα, τὸν δὲ ἐν πρῳρικῇ, τὸν δὲ ἐν πρυμνικῇ, ἔχοντα τὸ ἐμπειρότατον τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς. τὸν δὲ καὶ ἐν μέτρῳ τινὶ ὑποστάσεως καὶ ἐνθήκης ὄντα, τὸν δὲ καὶ ἕως τοῦ διαπερᾶσαι μόνον καὶ μὴ ἐν θαλάσςῃ καταποντωθῆναι.
dechetai de ton men megalę̄ pragmateią, ton de en empeirią nautikōn, ton de kybernētēn kai * epistēmona, ton de en prǭrikę̄, ton de en prymnikę̄, echonta to empeirotaton tēs episkopēs. ton de kai en metrǭ tini hypostaseōs kai enthēkēs onta, ton de kai heōs tou diaperasai monon kai mē en thalassę̄ katapontōthēnai.
but it accepts one with a great cargo, another with experience of seamanship, another as pilot and … skilled, another at the prow, another at the stern, having the greatest experience of oversight, another with some measure of property and goods stowed aboard, and another only so far as to cross over and not be drowned in the sea.
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Summary: The church receives members of differing gifts and means.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.4.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-4-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.4.8Holl GCS 25/31:384
καὶ οὐ πάντως ὅτι τῷ μὴ τοσαῦτα κεκτημένῳ τὴν σωτηρίαν οὐ παρέχει, ἀλλὰ οἶδε μὲν πάντας σῴζειν, ἕκαστον δὲ κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν πραγματείαν. καὶ πόθεν οἱ ἐξ οἰκίας τοῦ Καίσαρος ἀσπάζονται παρὰ τῷ ἀποστόλῳ;
kai ou pantōs hoti tǭ mē tosauta kektēmenǭ tēn sōtērian ou parechei, alla oide men pantas sǭzein, hekaston de kata tēn idian pragmateian. kai pothen hoi ex oikias tou Kaisaros aspazontai para tǭ apostolǭ?
And it is not at all that it withholds salvation from one who does not possess so much; it knows how to save all, each according to his own business. And how is it that those of Caesar’s household send greetings in the apostle?
Phil 4:22 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Even Caesar’s household had believers.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.4.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-4-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.4.9Holl GCS 25/31:384
πόθεν δὲ τῷ ἀποστόλῳ τὸ εἰρημένον τό »ἐὰν νομίζῃ ἀσχημονεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν ἰδίαν παρθένον καὶ οὕτως ὀφείλει ποιῆσαι, γαμείτω· οὐχ ἁμαρτάνει«.
pothen de tǭ apostolǭ to eirēmenon to »ean nomizę̄ aschēmonein epi tēn idian parthenon kai houtōs opheilei poiēsai, gameitō; ouch hamartanei«.
And how is it that the apostle said, “If anyone thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, and it must be so, let him marry; he does not sin”?
1 Cor 7:36 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul permits marriage for a virgin.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.4.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-4-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.4.10Holl GCS 25/31:384–385
οὐκ ἐκτὸς δὲ λουτροῦ δύναται πληροῦν τὸ οὐκ ἁμαρτάνειν. εἰ γὰρ »πάντες ἥμαρτον καὶ ὑστεροῦνται τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ, δικαιούμενοι δωρεὰν τῇ χάριτι«, δηλον <ὅτι> διὰ λουτροῦ παλιγγενεδίας. τὸ γὰρ λουτρὸν ἐκόσμησε τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ τὸ σῶμα, ἀπολοῦσαν πᾶν ἁμάρτημα διὰ μετανοίας.
ouk ektos de loutrou dynatai plēroun to ouk hamartanein. ei gar »pantes hēmarton kai hysterountai tēs doxēs tou theou, dikaioumenoi dōrean tę̄ chariti«, dēlon <hoti> dia loutrou palingenedias. to gar loutron ekosmēse tēn psychēn kai to sōma, apolousan pan hamartēma dia metanoias.
But one cannot fulfill “not sinning” apart from the washing. For if “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by grace,” it is plainly through the washing of regeneration. For the washing adorned soul and body, washing away every sin through repentance.
Rom 3:23 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 3:24 (quotation, high confidence) · Titus 3:5 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Sinlessness comes through baptism.
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.4.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:384–385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-4-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.4.11Holl GCS 25/31:385
ἄρα γε καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν οὖσαν παρθένον τὸ χάρισμα ἐξήπλωται τοῦ βαπτίσματος καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν οὐκ οὖδαν παρθένον σφραγίζεσθαι ἐπείγεται διὰ τὸ ἁμαρτές.
ara ge kai epi tēn ousan parthenon to charisma exēplōtai tou baptismatos kai epi tēn ouk oudan parthenon sphragizesthai epeigetai dia to hamartes.
So the gift of baptism is extended both to the one who is a virgin, and the one who is not a virgin is urged to be sealed because of sin.
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Summary: Baptism is for virgins and non-virgins alike.
- The sense of this sentence is uncertain.
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.4.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-4-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 61, chapter 5
61.5.1Holl GCS 25/31:385
5. Ἀλλὰ μή τινες πάλιν ὑδαρευόμενοι νομίσωσιν, ἐὰν εἴπωμεν περὶ παρθένου διατάξασθαι τὸν ἀπόστολον τὸ γῆμαι, μὴ τὴν ἅπαξ ὁρίσασαν παρθενίαν θεῷ κατασπάσαι τοῦ ἰδίου δρόμου βουλόμενος ὁ ἀπόστολος ταῦτα διετάξατο.
5. Alla mē tines palin hydareuomenoi nomisōsin, ean eipōmen peri parthenou diataxasthai ton apostolon to gēmai, mē tēn hapax horisasan parthenian theǭ kataspasai tou idiou dromou boulomenos ho apostolos tauta dietaxato.
But let no one again, being lax, think, if we say that the apostle directed a virgin to marry, that the apostle made these rules wishing to drag down from her course one who has once devoted her virginity to God.
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Summary: Paul does not permit a vowed virgin to marry.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.5.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-5-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.5.2Holl GCS 25/31:385
οὐ γὰρ περὶ τούτων ὁ λόγος, ἀλλὰ περὶ παρθένων ὑπεράκμων τῶν οὐ διὰ παρθενίαν ἐν τῇ ἀκμῇ παραμειναςῶν, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ ἠπορηκέναι ἀνδρῶν πρὸς γάμον.
ou gar peri toutōn ho logos, alla peri parthenōn hyperakmōn tōn ou dia parthenian en tę̄ akmę̄ parameinasōn, alla dia to ēporēkenai andrōn pros gamon.
For the passage is not about these, but about virgins past their prime who remained unmarried in their prime not for the sake of virginity, but because they lacked men to marry.
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Summary: The passage concerns older unmarried girls without suitors.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.5.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-5-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.5.3Holl GCS 25/31:385
ἐξ Ἰουδαίων γὰρ ὁρμώμενοι οἱ ἀπόστολοι καὶ κατὰ τὸν νόμον πολιτευςάμενοι τὴν ἀρχὴν τοῦ κηρύγματος ἐποιήσαντο, θεσμοῖς ἔτι κατεχόμενοι τοῖς ἐν τῷ νόμῳ, οὐ κατά τινα σαρκὸς δικαίωσιν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὴν ἐμμελῆ τοῦ νόμου ἀσφάλειαν καὶ ἀκριβολογίαν.
ex Ioudaiōn gar hormōmenoi hoi apostoloi kai kata ton nomon politeusamenoi tēn archēn tou kērygmatos epoiēsanto, thesmois eti katechomenoi tois en tǭ nomǭ, ou kata tina sarkos dikaiōsin, alla kata tēn emmelē tou nomou asphaleian kai akribologian.
