Panarion (Medicine Chest Against Heresies), Haer. 1-64 64.49.1–64.57.9
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 49
64.49.1Holl GCS 25/31:476
49. Ἔτι δὲ ἐκεῖνο διασκεπτέον, ἐν ᾧ πολυμόρφοις ἐμφαντζόμενοι ἀπάταις καθευδόντων τρόπον ἀποφαίνονται τὸν ἀπόστολον εἰρηκέναι »ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων χωρὶς νόμου ποτέ‘ καὶ βοῶσι, <ὅτι> τῇ πρὸ τῆς ἐντολῆς ἐν τῷ πρωτοπλάστῳ <ἐν παραδείσῳ> διαγωγὴν πρὸ σώματος ἔφη, ὡς τὰ ἐπιφερόμενα συνίστησιν »ἐγὼ δὲ σάρκινός εἰμι, πεπραμένος ὑπὸ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν«·
49. Eti de ekeino diaskepteon, en hǭ polymorphois emphantzomenoi apatais katheudontōn tropon apophainontai ton apostolon eirēkenai »egō de ezōn chōris nomou pote‘ kai boōsi, <hoti> tę̄ pro tēs entolēs en tǭ prōtoplastǭ <en paradeisǭ> diagōgēn pro sōmatos ephē, hōs ta epipheromena synistēsin »egō de sarkinos eimi, pepramenos hypo tēn hamartian«;
We must further examine the passage in which, dreaming up many-shaped deceptions like men asleep, they declare that the apostle said, “I was once alive apart from the law,” and they cry out that he meant the life before the commandment, in the first-formed man in paradise, before the body, as the words that follow show: “but I am fleshly, sold under sin”;
Rom 7:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Origenists misread Romans 7 as the soul’s life before the body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:9, 7:14. The digital text has a stray character code (x003E;).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (leaked character code): x003E; → .
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.49.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:476; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-49-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.49.2Holl GCS 25/31:476
ὅτι μὴ ἄλλως ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἄρχερθαι ἠδύνατο καὶ κυριεύεσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ κακοῦ, πραθεὶς αὐτῷ διὰ τὴν παράβασιν, εἰ μὴ σάρκινος ἦν γεγονώς. ἄληπτος γὰρ καθʼ ἑαυτὴν ἡ ψυχή, φησί, τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ. διὸ δριμέως ἐπήγαγεν τό »ἐγὼ δὲ σάρκινός εἰμι, πεπραμένος ὑπὸ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν«·
hoti mē allōs ho anthrōpos archerthai ēdynato kai kyrieuesthai hypo tou kakou, pratheis autǭ dia tēn parabasin, ei mē sarkinos ēn gegonōs. alēptos gar kathʼ heautēn hē psychē, phēsi, tę̄ hamartią. dio drimeōs epēgagen to »egō de sarkinos eimi, pepramenos hypo tēn hamartian«;
for man could not otherwise be ruled and mastered by evil, having been sold to it through the transgression, unless he had become fleshly. For the soul by itself, he says, cannot be seized by sin. That is why he sharply added, “but I am fleshly, sold under sin,”
Rom 7:14 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Their claim that only a fleshly soul can be mastered by sin.
