Panarion (Medicine Chest Against Heresies), Haer. 1-64 64.39.1–64.48.12
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. 64, chapter 39
64.39.1Holl GCS 25/31:460
39. εἰ πᾶν τὸ γεννώμενον νοδεῖ προτείνει γὰρ οὔτως ὁ ἐξ ἐναντίας)καὶ κατὰ τὴν γένεσιν καὶ κατὰ τὴν τορφήν (ἀπὸ τῶν προσιόντων φησίν, αὔζεται καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀπιόντων ἐλαττοῦται), τὰ δὲ μὴ γεννώμενα ὑγιαίνει, ὅτι μὴ νοσεῖ, μηδὲ προσδεῖται ἢ ἐπιθυμεῖ, ἐπιθμυεῖ δὲ τὰ γεννώμενα καὶ συνουσίας καὶ τροξῆς, τὸ δὲ ἐπιθυμεῖν βισεῖν ἐστι, τὸ δὲ μὴ δεῖσθαι Με ἐπιθυμεῖν ὑγιαίνειν, νοδεῖ δὲ τὰ γεννώμενα ὄτι ἔπιθυμεῖ, τὰ δὲ μὴ γεννώμενα μενα οὐ νοσεῖ, πάσχει δὲ τὰ νοσοῦντα ἢ κατὰ πλῆθος ἢ ἔνδειαν τῶν προσγιγνομένων καὶ ἀπογιγνομένων, τὸ δὲ πάσχον καὶ φθίνει καὶ ἀπόλλυται, ται, διόπερ καὶ γεννᾶται, γεννᾶται δὲ ὁ ἄνθρωπος, — οὐ δύναται ἄρα ἀπαθὴς εῖναι ὁ ἄνθρωπος καὶ ἀθάνατος.
39. ei pan to gennōmenon nodei proteinei gar outōs ho ex enantias)kai kata tēn genesin kai kata tēn torphēn (apo tōn prosiontōn phēsin, auzetai kai apo tōn apiontōn elattoutai), ta de mē gennōmena hygiainei, hoti mē nosei, mēde prosdeitai ē epithymei, epithmyei de ta gennōmena kai synousias kai troxēs, to de epithymein bisein esti, to de mē deisthai Me epithymein hygiainein, nodei de ta gennōmena oti epithymei, ta de mē gennōmena mena ou nosei, paschei de ta nosounta ē kata plēthos ē endeian tōn prosgignomenōn kai apogignomenōn, to de paschon kai phthinei kai apollytai, tai, dioper kai gennatai, gennatai de ho anthrōpos, — ou dynatai ara apathēs einai ho anthrōpos kai athanatos.
“If everything that is born is sick” (for so the opponent argues), “both in its birth and in its nourishment (it grows, he says, from what comes in and diminishes from what goes out), while the unborn are healthy, because they are not sick nor in need nor desire; but the born desire both intercourse and food, and to desire is to be sick, while not to need nor desire is to be healthy; and the born are sick because they desire, while the unborn are not sick; and the sick suffer either from excess or lack of what comes and goes; and what suffers wastes away and perishes, and that is why it is born; and man is born — then man cannot be impassible and immortal.”
Notes and citation
Summary: The opponent argues that the born cannot be immortal.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius, reporting the opponent’s syllogism.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:460; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.2Holl GCS 25/31:460
καταπίπτει μὲν οὖν καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοις αὐτοῖς ὁ λόγος. εἰ γὰρ πᾶν τὸ γιγνόμενον ἢ γεννώμενον ἀπόλλυ ται (διαφέρει γὰρ οὐδὲν οὔτως εἰπεῖν, ἐπειδὴ καὶ οἱ πρωτόπλαστοι ἐγεννήθησαν, ἀλλʼ ἑγενήθησαν), γενητοὶ δὲ καὶ οἱ ἄγγελοι καὶ αἰ ψυχαὶ »ὁ ποιῶν, γὰρ φησιν, τοὺς ἀγγέλους αὐτοῦ πνεύματα«), ἀπόλλυνται ἄρα οἱ ἄγγελοι κατʼ αὐτοὺς καὶ αἰ ψυχαί.
katapiptei men oun kai epi toutois autois ho logos. ei gar pan to gignomenon ē gennōmenon apolly tai (diapherei gar ouden outōs eipein, epeidē kai hoi prōtoplastoi egennēthēsan, allʼ hegenēthēsan), genētoi de kai hoi angeloi kai ai psychai »ho poiōn, gar phēsin, tous angelous autou pneumata«), apollyntai ara hoi angeloi katʼ autous kai ai psychai.
But the argument collapses on these very points. For if everything that comes to be or is born perishes (it makes no difference to put it so, since the first-formed were not born but came to be), and the angels and souls too have come to be (“who makes his angels spirits,” he says), then according to them angels and souls perish.
Ps 104:4 (103:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 1:7 (quotation, medium confidence)
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Summary: By this logic angels and souls would perish too.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:460; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.3Holl GCS 25/31:460
ἀλλʼ οὔτε οἱ ἄγγελοι οὔτε αἱ ψυχαὶ ἀπόλλυνται. αθάνατα γὰρ ταῦτα καὶ ἀδάμαστα, καθὼς ὁ ποιήσας εἶναι βεβούλευται. ἀθάνατος ἄρα καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος.
allʼ oute hoi angeloi oute hai psychai apollyntai. athanata gar tauta kai adamasta, kathōs ho poiēsas einai bebouleutai. athanatos ara kai ho anthrōpos.
But neither angels nor souls perish. For these are immortal and indomitable, as their Maker willed them to be. So man too is immortal.
Notes and citation
Summary: Created beings can be immortal by God’s will.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:460; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.4Holl GCS 25/31:460
οὐκ ἀρεστὸν δὲ <οὐδʼ> ἐκεῖνο, τὸ λέγειν εἰς ἄρδην ἁπολεῖσθαι τὸ πᾶν, καὶ γῆν καὶ ἀέρα καὶ οὐρανὸν μὴ ἔσεσθαι. ἐκπυρωθήσεται μὲν γὰρ πρὸς κάθαρσιν καὶ ἀνακαινισμὸν καταβασίῳ πᾶς ὁ κόσμος κατακλυζόμενος πυρί, οὐ μὴv εἰς ἀπώλειαν ἐλεύσεται παντελῆ καὶ φθοράν.
ouk areston de <oudʼ> ekeino, to legein eis ardēn hapoleisthai to pan, kai gēn kai aera kai ouranon mē esesthai. ekpyrōthēsetai men gar pros katharsin kai anakainismon katabasiǭ pas ho kosmos kataklyzomenos pyri, ou mēv eis apōleian eleusetai pantelē kai phthoran.
Nor is that acceptable, to say that the universe will be utterly destroyed, and that earth, air and heaven will not exist. For the whole world will be set on fire, flooded with fire from above, for cleansing and renewal, but it will not come to complete destruction and corruption.
2 Pet 3:10 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: The world will be purified by fire, not destroyed.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:460; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.5Holl GCS 25/31:460–461
εἰ γὰρ κρεῖττον τὸ μὴ εὶναι τοῦ εἰναι τὸν κόσμον, διὰ τί τὸ χεῖρον ᾑρεῖτο ποιήσας σας τὸν κόσμον ὁ θεός; ἀλλʼ οὐδὲν ὁ θεὸς ματαίως ἢ χεῖρον ἐποίει. οὐκοῦν εἰς τὸ καὶ καὶ μένειν τὴν κτίσιν ὁ θεὸς διεκοσμήσατο,
ei gar kreitton to mē einai tou einai ton kosmon, dia ti to cheiron hę̄reito poiēsas sas ton kosmon ho theos? allʼ ouden ho theos mataiōs ē cheiron epoiei. oukoun eis to kai kai menein tēn ktisin ho theos diekosmēsato,
For if it were better for the world not to exist than to exist, why did God choose the worse in making the world? But God did nothing in vain or for the worse. So God arranged the creation to remain,
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Summary: God made the world to last.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:460–461; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.6Holl GCS 25/31:461
καθάπερ καὶ ἡ σοφία συνίστησιν »ἔκτισε γὰρ εἰς τὸ εἶναι« λέγουσα »τὰ πάντα ὁ θεὸς καὶ σωτήριοι οἱ γεννέσεις τοῦ κόσμου καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐταῖς φάρ μακον ὀλέθρου«.
kathaper kai hē sophia synistēsin »ektise gar eis to einai« legousa »ta panta ho theos kai sōtērioi hoi genneseis tou kosmou kai ouk estin en autais phar makon olethrou«.
as Wisdom too establishes, saying, “For God created all things that they might exist, and the generations of the world are wholesome, and there is no poison of destruction in them.”
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Summary: Wisdom 1:14 says God made all to exist.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 1:14 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:461; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.7Holl GCS 25/31:461
καὶ ὁ Παῦλος δὲ σαφπωςμαρτυρεῖ μαρτυρεῖ λέγων »ἡ γὰρ ἀποκαρα- δοκία τῆς κτίσεως τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν τῶν υἱῶν τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπεκδέχεται. τῇ γὰρ ματαιότητι ἡ κτίσις ὑπετάγη οὐχ ἑκοῦσα, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ὑποτάζαντα ἐπʼ ἐλπίδι, ὄτι καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ κτίσις ἐλευθερωθήδεται ἀπὸ τῆς δουλείας τῆς φθορᾶς εἰς τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τῆς δόξης τῶν τέκνων τοῦ θεοῦ«.
kai ho Paulos de saphpōsmartyrei martyrei legōn »hē gar apokara- dokia tēs ktiseōs tēn apokalypsin tōn huiōn tou theou apekdechetai. tę̄ gar mataiotēti hē ktisis hypetagē ouch hekousa, alla dia ton hypotazanta epʼ elpidi, oti kai autē hē ktisis eleutherōthēdetai apo tēs douleias tēs phthoras eis tēn eleutherian tēs doxēs tōn teknōn tou theou«.
And Paul clearly testifies, saying, “For the eager expectation of the creation waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.”
Rom 8:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:21 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Creation will be freed from corruption.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:461; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.8Holl GCS 25/31:461
»τῇ γὰρ ματαιότητι, φησίν, ἡ κατίσις ὑπετάγη«, ἑλευθερωθήσεσθαι δὲ τῆς τοιαύτης δουλείας προσδοκᾷ, κτίσιν τὸν κόσμον τοῦτον βουλόμενος νῦν καλεῖν· οὐ γὰρ τὰ μὴ βλεπόμενα τῇ φθορᾷ δουλεύει, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα δὴ τὰ βλεπόμενα.
»tę̄ gar mataiotēti, phēsin, hē katisis hypetagē«, heleutherōthēsesthai de tēs toiautēs douleias prosdoką, ktisin ton kosmon touton boulomenos nyn kalein; ou gar ta mē blepomena tę̄ phthorą douleuei, alla tauta dē ta blepomena.
“For the creation,” he says, “was subjected to futility,” but expects to be freed from such bondage, meaning by creation now this world; for it is not the unseen things that serve corruption, but these visible things.
Rom 8:20 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: “Creation” means the visible world.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:461; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.9Holl GCS 25/31:461
μενα. μένει ἄρα ἡ κτισις τὸ ἄμεινον ἀνακαινοποιηθεῖσα καὶ εὐπρεπέ στερον, ἀγαλλομένη καὶ χαίρουσα ἐπὶ τοὶς τέκνοις τοῦ θεοῦ > τῇ ἀνα- στάσει, δἰʼ οὓς στενάζει καὶ συνωδίνει νῦν, τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν ἡμῶν ἀπὸ τῆς φθορᾶς καὶ καὶ τοῦ σώμαος ἐκδεχομμένη,
mena. menei ara hē ktisis to ameinon anakainopoiētheisa kai euprepe steron, agallomenē kai chairousa epi tois teknois tou theou > tę̄ ana- stasei, diʼ hous stenazei kai synōdinei nyn, tēn apolytrōsin hēmōn apo tēs phthoras kai kai tou sōmaos ekdechommenē,
So the creation remains, renewed for the better and more seemly, rejoicing and glad over the children of God at the resurrection, for whom it now groans and travails, awaiting our redemption from corruption and of the body,
Rom 8:22 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 8:23 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Renewed creation will rejoice at the resurrection.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:461; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.10Holl GCS 25/31:461
ὄπως ἡμῶν ἐγερθέντων καὶ ἀποτιναξαμένων τὴν νεκρότητα τῆς σαπκὸς κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον »ἐκτίναξαι τὸν χοῦν καὶ ἀνάστηθι καὶ κάθσον, ’Ιερουσαλήμ«, ἐλευθερωθέντων τε τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἐλευθερωθήσεται καὶ αὐτὴ τῆς φθορᾶς, μηκέτι τῇ ματαιότητι δουλεύουσα, ἀλλὰ τῇ
opōs hēmōn egerthentōn kai apotinaxamenōn tēn nekrotēta tēs sapkos kata to gegrammenon »ektinaxai ton choun kai anastēthi kai kathson, ’Ierousalēm«, eleutherōthentōn te tēs hamartias eleutherōthēsetai kai autē tēs phthoras, mēketi tę̄ mataiotēti douleuousa, alla tę̄
so that when we have been raised and have shaken off the deadness of the flesh, as it is written, “Shake off the dust and arise and sit, Jerusalem,” and have been freed from sin, it too will be freed from corruption, no longer serving futility, but
Isa 52:2 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Creation will be freed when we are.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:461; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.11Holl GCS 25/31:461
δικαιοσύνῃ »οἴδαμεν γάρ, φησίν, ὅτι πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις συστενάζει καὶ συνωδίνει ἄχρι τοῦ νῦν. οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοί, τὴν ἀπαρχὴν τοῦ πνεύματος ἔχοντες, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐν ἑαυτοῖς στενάζομεν τὴν υἱοθεσίαν ἀπεκδεχόμενοι, τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν τοῦ σώματος ἡμῶν«.
dikaiosynę̄ »oidamen gar, phēsin, hoti pasa hē ktisis systenazei kai synōdinei achri tou nyn. ou monon de, alla kai autoi, tēn aparchēn tou pneumatos echontes, kai autoi en heautois stenazomen tēn huiothesian apekdechomenoi, tēn apolytrōsin tou sōmatos hēmōn«.
righteousness. “For we know,” he says, “that the whole creation groans and travails together until now. And not only so, but we ourselves, having the firstfruits of the Spirit, we too groan within ourselves, awaiting the adoption, the redemption of our body.”