For the apostles, coming from the Jews and having lived according to the Law, made the beginning of the preaching still held by the ordinances of the Law, not for any justification of the flesh, but for the Law’s fitting safety and precision.
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Summary: The apostles kept the Law’s ordinances at first.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.5.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-5-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.5.4Holl GCS 25/31:385
θαυμαστῶς γὰρ ἐκήρυττεν ὁ νόμος μὴ δοῦναι τὰς θυγατέρας τοὺς Ἰσραγλίτας τοῖς ἀλλοφύλοις, ἵνα μὴ ἀποπλανῶσιν αὐτὰς ἐπὶ τὰ εἴδωλα. ἕκαστος τοίνυν τῶν πιστευςάντων τότε προσετάσσετο οὐκέτι Ἰουδαίοις ἐκδίδοσθαι τὴν ἑαυτοῦ παρθένον, ἀλλὰ Χριστιανοῖς ὁμοδόξοις καὶ ὁμογνώμοσι.
thaumastōs gar ekērytten ho nomos mē dounai tas thygateras tous Israglitas tois allophylois, hina mē apoplanōsin autas epi ta eidōla. hekastos toinyn tōn pisteusantōn tote prosetasseto ouketi Ioudaiois ekdidosthai tēn heautou parthenon, alla Christianois homodoxois kai homognōmosi.
For the Law admirably proclaimed that the Israelites should not give their daughters to foreigners, so that they might not lead them astray to idols. So each of the believers at that time was instructed not to give his virgin daughter any longer to Jews, but to Christians of the same faith and mind.
Deut 7:3 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Believers were to marry daughters only to Christians.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.5.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-5-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.5.5Holl GCS 25/31:385
νέου δὲ ὄντος τοῦ κηρύγματος οὔπω πλῆθος κατὰ τόπον καὶ τόπον Χριστιανῶν ὑπῆρχε καὶ Χριστιανικῆς διδασκαλίας. οἵτινες οὖν τότε ἔσχον θυγατέρας παρθένους, μὴ εὐποροῦντες ἐκδίδοσθαι Χριστιανοῖς, ἐφύλαττον τὰς ἑαυτῶν παρθένους ἄχρι πολλοῦ τοῦ χρόνου, ἐκεῖναι δὲ ὑπερακμάζουσαι περιέπιπτον πορνείᾳ διὰ τὴν κατὰ φύσιν ἀνάγκην.
neou de ontos tou kērygmatos oupō plēthos kata topon kai topon Christianōn hypērche kai Christianikēs didaskalias. hoitines oun tote eschon thygateras parthenous, mē euporountes ekdidosthai Christianois, ephylatton tas heautōn parthenous achri pollou tou chronou, ekeinai de hyperakmazousai periepipton porneią dia tēn kata physin anankēn.
But as the preaching was new, there was not yet a multitude of Christians and of Christian teaching in each place. So those who then had virgin daughters, unable to give them to Christians, kept their virgins for a long time; and they, growing past their prime, fell into sexual immorality through the compulsion of nature.
Notes and citation
Summary: Unmarried daughters sometimes fell into immorality.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.5.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-5-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.5.6Holl GCS 25/31:385
ὁ γοῦν ἀπόστολος ὁρῶν τὸ ἐπιζήμιον <τὸ> διὰ τῆς ἀκριβολογίας συμβαῖνον ἐπέτρεψε λέγων »εἰ δέ τις βούλεται <ἐκδοῦναι> τὴν ἑαυτοῦ παρθένον«, καὶ οὐκ εἶπε »τὴν ἰδίαν παρθενίαν« οὐ γὰρ περὶ τοῦ ἰδίου σώματος ἔλεγεν,
ho goun apostolos horōn to epizēmion <to> dia tēs akribologias symbainon epetrepse legōn »ei de tis bouletai <ekdounai> tēn heautou parthenon«, kai ouk eipe »tēn idian parthenian« ou gar peri tou idiou sōmatos elegen,
So the apostle, seeing the harm that came from this strictness, permitted it, saying, “But if anyone wishes to give his own virgin in marriage,” and he did not say “his own virginity,” for he was not speaking of his own body,
1 Cor 7:36 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Cor 7:38 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul allowed fathers to give daughters in marriage.
- The words quoted are a paraphrase of 1 Cor 7:36–38.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.5.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-5-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.5.7Holl GCS 25/31:385
ἀλλὰ περὶ τοῦ πατρὸς φυλάσσοντος παρθένον· εἰ δὲ καὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ παρθένον τὸ ἴδιον σῶμα λέγει, οὐδὲν κωλύσει.
alla peri tou patros phylassontos parthenon; ei de kai tēn heautou parthenon to idion sōma legei, ouden kōlysei.
but of a father keeping his virgin daughter; yet if he means by “his own virgin” his own body, nothing will prevent it.
Notes and citation
Summary: Either reading of “his virgin” is possible.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.5.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-5-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.5.8Holl GCS 25/31:385–386
φηςὶν οὖν »<ὅς> ἕστηκεν ἑδραῖος ἐν τῷ ἰδίῳ νῷ καὶ τοῦτο ὀφείλει ποιῆσαι, γαμείτω, φηςίν, οὐχ ἁμαρτάνει. γα- μείτω, ᾧ δʼ ἂν εὐποροίη, οὐχ ἁμαρτάνει". καὶ διὰ τοῦτό φησιν· "δέδεσαι γυναικί, μὴ ζήτει λύσιν· λέλυσαι ἀπὸ γυναικός, μὴ ζήτει γυναῖκα". ὁ λέγων "θέλω πάντας εἶναι ὡς ἐμαυτόν" ἔλεγεν καί "εἰ οὐκ ἐγκρατεύονται, γαμείτωσαν".
phēsin oun »<hos> hestēken hedraios en tǭ idiǭ nǭ kai touto opheilei poiēsai, gameitō, phēsin, ouch hamartanei. ga- meitō, hǭ dʼ an euporoiē, ouch hamartanei". kai dia touto phēsin; "dedesai gynaiki, mē zētei lysin; lelysai apo gynaikos, mē zētei gynaika". ho legōn "thelō pantas einai hōs emauton" elegen kai "ei ouk enkrateuontai, gameitōsan".
So he says, “He who stands firm in his own mind, and it must be so, let him marry,” he says, “he does not sin. Let him marry to whomever he can; he does not sin.” And for this reason he says, “Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.” He who says, “I wish all to be as I myself am,” also said, “If they do not have self-control, let them marry.”
1 Cor 7:36 (quotation, medium confidence) · 1 Cor 7:37 (allusion, medium confidence) · 1 Cor 7:27 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 7:7 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 7:9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul permits marriage without sin.
- The quotations are free and combined.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.5.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:385–386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-5-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 61, chapter 6
61.6.1Holl GCS 25/31:386
Πάλιν δὲ προτρεπόμενος τοὺς ἀγγάμους ἔλεγε "λέγω δὲ τοῖς ἀγάμοις καὶ ταῖς χήραις, καλὸν αὐτοῖς ἐὰν μείνωσιν ὡς κἀγώ".
Palin de protrepomenos tous angamous elege "legō de tois agamois kai tais chērais, kalon autois ean meinōsin hōs kagō".
Again, exhorting the unmarried, he said, “I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain as I am.”
1 Cor 7:8 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul commends remaining unmarried.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.6.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-6-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.6.2Holl GCS 25/31:386
πῶς οὖν πάλιν ἔλεγε "δέδεσαι γυναικί, μὴ ζήτει λύσιν"; ἢ πῶς οὐκ ἀντινομοθετῶν εὑρεθήσεται τῷ ἰδίῳ κυρίῳ τῷ λέγοντι "ὃς μὴ καταλίπῃ πατέρα καὶ μητέρα καὶ ἀδελφοὺς καὶ γυναῖκα καὶ τέκνα καὶ θυγατέρας, οὐκ ἔστι μου μαθητής";
pōs oun palin elege "dedesai gynaiki, mē zētei lysin"? ē pōs ouk antinomothetōn heurethēsetai tǭ idiǭ kyriǭ tǭ legonti "hos mē katalipę̄ patera kai mētera kai adelphous kai gynaika kai tekna kai thygateras, ouk esti mou mathētēs"?