- Methodius reporting the Origenist argument; Rom 7:14.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.49.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:476; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-49-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.49.3Holl GCS 25/31:476
πρόσθεν εἰπὼν τό »ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων χωρὶς νόμου ποτέ‘. θαῦμα μὲν οὖν τοῖς πολλοῖς ταῦτα λεγόντων αὐτῶν τότε ὑπεδύετο καὶ κατάπληξις, νῦν δὲ προκυψάσης εἰς τὸ φανερώτατον ἤδη τῆς ἀληθείας οὐ μόνον μακρῷ πλανώμενοι καταφαίνονται, ἀλλὰ καὶ μέχρι τῆς ἄκρας ἀναβαίνοντες βλασφημίας·
prosthen eipōn to »egō de ezōn chōris nomou pote‘. thauma men oun tois pollois tauta legontōn autōn tote hypedyeto kai kataplēxis, nyn de prokypsasēs eis to phanerōtaton ēdē tēs alētheias ou monon makrǭ planōmenoi kataphainontai, alla kai mechri tēs akras anabainontes blasphēmias;
having said before, “I was once alive apart from the law.” When they said these things then, amazement and astonishment crept over the many; but now that the truth has come out into the clearest light, they are shown not only to have wandered far but even to have climbed to the height of blasphemy;
Rom 7:9 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Their error now appears as blasphemy.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:9.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.49.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:476; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-49-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.49.4Holl GCS 25/31:476–477
δόντες γὰρ ἀσωμάτως τὰς ψυχὰς πρὸ τῆς ἐντολῆς βεβιωκέναι ἀλήπτους τε εἶναι καθʼ ἑαυτὰς ἐκ παντὸς τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ διανοηθέντες πάλιν ἀνέρεψαν τὸν λόγον, ἑαυτοὺς δὲ πολὺ μᾶλλον· τὰ γὰρ δὴ σώματα κατασκευάζουσιν αὐταῖς ὕστερον ἐπὶ τιμωρίᾳ <δοθῆναι>, διὰ πρὸ σώματος αὐτὰς ἡμαρτηκέναι. καὶ δὴ καὶ λοιδορήσεις τε ἀπῆλθον αὐτοὶς, δεσμοῖς ἀπεικάζουσι καὶ πέδαις τὸ σῶμα, ἄλλα τε ἀνόητα εἰπεῖν *.
dontes gar asōmatōs tas psychas pro tēs entolēs bebiōkenai alēptous te einai kathʼ heautas ek pantos tę̄ hamartią dianoēthentes palin anerepsan ton logon, heautous de poly mallon; ta gar dē sōmata kataskeuazousin autais hysteron epi timōrią <dothēnai>, dia pro sōmatos autas hēmartēkenai. kai dē kai loidorēseis te apēlthon autois, desmois apeikazousi kai pedais to sōma, alla te anoēta eipein *.
For having granted that souls lived without bodies before the commandment, and having supposed that by themselves they are altogether beyond the reach of sin, they overturned their argument again, and much more themselves. For they construct the view that bodies were given to souls later as a punishment, because they sinned before the body. And indeed they went off into abuse, likening the body to fetters and shackles, and to say other foolish things …
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Origenists contradict themselves about sinless disembodied souls.
- Methodius, On the Resurrection, quoted by Epiphanius. The asterisk in the edition marks a gap at the end.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.49.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:476–477; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-49-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.49.5Holl GCS 25/31:477
νῦν δε ὅπερ εἴρηται, πᾶν τοὐναντίον ἔχει. χρὴ γὰρ πρὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας τὴν ψυχὴν ὑπάρχειν μετὰ σώματος· ἐπεὶ εἰ ἄληπτος ἡ Ψυχὴ Μʼ ἑαυτὴν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, οὐκ ὄν ἥμαρτεν ὅλως πρὸ τοῦ σώματος.
nyn de hoper eirētai, pan tounantion echei. chrē gar pro tēs hamartias tēn psychēn hyparchein meta sōmatos; epei ei alēptos hē Psychē Mʼ heautēn tę̄ hamartią, ouk on hēmarten holōs pro tou sōmatos.
But now what has been said holds entirely the opposite. For the soul must have existed with the body before the sin; since, if the soul by itself were beyond the reach of sin, it would not have sinned at all before the body.
Notes and citation
Summary: If the disembodied soul cannot sin, it did not sin before the body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.49.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:477; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-49-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.49.6Holl GCS 25/31:477
εἰ δὲ ἥμαρτεν οὐκέτι ἄληπτος καθʼ ἑαυτὴν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, ἀλλὰ καὶ εὑάλωτος μᾶλλον καὶ εὔληπτος. διὸ καὶ πάλι, κἄν μὴ λάβῃ τὸ σῶμα τοῦτο, ἁμαρτήσεται, ὥσπερ δὴ καὶ πρὸ τοῦ λαβεῖν αὑτὸ ἥμαρτεν.
ei de hēmarten ouketi alēptos kathʼ heautēn tę̄ hamartią, alla kai heualōtos mallon kai eulēptos. dio kai pali, kan mē labę̄ to sōma touto, hamartēsetai, hōsper dē kai pro tou labein hauto hēmarten.
But if it sinned, it is no longer by itself beyond the reach of sin, but rather easily caught and easily seized. So again, even if it does not receive this body, it will sin, just as it sinned before receiving it.