Rom 8:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:23 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Creation and believers await redemption.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:461; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.12Holl GCS 25/31:461–462
καὶ ὁ ’Ησαΐας δέ· »ὅν τρόπον γὰρ ὁ οὐρανὸς καινὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ καινή, ἃ ἐγὼ (φησί) ποιῶ, μένει ἐνώπιόν μου, λέγει κύριος, οὕτως τὸ σπέρμα ὑπῶν καὶ τὸ ὄνομα ὑμῶν«. καὶ πάλιν »οὕτως λέγει κύριος ὁ ποιήσας τὸν οὐρανόν, οὖτος θεὸς ὁ κατασκευάσας τὴν γῆν καὶ ποιήσας αὐτήν, αὐτὸς διώρισεν αὐτήν, οὐτήν, εἰς κενὸν ἐποίησεν αὐτήν, Μὰ κατοικεῖσθαι«.
kai ho ’Ēsaïas de; »hon tropon gar ho ouranos kainos kai hē gē kainē, ha egō (phēsi) poiō, menei enōpion mou, legei kyrios, houtōs to sperma hypōn kai to onoma hymōn«. kai palin »houtōs legei kyrios ho poiēsas ton ouranon, outos theos ho kataskeuasas tēn gēn kai poiēsas autēn, autos diōrisen autēn, outēn, eis kenon epoiēsen autēn, Ma katoikeisthai«.
And Isaiah: “For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make,” he says, “remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your seed and your name.” And again, “Thus says the Lord who made the heaven, this God who formed the earth and made it, he himself set its bounds; he did not make it in vain, but to be inhabited.”
Isa 66:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 45:18 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Isaiah foretells a lasting new creation.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:461–462; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.13Holl GCS 25/31:462
ὄντως γὰρ οὐκ εἰς κενὸν οὐδὲ εἰς μάτην πρὸς ἀπώγειαν ἄκτισε κατὰ τοὺς φρονοῦντας μάταια τὸ πᾶν ὁ θεός, ἀλλὰ εἰς τὸ εἶναί τε καὶ οἰκεὶσθαι καὶ διαμένειν. διὶ ἀνάγκη δὴ καὶ τὴν γῆν αὖθις καὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν μετὰ τὴν ἐκθλόγωσιν ἔσεσθαι πάντων καὶ τὸν βρασμόν.
ontōs gar ouk eis kenon oude eis matēn pros apōgeian aktise kata tous phronountas mataia to pan ho theos, alla eis to einai te kai oikeisthai kai diamenein. dii anankē dē kai tēn gēn authis kai ton ouranon meta tēn ekthlogōsin esesthai pantōn kai ton brasmon.
For truly God did not create the universe in vain nor to no purpose for destruction, as those who think vain things suppose, but to exist, be inhabited and endure. Therefore the earth and heaven must exist again after the burning and the upheaval of all things.
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Summary: Earth and heaven will exist after the conflagration.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.13 (Holl GCS 25/31:462; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.39.14Holl GCS 25/31:462
διὰ τί δὲ τοῦτο ἀνάγκη, λόγος ἂν ἐτι πλείων τῶν εἰρημμένων γίγνοιτο. οὔτε γὰρ εἰς ὕλην ἀργὴν καἰ τοιαύτην ἔτι κατάστασιν, οἵα καὶ πρὸ τῆς διακοσμήσεως ἦν, διαλυθὲν ἀναστοιχειωθήσεται τὸ πᾶν οὔτʼ αὖ εἰς ἀπώλειαν παντελῆ καὶ φθοράν.
dia ti de touto anankē, logos an eti pleiōn tōn eirēmmenōn gignoito. oute gar eis hylēn argēn kai toiautēn eti katastasin, hoia kai pro tēs diakosmēseōs ēn, dialythen anastoicheiōthēsetai to pan outʼ au eis apōleian pantelē kai phthoran.
Why this is necessary would take a discussion even longer than what has been said. For the universe will not be dissolved and resolved into idle matter and such a state as it was before its ordering, nor again into complete destruction and corruption.
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Summary: The universe will be neither dissolved nor destroyed.
- Methodius, On the Resurrection, quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.39.14 (Holl GCS 25/31:462; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-39-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 40
64.40.1Holl GCS 25/31:462
Ἐὰν δέ· πῶς οὖν, ἐὰν μὴ ἀπόλλυται τὸ πᾶν, οἱ ἐξ ἐναντίας εἴπωσιν, ὁ μὲν κύριος τὸν οὐρανὸν παρελεύσεσθαι ἔφη καὶ τὴν γῆν, ὁ δὲ προφήτης ἀπολείσθαι μὲν τὸν οὐρανὸν ὡς καπνόν, τὴν δὲ γῆν ὡς ἑμάτιον παλαιωθήσεσθαι;
Ean de; pōs oun, ean mē apollytai to pan, hoi ex enantias eipōsin, ho men kyrios ton ouranon pareleusesthai ephē kai tēn gēn, ho de prophētēs apoleisthai men ton ouranon hōs kapnon, tēn de gēn hōs hemation palaiōthēsesthai?
But if the opponents say, “How then, if the universe does not perish, did the Lord say that heaven and earth will pass away, and the prophet that heaven will perish like smoke and the earth grow old like a garment?”
Matt 24:35 (allusion, high confidence) · Isa 51:6 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: An objection from texts about heaven passing away.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.40.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:462; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-40-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.40.2Holl GCS 25/31:462
ἐπεισήπερ ἔθος ταῖς γραθαῖς, λέξομεν, τὴν εἰς τὸ κρεῖττον καὶ ἐνδοξότερον ἀΠὸ ταύτης τῆς καταστάσεως τοῦ κόσμου μεταβολὴν ἄπώλειαν λέγειν, οἶον τοῦ πρόσθεν σχήματος ἄπολλυμένου κατὰ τὴν εἰς τὸ φαιδρότερον ἁπάντων ἐξαλλαγήν· ὄτι μηδεμία ὑπεναντέωσις ἢ ἀτοπία ἐνxgc; θείοις λόγοις.
epeisēper ethos tais grathais, lexomen, tēn eis to kreitton kai endoxoteron aPo tautēs tēs katastaseōs tou kosmou metabolēn apōleian legein, oion tou prosthen schēmatos apollymenou kata tēn eis to phaidroteron hapantōn exallagēn; oti mēdemia hypenanteōsis ē atopia enxgc? theiois logois.
we will say: because it is the custom of the Scriptures to call the change of the world from this state to the better and more glorious “destruction,” as the former shape perishes in the change of all things to something brighter; for there is no contradiction or absurdity in the divine words.
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Summary: Scripture calls transformation “destruction.”
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.40.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:462; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-40-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.40.3Holl GCS 25/31:462–463
»παράγει γὰρ τὸ σχῆμα τοῦ κόσμου τούτου« καὶ οὐχ ὁ κόσμος εἴρηται. οὔτως ἔθος ἀπώλειαν καλεῖν τὰς γραφὰς τὴν πρὸς τὸ ἄμεινον ἔσθʼ ὅτε καὶ εὐμοθφότερον τροπὴν τοῦ πρόσθεν σχήματος, οἶον ὤσπερ ὁπόταν τις ἀπώλειαν λέγοι τοῦ κατὰ τὸ νήποιν σχήματος τὴν εἰς τὸν ἄνδρα τὸν τέλειονμεταλλαγήν, τρεπομένης εἰς μέγεθος καὶ κάλλος τῆς ἡλικίας τοῦ νηπίου.
»paragei gar to schēma tou kosmou toutou« kai ouch ho kosmos eirētai. outōs ethos apōleian kalein tas graphas tēn pros to ameinon esthʼ hote kai eumothphoteron tropēn tou prosthen schēmatos, oion ōsper hopotan tis apōleian legoi tou kata to nēpoin schēmatos tēn eis ton andra ton teleionmetallagēn, trepomenēs eis megethos kai kallos tēs hēlikias tou nēpiou.
For “the form of this world passes away” is said, not the world. So it is the custom of the Scriptures to call destruction the change of the former form to the better and sometimes more shapely, as when one might call the child’s change into the perfect man the destruction of the childish form, the child’s stature turning to size and beauty.
1 Cor 7:31 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The form, not the world, passes away.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.40.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:462–463; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-40-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.40.4Holl GCS 25/31:463
»ὅτε γὰρ ἤμην νήπιος, ὡς νήπιος ἐλάλουν, ὡς νήπιος ἐφρόνουν, ὡς νήπιος ἐλογιζόμην, ὄτε δὲ γέγονα ἀνήρ, κατήργηκα τὰ τοῦ νηπίου«.
»hote gar ēmēn nēpios, hōs nēpios elaloun, hōs nēpios ephronoun, hōs nēpios elogizomēn, ote de gegona anēr, katērgēka ta tou nēpiou«.
“For when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I did away with childish things.”
1 Cor 13:11 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul’s image of growing up.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.40.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:463; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-40-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.40.5Holl GCS 25/31:463
ταραχθήσεσθαι μὲν γὰρ τὴν κτίσιν ὤσπερ τεθνηζομένην κατὰ τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν, ἴνα καὶ ἀνακτισθῇ, οὐ μὴν ἀπολεῖσθαι προσδοκητέον, ὅπως οἶ ἀνακαινοποιηθέντες ἐν ἀνακαινοποιηθέντι τῷ κόσμῳ ἄγευστοι λύπης κατοικήσωμεν, κατὰ τὸ λεχθέν »ἐξαποστελεῖς τὸ πνεῦμά σου καὶ κατισθήσονται« ἐν ἑκατοστῷ τρίτῳ ψαλμῷ »καὶ ἀνακαινιεῖς τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς«, τοῦ περιέχοντος τῆς εὐκρασίας ἐπιτροπεύοπντος λοιπὸν λοιπὸν τοῦ θεοῦ.
tarachthēsesthai men gar tēn ktisin ōsper tethnēzomenēn kata tēn ekpyrōsin, ina kai anaktisthę̄, ou mēn apoleisthai prosdokēteon, hopōs oi anakainopoiēthentes en anakainopoiēthenti tǭ kosmǭ ageustoi lypēs katoikēsōmen, kata to lechthen »exaposteleis to pneuma sou kai katisthēsontai« en hekatostǭ tritǭ psalmǭ »kai anakainieis to prosōpon tēs gēs«, tou periechontos tēs eukrasias epitropeuopntos loipon loipon tou theou.
For we must expect the creation to be shaken as though about to die in the conflagration, so that it may be created anew, but not to perish, so that we, renewed, may dwell in the renewed world without tasting grief, according to what is said in the hundred and third psalm, “You will send forth your Spirit and they will be created, and you will renew the face of the earth,” God thereafter governing the temperate climate around us.
Ps 104:30 (103:30 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The world will be renewed, not destroyed.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.40.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:463; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-40-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.40.6Holl GCS 25/31:463
ἐσομένης γὰρ καὶ μετὰ τπῦτον τὸν αἰῶνα γῆς ἀνάγκη πᾶσα ἔσσθαι καὶ τοὺς οἰκήσοντας, οὐκέτι τεθνηξομένους ἢ γαμήσντας καὶ γεννησομένους, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἀγγέλους ἀμεταστρόθως ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ τὰ ἄριστα πράφοντας.
esomenēs gar kai meta tpyton ton aiōna gēs anankē pasa essthai kai tous oikēsontas, ouketi tethnēxomenous ē gamēsntas kai gennēsomenous, allʼ hōs angelous ametastrothōs en aphtharsią ta arista praphontas.
For since there will be an earth even after this age, there must by all means be inhabitants too, no longer going to die or marry or be born, but like angels doing the best things unchangeably in incorruption.
Luke 20:35 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 20:36 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The renewed earth will have immortal inhabitants.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.40.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:463; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-40-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.40.7Holl GCS 25/31:463
διὸ ληρῶδες τὸ ἐν ποίᾳ διαγωγῇ τότε δὴ τὰ σώματα ἔσονται λέγεσθαι, μήτε ἀέρος μήτε μήτε μήτε τῶν ἄλλων ἐσομένων.
dio lērōdes to en poią diagōgę̄ tote dē ta sōmata esontai legesthai, mēte aeros mēte mēte mēte tōn allōn esomenōn.
Therefore it is silly to ask in what manner of life the bodies will then be, if there will be neither air nor the other things.
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Summary: The objection about the environment fails.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.40.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:463; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-40-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 41
64.41.1Holl GCS 25/31:463
41. Ἅξιον Τε κἀκεῖνο πρὸς τοῖς εἰρημένοις ἐπισκοπεῖν, ὡς ἔχει πολ- λὴν διάπτωσιν, εἰ δεῖ παρρησίαν ἄγειν περὶ τηλικούτων, ὦ ’Αγλαοφῶν, διαλεγομένους πραγμάτων.
41. Haxion Te kakeino pros tois eirēmenois episkopein, hōs echei pol- lēn diaptōsin, ei dei parrēsian agein peri tēlikoutōn, ō ’Aglaophōn, dialegomenous pragmatōn.
It is worth examining this too, in addition to what has been said, how great an error it contains, if we must speak frankly, Aglaophon, when discussing such great matters.
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Summary: Another error of Aglaophon is examined.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.41.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:463; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-41-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.41.2Holl GCS 25/31:463–464
φράσας γὰρ ἀποφήνασθαι τὸν κύριον ὡς οἱ τῆς ἀναστάσεως τευξόμενοι ἔσονται τότε ὡς ἄγγελοι, ἔνθα πειράζουσιν αὐτὸν οἱ Σαδδουκαῖοι, ἐπέφερες »οἱ δὲ ἄγγελοι ἐκτὸς ὄντες σαρκὸς ἐν μακαριότητος ἀκρότητι, διὰ τοῦτο καὶ δόξης εἰσί, καὶ ἡμᾶς δὲ ἄρα ἐξισάζεσθαι μέλλοντας ἀγγέλοις ἀνάγκη δὴ σαρκῶν ὡσαύτως ἐκείνοις γυμνοὺς ἔσεσθαι δεῖν«, οὐκ ἐπιστήσας, ὦ ἄριστε,
phrasas gar apophēnasthai ton kyrion hōs hoi tēs anastaseōs teuxomenoi esontai tote hōs angeloi, entha peirazousin auton hoi Saddoukaioi, epepheres »hoi de angeloi ektos ontes sarkos en makariotētos akrotēti, dia touto kai doxēs eisi, kai hēmas de ara exisazesthai mellontas angelois anankē dē sarkōn hōsautōs ekeinois gymnous esesthai dein«, ouk epistēsas, ō ariste,
For having said that the Lord declared that those who obtain the resurrection will then be like angels, where the Sadducees test him, you added: “The angels, being without flesh, are at the height of blessedness and therefore of glory; and so we, who are to be made equal to the angels, must likewise be stripped of flesh like them.” You did not notice, my excellent friend,
Matt 22:30 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Aglaophon inferred bodiless resurrection from being like angels.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.41.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:463–464; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-41-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.41.3Holl GCS 25/31:464
ὡς ὁ ποιήσας καὶ διακοσμήσας ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων τὸ πᾶν τὴν τῶν ἀθανάτων φύσιν οὐ μόνον εἰς ἀγγέλους καὶ λειτουργοὺς διανείμας ἐκόσμησεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς ἀρχὰς καὶ ἐξουσίας καὶ θρόνους.
hōs ho poiēsas kai diakosmēsas ex ouk ontōn to pan tēn tōn athanatōn physin ou monon eis angelous kai leitourgous dianeimas ekosmēsen, alla kai eis archas kai exousias kai thronous.
that he who made and ordered the universe from nothing adorned the nature of the immortals by distributing it not only into angels and ministers, but also into principalities, powers and thrones.