How then did he say again, “Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release”? Or how will he not be found legislating against his own Lord, who says, “Whoever does not leave father and mother and brothers and wife and children and daughters is not my disciple”?
1 Cor 7:27 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 14:26 (quotation, medium confidence) · Matt 19:29 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Paul and the Lord seem to conflict on leaving a wife.
- The Lord’s saying is a free combination of Luke 14:26 and Matt 19:29.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.6.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-6-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.6.3Holl GCS 25/31:386
πῶς δὲ ὁ λέγων ὅτι δεῖ καταλιπεῖν γυναῖκα σεμνὴν καὶ πατέρα αὐτὸς πάλιν λέγει "ὁ τιμῶν πατέρα καὶ μητέρα· αὕτη γάρ ἐστιν ἐν ἐπαγγελίαις πρώτη ἐντολὴ ὑπάρχουσα" καί "ὃ ὁ θεὸς συνέζευξεν,
pōs de ho legōn hoti dei katalipein gynaika semnēn kai patera autos palin legei "ho timōn patera kai mētera; hautē gar estin en epangeliais prōtē entolē hyparchousa" kai "ho ho theos synezeuxen,
And how does he who says that one must leave an honorable wife and a father himself say again, “Honor father and mother; for this is the first commandment with promises,” and “What God has joined together,
Eph 6:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 19:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The same Scripture commands honoring parents and marriage.
Topics: Marriage, Divorce and remarriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.6.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-6-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.6.4Holl GCS 25/31:386
ἄνθρωπος μὴ χωριζέτω"; ἀλλὰ πάντα τὰ θεῖα ῥήματα οὐκ ἀλληγορίας δεῖται ὡς ἔχει δυνάμεως, θεωρίας δὲ δεῖται καὶ αἰσθήσεως εἰς τὸ εἰδέναι ἑκάστης ὑποθέσεως τὴν δύναμιν.
anthrōpos mē chōrizetō"? alla panta ta theia rhēmata ouk allēgorias deitai hōs echei dynameōs, theōrias de deitai kai aisthēseōs eis to eidenai hekastēs hypotheseōs tēn dynamin.
let not man separate”? But not all the divine words need allegory as they stand; they need consideration and perception to know the force of each subject.
Matt 19:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Scripture needs discernment, not constant allegory.
Topics: Scripture and canon, Divorce and remarriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.6.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-6-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.6.5Holl GCS 25/31:386
δεῖ δὲ καὶ παραδόσει κεχρῆσθαι· οὐ γὰρ πάντα ἀπὸ τῆς θείας γραφῆς δύναται λαμβάνεσθαι. διὸ τὰ μὲν ἐν γραφαῖς, τὰ δὲ ἐν παραδόσεσιν παρέδωκαν οἱ ἅγιοι ἀπόστολοι, ὥς φησιν ὁ ἅγιος ἀπόστολος" ὡς παρέδωκα ὑμῖν" καὶ ἄλλοτε "οὕτως διδάσκω, καὶ οὕτως παρέδωκα ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις", καί "εἰ κατέχετε, ἐκτὸς εἰ μὴ εἰκῆ ἐπιστεύσατε".
dei de kai paradosei kechrēsthai; ou gar panta apo tēs theias graphēs dynatai lambanesthai. dio ta men en graphais, ta de en paradosesin paredōkan hoi hagioi apostoloi, hōs phēsin ho hagios apostolos" hōs paredōka hymin" kai allote "houtōs didaskō, kai houtōs paredōka en tais ekklēsiais", kai "ei katechete, ektos ei mē eikē episteusate".
One must also make use of tradition, for not everything can be taken from the divine Scripture. Therefore the holy apostles handed down some things in Scriptures and others in traditions, as the holy apostle says, “as I handed on to you,” and elsewhere, “So I teach, and so I have handed on in the churches,” and, “if you hold fast, unless you believed in vain.”
1 Cor 11:2 (quotation, medium confidence) · 1 Cor 7:17 (allusion, medium confidence) · 1 Cor 15:2 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The apostles handed down both Scripture and tradition.
- The second quotation is a free echo of 1 Cor 7:17 and 4:17.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.6.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-6-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.6.6Holl GCS 25/31:386
Παρέδωκαν τοίνυν οἱ ἅγιοι θεοῦ ἀπόστολοι τῇ ἁγίᾳ θεοῦ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἁμαρτὲς εἶναι τὸ μετὰ τὸ ὁρίσαι παρθενίαν εἰς γάμον τρέπεσθαι, καὶ ἔγραψεν ὁ ἀπόστολος "ἐὰν γήμῃ ἡ παρθένος, οὐχ ἥμαρτε"· πῶς οὖν συνᾴδει τοῦτο τούτῳ;
Paredōkan toinyn hoi hagioi theou apostoloi tę̄ hagią theou ekklēsią hamartes einai to meta to horisai parthenian eis gamon trepesthai, kai egrapsen ho apostolos "ean gēmę̄ hē parthenos, ouch hēmarte"; pōs oun synądei touto toutǭ?
So the holy apostles of God handed down to God’s holy church that it is sinful, after vowing virginity, to turn to marriage; and the apostle wrote, “If the virgin marries, she has not sinned.” How then does this agree with that?
1 Cor 7:28 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Tradition forbids a vowed virgin to marry, yet Paul says a virgin who marries does not sin.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.6.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-6-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.6.7Holl GCS 25/31:386–387
ἀλλὰ ἐκείνην τὴν παρθένον λέγει τὴν μὴ ὁρίσασαν θεῷ, ἀλλὰ αστ; διὰ τὴν ἀπορίαν τῆς κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν ἐκεῖνον σπάνης τῶν εἰς Χριστὸν πεπιστευκότων κατʼ ἀνάγκην οὕτως ἐπετελεῖτο.
alla ekeinēn tēn parthenon legei tēn mē horisasan theǭ, alla ast? dia tēn aporian tēs kata ton kairon ekeinon spanēs tōn eis Christon pepisteukotōn katʼ anankēn houtōs epeteleito.
But he speaks of the virgin who has not vowed herself to God, but … by necessity was so kept because of the scarcity at that time of those who had believed in Christ.
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul means a virgin who had made no vow.
- The digital text is garbled at αστ;.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.6.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:386–387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-6-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.6.8Holl GCS 25/31:387
καὶ ὅτι μὲν ταῦθʼ οὕτως ἔχει διδάξει ἡμᾶς ὁ αὐτὸς ἀπόστολος λέγων »νεωτέρας χήρας παραιτοῦ. μετὰ γὰρ τὸ καταστρηνιάσαι τοῦ Χριστοῦ γαμεῖν θέλουσιν, ἔχουσαι κρίμα, ὅτι τὴν πρώτην πίστιν ἠθέτησαν«.
kai hoti men tauthʼ houtōs echei didaxei hēmas ho autos apostolos legōn »neōteras chēras paraitou. meta gar to katastrēniasai tou Christou gamein thelousin, echousai krima, hoti tēn prōtēn pistin ēthetēsan«.
And that this is so the same apostle will teach us, saying, “Refuse younger widows; for when they grow wanton against Christ they want to marry, incurring judgment, because they have set aside their first faith.”
1 Tim 5:11 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Tim 5:12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Widows who break their pledge incur judgment.