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Summary: A soul that sinned without a body can sin again without one.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.49.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:477; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-49-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.49.7Holl GCS 25/31:477
διὰ τί δὲ ὅλως καὶ σῶμα ἐλάμβανεν ὕστερον μετὰ τὸ ἡμαρτηκέναι; ἥ τίς αὐτῇ χρεία σώματος ἦν; εἰ μὲν οὖν ἵνα βασανίζηται καὶ ἀλγῇ, πῶς μᾶλλον ἐντρυφᾷ καὶ ἀκολασταίνει μετὰ τοῦ σώματος;
dia ti de holōs kai sōma elambanen hysteron meta to hēmartēkenai? hē tis autę̄ chreia sōmatos ēn? ei men oun hina basanizētai kai algę̄, pōs mallon entryphą kai akolastainei meta tou sōmatos?
And why did it receive a body at all afterwards, after sinning? What need did it have of a body? If it was so that it might be tormented and suffer pain, how is it that it rather lives in luxury and licence with the body?
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Summary: The body does not function as a punishment.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.49.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:477; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-49-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.49.8Holl GCS 25/31:477
πῶς δὲ καὶ τὸ αὐτεξούσιον εἶναι ἐν τούτῳ φαίνεται ἔχειν τῷ κόσμῳ; ἐφʼ ἡμῖν γὰρ τὸ πιστεῦσαι κεῖται· λαὶ τὸ μὴ πιστεῦσαι ἐνθάδε, ἐφʼ ἡμῖν τὸ κατορθώσασθαι καὶ ἁμαρτῆσαι, ἐφʼ ἡμῖν τὸ ἀποποιῆσαι καὶ κακοποιῆσαι.
pōs de kai to autexousion einai en toutǭ phainetai echein tǭ kosmǭ? ephʼ hēmin gar to pisteusai keitai; lai to mē pisteusai enthade, ephʼ hēmin to katorthōsasthai kai hamartēsai, ephʼ hēmin to apopoiēsai kai kakopoiēsai.
And how does free will appear to be present in this world? For it lies with us to believe and not to believe here; it lies with us to do right and to sin; it lies with us to refrain and to do evil.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Free will operates in this life.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. ἀποποιῆσαι is translated by sense (“refrain”); perhaps a corruption of ἀγαθοποιῆσαι, “do good”.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.49.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:477; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-49-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.49.9Holl GCS 25/31:477
ἀλλὰ κα ἡ κρίσις πῶς δὴ ἐπιφέρεσθαι ὡς μέλλουσα προσδοκᾶσθαι ἔτι δύναται, καθʼ ἥν ὁ θεὸς ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα καὶ κατὰ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα ἀποδίδωσι, καὶ οὐχ ὡς ἤδη παροῦσα νομισθήσεται, εἴ Τε τὸ γεννηθῆναι με) καὶ εἰς σῶμα ἐλθεῖν τὴν ψυχὴν κριθῆναι ἔστιν ἤδη καὶ ἀνταπολαβεῖν, τὸ δὲ ἀποθανεῖν καὶ χωρισθῆναι τοῦ σώματος ἐλευθερωθῆναί τε καὶ εἰς ἀνάψυξιν ἐλθεῖν, διὰ τὸ πρὸ σώματος αὐτὴν ἁμαρτήσασαν ὡς εἰς κατάκρισιν καὶ καταδίκην εῖς τὸ σῶμα ἐμβιβάζεσθαι καθʼ ὑμᾶς;
alla ka hē krisis pōs dē epipheresthai hōs mellousa prosdokasthai eti dynatai, kathʼ hēn ho theos hekastǭ kata ta erga kai kata ta epitēdeumata apodidōsi, kai ouch hōs ēdē parousa nomisthēsetai, ei Te to gennēthēnai me) kai eis sōma elthein tēn psychēn krithēnai estin ēdē kai antapolabein, to de apothanein kai chōristhēnai tou sōmatos eleutherōthēnai te kai eis anapsyxin elthein, dia to pro sōmatos autēn hamartēsasan hōs eis katakrisin kai katadikēn eis to sōma embibazesthai kathʼ hymas?