Col 1:16 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Immortal beings are of many kinds.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.41.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:464; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-41-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.41.4Holl GCS 25/31:464
ἄλλο γὰρ γένος τὸ τῶν ἀγγέλων καὶ ἄλλο τὸ τῶν ἀρχῶν καὶ ἐξουσιῶν, ὅτι μὴ τάγμα ἓν καὶ μία σύστασις καὶ φυλὴ καὶ φατριὰ τῶν ἀθανάτων, ἀλλὰ γένη καὶ φυλαὶ καὶ διαφοραί. καὶ οὔτε τὰ Χερουβὶμ τῆς ἰδίας ἐξιστάμενα φύσεως εἰς τὴν τῶν ἀγγέλων ἰδέαν μετασκευάζονται οὔτε αὖ πάλιν εἰς ἑτέραν οἱ ἄγγελοι. εἶναι γὰρ αὐτὰ χρὴ καὶ ὅ εἰσι καὶ ὃ γεγόνασιν.
allo gar genos to tōn angelōn kai allo to tōn archōn kai exousiōn, hoti mē tagma hen kai mia systasis kai phylē kai phatria tōn athanatōn, alla genē kai phylai kai diaphorai. kai oute ta Cheroubim tēs idias existamena physeōs eis tēn tōn angelōn idean metaskeuazontai oute au palin eis heteran hoi angeloi. einai gar auta chrē kai ho eisi kai ho gegonasin.
For the race of angels is one thing and that of principalities and powers another, since the immortals are not one order, one constitution, tribe and clan, but kinds, tribes and differences. The Cherubim do not depart from their own nature and change into the form of angels, nor again do angels into another. For they must be both what they are and what they were made.
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Summary: Each kind of immortal keeps its nature.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.41.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:464; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-41-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.41.5Holl GCS 25/31:464
ἀτὰρ καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος τὸν κόσμον οἰκεῖν καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ πάντων ἡγεμονεύειν κατασταθεὶς <ἀπὸ> τῆς ἐξ ἀρχῆς διακοσμήσεως, ἀθάνατος ὢν τοῦ εἶναι ἄνθρωπος οὔποτε μεταβληθέσεται, οὔτε εἰς τὴν τῶν ἀγγέλων οὔτε εἰς τὴν τῶν ἑτέρων μορφήν, ὅτι μηδὲ οἱ ἄγγελοι εἰς τὴν τῶν ἄλλων, τῆς ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἰδέας μετακοσμούμενοι, μεταβάλλονται.
atar kai ho anthrōpos ton kosmon oikein kai tōn en autǭ pantōn hēgemoneuein katastatheis <apo> tēs ex archēs diakosmēseōs, athanatos ōn tou einai anthrōpos oupote metablēthesetai, oute eis tēn tōn angelōn oute eis tēn tōn heterōn morphēn, hoti mēde hoi angeloi eis tēn tōn allōn, tēs ex archēs ideas metakosmoumenoi, metaballontai.
Likewise man, appointed from the first ordering to inhabit the world and rule over everything in it, being immortal, will never be changed from being man, neither into the form of angels nor of others, since not even the angels are changed into the form of others, altered from their original form.
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Summary: Man will remain man.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.41.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:464; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-41-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.41.6Holl GCS 25/31:464
ὁ γὰρ Χριστὸς ἧκεν οὐκ εἰς ἑτέραν μεταπλασθῆναι κηρύσσων ἢ μετασκευασθῆναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον φύσιν, ἀλλὰ εἰς ὃ ἦν ἐξ ἀρχῆς πρὸ τοῦ ἐκπεσεῖν ἀθάνατος ὤν.
ho gar Christos hēken ouk eis heteran metaplasthēnai kēryssōn ē metaskeuasthēnai ton anthrōpon physin, alla eis ho ēn ex archēs pro tou ekpesein athanatos ōn.
For Christ came not proclaiming that man would be remolded or changed into another nature, but into what he was from the beginning before the fall, being immortal.
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Summary: Christ restores man’s original nature.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.41.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:464; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-41-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.41.7Holl GCS 25/31:464–465
χρὴ γὰρ ἐν τῷ ἰδίῳ τῆς τάξεως αὐτοῦ τόπῳ τῶν γενητῶν ἕκαστον μένειν, ἵνα πάντα πάντων ὦσι πεπληρωμένα, οὐρανοὶ μὲν ἀγγέλων, θρόνοι δὲ ἐξουσιῶν, φῶτα δὲ λειτουργῶν καὶ οἱ θειότεροι τοποι καὶ τὰ akrata kai akraifnh φῶτα τῶι serafim, a paresthkasi τῇ μεγάλῃ βουλῇ διακρατούσῃ τὸ πᾶν, 6 δὲ κόσμος ἀνθρώπων.
chrē gar en tǭ idiǭ tēs taxeōs autou topǭ tōn genētōn hekaston menein, hina panta pantōn ōsi peplērōmena, ouranoi men angelōn, thronoi de exousiōn, phōta de leitourgōn kai hoi theioteroi topoi kai ta akrata kai akraifnh phōta tōi serafim, a paresthkasi tę̄ megalę̄ boulę̄ diakratousę̄ to pan, 6 de kosmos anthrōpōn.
For each created being must remain in the proper place of its order, so that all things may be filled with all: the heavens with angels, the thrones with powers, the lights with ministers, and the more divine places and the pure and undefiled lights with the Seraphim, who stand by the great Counsel that holds the universe together, and the world with men.
Isa 6:2 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Each order has its place; the world belongs to men.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. Some words are written in Latin letters in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.41.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:464–465; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-41-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.41.8Holl GCS 25/31:465
ἐὰν δὲ μεταβάλλεσθαι δῶμεν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους εἰς ἀγγέλους, ὥρα μεταβάλλεθαι λέγειν καὶ τοὺς ἀγγέλους εἰς ἐξουσίας καὶ ταύτας εἰς ἄλλο καὶ ἄλλο, ἔστʼ ἂν ὁ λόγος ἄναβὰς εἰς κίνδυνον πέσῃ.
ean de metaballesthai dōmen tous anthrōpous eis angelous, hōra metaballethai legein kai tous angelous eis exousias kai tautas eis allo kai allo, estʼ an ho logos anabas eis kindynon pesę̄.
If we grant that men are changed into angels, it is time to say that angels too are changed into powers, and these into one thing after another, until the argument climbs up and falls into danger.
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Summary: Such transformations would have no end.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.41.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:465; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-41-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 42
64.42.1Holl GCS 25/31:465
42. Ἀλλʼ οὔτε ὡς φαῦλον τεκτηνάμενος ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἢ διαμαρτήσας μαρτήσας αὐτοῦ περὶ τὴν διάπλασιν, ἄγγελον αὐτὸν ὔστερον ἐπενόησε ποιῆσαι μεταγνούς, ὥσπερ οἱ φαυλότατοι τῶν δημιουργῶν, οὔτε ἄγγελον κατʼ ἀρχὰς θελήσας ποιῆσαι καὶ μὴ δυνηθεὶς ἄνθρωπον ἔπλασεν.
42. Allʼ oute hōs phaulon tektēnamenos ho theos ton anthrōpon ē diamartēsas martēsas autou peri tēn diaplasin, angelon auton ysteron epenoēse poiēsai metagnous, hōsper hoi phaulotatoi tōn dēmiourgōn, oute angelon katʼ archas thelēsas poiēsai kai mē dynētheis anthrōpon eplasen.
But neither did God, having fashioned man badly or failed in forming him, later plan to make him an angel, having changed his mind, like the worst craftsmen; nor, wishing to make an angel at the beginning and being unable, did he form a man.
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Summary: God did not fail in making man.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.42.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:465; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-42-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.42.2Holl GCS 25/31:465
ἀσθενὲς τοῦτο γάρ. τί δή ποτε οὖν τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἄνθρωπον ἐποίει καὶ οὐκ ἄγγελον, εἴ γε ἄγγελον τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ οὐκ ἄνθρωπον γενέσθαι γενέσθαι ἤθελεν; ὡς οὐ δυνάμενος; βλάσφημον <τοῦτο>.
asthenes touto gar. ti dē pote oun ton anthrōpon anthrōpon epoiei kai ouk angelon, ei ge angelon ton anthrōpon kai ouk anthrōpon genesthai genesthai ēthelen? hōs ou dynamenos? blasphēmon <touto>.
For this would be weakness. Why then did he make man a man and not an angel, if he wanted man to become an angel and not a man? As unable? That is blasphemous.
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Summary: God is not unable.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.42.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:465; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-42-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.42.3Holl GCS 25/31:465
ἀλλὰ ἀνεβάλλετο περὶ τοῦ κρείττονος τὸ χεῖρον ποιῶν; καὶ τοῦτο ἄτοπον. οὔτε γὰρ διασφάλλεται περὶ τὸ ποιεῖν τὸ καλὸν οὔτε ἀναβάλλεται οὔτε ἀδυνατεῖ, ἄλλὰ καὶ ὡς θέλει καὶ ὅτε θέλει τὸ δύνασθαι ἔχει, δύναμις ὤν.
alla aneballeto peri tou kreittonos to cheiron poiōn? kai touto atopon. oute gar diasphalletai peri to poiein to kalon oute anaballetai oute adynatei, alla kai hōs thelei kai hote thelei to dynasthai echei, dynamis ōn.
Or did he postpone the better, making the worse? This too is absurd. For he neither fails in making the good, nor postpones, nor is unable; but he has the power both as he wills and when he wills, being power itself.
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Summary: God neither fails nor delays.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.42.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:465; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-42-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.42.4Holl GCS 25/31:465
οὐκοῦν εἶναι τὸν ἄνθρω πον ἄνθρωπον θέλων ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἔκτισεν. εἰ δὲ θπελων, θέλει δὲ τὸ καλόν, καλὸν δὲ ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ἄνθρωπος δὲ τὸ ἐκ ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος λέγεται συντεθέν, οὐκ ἔσται ἄρα ἔκτὸς σώματος ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ἀλλὰ μετὰ σώματος, ἵνα μὴ ἄλλος παρὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὁ ἄνθρωπος γενηθῇ.
oukoun einai ton anthrō pon anthrōpon thelōn ex archēs ektisen. ei de thpelōn, thelei de to kalon, kalon de ho anthrōpos, anthrōpos de to ek psychēs kai sōmatos legetai syntethen, ouk estai ara ektos sōmatos ho anthrōpos, alla meta sōmatos, hina mē allos para ton anthrōpon ho anthrōpos genēthę̄.
So he created man from the beginning wishing him to be man. And if he wished it, and he wills the good, and man is good, and man is said to be what is composed of soul and body, then man will not be without a body, but with a body, so that man may not become something other than man.
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Summary: Man will always be soul and body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.42.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:465; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-42-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.42.5Holl GCS 25/31:465–466
δεῖ γὰρ τῷ θεῷ τὰ ἀθάνατα γένη πάντα σῴζεσθαι. ἀθάνατον δὲ καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος. »ἕκτισε«, γάρ φησιν ἡ σοφία »τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὁ θεὸς ἐπὶ ἀφθαρσίᾳ καὶ εἰκόνα τῆς ἰδίας ἀιδιότητος ἐποίησεν αὐτόν«. οὐκ ἄρα ἀπόλλυται τὸ σῶμα· ὁ γὰρ ἄνθρωπος ἐκ ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος.
dei gar tǭ theǭ ta athanata genē panta sǭzesthai. athanaton de kai ho anthrōpos. »hektise«, gar phēsin hē sophia »ton anthrōpon ho theos epi aphtharsią kai eikona tēs idias aidiotētos epoiēsen auton«. ouk ara apollytai to sōma; ho gar anthrōpos ek psychēs kai sōmatos.
For God must preserve all immortal kinds; and man too is immortal. “For God created man,” says Wisdom, “for incorruption, and made him an image of his own eternity.” So the body does not perish; for man is of soul and body.