Topics: Marriage, Divorce and remarriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.6.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-6-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.6.9Holl GCS 25/31:387
εἰ τοίνυν καὶ ἡ μετὰ πεῖραν κόσμου χηρεύσασα, διὰ τὸ τετάχθαι θεῷ γήμασα κρίμα ἕξει, ἀθετήσασα τὴν πρώτην πίστιν, πόσῳ γε γᾶλλον ἡ καὶ ἑαυτὴν ἄνευ πείρας κόσμου ἀναθεῖσα παρθένος θεῷ γαμήσασα;
ei toinyn kai hē meta peiran kosmou chēreusasa, dia to tetachthai theǭ gēmasa krima hexei, athetēsasa tēn prōtēn pistin, posǭ ge gallon hē kai heautēn aneu peiras kosmou anatheisa parthenos theǭ gamēsasa?
If then even she who was widowed after experience of the world will incur judgment by marrying, because she had been enrolled for God and set aside her first faith, how much more a virgin who dedicated herself to God without experience of the world and then marries?
Notes and citation
Summary: A vowed virgin who marries is more culpable.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.6.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-6-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.6.10Holl GCS 25/31:387
πῶς <γὰρ> οὐχὶ μᾶλλον αὕτη ὑπερεκπερισσοῦ κατεστρηνίασε Χριστοῦ καὶ τὴν μείζονα πίστιν ἠθέτησε καὶ ἕξει κρίμα, ὡς ἀναχαλασθεῖσα τῆς ἰδίας κατὰ θεὸν προθέσεως;
pōs <gar> ouchi mallon hautē hyperekperissou katestrēniase Christou kai tēn meizona pistin ēthetēse kai hexei krima, hōs anachalastheisa tēs idias kata theon protheseōs?
How will she not rather have grown wanton against Christ far more abundantly, and set aside the greater faith, and incur judgment, as one who has slackened from her own godly purpose?
1 Tim 5:11 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Breaking a vow of virginity incurs judgment.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.6.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-6-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 61, chapter 7
61.7.1Holl GCS 25/31:387
7. »Γαμείτωσαν, τοίνυν, τεκνοποιείτωσαν, οἰκοδεσποτείτωσαν«, σύντομος καὶ μέσος λόγος κατὰ τῶν τὰ φαῦλα διανοουμένων περὶ ἑκάστης ἐκκλησιαστικῆς τοῦ κηρύγματος ὑποθέσεως, παρεκβάλλων μὲν τοὺς λέγοντας ἑαυτοὺς Ἀποστολικοὺς καὶ Ἀποτακτικοὺς καὶ Ἐγκρα τίτας καὶ παρεκβάλλων τοὺς ὑδαρευομένους ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ καὶ ἀναπείθοντας γύναια ἀπὸ τελείου δρόμου ἀναχαλασθέντα ἀθετεῖν τὴν τοσαύτην τοῦ δρόμου τελειότητα.
7. »Gameitōsan, toinyn, teknopoieitōsan, oikodespoteitōsan«, syntomos kai mesos logos kata tōn ta phaula dianooumenōn peri hekastēs ekklēsiastikēs tou kērygmatos hypotheseōs, parekballōn men tous legontas heautous Apostolikous kai Apotaktikous kai Enkra titas kai parekballōn tous hydareuomenous en tę̄ ekklēsią kai anapeithontas gynaia apo teleiou dromou anachalasthenta athetein tēn tosautēn tou dromou teleiotēta.
“Let them marry, then, bear children, manage their households”: a concise and moderate word against those who think wrongly about each subject of the church’s proclamation, rejecting both those who call themselves Apostolics, Apotactics and Encratites, and those who are lax in the church and persuade silly women who have slackened from the perfect course to set aside such perfection of the course.
1 Tim 5:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul’s moderate word rejects both rigorists and the lax.
Topics: Marriage, Divorce and remarriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.7.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-7-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.7.2Holl GCS 25/31:387
καὶ ἔχει μὲν ἁμαρτίαν καὶ κρίμα ὁ ἀθετήσας θεοῦ τὴν παρθενίαν καὶ καταισχύνας τὸν ἀγῶνα. παραφθείρας φθείρας γὰρ ἀγῶνα ἀθλητὴς μαστιχθεὶς ἐκβάλλεται τοῦ ἀγῶνος καὶ παραφθείρας τις παρθενίαν ἐκβάλλεται τοῦ τοιούτου δρόμου καὶ στεφάνου καὶ βραβείου ἀλλὰ κρεῖττόν ἐστι κρίμα, καὶ μὴ κατάκριμα.
kai echei men hamartian kai krima ho athetēsas theou tēn parthenian kai kataischynas ton agōna. paraphtheiras phtheiras gar agōna athlētēs mastichtheis ekballetai tou agōnos kai paraphtheiras tis parthenian ekballetai tou toioutou dromou kai stephanou kai brabeiou alla kreitton esti krima, kai mē katakrima.
One who has set aside virginity vowed to God and brought shame on the contest has sin and judgment. For an athlete who has corrupted the contest is flogged and thrown out of the contest, and one who has corrupted virginity is thrown out of that course, crown and prize. But judgment is better than condemnation.
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Summary: Breaking a vow brings judgment, but not condemnation.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.7.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-7-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.7.3Holl GCS 25/31:387
οἱ γὰρ μὴ <φανερῶς> διὰ τὸ αἰσχυνθῆναι <ἐπὶ> τοῖς ἀνθρώποις, κρυφῆ <δὲ> πορνεύοντες * ποιοῦσι παρθενίας ἢ μονότητος ἢ ἐγκρατείας.
hoi gar mē <phanerōs> dia to aischynthēnai <epi> tois anthrōpois, kryphē <de> porneuontes * poiousi parthenias ē monotētos ē enkrateias.
For those who, not openly because they are ashamed before men, but secretly commit sexual immorality, … make a show of virginity, or of the solitary life, or of continence.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some hide immorality under a show of virginity.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.7.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-7-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.7.4Holl GCS 25/31:387–388
οὐ <γὰρ> πρὸς ἀνθρώπους ἔχουσι τὴν ὁμολογίαν, ἀλλὰ πρὸς θεὸν τὸν εἰδότα τὰ κρύφια καὶ ἐξελέγχοντα πᾶσαν σάρκα ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ παρουσίᾳ περὶ ὧν ἕκαστος ἥμαρτε.
ou <gar> pros anthrōpous echousi tēn homologian, alla pros theon ton eidota ta kryphia kai exelenchonta pasan sarka en tę̄ autou parousią peri hōn hekastos hēmarte.
For they make their profession not to men but to God, who knows the hidden things and will convict all flesh at his coming for what each has sinned.
Notes and citation
Summary: Their profession is before God, who sees in secret.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.7.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:387–388; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-7-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.7.5Holl GCS 25/31:388
κρεῖττον τοίνυν ἔχειν μίαν ἁμαρτίαν καὶ μὴ περισσοτίρας· κρεῖττον τὸν πεςόντα ἀπὸ δρόμου φανερῶς λαβεῖν ἑαυτῷ γυναῖκα κατὰ νόμον καὶ ἀπὸ παρθενίας πολλῷ χρόνῳ μετανοήσαντα εἰσαχθῆναι πάλιν εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, ὡς παραπεσόντα καὶ κλασθέντα καὶ χρείαν ἔχοντα ἐπιδέματος, καὶ μὴ καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν βέλεσι κρυφίοις κατατιτρώσκεσθαι [καὶ] πονηρίας ὑπὸ διαβόλου αὐτῷ ἐπιφερομένοις.
kreitton toinyn echein mian hamartian kai mē perissotiras; kreitton ton pesonta apo dromou phanerōs labein heautǭ gynaika kata nomon kai apo parthenias pollǭ chronǭ metanoēsanta eisachthēnai palin eis tēn ekklēsian, hōs parapesonta kai klasthenta kai chreian echonta epidematos, kai mē kathʼ hekastēn hēmeran belesi kryphiois katatitrōskesthai [kai] ponērias hypo diabolou autǭ epipheromenois.