And how can the judgment still be spoken of as awaited in the future, in which God repays each according to his works and pursuits, and not be thought already present, if to be born and for the soul to come into a body is already to be judged and repaid, and to die and be separated from the body is to be set free and come into refreshment, because, according to you, the soul, having sinned before the body, is put into the body as into condemnation and sentence?
Rom 2:6 (echo, medium confidence)
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Summary: Their view makes the future judgment superfluous.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. Echoes Rom 2:6.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.49.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:477; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-49-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.49.10Holl GCS 25/31:477–478
ἀπέδειξε δὲ διαρκῶς ἐκ περιουσίας ὁ λόγος ἀνένδεκτον εἶναι νομίζεσθαι τὸ σῶμα βασανιστήριον καὶ πέδας τῆς ψυχῆς.
apedeixe de diarkōs ek periousias ho logos anendekton einai nomizesthai to sōma basanistērion kai pedas tēs psychēs.
The argument has shown sufficiently and abundantly that the body cannot be thought a torture-chamber and shackles of the soul.
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Summary: The body is not the soul’s prison.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.49.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:477–478; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-49-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 50
64.50.1Holl GCS 25/31:478
50. Ἤρκει μὲν οὖν ἀπὸ τῆς γραφῆς αὐτῆς ἀποδείξαντα <καὶ> πρὸ τῆς παραβάσεως τὸν πρωτόπλαστον ἐκ ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος ὄντα καταπαύειν τὸν περὶ τούτων ἐνταῦθα λόγον. κἀγὼ δὲ νῦν ἐπὶ κεφαλαίων αὐτὰ διεξέρχομαι, * ὅσον τὰς ἀφορμὰς τῶν ἐπιχειρημάτων αὐτῶν εὐθῦναι διαμιλλώμενος, ἵνα μὴ τὴν συμμετρίαν ἐκβαίων τῶν λόγων.
50. Ērkei men oun apo tēs graphēs autēs apodeixanta <kai> pro tēs parabaseōs ton prōtoplaston ek psychēs kai sōmatos onta katapauein ton peri toutōn entautha logon. kagō de nyn epi kephalaiōn auta diexerchomai, * hoson tas aphormas tōn epicheirēmatōn autōn euthynai diamillōmenos, hina mē tēn symmetrian ekbaiōn tōn logōn.
It would have been enough, having shown from Scripture itself that the first-formed man consisted of soul and body even before the transgression, to end the discussion of these things here. And I too now go through them in summary, … striving only to correct the starting points of their arguments, so as not to exceed the proper measure of the discourse.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: Methodius will only answer their arguments in summary.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The asterisk marks a gap in the text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:478; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.2Holl GCS 25/31:478
πάρεστι γὰρ ἤδη σκοπεῖν ὑμᾶς, ὦ δικασταί, ὅτι τό »ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων χωρὶς νόμου ποτέ‘ λεγόμενον ἐν τῇ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους, οὐ δύναται πίπτειν εἰς τὴν πρὸ σώματος κατʼ αὐτοὺς διαγωγὴν τῆς ψυχῆς, καθάπαρ τὰ ἐπιφερόμενα τούτοις μηνύει· κἄν ὁ γενναῖος οὗτος ἰατρὸς τῶν ῥητῶν τὰ ἑξῆς ὑφελόμενος πρὸς τὸ δοκοῦν αὐτῷ τὸν νοῦν ἐβιάσατο μεταπλάσαι τοῦ ἀποστόλου, ἀνίατόν τι παθὼν λίαν καὶ παικικόν.
paresti gar ēdē skopein hymas, ō dikastai, hoti to »egō de ezōn chōris nomou pote‘ legomenon en tę̄ pros Rhōmaious, ou dynatai piptein eis tēn pro sōmatos katʼ autous diagōgēn tēs psychēs, kathapar ta epipheromena toutois mēnyei; kan ho gennaios houtos iatros tōn rhētōn ta hexēs hyphelomenos pros to dokoun autǭ ton noun ebiasato metaplasai tou apostolou, aniaton ti pathōn lian kai paikikon.
For you may now see, judges, that the saying in Romans, “I was once alive apart from the law,” cannot refer to the soul’s life before the body as they hold, as the words that follow show; even though this noble physician of texts, cutting away what follows, forced the apostle’s meaning to be remoulded to his own opinion, suffering from something quite incurable and childish.