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Summary: The body does not perish, since man is soul and body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 2:23 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.42.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:465–466; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-42-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 43
64.43.1Holl GCS 25/31:466
43. Διὸ ἐπίστησον, ὡς καὶ ὁ κύριος τὰ αὐτὰ ταῦτα διδάσκειν θέλων, μὴ πιστευόντων Σαδδουκαίων εἰς τὴν ἀνάστασιν τῆς σαρκός — δόγμα γὰρ τοῦτο Σαδδουκαίων· ὅθεν συσκευασάμενοι τὴν κατὰ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ τοὺς ἑπτὰ ἀδελφοὺς παραβολήν, ἵνα τὸν περὶ ἀναστάσεως τῆς σαρκὸς λόγον ἀποκηρύσσωσι, προσῆλθον αὐτῷ· ἀμέλει αὐτὸς ὁ εὐαγγελιστὴς ἐπεσημήνατο, »προσῆλθον δὲ αὐτῷ« εἰπών »καὶ Σαδδουκαῖοι, λέγοντες μὴ εἶναι ἀνάστασιν —
43. Dio epistēson, hōs kai ho kyrios ta auta tauta didaskein thelōn, mē pisteuontōn Saddoukaiōn eis tēn anastasin tēs sarkos — dogma gar touto Saddoukaiōn; hothen syskeuasamenoi tēn kata tēn gynaika kai tous hepta adelphous parabolēn, hina ton peri anastaseōs tēs sarkos logon apokēryssōsi, prosēlthon autǭ; amelei autos ho euangelistēs epesēmēnato, »prosēlthon de autǭ« eipōn »kai Saddoukaioi, legontes mē einai anastasin —
Therefore note how the Lord too, wishing to teach these very things, when the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the flesh — for this is the doctrine of the Sadducees; hence they concocted the parable of the woman and the seven brothers to repudiate the doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh, and came to him; indeed the evangelist himself noted it, saying, “And Sadducees came to him, saying there is no resurrection” —
Matt 22:23 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 22:25 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The Sadducees denied the resurrection of the flesh.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.43.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:466; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-43-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.43.2Holl GCS 25/31:466
ὁ οὖν Χριστός, εἰ μὴ ἦν ἀνάστασις σαρκός, ἀλλὰ μόνον ἐσῴζετο ψυχή, συνέθετο ἂν αὐτοῖς ὡς καλῳς καὶ ὀρθῶς φρονοῦσι. νυνὶ δὲ ἀποκρούεται λέγων »ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει οὔτε γαμοῦσιν οὔτε γαμίσκονται, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἄγγελοι ἐν οὐρανῷ εἰσιν«, οὐ τῷ σάρκα μὴ ἔχειν,
ho oun Christos, ei mē ēn anastasis sarkos, alla monon esǭzeto psychē, synetheto an autois hōs kalǭs kai orthōs phronousi. nyni de apokrouetai legōn »en tę̄ anastasei oute gamousin oute gamiskontai, allʼ hōs angeloi en ouranǭ eisin«, ou tǭ sarka mē echein,
Christ, then, if there were no resurrection of the flesh but only the soul were saved, would have agreed with them as thinking well and rightly. But now he rebuffs them, saying, “In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven,” not by not having flesh,
Matt 22:30 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Christ rejected the Sadducees’ denial.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology, Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.43.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:466; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-43-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.43.3Holl GCS 25/31:466
ἀλλὰ τῷ μὴ γαμεῖν καὶ γαμεῖσθαι, ἀλλὰ εἶναι λοιπὸν ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ καὶ φωσίν, ἀγγέλοις κατὰ τοῦτο παραπλησιασθέντας, ἵνʼ ὥσπερ οἱ ἄγγελοι ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, οὕτως καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ, μήτε γάμοις ἢ εἰλαπίναις ἔτι σχολάζοντες, ἀλλὰ τῷ βλέπειν τὸν θεὸν καὶ γεωργεῖν τὴν ζωὴν πρυτανεύοντος ἡμῖν τοῦ Χριστοῦ.
alla tǭ mē gamein kai gameisthai, alla einai loipon en aphtharsią kai phōsin, angelois kata touto paraplēsiasthentas, hinʼ hōsper hoi angeloi en tǭ ouranǭ, houtōs kai hēmeis en tǭ paradeisǭ, mēte gamois ē eilapinais eti scholazontes, alla tǭ blepein ton theon kai geōrgein tēn zōēn prytaneuontos hēmin tou Christou.
but by not marrying and being married, but being thereafter in incorruption and light, being made like angels in this, so that as the angels are in heaven, so we too are in paradise, no longer occupied with marriages or feasts, but with seeing God and cultivating life, Christ presiding over us.
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Summary: Being like angels means not marrying, not lacking flesh.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology, Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.43.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:466; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-43-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.43.4Holl GCS 25/31:466
οὐ γὰρ εἶπεν »ἔσονται ἄγγελοι«, ἀλλʼ »ὡς ἄγγελοι«, οἷον »δόξῃ μὲν καὶ τιμῇ« κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον »ἐστεφανωμένοι, βραχὺ δέ τι παρὰ τοὺς ἀγγέλους διαλλάσσοντες« καὶ ἐγγὺς δντες τοῦ εἶναι ἄγγελοι.
ou gar eipen »esontai angeloi«, allʼ »hōs angeloi«, hoion »doxę̄ men kai timę̄« kata to gegrammenon »estephanōmenoi, brachy de ti para tous angelous diallassontes« kai engys dntes tou einai angeloi.
For he did not say “they will be angels,” but “as angels,” as “crowned,” as it is written, “with glory and honor, made a little lower than the angels,” and near to being angels.
Ps 8:5 (8:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: “As angels” means close to angels.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.43.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:466; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-43-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.43.5Holl GCS 25/31:466–467
καθάπερ εἰ ἔλεγεν, οὔσης εὐταξίας κατὰ τὸν ἀέρα καὶ γαλήνης νυκτὸς καὶ πάντων τῷ τῆς σελήνης αἰθερίῳ φωτὶ κεκοσμημένων· ἡ σελήνη φαίνει ὡς ὁ ἤλιος· καὶ οὐ πάντως ἂν ἥλιον εἶναι τὴν σελήνην ἀπομαρτυρεῖν αὐτὸν ἐλέγομεν, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἤλιον,
kathaper ei elegen, ousēs eutaxias kata ton aera kai galēnēs nyktos kai pantōn tǭ tēs selēnēs aitheriǭ phōti kekosmēmenōn; hē selēnē phainei hōs ho ēlios; kai ou pantōs an hēlion einai tēn selēnēn apomartyrein auton elegomen, allʼ hōs ēlion,
Just as if one said, when the air is serene and the night calm and everything adorned by the moon’s ethereal light, “The moon shines as the sun”; we would not say he was testifying that the moon was the sun, but like the sun;
Notes and citation
Summary: “As” marks likeness, not identity.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.43.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:466–467; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-43-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.43.6Holl GCS 25/31:467
ὥσπερ καὶ τὸ μὴ ὑπάρχον χρυσός, έγγὺς δὲ τοῦ εἶναι χρυσὸς πεφυκὸς ὡς χρυσὸς λέγεται καὶ οὐ χρυσός. εἰ δὲ ἦν χρυσός, οὐκ ἐλέγετο ἄν ὡς χρυσός, ἀλλὰ χρυσός· ἐπεὶ δὲ μὴ ἔστι χρυσός, ἀλλὰ <ἐγγὺς> τοῦ εἰναι χρυσὸς καὶ φαντάζεσθαι χρυσόν, οὑ χρυσὸς ἀλλʼ ὡς χρυσὸς λέγεται.
hōsper kai to mē hyparchon chrysos, engys de tou einai chrysos pephykos hōs chrysos legetai kai ou chrysos. ei de ēn chrysos, ouk elegeto an hōs chrysos, alla chrysos; epei de mē esti chrysos, alla <engys> tou einai chrysos kai phantazesthai chryson, hou chrysos allʼ hōs chrysos legetai.
just as what is not gold, but is by nature close to being gold, is said to be “as gold” and not gold. If it were gold, it would not be called “as gold,” but gold; but since it is not gold, but close to being gold and looking like gold, it is called not gold but “as gold.”
Notes and citation
Summary: “As gold” is not gold.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.43.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:467; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-43-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.43.7Holl GCS 25/31:467
οὕτως καὶ ὡς ἀγγέλους ἔσεσθαι λέγοντος τοὺς ἀγίους ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει, οὐκ αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἀγγέλους αὐτὸν ἐπαγγέλλεσθαι ἀκούομεν τοὺς ἁγίους ἔσεσθαι ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει, ἀλλὰ ἐγγὺς τοῦ εἶναι ἀγγέλους.
houtōs kai hōs angelous esesthai legontos tous agious en tę̄ anastasei, ouk auto touto angelous auton epangellesthai akouomen tous hagious esesthai en tę̄ anastasei, alla engys tou einai angelous.
So too when he says the saints will be as angels in the resurrection, we do not understand him to promise that the saints will be angels in the resurrection, but near to being angels.
Notes and citation
Summary: The saints will be near to angels.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.43.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:467; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-43-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.43.8Holl GCS 25/31:467
ὥστε ἀλογώτατον τὸ λέγειν, ἐπειδὴ ὁ Χριστὸς ἀπερήνατο τοὺς ἁγίους ὀξθῆναι ὡς ἀγγέλους ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει, τὰ σώματα διὰ τοῦτα μὴ μὴ ἀνίστασθαι, καίτοι τῆς λέξεως αὐτὴν τὴν πρᾶξιν δηλούσης σαφῶς τοῦ συμβαίνοντος.
hōste alogōtaton to legein, epeidē ho Christos aperēnato tous hagious oxthēnai hōs angelous en tę̄ anastasei, ta sōmata dia touta mē mē anistasthai, kaitoi tēs lexeōs autēn tēn praxin dēlousēs saphōs tou symbainontos.
So it is most irrational to say that, because Christ declared the saints would appear as angels in the resurrection, the bodies therefore do not rise, although the word clearly shows the very thing that happens.
Notes and citation
Summary: “Resurrection” itself implies bodies rising.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.43.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:467; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-43-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.43.9Holl GCS 25/31:467
ἀνάστασις γὰρ οὐκ ἐπὶ τοῦ μὴ πεπτωκότος, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τοῦ πεπτωκότος λέγεται καὶ ἀνισταμένου· ὥσπερ ὁπόταν λέγῃ καὶ ὁ προφήτης »καὶ ἀναστήσω τὴν σκηνὴν Δαυὶδ τὴν πεπτωκυῖαν«. ἕπεσε δὲ ὀκλάσασα ἡ ποθητὴ σκηνὴ τῆς ψυχῆς εἰς »γῆν χώματος«. οὐ γὰρ τὸ μὴ θνῇσκον, ἀλλὰ τὸ θνῇσκον κλίνεται.
anastasis gar ouk epi tou mē peptōkotos, allʼ epi tou peptōkotos legetai kai anistamenou; hōsper hopotan legę̄ kai ho prophētēs »kai anastēsō tēn skēnēn Dauid tēn peptōkuian«. hepese de oklasasa hē pothētē skēnē tēs psychēs eis »gēn chōmatos«. ou gar to mē thnę̄skon, alla to thnę̄skon klinetai.
For resurrection is said not of what has not fallen, but of what has fallen and rises; as when the prophet says, “And I will raise up the tabernacle of David that has fallen.” And the beloved tabernacle of the soul fell, sinking to “the dust of the earth.” For not what does not die, but what dies, is laid low.
Amos 9:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Dan 12:2 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Only what has fallen can rise.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.43.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:467; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-43-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.43.10Holl GCS 25/31:467–468
θνῄσκει δὲ σάρξ, ψυχὴ γὰρ ἀθάνατος, καὶ τοίνυν εἰ ἡ Μὴ ἀθάνατος, σῶμα δὲ 6 νεκρός, οἱ λέγοντες ἀνάστασιν μὲν εἶναι, σαρκὸς δὲ μὴ εἶναι, ἀρνοῦνται μὴ εἶναι ἀνάστασιν, ὅτι μὴ τὸ ἑστὸς ἀλλὰ τὸ πεπτωκὸς καὶ κλιθὲν διανίσταται κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον »μὴ ὁ πίπτων οὐκ ὰνίσταται ἢ ὁ ἀποστρίφων οὐκ ἀναστρεψει«;
thnę̄skei de sarx, psychē gar athanatos, kai toinyn ei hē Mē athanatos, sōma de 6 nekros, hoi legontes anastasin men einai, sarkos de mē einai, arnountai mē einai anastasin, hoti mē to hestos alla to peptōkos kai klithen dianistatai kata to gegrammenon »mē ho piptōn ouk anistatai ē ho apostriphōn ouk anastrepsei«?
And flesh dies, for the soul is immortal. So if the soul is immortal and the body is the dead thing, those who say there is a resurrection but not of the flesh deny that there is a resurrection, since not what stands but what has fallen and been laid low rises, as it is written: “Does not he who falls rise, or he who turns away not return?”
Jer 8:4 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Denying the flesh’s resurrection denies resurrection.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.43.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:467–468; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-43-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 44
64.44.1Holl GCS 25/31:468
44. Ὅτι δὲ ἀθάνατος ἡ ψυχὴ ἐδίδαξεν ἀναφανδὸν ὁ κύριος καὶ διʼ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ διὰ σολομῶνος εἰπών· διʼ ἑαυτοῦ μὲν ἐν τῂ κατὰ τὸν πλούσιον καὶ τὸν πένητα λάζαρον ἱστορίᾳ, τὸν νὲν ἐν κόλποις Ἁβραὰμ δεικνὺς ἀναπαύεσθαι μετὰ τὴν ἀπόθεσιν τοῦ σώματος, τὸν δὲ ἐν ἀλγηδόσιν, δἶς διαλεγόμενον τὸν ’Αβραὰμ εἰσήγαγε· διὰ Σολομῶνος δὲ ἐν τῇ
44. Hoti de athanatos hē psychē edidaxen anaphandon ho kyrios kai diʼ heautou kai dia solomōnos eipōn; diʼ heautou men en tę̄ kata ton plousion kai ton penēta lazaron historią, ton nen en kolpois Habraam deiknys anapauesthai meta tēn apothesin tou sōmatos, ton de en algēdosin, dis dialegomenon ton ’Abraam eisēgage; dia Solomōnos de en tę̄
That the soul is immortal the Lord taught openly both through himself and through Solomon: through himself in the story of the rich man and poor Lazarus, showing the one resting in Abraham’s bosom after laying aside the body, and the other in pains, whom he introduced conversing with Abraham; through Solomon in the book
Luke 16:22 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 16:24 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Lord taught the soul’s immortality.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.44.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:468; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-44-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.44.2Holl GCS 25/31:468
ἐπιγραφο- μένῃ Σοφίᾳ, ἔνθα »δικαίων αἱ ψυχαὶ ἐν χειρί« γέγραπται »θεοῦ, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἅψηται αὐτῶν βάσανος. ἔδοξαν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ἀφθαλμοῖς τεθνάναι καὶ ἐλογίσθη κάκωσις ἡ ἔξοδος αὐτῶν καὶ ἡ ἀφʼ ἡμῶν πορεία σύντριμμα·
epigrapho- menę̄ Sophią, entha »dikaiōn hai psychai en cheiri« gegraptai »theou, kai ou mē hapsētai autōn basanos. edoxan en ophthalmois aphthalmois tethnanai kai elogisthē kakōsis hē exodos autōn kai hē aphʼ hēmōn poreia syntrimma;
entitled Wisdom, where it is written: “The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will touch them. In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought an affliction, and their going from us destruction;
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Summary: Wisdom 3 on the souls of the righteous.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 3:1-3 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.44.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:468; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-44-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.44.3Holl GCS 25/31:468
οἱ δέ εἰσιν ἐν εἰρήνῃ, καὶ ἡ ἑπὶς αὐτῶν ἀθανασίας πλήρης«. ὅθεν σώματος ἡ ἀνάστασις, καὶ οὐ ψυχῆς. οὐ γὰρ τὸν ἑστῶτά τις ἀνίστησιν, ἀλλὰ τὸν κείμενον, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ τὸν ὑγιαίνοντα θεραπεύουσιν, ἀλλὰ τὸν πάσχοντα.
hoi de eisin en eirēnę̄, kai hē hepis autōn athanasias plērēs«. hothen sōmatos hē anastasis, kai ou psychēs. ou gar ton hestōta tis anistēsin, alla ton keimenon, hōsper oude ton hygiainonta therapeuousin, alla ton paschonta.
but they are in peace, and their hope is full of immortality.” Hence the resurrection is of the body, not of the soul. For one does not raise him who stands, but him who lies down, just as one does not treat the healthy but the sufferer.