So it is better to have one sin and not more; better that one who has fallen from the course should openly take a wife according to law, and, having long repented of abandoning virginity, be brought back again into the church as one who has fallen and been broken and needs a bandage, than be wounded every day by the secret arrows of wickedness brought against him by the devil.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Eph 6:16 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Open lawful marriage and repentance are better than secret sin.
- The editor deletes καί.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.7.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:388; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-7-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 61, chapter 8
61.8.1Holl GCS 25/31:388
8. Οὕτως οἶδεν ἡ ἐκκλησία κηρύττειν, ταῦτα τὰ φάρμακα τῆς ἰάσεως, ταῦτα τὰ εἴδη τῆς μυρεψικῆς ἐργασίας, αὕτη ἡ κατασκευὴ τοῦ ἁγίου ἐλαίου ἐν τῷ νόμῳ, αὕτη ἡ ἀρωματίζουσα καλὴ πίστις, ἐπισφίγγουσα μὲν τὸν ἀθλοῦντα εἰς ἀγῶνα, ἐπικηρυκευομένη δὲ αὐτῷ διατεῖναι τὸν δρόμον, ὅπως δυνηθῇ στεφανωθῆναι·
8. Houtōs oiden hē ekklēsia kēryttein, tauta ta pharmaka tēs iaseōs, tauta ta eidē tēs myrepsikēs ergasias, hautē hē kataskeuē tou hagiou elaiou en tǭ nomǭ, hautē hē arōmatizousa kalē pistis, episphingousa men ton athlounta eis agōna, epikērykeuomenē de autǭ diateinai ton dromon, hopōs dynēthę̄ stephanōthēnai;
So the church knows how to proclaim. These are the medicines of healing, these the kinds of the perfumer’s work, this is the preparation of the holy oil in the Law, this the good fragrant faith, bracing the athlete for the contest, and heralding him to press on in the race so that he may be crowned;
Exod 30:25 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: The church’s teaching is healing medicine and holy oil.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.8.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:388; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-8-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.8.2Holl GCS 25/31:388
αὕτη ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ πραγματεία, πάντα συνάγουσα εἰς τὴν βασιλικὴν διάταξιν, καὶ πορφύραν μὲν ἀπὸ θαλάσσης καὶ ἔριον ἀπὸ προβάτου καὶ λίνον ἐκ γῆς καὶ βύσσον καὶ σηρικὸν καὶ δέρματα ἠρυθροδανωμένα καὶ λίθον τίμιον, τὸν σμάραγδον τὸν μαργαρίτην τὸν ἀχάτην, τοῖς μὲν χρώμασι διαλλάττοντας λίθους, τῇ δὲ τιμῇ
hautē hē tou theou pragmateia, panta synagousa eis tēn basilikēn diataxin, kai porphyran men apo thalassēs kai erion apo probatou kai linon ek gēs kai bysson kai sērikon kai dermata ērythrodanōmena kai lithon timion, ton smaragdon ton margaritēn ton achatēn, tois men chrōmasi diallattontas lithous, tę̄ de timę̄
this is God’s work, gathering all things into the royal ordering: purple from the sea, wool from the sheep, linen from the earth, fine linen, silk, skins dyed red, and precious stone, the emerald, the pearl, the agate, stones differing in color but in value
Exod 25:4 (allusion, medium confidence) · Exod 25:5 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God gathers varied materials into one tabernacle.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.8.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:388; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-8-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.8.3Holl GCS 25/31:388
ὁμοτίμους ὄντας, ἀλλὰ καὶ χρυσὸν καὶ ἄργυρον καὶ ξύλα ἄσηπτα καὶ χαλκὸν καὶ σίδηρον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τρίχας αἰγείας μὴ ἀποβαλλομένη.
homotimous ontas, alla kai chryson kai argyron kai xyla asēpta kai chalkon kai sidēron, alla kai trichas aigeias mē apoballomenē.
equal in honor; and gold and silver, incorruptible wood, bronze and iron, and not rejecting even goats’ hair.
Exod 25:3 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Even goats’ hair has a place.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.8.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:388; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-8-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.8.4Holl GCS 25/31:388
και αὕτη μὲν ἦν τότε ἡ σκηνή, νῦν δὲ <ἀντὶ> τῆς σκηνῆς ὁ οἶκος ἡδραιωμένος ἐν θεῷ, θεμελιούμενος δὲ ἐν δυνάμιε *. καὶ παυσάσθω πᾶσα αἵρεσις κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας ἐπεγειρομένη, μᾶλλον δὲ ἑαυτὴν ἀπὸ ἀληθείας διώκουσα.
kai hautē men ēn tote hē skēnē, nyn de <anti> tēs skēnēs ho oikos hēdraiōmenos en theǭ, themelioumenos de en dynamie *. kai pausasthō pasa hairesis kata tēs alētheias epegeiromenē, mallon de heautēn apo alētheias diōkousa.
And this was the tabernacle then; but now, instead of the tabernacle, there is the house established in God and founded in power …. And let every heresy cease that rises against the truth, or rather drives itself away from the truth.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: The church replaces the tabernacle; heresy should cease.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.8.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:388; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-8-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.8.5Holl GCS 25/31:388–389
Καὶ ἕως ὧδε ταῦτα ἐχέτω. τὴν γαῦρον δὲ ταύτην ἔχιδναν, δίκην ἀκοντίου τοῦ καλουμένου ἢ τύφλωπος ἢ μυάγρου, ξύλῳ τῷ σταυροῦ πεπαικότες καὶ καταλείψαντες, ἰὸν μὲν οὐ τοσοῦτον ἔχοντα τὰ ἑρ- πρτώδη ταῦτα, πλὴν καὶ τῷ δρόμῳ καὶ τῷ γαυράματι καὶ τῇ ἀκοντιάσει διὰ τὴν αὐτῶν ἐπεντριβὴν τούτοις καλῶς ἀπεικασθέντα, περιφρονήσαντες τῶν αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὰς ἑξῆς ἴωμεν, ὤ ἀγαπητοί.
Kai heōs hōde tauta echetō. tēn gauron de tautēn echidnan, dikēn akontiou tou kaloumenou ē typhlōpos ē myagrou, xylǭ tǭ staurou pepaikotes kai kataleipsantes, ion men ou tosouton echonta ta her- prtōdē tauta, plēn kai tǭ dromǭ kai tǭ gauramati kai tę̄ akontiasei dia tēn autōn epentribēn toutois kalōs apeikasthenta, periphronēsantes tōn autōn epi tas hexēs iōmen, ō agapētoi.
Let this suffice so far. Having struck with the wood of the cross this haughty viper, like the snake called the javelin-snake, or the blind snake, or the mouse-catcher, and left it — these reptiles have not so much venom, but are well compared with these people for their darting, their haughtiness and their javelin-like striking, because of their pestering — despising them, let us go on to the next, beloved.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Apostolics are dismissed like minor snakes.
- Snake names are uncertain.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 61.8.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:388–389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-61-8-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 62, chapter 1
62.1.1Holl GCS 25/31:389
Σαβέλλιός τις έν χρόνοις ἀνέστη οὐ πολλῷ πρότερον παλαιοτάτοις (πρόσφατος γὰρ οὖτος), ἀφʼ οὖπερ οἱ Σαβελλιανοὶ καλούμενοι.
Sabellios tis en chronois anestē ou pollǭ proteron palaiotatois (prosphatos gar outos), aphʼ ouper hoi Sabellianoi kaloumenoi.
One Sabellius arose in times not long past (for he is recent), from whom come those called Sabellians.
Notes and citation
Summary: Sabellius is introduced as recent.
- The Greek phrase about the date is awkward; rendered by sense.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.1.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.1.2Holl GCS 25/31:389
καὶ οὖτος δὲ παραπλησίως τῶν Νοητιανῶν <ἐδίδασκε> πλὴν ὀλίγων τινῶν ὦν ἐπεδογμάτισε.
kai outos de paraplēsiōs tōn Noētianōn <edidaske> plēn oligōn tinōn ōn epedogmatise.