Rom 7:9 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Rom 7:9 does not refer to the soul’s pre-bodily life.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:9. “Judges” are the hearers of the dialogue; the “physician” is Origen.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Scripture and canon, Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:478; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.3Holl GCS 25/31:478
ἀντὶ γὰρ τοῦ πρὸς τὰς οἰκείας συμφύσεις καὶ ἁρμογάς τὰ μέλη τηρεῖν τῶν σωμάτων, ἵνα τὸ πᾶν ἄπρτιον ᾗ κατὰ φύσιν Πῆμα τοῦ σώματος, ἡκρωτηρίασε παρελθὼν τὸν εἱρμὸν τῆς γραφῆς, καθάπερ Σκύθης ἐχθροῦ τινος ἀφειδῶς πρὸς ἀναίρεσιν κατατέμνων τὰ μέλη.
anti gar tou pros tas oikeias symphyseis kai harmogas ta melē tērein tōn sōmatōn, hina to pan aprtion hę̄ kata physin Pēma tou sōmatos, hēkrōtēriase parelthōn ton heirmon tēs graphēs, kathaper Skythēs echthrou tinos apheidōs pros anairesin katatemnōn ta melē.
For instead of keeping the members of the body in their proper joints and fittings, so that the whole frame of the body might be complete according to nature, he passed over the sequence of Scripture and mutilated it, like a Scythian unsparingly cutting up the limbs of some enemy to kill him.
Notes and citation
Summary: Origen mutilated the sequence of Scripture.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. ἄπρτιον and Πῆμα are OCR slips for ἄρτιον and σχῆμα (translated by sense).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:478; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.4Holl GCS 25/31:478
εἶεν· πῶς οὖν ὁ ἀπόστολος, λέξουσι, ταῦτα ἀπεφήνατο, εἰ σὺ μὴ οὕτως αὐτὰ ἀπέδειξας ἔχειν; ὅτι νόμον, εἴποιμʼ ἄν, θέμενος εἶναι τὴν ἐντολήν (δεδόσθω γὰρ πρῶτον τατα τὴν ὑμετέραν ὑπόθεσιν τὴν ἐντολὴν νόμον εἰρηκέναι). οὐ παρὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἀσωμάτως πρὸ τὴς ἐντολῆς τοὺς πρωτοπλάστους ὐπέθετο βεβιωκέναι, ἀλλὰ χωρὶς ἁμαρτάς.
eien; pōs oun ho apostolos, lexousi, tauta apephēnato, ei sy mē houtōs auta apedeixas echein? hoti nomon, eipoimʼ an, themenos einai tēn entolēn (dedosthō gar prōton tata tēn hymeteran hypothesin tēn entolēn nomon eirēkenai). ou para touto kai asōmatōs pro tēs entolēs tous prōtoplastous ypetheto bebiōkenai, alla chōris hamartas.
Well then, they will say, how did the apostle declare these things, if you have not shown them to be so? Because, I would say, taking the commandment as the law (for let it first be granted, on your supposition, that he called the commandment law), he did not on that account suppose that the first-formed lived without bodies before the commandment, but without sin.
Notes and citation
Summary: “Without law” means without sin, not without body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:478; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.5Holl GCS 25/31:478
καὶ γὰρ ὀλίγος ὁ ἀπὸ τῆς κτίσεως αὐτῶν ἄγρι τῆς ἐντολῆς χρόνος, ἐν ᾧ διέζησαν χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας, οὐκ ἐκτὸς σώματος, ἀλλὰ μετὰ σώματος. εὐθέως γοῦν μετὰ τὴν ἐντολὴν ἐξεβλήθησαν βραχύτατον ἐννεάσαντες ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ χρόνον.
kai gar oligos ho apo tēs ktiseōs autōn agri tēs entolēs chronos, en hǭ diezēsan chōris hamartias, ouk ektos sōmatos, alla meta sōmatos. eutheōs goun meta tēn entolēn exeblēthēsan brachytaton enneasantes en tǭ paradeisǭ chronon.
For short was the time from their creation to the commandment, in which they lived without sin, not outside the body but with the body. At any rate, immediately after the commandment they were cast out, having spent a very short time in paradise.