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Summary: Resurrection is of the body, since the soul does not die.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 3:3-4 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.44.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:468; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-44-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.44.4Holl GCS 25/31:468
Εἰ δέ τις τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἐπὶ τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ μὴ ἐπὶ τῆς σαρκὸς βιάζε- ται λέγειν ἔσεσθαι, πολλὴ μὲ μωρία τοῦτο καὶ ἀλογία. δεῖ γὰρ φθορὰν πρῶτον καὶ λύσιν τὸν τοιοῦτον τῆς ψυχῆς δεικνύναι, ἴνα δεόξῃ δὴ καὶ τὴν ἀνάστασιν, μή τοι ληροῦντά γε, ἀλλὰ σαφῶς λέγοντά τι φαίνεσθαι.
Ei de tis tēn anastasin epi tēs psychēs kai mē epi tēs sarkos biaze- tai legein esesthai, pollē me mōria touto kai alogia. dei gar phthoran prōton kai lysin ton toiouton tēs psychēs deiknynai, ina deoxę̄ dē kai tēn anastasin, mē toi lērounta ge, alla saphōs legonta ti phainesthai.
But if anyone insists on saying the resurrection will be of the soul and not of the flesh, this is great folly and unreason. For such a one must first show the soul’s corruption and dissolution, so that he may show its resurrection too and appear not to be talking nonsense, but saying something clear.
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Summary: A resurrection of the soul would require its death first.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.44.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:468; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-44-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.44.5Holl GCS 25/31:468–469
ὅμως γοῦν δοτέον αὐτῷ θνητὴν ὁρίσασθαι τὴν ψυχήν. δυοῖν γάρ τοι θάτερον ἐνταῦθα θετέον, ἢ ἀληθῆ τὸν κύριον ἀποφήνασθαι ἀθάνατον τὴν ψυχὴν διδάσκοντα καὶ ψεῦδος τὸ ξθείρεσθαι αὐτὴν λέγοντα ἢ φθείρεσθαι καὶ ψεῦδος ψεῦδος τῷ ἀνώλεθρον αὐτὴν ἀθάνατον εῖναι διδάσκειν <λέγειν> τὸν Χριστόν, καὶ ἐν τῇ κατὰ τὸν πλούσιον καὶ τὸν πένητα καὶ ἐν τῇ κατὰ τὸν Μωυσέα καὶ τὸν ’Ηλίαν ἀπτασίᾳ.
homōs goun doteon autǭ thnētēn horisasthai tēn psychēn. dyoin gar toi thateron entautha theteon, ē alēthē ton kyrion apophēnasthai athanaton tēn psychēn didaskonta kai pseudos to xtheiresthai autēn legonta ē phtheiresthai kai pseudos pseudos tǭ anōlethron autēn athanaton einai didaskein <legein> ton Christon, kai en tę̄ kata ton plousion kai ton penēta kai en tę̄ kata ton Mōysea kai ton ’Ēlian aptasią.
Still, let us grant him to define the soul as mortal. For one of two things must be laid down here: either the Lord declared truly when teaching that the soul is immortal, and saying it is corrupted is false; or it is corrupted, and it is false for Christ to teach that it is indestructible and immortal, both in the story of the rich man and the poor man and in the vision of Moses and Elijah.
Matt 17:3 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Either Christ spoke truly of the soul’s immortality or falsely.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.44.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:468–469; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-44-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.44.6Holl GCS 25/31:469
ἀλλʼ οὐδὲν ὁ κύριος ἄλλως ἐφθέγξατο ἢ ἐψεύσατο. οὐ γὰρ εἴδωλον ἢ φάντασμα, τοὺς ἀποστόλους βουλόμενος ἀπατᾶν, ἐδείκνυεν αὐτοῖς ἐν τῷ ὄρει τὸν Ἡλίαν καὶ τὸν Μωυσέα, ἀλλʼ ὃ ἦσαν ἀψευδῶς· ὥστε, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, καὶ τὸν δυσμαθέστατον μαθεῖν ἀθάνατον αὐτὸν εἶναι καὶ ἀνώλεθρον διαβεβαιοῦσθαι τὴν ψυχήν.
allʼ ouden ho kyrios allōs ephthenxato ē epseusato. ou gar eidōlon ē phantasma, tous apostolous boulomenos apatan, edeiknyen autois en tǭ orei ton Hēlian kai ton Mōysea, allʼ ho ēsan apseudōs; hōste, hōs epos eipein, kai ton dysmathestaton mathein athanaton auton einai kai anōlethron diabebaiousthai tēn psychēn.
But the Lord spoke nothing otherwise nor lied. For it was not a phantom or apparition, wishing to deceive the apostles, that he showed them on the mountain in Elijah and Moses, but what they truly were; so that, so to speak, even the slowest learner may learn that he affirms the soul to be immortal and indestructible.
Notes and citation
Summary: The transfiguration shows souls are immortal.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.44.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:469; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-44-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 45
64.45.1Holl GCS 25/31:469
45. Οὐκοῦν σαρκὸς ἡ ἀνάστασις γίγνεται καὶ οὐ ψυχῆς, ὅπως ἡ πεπτωκυῖα τοῦ Δαυὶδ εἰς τὴν φθορὰν ἀνασταίη σκηνή, καὶ ἀναστᾶσα καὶ ἀνοικοδομηθεῖσα, καθὼς αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ αὐῶνος, ἀπήμων λοιπὸν καὶ ἀδιάπτωτος πτωτος διαμένοι,
45. Oukoun sarkos hē anastasis gignetai kai ou psychēs, hopōs hē peptōkuia tou Dauid eis tēn phthoran anastaiē skēnē, kai anastasa kai anoikodomētheisa, kathōs hai hēmerai tou auōnos, apēmōn loipon kai adiaptōtos ptōtos diamenoi,
So the resurrection is of the flesh and not of the soul, so that the fallen tabernacle of David may rise from corruption, and having risen and been rebuilt, as in the days of old, may remain thereafter unharmed and unfailing,
Amos 9:11 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The flesh, David’s fallen tent, will be raised.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.45.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:469; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-45-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.45.2Holl GCS 25/31:469
ὅτι μὴ τῷ θεῷ τὴν λιθίνην οἰκίαν δείμασθαι τοῦ Δαυὶδ ἔμελεν, ἵνʼ ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν οἰκίαν σχῆ καλήν, ἀλλὰ τὴν σάρκα, τὸ τῆς τῆς ψυχῆς, ἣν αὐτὸς ταῖς ἑαυτοῦ χερσὶν ἐτεκτήνατο.
hoti mē tǭ theǭ tēn lithinēn oikian deimasthai tou Dauid emelen, hinʼ en tę̄ basileią tōn ouranōn oikian schē kalēn, alla tēn sarka, to tēs tēs psychēs, hēn autos tais heautou chersin etektēnato.
since God did not care to build David’s stone house, so that he might have a fine house in the kingdom of heaven, but the flesh, the house of the soul, which he fashioned with his own hands.
Notes and citation
Summary: The tabernacle is the flesh, not a building.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.45.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:469; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-45-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.45.3Holl GCS 25/31:469
σκο- πεῖσθαι δέδε, δε, ὦ σοφώτατε Ἀγλαοξῶν, οὔτως χρή. τάντως δὲ ῥᾷστα μαθήσῃ τοῦτο, ἐὰν ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ καθεύδειν εὶκόνα προσσχῇς καὶ ανίστα σθαι. εἰ γὰρ τὸ ὑπνοῦν τοῦ τοῦ ἐγρηγορέναι καὶ τὸ ἀνίστασθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ καθεύδειν γίγνεται καὶ τοῦτο θανάτου καὶ ἀναστάσεως μελέτη »ὕπνῳγὰρ καὶ θανάτῳ διδυμάοσιν«), ἀνάγκη δὴ καὶ τὸ ἀναβιώσκεσθαι εἶναι ἐκ τοῦ τεθνάναι εῖς τὸ ζῆν τὴν σάφκα, εἴπερ καὶ τὸ ἀνεγείρεσθαι ἐκ τῶν καθευδόντων.
sko- peisthai dede, de, ō sophōtate Aglaoxōn, outōs chrē. tantōs de rhąsta mathēsę̄ touto, ean epi tēn tou katheudein eikona prosschę̄s kai anista sthai. ei gar to hypnoun tou tou egrēgorenai kai to anistasthai apo tou katheudein gignetai kai touto thanatou kai anastaseōs meletē »hypnǭgar kai thanatǭ didymaosin«), anankē dē kai to anabiōskesthai einai ek tou tethnanai eis to zēn tēn saphka, eiper kai to anegeiresthai ek tōn katheudontōn.
We must consider it thus, most wise Aglaophon. You will learn it most easily if you attend to the image of sleeping and rising. For if sleep comes from waking and rising from sleeping, and this is a rehearsal of death and resurrection (“for they are twins, Sleep and Death”), then the flesh must also come back to life from being dead, if there is also rising from those who sleep.
Notes and citation
Summary: Sleep and waking image death and resurrection.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The quotation is Homer, Iliad 16.672.
Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Il. 16.672 (Homer, Iliad; quotation); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.45.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:469; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-45-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.45.4Holl GCS 25/31:469–470
ὡς γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ καθεύδειν τὸ ἐγρηγορέναι γίγνεται καὶ οὐ πάντως ὁ καθεύδων ἐν αὐτῷ διαμένει σχήματι Πήματι καθεύδων ἀεί, ἀλλʼ αὖθις ἀνίσταται, οὔτως καὶ τὸ ζῆν ἐκ τοῦ ἄποθανεῖν συμβήσεται, καὶ ο πάντως ὁ ἀποθανών, ἐπειδὰν ἀποθάνοι, ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ μένει.
hōs gar ek tou katheudein to egrēgorenai gignetai kai ou pantōs ho katheudōn en autǭ diamenei schēmati Pēmati katheudōn aei, allʼ authis anistatai, outōs kai to zēn ek tou apothanein symbēsetai, kai o pantōs ho apothanōn, epeidan apothanoi, en tǭ autǭ menei.
For as waking comes from sleeping, and the sleeper does not remain for ever asleep in the same posture but rises again, so too life will come from death, and the dead does not by all means remain in the same state once he has died.
Notes and citation
Summary: Life follows death as waking follows sleep.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.45.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:469–470; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-45-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.45.5Holl GCS 25/31:470
εἰ γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ κοιμᾶσθαι τό ἐγρηγορέναι καὶ ἐκ τοῦ πεσεῖν τὸ ἀνεγερθῆναι καὶ ἐκ τοῦ καταβληθῆναι τὸ ἀνοικοδομηθῆναι, τίς μηχανὴ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ κγιθέντος μὴ οὐχὶ προσδοκᾶν τὸ ἀναστήσεσθαι καὶ ἐκ τοῦ θανόντος τὸ ἀναβιώσεσθαι; καὶ γὰρ ἡμεῖς ταῦτα οὐκ ἐξαπατώμενοι ὁμολογοῦμεν ἐκ τῶν τεθνεώτων σωμάτων τὸ ἀναβιώσκεσθαι συμβαίνειν.
ei gar ek tou koimasthai to egrēgorenai kai ek tou pesein to anegerthēnai kai ek tou katablēthēnai to anoikodomēthēnai, tis mēchanē kai ek tou kgithentos mē ouchi prosdokan to anastēsesthai kai ek tou thanontos to anabiōsesthai? kai gar hēmeis tauta ouk exapatōmenoi homologoumen ek tōn tethneōtōn sōmatōn to anabiōskesthai symbainein.
For if waking comes from sleeping, rising from falling, and rebuilding from being thrown down, what device is there for not expecting rising from what has been laid low and coming back to life from what has died? And we confess these things, not deceived, that coming back to life happens from dead bodies.
Notes and citation
Summary: Resurrection follows naturally from death.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.45.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:470; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-45-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.45.6Holl GCS 25/31:470
καὶ μὴ μόνον τοῦτο, εἰ βούλει, ἀπὸ τοῦ καθεύδειν σκόπει καὶ ἀνίστασθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν σπερμάτων καὶ φυτῶν ὡς ἐν πᾶσιν αὐτοῖς ἡ ἁνάστασις καταγγέλλεται. καταμάθετε γὰρ τὰ σπέρματα, πῶς »γυμνά«, φησίν, καὶ ἄσαρκα βάλλεται εἰς τὴν γῆν καὶ τελεσφορούμενα πάλιν ἀποδίδοται. ἐπεὶ εἰ θνῄσκοι μὴν καὶ σήποιτο τὰ σπέρματα, ἔκ δὶ τῶν σπερμάτων μηκέτι τὸ ἀναζῆν καὶ φύειν γένοιτο, τίς ἡ ἀποκλήρωσις μὴ οὐχὶ πάντα λαταμαωθῆναι εἰς τὸ τεθνάναι;
kai mē monon touto, ei boulei, apo tou katheudein skopei kai anistasthai, alla kai apo tōn spermatōn kai phytōn hōs en pasin autois hē hanastasis katangelletai. katamathete gar ta spermata, pōs »gymna«, phēsin, kai asarka balletai eis tēn gēn kai telesphoroumena palin apodidotai. epei ei thnę̄skoi mēn kai sēpoito ta spermata, ek di tōn spermatōn mēketi to anazēn kai phyein genoito, tis hē apoklērōsis mē ouchi panta latamaōthēnai eis to tethnanai?
And consider this not only from sleeping and rising, if you will, but also from seeds and plants, how in all of them the resurrection is proclaimed. For observe the seeds, how they are cast into the ground “bare,” he says, and fleshless, and are given back again brought to completion. For if seeds died and rotted, and from the seeds came no more reviving and growing, what escape would there be from everything being condemned to death?
1 Cor 15:37 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Seeds show the resurrection.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.45.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:470; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-45-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 46
64.46.1Holl GCS 25/31:470
46. Ἀλλὰ γὰρ περὶ τούτων πλείω λέγειν τανῦν, ὦ κράτιστε Θεόφιλε, παρήσομμεν, καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ κριταὶ τῶν λόγων. λάβωμεν δὲ καὶ τὰ τούτοις ἀφεξῆς ἀκόλουθα, ὡς ἀφέστηκε τοῦ δέοντος μακράν.
46. Alla gar peri toutōn pleiō legein tanyn, ō kratiste Theophile, parēsommen, kai hoi loipoi kritai tōn logōn. labōmen de kai ta toutois aphexēs akoloutha, hōs aphestēke tou deontos makran.
But we will leave off saying more about these things now, most excellent Theophilus, and you other judges of the arguments. Let us take also what follows next in order, how far it has departed from what is right.