He taught much like the Noetians, except for a few points he added.
Notes and citation
Summary: Sabellius resembles Noetus.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.1.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.1.3Holl GCS 25/31:389
πολλοὶ δὲ ἐν τῇ μέσῃ τῶν ποταμῶν μῶν καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ μέρη τῆς ῾Ρώμης τοῦ αὐτοῦ δόγματος ὑπόρχουσιν, ἀνοίᾳ τινὶ φερόμενοι.
polloi de en tę̄ mesę̄ tōn potamōn mōn kai epi ta merē tēs ῾Rōmēs tou autou dogmatos hyporchousin, anoią tini pheromenoi.
Many in Mesopotamia and in the region of Rome hold the same doctrine, carried away by some folly.
Notes and citation
Summary: Sabellians exist in Mesopotamia and around Rome.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.1.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-1-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.1.4Holl GCS 25/31:389
Δογματίζει γὰρ οὖτος καὶ οἱ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ Σαβελλιανοὶ τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι πατέρα, τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι υἱὸν, τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι ἄγιον πνεῦμα, ὡς εἶναι ἐν μιᾷ ὑποστάσει τρεῖς ὀνομασίας,
Dogmatizei gar outos kai hoi apʼ autou Sabellianoi ton auton einai patera, ton auton einai huion, ton auton einai agion pneuma, hōs einai en mią hypostasei treis onomasias,
He and the Sabellians who follow him teach that the same is Father, the same is Son, the same is Holy Spirit, so that there are three names in one hypostasis,
Notes and citation
Summary: Sabellians hold three names in one hypostasis.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.1.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-1-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.1.5Holl GCS 25/31:389
ἢ ὡς ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ σῶμα καὶ ψυχὴν καὶ πνεῦμα, καὶ εἶναι μὲν τὸ σῶμα ὡς εἰπεῖν τὸν πατέρα, ψυχὴν δὲ ὡς εἰπεῖν τὸν υἱόν, τὸ πνεῦμα δὲ ὡς ἀνθρώπου, οὔτως καὶ τὸ ἄγιον πνεῦμα ἐν τῇ θεὀτητι.
ē hōs en anthrōpǭ sōma kai psychēn kai pneuma, kai einai men to sōma hōs eipein ton patera, psychēn de hōs eipein ton huion, to pneuma de hōs anthrōpou, outōs kai to agion pneuma en tę̄ theotēti.
or as in a man there are body, soul and spirit: the body is, so to speak, the Father, the soul, so to speak, the Son, and as a man’s spirit, so is the Holy Spirit in the Godhead.
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Summary: They compare the Trinity to body, soul, and spirit.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.1.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-1-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.1.6Holl GCS 25/31:389–390
ἢ ὡς ἐὰν ᾖ ἐν ἡλίῳ, ὄντι μὲν ἐν μιᾷ ὑποστάσει, τρεῖς δὲ ἔχοντι τὰς ἐνεργείας, φημὶ δὲ τὸ φωτιστικὸν καὶ τὸ θάλπον καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ τῆς περιφερείας σχῆμα.
ē hōs ean ę̄ en hēliǭ, onti men en mią hypostasei, treis de echonti tas energeias, phēmi de to phōtistikon kai to thalpon kai auto to tēs periphereias schēma.
Or as in the sun, which is one hypostasis but has three operations, I mean the illuminating, the warming, and the very form of its roundness.
Notes and citation
Summary: They also compare the Trinity to the sun.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.1.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:389–390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-1-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.1.7Holl GCS 25/31:390
καὶ εἶναι μὲν τὸ θάλπον εἴπʼ οὖν θερμὸν καὶ ζέον τὸ πνεπυμα, τὸ δὲ φωτιστικὸν τὸν υἱόν, τὸν δὲ πατέρα αὐτὸ εἶναι τὸ εἶδος τῆς πάσης ὑποστάσεως.
kai einai men to thalpon eipʼ oun thermon kai zeon to pnepyma, to de phōtistikon ton huion, ton de patera auto einai to eidos tēs pasēs hypostaseōs.
The warming, or the heat and glow, is the Spirit; the illuminating is the Son; and the Father is the very form of the whole hypostasis.
Notes and citation
Summary: Heat is the Spirit, light the Son, form the Father.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.1.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-1-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.1.8Holl GCS 25/31:390
πεμφθέντα δὲ τὸν υἱὸν καιρῷ ποτε ὥσπερ ἀκτῖνα καὶ ἐργασάμενον τὰ πάντα ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ τὰ τῆς εὐαγγελικῆς οἰκονομίας καὶ σωτηρίας τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀναληφθῆναι αὖθις εἰς οὐρανόν, ὤσπερ ὑπὸ ἡλίου πεμφθείσης ἀκτῖνος καὶ πάλιν εἰς τὸν ἤλιον ἀνασραμούσης.
pemphthenta de ton huion kairǭ pote hōsper aktina kai ergasamenon ta panta en tǭ kosmǭ ta tēs euangelikēs oikonomias kai sōtērias tōn anthrōpōn analēphthēnai authis eis ouranon, ōsper hypo hēliou pemphtheisēs aktinos kai palin eis ton ēlion anasramousēs.
The Son was sent at one time like a ray, and having accomplished everything in the world of the gospel dispensation and the salvation of men, was taken up again into heaven, as a ray sent by the sun runs back again into the sun.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Son is like a ray sent and withdrawn.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.1.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-1-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.1.9Holl GCS 25/31:390
τὸ δὲ ἄγιον πνεῦμα πέμπεσθαι εἰς τὸν κόσμον, καὶ καθάπαξ καὶ καθʼ ἔκαστα εἰς ἔκαστον τῶν καταξιουμένων· ἀναζωογονεῖν δὲ τὸν τοιοῦτον καὶ ἀναζέειν, θάλπειν τε καὶ θερμαίνειν ὡς εἰπεῖν διὰ τῆς τοῦ πνεύματος δυνάμεώς τε καὶ συμβάσεως. καὶ ταῦτά ἐστιν ἄ δογματίζουσι.
to de agion pneuma pempesthai eis ton kosmon, kai kathapax kai kathʼ ekasta eis ekaston tōn kataxioumenōn; anazōogonein de ton toiouton kai anazeein, thalpein te kai thermainein hōs eipein dia tēs tou pneumatos dynameōs te kai symbaseōs. kai tauta estin a dogmatizousi.
The Holy Spirit is sent into the world, both once for all and in each case into each of those counted worthy; it revives such a one and makes him fervent, warming and heating him, so to speak, by the power and presence of the Spirit. These are the things they teach.
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Summary: The Spirit warms each worthy person.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.1.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-1-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 62, chapter 2
62.2.1Holl GCS 25/31:390
2. Κέχρηνται δὲ ταῖς πάσαις γραφαῖς παλαιᾶς τε καὶ καινῆς διαθήκης, λέξεσι δέ τισιν αἶς αὐτοὶ ἐκλέγονται κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαυ αὐτῶν παραπεποιημένην φρενοβλάβειάν τε καὶ ἄνοιαν.
2. Kechrēntai de tais pasais graphais palaias te kai kainēs diathēkēs, lexesi de tisin ais autoi eklegontai kata tēn idiau autōn parapepoiēmenēn phrenoblabeian te kai anoian.
They use all the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, but certain passages which they pick out according to their own counterfeit madness and folly.
Notes and citation
Summary: They select certain texts.
Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.2.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.2.2Holl GCS 25/31:390
πρῶτον μὲν τῷ ῥητῷ ᾦ εἶπεν ὁ θεὸς πρὸς Μωυσῆν ὄτι »ἄκουε Ἰσραήλ, κύριος ὁ θεός σου κύριος εἶς ἐστιν«, »οὐ ποιήσεις σεαυτῷ θεοὺς ἑτέρους«, »οὐκ ἔσονταί σοι θεοὶ πρόσφατοι«, ὄτι »ἐγὼ θεὸς πρῶτος καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα, καὶ πλὴν ἐμοῦ οὐκ ἐστιν ἕτερος«·
prōton men tǭ rhētǭ ǭ eipen ho theos pros Mōysēn oti »akoue Israēl, kyrios ho theos sou kyrios eis estin«, »ou poiēseis seautǭ theous heterous«, »ouk esontai soi theoi prosphatoi«, oti »egō theos prōtos kai meta tauta, kai plēn emou ouk estin heteros«;
First, the text in which God said to Moses, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one Lord”; “You shall not make yourself other gods”; “You shall have no new gods”; and “I am God, the first and after these things, and besides me there is no other”;
Deut 6:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 20:3 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 81:9 (80:10 LXX) (quotation, medium confidence) · Isa 44:6 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: They cite texts on God’s oneness.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.2.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.2.3Holl GCS 25/31:390–391
καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα *, κατὰ τὸν ἴδιον αὐτῶν νοῦν * εἰς τούτων [δὲ] παράστασιν φέρουσι. πάλιν ἀπὸ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, ὅτι »ἐγὼ ἐν τῷ πατρὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἐν ἐμοί, καὶ οἱ δύο ἔν ἐσμεν«.
kai hosa toiauta *, kata ton idion autōn noun * eis toutōn [de] parastasin pherousi. palin apo tou euangeliou, hoti »egō en tǭ patri ho patēr en emoi, kai hoi dyo en esmen«.
and all such texts …, which according to their own mind … they bring forward to prove these things. Again from the gospel, “I am in the Father and the Father in me, and the two are one.”
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John 14:10 (quotation, high confidence) · John 10:30 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: They also cite John on unity.
- The edition marks gaps (*); the editor deletes δέ.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.2.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:390–391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.2.4Holl GCS 25/31:391
Τὴν δὲ πᾶσαν αὐτῶν πλάνην καὶ τὴν τῆς πλάνης αὐτῶν δύναμιν ἔχουσιν ἐξ ἀποκρύφων τινῶν, μάλιστα ἀπὸ τοῦ καλουμένου Αἰγυπτίου εὐαγγελίου, ὥς τινες τούτῳ ὄνομα ἐπέθεντο.
Tēn de pasan autōn planēn kai tēn tēs planēs autōn dynamin echousin ex apokryphōn tinōn, malista apo tou kaloumenou Aigyptiou euangeliou, hōs tines toutǭ onoma epethento.
But they have their whole error and the force of their error from certain apocrypha, especially from the so-called Egyptian Gospel, as some have given it this name.
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Summary: Their main source is the Gospel of the Egyptians.
Extrabiblical texts: Gos. Eg. (Gospel of the Egyptians; allusion)
Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.2.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.2.5Holl GCS 25/31:391
ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ πολλὰ τοιαῦτα ὡς ἐν παραβύστῳ μυστηριωδῶς ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ σωτῆρος ἀναφέρεται, ὡς αὐτοῦ δηλοῦντος τοῖς μαθηταῖς τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι πατέρα, τὸν αὐτὸν εἶοναι υἱόν, τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι ὅγιον πνεῦμα.
en autǭ gar polla toiauta hōs en parabystǭ mystēriōdōs ek prosōpou tou sōtēros anapheretai, hōs autou dēlountos tois mathētais ton auton einai patera, ton auton eionai huion, ton auton einai hogion pneuma.
For in it many such things are reported mysteriously, as in secret, in the person of the Savior, as if he showed his disciples that the same is Father, the same is Son, the same is Holy Spirit.
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Summary: That gospel makes the Savior teach Sabellian views.
Extrabiblical texts: Gos. Eg. (Gospel of the Egyptians; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.2.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.2.6Holl GCS 25/31:391
εἶτα ὅταν συναντήσωσί τισι τῶν ἀφελεστέρων ἢ ἀκεραίων, τῶν μὴ τὰ σαφῆ τῶν θείων γραφῶν γινωσκόντων, τὴν πρώτην πτύρσιν αὐτοῖς ὑφηγοῦνται ταύτην· τί ἄν εἴπωμεν, ὦ οὖτοι, ἕνα θεὸν ἔχομεν ἢ τρεῖς θεούς;
eita hotan synantēsōsi tisi tōn aphelesterōn ē akeraiōn, tōn mē ta saphē tōn theiōn graphōn ginōskontōn, tēn prōtēn ptyrsin autois hyphēgountai tautēn; ti an eipōmen, ō outoi, hena theon echomen ē treis theous?
Then, when they meet some of the simpler or guileless folk who do not know the plain teaching of the divine Scriptures, they put this first scare to them: “What shall we say, sirs, do we have one God or three gods?”
Notes and citation
Summary: They frighten the simple with a question.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.2.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.2.7Holl GCS 25/31:391
ὅταν δὲ ἀκούσῃ ὁ ἐν εὐλαβείᾳ ὢν καὶ μὴ τὰ τέλεια τῆς ἀληθείας ἐπιστάμενος, εὐθὺς τὸν νοῦν ταραχθεὶς συγκατατίθεται τῇ ἐκείνων πλάνῃ [καὶ εὑρίσκεται ἀρνούμενος τὸν θεὸν] καὶ εὑρίσκεται ἀρνούμενος τὸ εἶναι υἱὸν καὶ [τὸ] ἅγιον πνεῦμα.
hotan de akousę̄ ho en eulabeią ōn kai mē ta teleia tēs alētheias epistamenos, euthys ton noun tarachtheis synkatatithetai tę̄ ekeinōn planę̄ [kai heurisketai arnoumenos ton theon] kai heurisketai arnoumenos to einai huion kai [to] hagion pneuma.
And when someone who is devout but does not know the fullness of the truth hears it, at once troubled in mind he assents to their error and is found denying that there is a Son and a Holy Spirit.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: The simple are misled into denying Son and Spirit.
- The editor deletes “and is found denying God” and τό.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.2.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-2-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 62, chapter 3
62.3.1Holl GCS 25/31:391
3. Ἐν πᾶσι δὲ τούτοις ἐνέπνευσεν ὁ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀντίπαλος ἀπʼ αἰῶνος, ἵνα τὸν μὲν οὕτως, τὸν δὲ οὕτως, τοὺς πλείους δὲ ὁμοῦ ἀπατήσῃ καὶ πλανήσῃ ἀνθρώπους ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ τῆς ἀληθείας.
3. En pasi de toutois enepneusen ho tōn anthrōpōn antipalos apʼ aiōnos, hina ton men houtōs, ton de houtōs, tous pleious de homou apatēsę̄ kai planēsę̄ anthrōpous apo tēs hodou tēs alētheias.
In all these the adversary of men from of old breathed his influence, so as to deceive one in this way, another in that, and most of them together, and lead men astray from the way of truth.
Notes and citation
Summary: The devil inspires all these errors.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.3.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-3-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.3.2Holl GCS 25/31:391
καὶ ὅτι μὲν ἀληθῶς εἶς ἐστι θεὸς καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἔτερος, σαφῶς ἐν τῇ ἁγίᾳ θεοῦ ἐκκλησίᾳ ὡμολόγηται, καὶ συμπεφώνηται ὅτι οὐ πολυθεΐαν εἰσηγούμεθα, ἀλλὰ μοναρχίαν κηρύττομεν.
kai hoti men alēthōs eis esti theos kai ouk estin eteros, saphōs en tę̄ hagią theou ekklēsią hōmologētai, kai sympephōnētai hoti ou polytheïan eisēgoumetha, alla monarchian kēryttomen.