Notes and citation
Summary: Methodius moves to the next point.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:470; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.2Holl GCS 25/31:470
ὁ θεὸς γὰρ αὐτῷ πάλιν αὐτὰς τὰς ψυχὰς ἐν τῇ κατὰ τὸν ἑξηκοστὸν πέμπτον ψαλμὸν προφητείᾳ βεβιασμένως αὐτὴν καὶ ἀνοικείως ἐκτιθεμένῷ, ὡς εἰς παγίδα <εἰς> τὴν σάρκα δίκην ὑφεξούσας τῶν ἡμαρτημένων ἐμβιβάζει, ὅπερ ἀτοπίας μᾶλλον ἢ ὀρθοδοξίας ἐστίν.
ho theos gar autǭ palin autas tas psychas en tę̄ kata ton hexēkoston pempton psalmon prophēteią bebiasmenōs autēn kai anoikeiōs ektithemenǭ, hōs eis pagida <eis> tēn sarka dikēn hyphexousas tōn hēmartēmenōn embibazei, hoper atopias mallon ē orthodoxias estin.
For God, according to him — expounding the prophecy of the sixty-fifth psalm forcedly and inappropriately — brings the souls themselves into the flesh as into a snare, to undergo punishment for their sins; which belongs to absurdity rather than orthodoxy.
Ps 66:11 (65:11 LXX) (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Aglaophon read Ps 66:11 of souls trapped in flesh.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The psalm verse is “You brought us into the snare” (Ps 66:11; LXX 65:11).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:470; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.3Holl GCS 25/31:470
εἰ γὰρ πρὸ τῆς παραβάσεως, καθάπερ ἤδη καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν ἐξεθέμεθα, σῶμα ἐκέκτηντο αἱ ψυχαί, πῶς > εἰς παγίδα ὕστερον μετὰ τὴν παράβασιν εἰς σῶμα ἀμβιβάζονται, οὐκ ὄντος χρόνῳ ἐν ᾦ πρὶν αὐτὸς τὸ σῶμα λαβεῖ ἐξημάρτοσαν;
ei gar pro tēs parabaseōs, kathaper ēdē kai en tois emprosthen exethemetha, sōma ekektēnto hai psychai, pōs > eis pagida hysteron meta tēn parabasin eis sōma ambibazontai, ouk ontos chronǭ en ǭ prin autos to sōma labei exēmartosan?
For if, as we have already set out above, souls had a body before the transgression, how are they brought afterward, after the transgression, into a body as into a snare, when there was no time in which they sinned before taking the body?
Notes and citation
Summary: Souls had bodies before the fall.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:470; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.4Holl GCS 25/31:470–471
οὐ γὰρ ἔμφρο- ὁτὲ ὁτὲ μὲν ὡς διὰ τὸ σῶμα λέγειν τὰς ψυχὰς ἡμαρτηκέναι, ἑτὲ δέ, ἐπειδήπερ ἑμάρτοσαν, διὰ τοῦτο καὶ δεσμὸν αὐτὸ καὶ παγίδα πρὸς κατάκρισιν γεγονέναι.
ou gar emphro- hote hote men hōs dia to sōma legein tas psychas hēmartēkenai, hete de, epeidēper hemartosan, dia touto kai desmon auto kai pagida pros katakrisin gegonenai.
For it is not sensible to say at one time that souls sinned because of the body, and at another that because they sinned the body became a bond and snare for their condemnation.
Notes and citation
Summary: Aglaophon’s claims contradict.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The text is disturbed at the start.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:470–471; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.5Holl GCS 25/31:471
εἰ γὰρ διὰ τὸ σῶμα ἥματρον, συνῆν ἄρα ἐξ ἀπχῆς αὐταῑς ταῖς καὶ πρὸ τῆς ἀμαρτίας τὸ σῶμα.
ei gar dia to sōma hēmatron, synēn ara ex apchēs autais tais kai pro tēs amartias to sōma.
For if they sinned because of the body, then the body was with them from the beginning, even before the sin.
Notes and citation
Summary: Sin through the body means the body existed first.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:471; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.6Holl GCS 25/31:471
πῶς γὰρ διὰ τοῦτο ἡμάρτανον, μὴ ἦν μηδέπω; εἰ δὲ παγὶς πάλι αὐτὸ τὸ σῶμα καὶ πέδαι νομίζεται καὶ δεσμός, οὐκέτι τὸ συναμφότερον αἴτοιν, ἀλλὰ ψυχὴ μόνη.
pōs gar dia touto hēmartanon, mē ēn mēdepō? ei de pagis pali auto to sōma kai pedai nomizetai kai desmos, ouketi to synamphoteron aitoin, alla psychē monē.
For how could they sin because of it, if it did not yet exist? And if the body in turn is thought a snare, fetters and bond, then the pair together is no longer responsible, but the soul alone.
Notes and citation
Summary: If the body is a snare, the soul alone sinned.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:471; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.7Holl GCS 25/31:471
ἁμαρτήσαντι γὰρ μετὰ τὸ ἁμαρτῆσαι [τῷ ἁμαρτήσαντι] δεσμὰ καὶ παγίδες καὶ πέδαι ἀλλὰ μὲν ὁὴ ὡμολογήσαμεν μὴ δύνασθαι δεσμὸν εἶναι τὸ σῶμα τῆς ψυχῆς, ἐπειδὴ τὸ μὲν σῶμα πρὸς ἐκάτερα, καὶ πρὸς τὸ δίκαιον καὶ ἄδικον, συνεργεῖ, ὁ δὲ δεδμὸς εἴργει τοῦ ἀδικεῖν.
hamartēsanti gar meta to hamartēsai [tǭ hamartēsanti] desma kai pagides kai pedai alla men hoē hōmologēsamen mē dynasthai desmon einai to sōma tēs psychēs, epeidē to men sōma pros ekatera, kai pros to dikaion kai adikon, synergei, ho de dedmos eirgei tou adikein.
For bonds, snares and fetters come to one who has sinned after the sin. But we agreed that the body cannot be a bond of the soul, since the body cooperates toward either, toward the just and the unjust, whereas the bond keeps one from doing wrong.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: The body cannot be a bond.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The editor deletes a repeated “to the one who sinned.”
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:471; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.8Holl GCS 25/31:471
ὥστε ὄπερ λέγω δυοῖν δάτερον· ἢ γὰρ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἡμάρτομεν μετὰ σώματος καὶ οὐ φαίνεται χρόνος ἐν ᾦ ἐκτὸς ὑπήρξαμεν σώματος καὶ συναίτιον τὸ σῶμα καὶ ἀγαθῶν τῇ ψυχῇ καὶ κακῶν, ἢ χωρὶς σώματος διάγοντες ἡμάρτομεν καὶ ἀναίτιον τὸ σῶμα κακίας ἐκ παντός.
hōste oper legō dyoin dateron; ē gar ex archēs hēmartomen meta sōmatos kai ou phainetai chronos en ǭ ektos hypērxamen sōmatos kai synaition to sōma kai agathōn tę̄ psychę̄ kai kakōn, ē chōris sōmatos diagontes hēmartomen kai anaition to sōma kakias ek pantos.
So, as I say, it is one of two things: either we sinned with the body from the beginning, and there appears no time in which we existed outside the body, and the body is a joint cause for the soul of both good and evil; or we sinned while living without a body, and the body is entirely blameless of wickedness.
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Summary: Either we sinned with a body from the start or the body is blameless.
- Methodius, On the Resurrection, quoted by Epiphanius.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): συναςιτιον → συναίτιον; ψμχῇ → ψυχῇ.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:471; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.9Holl GCS 25/31:471
ἀλλὰ χωρὶς σώματος ὑπὸ ἀλό γου ἡδονῆς οὐ κρατεῖται ἡ ψυχή, ἐκρατήθησαν δὲ οἱ πρωτόπλαστοι ἀλόγῳ δελεασρέντες ἡδονῇ· ἦν ἄρα ἡ ψυχὴ μετὰ σώματος καὶ πρὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας. Ι περὶ γὰρ δὴ τοῦ μὴ ἐγχωρεῖν αὐτὸ νομίζεσθαι διὰ τὴν παράβασιν δεσμὸν ἐπὶ τιμωρίᾳ γεγονός, ἵνʼ ἀκήρατον ἡ Μὴ καὶ συνεχῆ κατʼ αὐτοὺς βάσανον ἔχῃ νεκροφοροῦσα, δοκῶ μοι πλήρης ταῦτα ἤδη μετὰ πάσης ἀποδείξεως δεδηλωκέναι.
alla chōris sōmatos hypo alo gou hēdonēs ou krateitai hē psychē, ekratēthēsan de hoi prōtoplastoi alogǭ deleasrentes hēdonę̄; ēn ara hē psychē meta sōmatos kai pro tēs hamartias. I peri gar dē tou mē enchōrein auto nomizesthai dia tēn parabasin desmon epi timōrią gegonos, hinʼ akēraton hē Mē kai synechē katʼ autous basanon echę̄ nekrophorousa, dokō moi plērēs tauta ēdē meta pasēs apodeixeōs dedēlōkenai.
But without a body the soul is not overcome by irrational pleasure; yet the first-formed were overcome, enticed by irrational pleasure. Therefore the soul was with the body even before the sin. As for the claim that the body cannot be thought to have come into being as a fetter imposed as punishment for the transgression, so that the soul might carry a corpse and have, as they say, pure and continual torment, I think I have already shown this fully with every proof.
Gen 3:6 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: The first sin presupposes an embodied soul; the body is not a punitive fetter.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The words rendered “the soul” (ἡ Μὴ in the digital text) are garbled; translated by sense.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:471; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.11Holl GCS 25/31:471
ὅθεν ἀσύστατον καὶ ἀνένδεκτον τὸ μὲν σῶμα παγίδα τίθεσθαι καὶ δεσμά, τὸν δὲ θεὸν εἰσάγειν τὰς ψυχὰς εἰς τὴν παγίδα δίκην ὑφεξούσας, ἄνωθεν ἐκ τοῦ τρίτου ἐκβάλλοντα οὐρανοῦ ἀωθʼ ὦν παρήδουσαν τῆς ἐντολῆς.
hothen asystaton kai anendekton to men sōma pagida tithesthai kai desma, ton de theon eisagein tas psychas eis tēn pagida dikēn hyphexousas, anōthen ek tou tritou ekballonta ouranou aōthʼ ōn parēdousan tēs entolēs.
Hence it is incoherent and inadmissible to make the body a snare and fetters, and to represent God as bringing souls into the snare to undergo punishment, casting them down from the third heaven above because they disregarded the commandment.
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Summary: God did not cast souls from the third heaven into the body as a snare.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:471; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.12Holl GCS 25/31:471–472
πρὸς τί γάρ τις βλέψας πιστεύσειεν τοῖς οὕτω ὑπʼ αὐτῶν προπετῶς εἰρημένοις; καίπερ οὐκ ἔχοντος οὕτως τοῦ ψαλμοῦ, κἂν βεβιασπροπετῶς μένως αὐτὸν ἐκτίθωνται. αὐτὰ δὲ προοίσω τὰ ἐγκείμενα, ἵνα δὴ καὶ τὸ μυθῶδες αὐτῶν τῆς ἐξηήσεως φανῇ, ὀρθῶς μὴ θελόντων νοεῖν τὰς γραφάς.
pros ti gar tis blepsas pisteuseien tois houtō hypʼ autōn propetōs eirēmenois? kaiper ouk echontos houtōs tou psalmou, kan bebiaspropetōs menōs auton ektithōntai. auta de prooisō ta enkeimena, hina dē kai to mythōdes autōn tēs exēēseōs phanę̄, orthōs mē thelontōn noein tas graphas.
For what could anyone look to in order to believe what they have so rashly said? The psalm does not say this, even if they expound it by force. I will set out the words themselves, so that the fabulous character of their interpretation may appear, since they will not understand the Scriptures rightly.
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Summary: Methodius will quote the psalm to expose their fanciful exegesis.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. βεβιασπροπετῶς μένως is a garbled repetition in the digital text (βεβιασμένως, “by force”).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:471–472; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.13Holl GCS 25/31:472
εἰσὶ γὰρ οὕτω πως δήπου τὰ λεχθέντα· »ἐδοκίμασας ἡμᾶς ὁθεός, ἐπύρωσας ἡμᾶς, ὡς πυποῦται τὸ ἀργύριον. εἰσήγαγες ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν παγίδα, ἄθου θλίψεις ἐπὶ τὸν νῶτον ἡμῶν. ἑπεβέβασας ἀνθρώπους ἐπὶ τὰς δεφαλὰς ἡμῶν. διήλθομεν διὰ πυρὸς καὶ ὕδατος, καὶ ἑξήγαγες ἡμᾶς εἰς ἀναψυχήν«.
eisi gar houtō pōs dēpou ta lechthenta; »edokimasas hēmas hotheos, epyrōsas hēmas, hōs pypoutai to argyrion. eisēgages hēmas eis tēn pagida, athou thlipseis epi ton nōton hēmōn. hepebebasas anthrōpous epi tas dephalas hēmōn. diēlthomen dia pyros kai hydatos, kai hexēgages hēmas eis anapsychēn«.
The words are, I suppose, something like this: “You have tested us, O God; you have refined us as silver is refined. You brought us into the snare; you laid afflictions on our back. You caused men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and water, and you brought us out into refreshment.”
Ps 66:10 (65:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 66:11 (65:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 66:12 (65:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The psalm the Origenists appeal to.
- Ps 66:10–12 (65:10–12 LXX).
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.13 (Holl GCS 25/31:472; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.14Holl GCS 25/31:472
καὶ εὐθέως ἐπιφέρουσι· ταῦτα δὲ ὑπὸ ὑπὸ τῶν ψυχῶν τῶν εἰς τὴν παγίδα τὸ σῶμα ὡς εἰς ἀγώνισμα κατενεχθεισῶν ἐκ τοῦ τρίτου οὐρανοῦ, ἄνθα ὁ παράδεισος. τὸ γὰρ »διήλθαμεν διὰ πυρὸς καὶ ὕδα τος« ἤτοι, φησί, τὴν διὰ μήτρας εἰς τὸν κόσμον τῆς ψυχῆς πάροδον δηλοῖ, ἐπειδήπερ ἐν φλογὶ τοσαύτῃ καὶ ὑλρασίᾳ καταγίγνεται, ἢ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν οὐρανῶν κατάπτωσιν εἰς τὸν βίον διερχομένης <αὐτῆς> τὰς πηγὰς πυρὸς καὶ τὰ ὑπὲρ τὰ νῶτα τοῦ στερεώματος ὕδατα.
kai eutheōs epipherousi; tauta de hypo hypo tōn psychōn tōn eis tēn pagida to sōma hōs eis agōnisma katenechtheisōn ek tou tritou ouranou, antha ho paradeisos. to gar »diēlthamen dia pyros kai hyda tos« ētoi, phēsi, tēn dia mētras eis ton kosmon tēs psychēs parodon dēloi, epeidēper en phlogi tosautę̄ kai hylrasią katagignetai, ē tēn apo tōn ouranōn kataptōsin eis ton bion dierchomenēs <autēs> tas pēgas pyros kai ta hyper ta nōta tou stereōmatos hydata.
And at once they add: these words are spoken by the souls that were brought down from the third heaven, where paradise is, into the snare, the body, as into an arena. For “we went through fire and water,” he says, signifies either the soul’s passage through the womb into the world, since it comes to be in such great heat and moisture, or its fall from the heavens into this life, as it passes through the springs of fire and the waters above the back of the firmament.
Ps 66:12 (65:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 1:7 (allusion, low confidence)
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Summary: The Origenist reading of the psalm as souls falling from heaven.
- Methodius reporting the Origenist interpretation; Ps 66:12 (65:12 LXX).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.14 (Holl GCS 25/31:472; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.46.15Holl GCS 25/31:472
πρὸς οὓς ἠξίουν 15 ἐνίστασθαι. φέρε γὰρ ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν, ὦ ’Αγλαφῶν, αὐτὸς ποίησαι τὴν ἀπόκρισιν, τί λέξουσι.
pros hous ēxioun 15 enistasthai. phere gar hyper autōn, ō ’Aglaphōn, autos poiēsai tēn apokrisin, ti lexousi.
Against these I thought fit to object. For come, Aglaophon, answer on their behalf yourself: what will they say?
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Summary: Methodius challenges Aglaophon to answer for them.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Aglaophon is the host of the dialogue. The numeral 15 is a stray line number.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.46.15 (Holl GCS 25/31:472; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-46-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 47
64.47.1Holl GCS 25/31:472
47. Πρῶτον γὰρ <ὅτι> ὁ παράδεισος, ὄθεν καὶ ἐξεβλήθημεν ἐν τῷ πρωτοπλάστῳ, ἐπὶ ταύτης ἐστὶ τῆς γῆς προδήλως τόπος ἐξαίρετος, πρὸς ἄλυπον ἀνάπαυσιν καὶ διαγωγὴν τοῖς ἁγίοις ἀφωρισμένος, <τοῦτο> ἀπὸ τοῦ καὶ τὸν Τίγριν καὶ τὸν Εὐφράτην καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς ποταμοὺς τοὺς ἐκεῖθεν προχεομένους ἐνταῦθα φαίνεσθαι τῶι ῥευμάτων τὰς διεκβολὰς εἰς τὴν καθʼ ἡμᾶς ἤπειρον ἐπικλύζοντας.
47. Prōton gar <hoti> ho paradeisos, othen kai exeblēthēmen en tǭ prōtoplastǭ, epi tautēs esti tēs gēs prodēlōs topos exairetos, pros alypon anapausin kai diagōgēn tois hagiois aphōrismenos, <touto> apo tou kai ton Tigrin kai ton Euphratēn kai tous loipous potamous tous ekeithen procheomenous entautha phainesthai tōi rheumatōn tas diekbolas eis tēn kathʼ hēmas ēpeiron epiklyzontas.
First, that paradise, from which we were cast out in the first-formed man, is plainly a special place on this earth, set apart for painless rest and life for the saints, is clear from the fact that the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the other rivers flowing out from there are seen here, flooding our continent with the outflows of their streams.
Gen 2:8 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 2:10 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 2:14 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Paradise is on earth, as its rivers show.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.47.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:472; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-47-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.47.2Holl GCS 25/31:472
οὐ γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν οὐρανῶν ἄνωθεν καταράσσονται χεόμενοι· ἐπεὶ ἐπεὶ οὐδὲ ὑπέστη ἂν ἡ γῆ ὄγκον τοσοῦτον ἀθρόως ἐξ ὕψους καταφερόμενον ἡποδέξασθαι ὕδατος.
ou gar apo tōn ouranōn anōthen katarassontai cheomenoi; epei epei oude hypestē an hē gē onkon tosouton athroōs ex hypsous katapheromenon hēpodexasthai hydatos.
For they do not pour down from the heavens above; the earth could not have borne such a mass of water falling all at once from a height.
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Summary: The rivers do not fall from heaven.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.47.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:472; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-47-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.47.3Holl GCS 25/31:472–473
ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ ὁ ἀπόστολος ὑποτίθεται τὸν παράδειδον εἶναι ἐν τρίτῳ οὐρανῷ τοῖς λεπτῶν ἀκροᾶσθαι λόγων ἀπισταμένοις· »οἶδα« γάρ »ἁρπαγέντα τὸν τοιοῦτον> ἕως τρίτου« λέγων »οὑρανοῦ. καὶ οἶδα τὸν τοιοῦτον εἴτε ἐν σώματι εἴτε χωρὶς σώματος, ὁ θεὸς οἶδεν, ὅτι ἡρπάγη εἰς τὸ παράδεισον«.
allʼ oude ho apostolos hypotithetai ton paradeidon einai en tritǭ ouranǭ tois leptōn akroasthai logōn apistamenois; »oida« gar »harpagenta ton toiouton> heōs tritou« legōn »houranou. kai oida ton toiouton eite en sōmati eite chōris sōmatos, ho theos oiden, hoti hērpagē eis to paradeison«.
Nor does the apostle suggest that paradise is in the third heaven, to those who know how to listen to subtle words. For he says, “I know such a man caught up to the third heaven. And I know such a man, whether in the body or apart from the body, God knows, that he was caught up into paradise.”
2 Cor 12:2 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 12:3 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 12:4 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul distinguishes the third heaven from paradise.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 2 Cor 12:2–4.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.47.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:472–473; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-47-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.47.4Holl GCS 25/31:473
δύο ἀποκαλύψεις μεγάλας ἐωρακέναι μηνύει, δὶς ἀναληφθεὶς ἐναργῶς, ἅπαξ μὲν ἕως τρίτου οὐρανοῦ, ἅπαξ δὲ εἰς τὸν παράδεισον. τὸ γάρ »οἶδα ἁρπαγέντα τὸν τοιοῦτον ἕως τρίτου οὐρανοῦ« ἰδίως ἀποκάλυψιν αὐτῷ κατὰ τὸν τρίτον ἀναληφθέντι οὐρανὸν πεφηνέναι συνίστησι·
dyo apokalypseis megalas eōrakenai mēnyei, dis analēphtheis enargōs, hapax men heōs tritou ouranou, hapax de eis ton paradeison. to gar »oida harpagenta ton toiouton heōs tritou ouranou« idiōs apokalypsin autǭ kata ton triton analēphthenti ouranon pephēnenai synistēsi;
He indicates that he saw two great revelations, having been plainly taken up twice, once to the third heaven and once into paradise. For “I know such a man caught up to the third heaven” shows that a revelation was given to him specifically when he was taken up to the third heaven;
2 Cor 12:2 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul was taken up twice: first to the third heaven.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 2 Cor 12:2.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.47.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:473; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-47-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.47.5Holl GCS 25/31:473
τὸ δὲ »καὶ οἶδα« πάλιν ἐπιφερόμενον »τὸν τοιοῦτον ἄνθρωπον, εἴτε ἐν σώματι εἴτε ἐκτὸς τοῦ σώματος, <ἁρπαγέντα> εἰς τὸν παράδεισον« ἑτέραν αὐτῷ πεφανεφῶσθαι κατὰ παράδεισον ἀποκάλυψιν δείκνυσι. δείκνυσι.
to de »kai oida« palin epipheromenon »ton toiouton anthrōpon, eite en sōmati eite ektos tou sōmatos, <harpagenta> eis ton paradeison« heteran autǭ pephanephōsthai kata paradeison apokalypsin deiknysi. deiknysi.
while the words he adds again, “and I know such a man, whether in the body or outside the body, caught up into paradise,” show that another revelation was made to him in paradise.
2 Cor 12:3 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 12:4 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The second rapture was into paradise.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 2 Cor 12:3–4. The final δείκνυσι is repeated in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.47.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:473; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-47-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.47.6Holl GCS 25/31:473
τεπετισ10 μὸς οὖν ἐστι καὶ τραγικολογία τὸ καταβάλλεσθαι λέλειν τὰς ψυχὰς ἐκ τῶν οὐρανῶν καὶ διαβαίνειν τοῦ πυρὸς τὰς πηγὰς καὶ τὰ ὕσατα τὰ ὑπὲρ τὰ νῶτα τοῦ στερεώματος, εἰς καθʼ Μʼ ἡμᾶς φερομένας κόσμον.
tepetis10 mos oun esti kai tragikologia to kataballesthai lelein tas psychas ek tōn ouranōn kai diabainein tou pyros tas pēgas kai ta hysata ta hyper ta nōta tou stereōmatos, eis kathʼ Mʼ hēmas pheromenas kosmon.
It is therefore mere prattle and tragic bombast to say that souls are cast down from the heavens and pass through the springs of fire and the waters above the back of the firmament as they are carried into our world.
Notes and citation
Summary: The fall of souls through fire and water is bombast.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. τεπετισ10 μὸς (for τερετισμός, “prattle”) contains a stray line number.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.47.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:473; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-47-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.47.7Holl GCS 25/31:473
ἐπεὶ μηδὲ ὁ ’Αδὰμ ἐκ τῶν οὐπανῶν ἐξεβλήθη, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ κατὰ ἀνατολὰς ἐν Ἑδὲμ πεφυτευμένου παραδείσου. οὐ γὰρ πρὸ τῆς ἐν σωματώσεως τὸ παράπτωμα, καθάπερ ἐδείξαμεν ἱκανῶνς, οὐδʼ αὖ τὸ σῶμα παγὶς τοῦτοἀλλὰ μετὰ τὴν εἰς τὸ σῶμα σύμφυσιν τῆς ψυχῆς γίγνεται τὸ παράπρωμα, ὄτι τὸ συναμφότερον ὁ ἄνθρωπος καὶ ἡ ἐκ τοῦ παραδείσου κατάπτωσις ἐνθάδε.
epei mēde ho ’Adam ek tōn oupanōn exeblēthē, alla apo tou kata anatolas en Hedem pephyteumenou paradeisou. ou gar pro tēs en sōmatōseōs to paraptōma, kathaper edeixamen hikanōns, oudʼ au to sōma pagis toutoalla meta tēn eis to sōma symphysin tēs psychēs gignetai to paraprōma, oti to synamphoteron ho anthrōpos kai hē ek tou paradeisou kataptōsis enthade.
For Adam too was not cast out of the heavens, but from the paradise planted in Eden toward the east. The fall did not come before embodiment, as we have sufficiently shown, nor is the body a snare; the fall took place after the soul had grown together with the body, since the man is the two together, and the fall from paradise was to this place.
Gen 2:8 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 3:23 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Adam fell from an earthly paradise, after the soul was joined to the body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.47.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:473; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-47-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.47.8Holl GCS 25/31:473
ὁ δὲ ὅλως οὑ προσέσχεν ἐπιμελέστερον, ’Αγλαοφῶν, τῷ λόγῳ, ἀλλὰ διετείνατο περὶ πραγμάτων διανόησιν οὐκ ἐχοντων ἀκίνδυνον, ἐπιχειρήσας κατὰ τὰς δόξας ἐξηγήσασθαι τῶν φαύλων τὸν ψαλμόν, περὶ ὦν λέγειν πλείω παρήσομεν.
ho de holōs hou proseschen epimelesteron, ’Aglaophōn, tǭ logǭ, alla dieteinato peri pragmatōn dianoēsin ouk echontōn akindynon, epicheirēsas kata tas doxas exēgēsasthai tōn phaulōn ton psalmon, peri ōn legein pleiō parēsomen.
But he, Aglaophon, did not attend carefully to the argument at all; he pressed on in matters that cannot be thought about without danger, attempting to interpret the psalm according to the opinions of worthless men. About these we will say no more.
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Summary: Origen interpreted the psalm by false opinions.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; “he” is Origen.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.47.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:473; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-47-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 48
64.48.1Holl GCS 25/31:473–474
48. Βούλομαι γάρ, ἐπειδὴ ἄπαξ εἰς τὸ διευθῦναι τὴν μοχθηρίαν αὐ τῶν ηκαμεν, πογυμνῶσαι καὶ ταυτης αυτοῖς τῆς προφητείας τὴν πρόφασιν· »ἐδοκίμασας ἡμᾶς ὁ θεός· ἐπύφωσας ἡμᾶς, ὡς πυροῦται τὸ ἀργύ ριον«.
48. Boulomai gar, epeidē apax eis to dieuthynai tēn mochthērian au tōn ēkamen, pogymnōsai kai tautēs autois tēs prophēteias tēn prophasin; »edokimasas hēmas ho theos; epyphōsas hēmas, hōs pyroutai to argy rion«.
For I wish, since we have once set about correcting their perversity, to strip bare their pretext in this prophecy too: “You have tested us, O God; you have refined us as silver is refined.”
Ps 66:10 (65:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Methodius turns to the true sense of the psalm.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Ps 66:10 (65:10 LXX).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Beta Code left undecoded in the digital text): profhteias thn profasin → προφητείας τὴν πρόφασιν.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:473–474; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.48.2Holl GCS 25/31:474
δοκιμασθέντες διαρκῶς οἱ μάρτυπες ἐν ταῖς κατὰ τοὺς πειρασ- μοὺς τῶν βασάνων προσβολαῖς (τὰ πολλὰ γὰρ εἰς τὴν καθʼ ἡμᾶς προφητεῖαι πίστιν πληροῦνται) καὶ εὐκλεῶς καὶ ἐρρωμενέστατα διαθλήσαντες εὐχαριστοῦσι, τό »ἐδοκίμασας ἡμᾶς« λέγοντες τῷ θεῷ, ὡς ἴνα τὴν δόξαν παρʼ αὐτῷ κτήσωνται μείζονα, διὰ πολλῶν αὐτοὺς ἥλεγξε πόνων, τὸν ἀληθῶς ’Ολυμπιακὸν ἀγῶνα νικήσαι προθείς.
dokimasthentes diarkōs hoi martypes en tais kata tous peiras- mous tōn basanōn prosbolais (ta polla gar eis tēn kathʼ hēmas prophēteiai pistin plērountai) kai eukleōs kai errōmenestata diathlēsantes eucharistousi, to »edokimasas hēmas« legontes tǭ theǭ, hōs ina tēn doxan parʼ autǭ ktēsōntai meizona, dia pollōn autous hēlenxe ponōn, ton alēthōs ’Olympiakon agōna nikēsai protheis.