That there is truly one God and no other is clearly confessed in God’s holy church, and it is agreed that we do not introduce polytheism but proclaim a monarchy.
Notes and citation
Summary: The church confesses one God, a monarchy.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.3.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.3.3Holl GCS 25/31:391
μοναρχίαν δὲ κηρύττοντες οὐ σφαλλόμεθα, ἀλλά ὁμολογοῦμεν τὴν τριάδα, μονάδα ἐν τριάδι καὶ τριάδα ἐν μονάδι, καὶ μίαν θεότητα πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος.
monarchian de kēryttontes ou sphallometha, alla homologoumen tēn triada, monada en triadi kai triada en monadi, kai mian theotēta patros kai huiou kai hagiou pneumatos.
In proclaiming the monarchy we do not err, but confess the Trinity, a Unity in Trinity and a Trinity in Unity, and one Godhead of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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Summary: Monarchy includes the Trinity.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.3.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from Holl's Greek text (GCS 25, 1915; GCS 31, 1922); no public-domain English or FOTC translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
62.3.4Holl GCS 25/31:391–392
οὐ γὰρ ὁ υἱὸς ἑαυτὸν ἐγέννησεν οὐδὲ ὁ πατὴρ μεταβέβληται ἀπὸ τοῦ πατὴρ εἶναι <εἰς τὸ εἶναι> υἱὸς οὐδὲ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα Χριστὸν ἑαυτό ποτε ὠνόμασεν, ἀλλὰ πνεῦμα Χριστοῦ καὶ διὰ Χριστοῦ διδόμενον, ἀπὸ πατρὸς ἐκπορευόμενον καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ λαμβάνον.
ou gar ho huios heauton egennēsen oude ho patēr metabeblētai apo tou patēr einai <eis to einai> huios oude to hagion pneuma Christon heauto pote ōnomasen, alla pneuma Christou kai dia Christou didomenon, apo patros ekporeuomenon kai tou huiou lambanon.
For the Son did not beget himself, nor has the Father changed from being Father into being Son, nor did the Holy Spirit ever call itself Christ, but it is the Spirit of Christ and given through Christ, proceeding from the Father and receiving from the Son.
John 15:26 (allusion, high confidence) · John 16:14 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The three are not interchangeable.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.3.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:391–392; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-3-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from Holl's Greek text (GCS 25, 1915; GCS 31, 1922); no public-domain English or FOTC translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
62.3.5Holl GCS 25/31:392
ἐνυπόστατος ὁ πατήρ, ἐνυπόστατος ὁ υἱός, ἐνυπόστατον τὸ ἄγιον πνεπυμα. ἀλλὰ οὐ συναλοιφὴ ἡ τριάς, ὡς ὁ Σαβέλλιος | ἐνόμισεν, οὔτε ἠλλοιωμένη τῆς ἰδίας ἀιδιότητός τε καὶ δόξης, ὡς ὁ Ἅρειος κενοφωνῶν ἐδογμάτισεν,
enypostatos ho patēr, enypostatos ho huios, enypostaton to agion pnepyma. alla ou synaloiphē hē trias, hōs ho Sabellios | enomisen, oute ēlloiōmenē tēs idias aidiotētos te kai doxēs, hōs ho Hareios kenophōnōn edogmatisen,
The Father is subsistent, the Son is subsistent, the Holy Spirit is subsistent. But the Trinity is not a merging, as Sabellius thought, nor changed from its own eternity and glory, as Arius taught in his empty talk,
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Summary: Against both Sabellius and Arius.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.3.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:392; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-3-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.3.6Holl GCS 25/31:392
ἀλλʼ ἀεὶ μὲν ἦν ἡ τριὰς τριὰς καὶ οὐδέποτε ἡ τριὰς προσθήκην λαμβάνει, μία οὖσα θεότης μία κυριότης μία οὖσα δοξολογία, ἀλλὰ τριὰς ἀριθμουμένη, πατὴρ καὶ υἱὸς καὶ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, οὐχ ὡς ἕν τι τρισὶν ὀνόμασι κεκλημένον, ἀλλὰ ἀληθῶς τέλεια τὰ ὀνόματα, τέλειαι αἱ ὑποστάσεις·
allʼ aei men ēn hē trias trias kai oudepote hē trias prosthēkēn lambanei, mia ousa theotēs mia kyriotēs mia ousa doxologia, alla trias arithmoumenē, patēr kai huios kai hagion pneuma, ouch hōs hen ti trisin onomasi keklēmenon, alla alēthōs teleia ta onomata, teleiai hai hypostaseis;
but the Trinity was always Trinity and the Trinity never receives addition, being one Godhead, one lordship, one glorification, yet counted as Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; not as one thing called by three names, but the names are truly perfect, the hypostases perfect;
Notes and citation
Summary: The Trinity is eternal, with three perfect hypostases.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.3.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:392; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-3-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.3.7Holl GCS 25/31:392
οὐδὲν δὲ παρηλλαγμένον, πατὴρ δὲ ἀεὶ πατὴρ καὶ οὐκ ἦν καιρὸς ὅτε οὐκ ἦν ὁ πατὴρ πατήρ, τέλειος ὤν ἀεὶ πατὴρ ἐνυπόστατος καὶ υἱὸς ἀεὶ τέλειος ὤν, ἀεὶ ἐνυπόστατος, ἐκ πατρὸς ἐν ἀληθείᾳ γεγεννημένος ἀνάρχως καὶ ἀχρόνως καὶ ἀνεκδιηγήτως, ὤν πατρί,
ouden de parēllagmenon, patēr de aei patēr kai ouk ēn kairos hote ouk ēn ho patēr patēr, teleios ōn aei patēr enypostatos kai huios aei teleios ōn, aei enypostatos, ek patros en alētheią gegennēmenos anarchōs kai achronōs kai anekdiēgētōs, ōn patri,
nothing is altered: the Father is always Father, and there was no time when the Father was not Father, being always perfect, a subsistent Father; and the Son is always perfect, always subsistent, truly begotten from the Father without beginning, without time and inexpressibly, being with the Father,
Notes and citation
Summary: Father and Son are eternally what they are.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.3.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:392; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-3-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.3.8Holl GCS 25/31:392
οὐκ ἀρξάμενος τοῦ εἶναι οὐδὲ διαλείπων ποτέ, ἀεὶ δὲ υἱὸς γνήσιος πατρὶ συνυπάρχων, ἐκ πατρὸς ἀχρόνως γεγεννημένος, ἴσος ὤν, θεὸς ἐκ θεοῦ, φῶς ἐκ φωτός, θεὸς ἀληθινὸς ἐκ θεοῦ ἀληθινοῦ, γεννηθεὶς οὐ κτισθείς, ἀλλὰ οὐκ αὐτὸς πατὴρ οὐδὲ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτὸς υἱός, εἶς δὲ θεὸς πατὴρ καὶ υἱὸς καὶ ἅγιον πνεῦμα.
ouk arxamenos tou einai oude dialeipōn pote, aei de huios gnēsios patri synyparchōn, ek patros achronōs gegennēmenos, isos ōn, theos ek theou, phōs ek phōtos, theos alēthinos ek theou alēthinou, gennētheis ou ktistheis, alla ouk autos patēr oude ho patēr autos huios, eis de theos patēr kai huios kai hagion pneuma.
not having begun to be nor ever ceasing, but always a genuine Son coexisting with the Father, begotten from the Father timelessly, being equal, God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made; yet he is not himself the Father, nor is the Father himself the Son, but one God, Father and Son and Holy Spirit.
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Summary: The Son is God from God, begotten not made, yet not the Father.
- The phrases echo the Nicene Creed.
Topics: Trinity, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 62.3.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:392; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/59-12-1/#p-62-3-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from Holl's Greek text (GCS 25, 1915; GCS 31, 1922); no public-domain English or FOTC translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.