The martyrs, tested continually in the assaults of tortures during the trials (for most prophecies are fulfilled for our faith), and having contended gloriously and most bravely, give thanks, saying to God, “You have tested us,” as if to say that he proved them through many labours so that they might gain greater glory with him, setting before them victory in the truly Olympic contest.
Ps 66:10 (65:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The psalm is the martyrs’ thanksgiving for their testing.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Ps 66:10.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:474; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.48.3Holl GCS 25/31:474
καὶ ἑπισκέψασθε ὡς ὡς τούτοις συνῳδὰ σαφῶς τοῖς λόγοις περὶ μαρτύρων καὶ ὁ Σολομῶν ἀναφθέγγεται (οὐ γὰρ ἀμάρτθρος ὁ λόγος καὶ ἄλλων γραφῶν ὄτι »ὁ ἐπείρασεν αὐτοὺς καὶ ηὖρεν αὐτοὺς ἀξίους ἑαυτοῦ·
kai hepiskepsasthe hōs hōs toutois synǭda saphōs tois logois peri martyrōn kai ho Solomōn anaphthengetai (ou gar amartthros ho logos kai allōn graphōn oti »ho epeirasen autous kai ēuren autous axious heautou;
And observe how Solomon too speaks about martyrs, clearly in harmony with these words (for the argument is not without the witness of other Scriptures): “God tested them and found them worthy of himself;
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Summary: Solomon also speaks of the testing of martyrs.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Wis 3:5, attributed to Solomon.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 3:5 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:474; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.48.4Holl GCS 25/31:474
ὡς χρυσίον ἐν χωνευτηρίῳ ἐδοκίμασεν αὐτοὺς καὶ ὡς ὁλοκάρπωμα εὐωδίας προσεδέξατο αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐν καὶρῷ ἐπισκοπῆς αὐτῶν <ἀναλάμψουσιν>«· πρόσθεν εἰπών »καὶ γὰρ ἐὰν ἐν ὄψει ἀνθρώπων κολασθῶσιν, ἡ ἐλπὶς αὐτῶν ἀθανασίας πλήρης καὶ ὁλίγα παιδευθέντες μεγάλα εὐεργετηθήσονται«.
hōs chrysion en chōneutēriǭ edokimasen autous kai hōs holokarpōma euōdias prosedexato autous kai en kairǭ episkopēs autōn <analampsousin>«; prosthen eipōn »kai gar ean en opsei anthrōpōn kolasthōsin, hē elpis autōn athanasias plērēs kai holiga paideuthentes megala euergetēthēsontai«.
like gold in the furnace he tested them, and like a whole burnt offering of sweet savour he accepted them, and in the time of their visitation they will shine forth.” Before this he said: “For even if in the sight of men they are punished, their hope is full of immortality, and having been disciplined a little, they will receive great benefits.”
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Summary: Wisdom’s words on the tested righteous.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Wis 3:6–7 and 3:4–5.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 3:4–7 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:474; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.48.5Holl GCS 25/31:474
ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν τῷ ݲ ψαλμῷ τό »εἰ μὴ ὅτι κύριος ἦν ἐν ἡμῖν, ἐν ἐπαναστῆναι ἀνθρώπους ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς, ἄρα ζῶντας ἂν κατέπιον ἡμᾶς· ἄρα τὸ ὕδωρ κατεπόντισεν ἡμᾶς· χείμαρρον διῆλθεν ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν, ἄρα διῆλθεν ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ ἀνυπόστατον. εὐλογητὸς κύριος, ὂς οὐκ ἔδωκεν ἡμᾶς εἰς θήραντοῖς ὀδοῦσιν αὐτῶν. ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν ὡς στρουθίον ἐρρύσθη ἐκ τῆς παγίδος τῶν θηρευόντων. ἡ παγὶς δυνετρίβη, καὶ Ι ἡμεὶς ἐρρύσθημεν«, οἱ μάρ- τυρές εἰσιν οἱ ψάλλοντες.
alla kai en tǭ ݲ psalmǭ to »ei mē hoti kyrios ēn en hēmin, en epanastēnai anthrōpous ephʼ hēmas, ara zōntas an katepion hēmas; ara to hydōr katepontisen hēmas; cheimarron diēlthen hē psychē hēmōn, ara diēlthen hē psychē hēmōn to hydōr to anypostaton. eulogētos kyrios, os ouk edōken hēmas eis thērantois odousin autōn. hē psychē hēmōn hōs strouthion errysthē ek tēs pagidos tōn thēreuontōn. hē pagis dynetribē, kai I hēmeis errysthēmen«, hoi mar- tyres eisin hoi psallontes.
And in the psalm too, the words “If the Lord had not been among us when men rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us alive; then the water would have drowned us; our soul passed through a torrent; then our soul would have passed through the irresistible water. Blessed be the Lord, who did not give us as prey to their teeth. Our soul was rescued like a sparrow from the snare of the hunters; the snare was broken, and we were rescued” are sung by the martyrs.
Ps 124:1 (123:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 124:7 (123:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 124 is also sung by the martyrs.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Ps 124:1–7 (123:1–7 LXX). The psalm’s number is garbled in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:474; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.48.6Holl GCS 25/31:474–475
δύο δὲ τῶν καλλινίκων οἱ χοροὶ ματρύρων, εἶς μὲν τῆς διαθήκης τῆς καινῆς, θάτερος δὲ τῆς παλαιᾶς, ἀντίφθογγον ὕμνον συμφώνως τῷ ὑπερμάχῳ θεῷ καὶ βασιλεῖ τῶν ὅλων ἀναπέμποντες· »ἐδοκίμασας ἡμᾶς ὁ θεός, ἐπύρωσας ἡμᾶς ὡς πυροῦται τὸ ἀργύριον, εἰσήγαγες ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν παγίδα, ἔθου θλίψεις ἐπὶ τὸν νῶτον ἡμῶν«, τὸ δικαστήριον τῶν ἐθνῶν ἢ τοὺς πειρασμούς, καθʼ οὒς ἐκθλιβέντες καὶ πυρωθέντες ἰσχυρῶς ἐδοκιμάσθησαν·
dyo de tōn kallinikōn hoi choroi matryrōn, eis men tēs diathēkēs tēs kainēs, thateros de tēs palaias, antiphthongon hymnon symphōnōs tǭ hypermachǭ theǭ kai basilei tōn holōn anapempontes; »edokimasas hēmas ho theos, epyrōsas hēmas hōs pyroutai to argyrion, eisēgages hēmas eis tēn pagida, ethou thlipseis epi ton nōton hēmōn«, to dikastērion tōn ethnōn ē tous peirasmous, kathʼ ous ekthlibentes kai pyrōthentes ischyrōs edokimasthēsan;
Two choirs of victorious martyrs, one of the new covenant and the other of the old, send up in harmony an antiphonal hymn to God their champion and King of all: “You have tested us, O God; you have refined us as silver is refined; you brought us into the snare; you laid afflictions on our back”, meaning the tribunal of the nations or the trials in which, afflicted and refined, they were strongly tested.
Ps 66:10 (65:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 66:11 (65:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The martyrs of both covenants sing the psalm antiphonally.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Ps 66:10–11 (65:10–11 LXX).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:474–475; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.48.7Holl GCS 25/31:475
»δοκίμασόν με« γάρ φησι »κύριε, καὶ πείρασόν με, πύρωσον τοὺς νεφρούς μου καὶ τὴν καρδίαν μου«.
»dokimason me« gar phēsi »kyrie, kai peirason me, pyrōson tous nephrous mou kai tēn kardian mou«.
For he says, “Test me, O Lord, and try me; refine my kidneys and my heart.”
Ps 26:2 (25:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Another psalm on testing.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Ps 26:2 (25:2 LXX).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:475; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.48.8Holl GCS 25/31:475
λεγέτω δὴ καὶ ὁ Ἀβραὰμ ἐπὶ τῷ μονογενεῖ πυρωθεὶς τὰ σπλάγχνα προτιμήσας τε <τοῦ παιδὸς> τὸ τοῦ θεοῦ μᾶλλον πρόσταγμα, μετὰ τὸ ἀκοῦσαι »’Αβραάμ, φεῖσαι τοῦ παιδός σου« ἀπορρίψας τὸ είφος· »ἐδοκίμασας ἡμᾶς ὁ θεός, ἐπύρωσας ἡμᾶς ὡς πυροῦται τὸ ἀργύριον«.
legetō dē kai ho Abraam epi tǭ monogenei pyrōtheis ta splanchna protimēsas te <tou paidos> to tou theou mallon prostagma, meta to akousai »’Abraam, pheisai tou paidos sou« aporripsas to eiphos; »edokimasas hēmas ho theos, epyrōsas hēmas hōs pyroutai to argyrion«.
Let Abraham too say it, whose heart was refined over his only son and who preferred God’s command to his child, when, after hearing “Abraham, spare your son,” he threw away the sword: “You have tested us, O God; you have refined us as silver is refined.”
Gen 22:12 (allusion, high confidence) · Ps 66:10 (65:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Abraham could sing the psalm.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. “Abraham, spare your son” paraphrases Gen 22:11–12; Ps 66:10.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:475; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.48.9Holl GCS 25/31:475
λεγέτω καὶ ὁ ’Ιὼβ μετὰ τὸ ἀπορρεῦσαι τὴν σαπρίαν καὶ ἀνειδισθῆναί τε ὑπὸ τῶν φίλων καὶ ἀλγῆσαι τὸ σῶμα, διὰ λαίλαπος ἀκούσας λαλοῦντος αὐτῷ τοῦ θεοῦ »ἢ οἴει με ἄλλως σοι κεχρηματικέναι ἢ ἵνα ἀναφανῇς δίκαιος. ἔθου θλίψεις ἐναντίον ἡμῶν, κύριε, ἵνα ἡμᾶς ὡς χρυσίον ἐν χωνευτηρίῳ δοκιμάσῃσ«.
legetō kai ho ’Iōb meta to aporreusai tēn saprian kai aneidisthēnai te hypo tōn philōn kai algēsai to sōma, dia lailapos akousas lalountos autǭ tou theou »ē oiei me allōs soi kechrēmatikenai ē hina anaphanę̄s dikaios. ethou thlipseis enantion hēmōn, kyrie, hina hēmas hōs chrysion en chōneutēriǭ dokimasę̄s«.
Let Job too say it, after the corruption had flowed from him, after he had been reproached by his friends and had suffered in body, when he heard God speaking to him through the whirlwind, “Or do you think that I have dealt with you otherwise than that you might be shown to be righteous?”: “You laid afflictions before us, O Lord, that you might test us like gold in the furnace.”
Job 40:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Job 23:10 (echo, low confidence) · Ps 66:11 (65:11 LXX) (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Job could sing of testing.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. Job 40:8 (LXX); the words given to Job freely combine Ps 66:11 with the image of Job 23:10 (uncertain).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:475; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-9). (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.
64.48.10Holl GCS 25/31:475
λεγέτωσαν καὶ οἱ τρεῖς ἐν τῇ καμίνῳ παῖδες, δροσιζόμενοι ἵνα μὴ καταφλεχθῶσιν ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρός· »ἑδοκίμασας ἡμᾶς ὁ θώς, ἐπύρωσας ἡμᾶς, ὡς πυροῦται τὸ ἀργύριον. διήλθομεν διὰ πυρὸς καὶ ὔδατος, καὶ ἐξήγαγες ἡμᾶς εἰς ἀναψυχήν«.
legetōsan kai hoi treis en tę̄ kaminǭ paides, drosizomenoi hina mē kataphlechthōsin hypo tou pyros; »hedokimasas hēmas ho thōs, epyrōsas hēmas, hōs pyroutai to argyrion. diēlthomen dia pyros kai ydatos, kai exēgages hēmas eis anapsychēn«.
Let the three youths in the furnace too say it, bedewed so that they would not be burned by the fire: “You have tested us, O God; you have refined us as silver is refined. We went through fire and water, and you brought us out into refreshment.”
Dan 3:25 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 66:10 (65:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 66:12 (65:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The three youths could sing the psalm.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Dan 3; Ps 66:10, 12. The dew comes from the Greek additions to Daniel (Prayer of Azariah 27).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:475; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-10). (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.
64.48.11Holl GCS 25/31:475–476
δὸς εἰπεῖν κἀμοὶ τῷ Μεθοδίῳ, ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ ὁ μέγας, ὁ αἰώνιος, ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ σου διαβάντι τὸ πῦρ ἀναλγητὶ καὶ τῶν ὑδάτων εἶς τὴν καυστικὴν μεταβληθέν- ἐξήγαγές με εἰς ἀνάψυξιν«. σὴ γὰρ αὕτη τοῖς
dos eipein kamoi tǭ Methodiǭ, ho theos ho pantokratōr ho megas, ho aiōnios, ho patēr tou Christou, en tę̄ hēmerą sou diabanti to pyr analgēti kai tōn hydatōn eis tēn kaustikēn metablēthen- exēgages me eis anapsyxin«. sē gar hautē tois
Grant me too, Methodius, to say, O God almighty, great and eternal, Father of Christ, when on your day I have passed through the fire without pain and … of the waters changed into the burning …: “you brought me out into refreshment.” For to those who
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Ps 66:12 (65:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Methodius prays to pass unharmed through the fire of the last day.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Ps 66:12. The text is damaged here (μεταβληθέν- breaks off); translated as far as it can be read.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; the sentence continues in the next section): τοῖ; → τοῖς.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology, Prayer
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:475–476; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-11). (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.
64.48.12Holl GCS 25/31:476
ἀγαπῶσί σε ἡ ἐπαγγελία »ἐὰν διαβαίνῃς διʼ ὕδατος, μετὰ σοῦ εἰμι καὶ ποταμοὶ οὐ συγκλύσουσί σε· κἅν διαβαίνῃς διὰ πυρός, οὐ μὴ κατακαυθῇς· φλὸξ οὐ κατακαύσει σε«. ἀλλὰ γὰρ περὶ τῆς κατὰ τὸν Ψαλμὸν ἐξηγήσεως ἅλις ἔχει ταῦτα.
agapōsi se hē epangelia »ean diabainę̄s diʼ hydatos, meta sou eimi kai potamoi ou synklysousi se; kan diabainę̄s dia pyros, ou mē katakauthę̄s; phlox ou katakausei se«. alla gar peri tēs kata ton Psalmon exēgēseōs halis echei tauta.
love you this is your promise: “If you pass through water, I am with you, and rivers will not overwhelm you; and if you pass through fire, you will not be burned; the flame will not burn you.” But this is enough about the interpretation of the psalm.
Isa 43:2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God’s promise of protection through water and fire.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Isa 43:2.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.48.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:476; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-39-1/#p-64-48-12). (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.