Gen 3:23 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Adam and Eve lived briefly without sin, in bodies.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:478; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.6Holl GCS 25/31:478–479
ἐὰν δέ τις λαβόμενος τῆς ῥήσεως τῆς »ὅτε γὰρ ἦμεν ἐν σαρκί, τὰ παθήματα τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τὰ διὰ τοῦ νόμου« λεγούσης »ἐνηργεῖτο ἐν τοῖς μέλεσιν ἡμῶν«, διαβάλλειν αὐτὸν τὴν σάρκα νομίζῃ καὶ παραιτεῖσθαι παραφέρῃ τε ὅσα τοιαῦτα ἄλλα εἴρηται,
ean de tis labomenos tēs rhēseōs tēs »hote gar ēmen en sarki, ta pathēmata tōn hamartiōn ta dia tou nomou« legousēs »enērgeito en tois melesin hēmōn«, diaballein auton tēn sarka nomizę̄ kai paraiteisthai parapherę̄ te hosa toiauta alla eirētai,
And if anyone, taking hold of the saying, “For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were at work in our members,” thinks that he disparages the flesh and rejects it, and brings forward other such sayings,
Rom 7:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: An objection from Rom 7:5 against the flesh.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:5.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:478–479; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.7Holl GCS 25/31:479
οἷον <τό> »ἵνα τὸ δικαίωμα τοῦ νόμουπληρωθῇ ἐν ἡμῖν τοῖς μὴ κατὰ σάρκα περιπατοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ πνεῦμα«, ἢ τό »οἱ γὰρ κατὰ σάρκα ὄντες τὰ τῆς σαρκὸς φρονοῦσιν, οἱ δὲ κατὰ πνεῦμα τὰ τοῦ πνεύματος. τὸ γὰρ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκὸς θάνατος, τὸ δὲ φρόνημα τοῦ πνεύματος ζωὴ καὶ εἰρήνη, διότι τὸ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκὸς ἔχθρα εἰς θεόν· τῷ γὰρ γόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ οὐχ ὑποτάσσεται· οὐδὲ γὰρ δύναται· <οἱ δὲ ἐν σαρκὶ ὄντες θεῷ ἀρέσαι οὐ δύνανται>. ὑμεῖς δὲ ἐν σαρκί, ἀλλὰ ἐν πωεύματι«, λεκτέον αὐτῷ·
hoion <to> »hina to dikaiōma tou nomouplērōthę̄ en hēmin tois mē kata sarka peripatousin, alla kata pneuma«, ē to »hoi gar kata sarka ontes ta tēs sarkos phronousin, hoi de kata pneuma ta tou pneumatos. to gar phronēma tēs sarkos thanatos, to de phronēma tou pneumatos zōē kai eirēnē, dioti to phronēma tēs sarkos echthra eis theon; tǭ gar gomǭ tou theou ouch hypotassetai; oude gar dynatai; <hoi de en sarki ontes theǭ aresai ou dynantai>. hymeis de en sarki, alla en pōeumati«, lekteon autǭ;
such as “that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit,” or “For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those according to the Spirit on the things of the Spirit. For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; because the mind of the flesh is enmity toward God, for it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it; and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit,” we must say to him:
Rom 8:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:5 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:7 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:9 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Further texts from Romans 8 cited against the flesh.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 8:4–9. The printed text lacks “not” in “you are not in the flesh”; translated with it, following Rom 8:9 and 64.50.13.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:479; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.8Holl GCS 25/31:479
πότερον οὖν ἤδη ἀναλύσας 6 ἀπόστολος ἦν ἐκ τοῦ βίου καὶ οἷς ταῦτα ἐπέστελλεν, εἰ μὴ τὴν κατὰ σάρκα νῦν παρῃτεῖτο πολιτείαν, ἀλλὰ τὴν σάρκα, ἢ ἕτι ἐν σαρκὶ ἦν;
poteron oun ēdē analysas 6 apostolos ēn ek tou biou kai hois tauta epestellen, ei mē tēn kata sarka nyn parę̄teito politeian, alla tēn sarka, ē heti en sarki ēn?
Had the apostle and those to whom he wrote already departed from this life, if it was not the fleshly way of life he was now rejecting but the flesh itself, or was he still in the flesh?
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul wrote while still in the flesh.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:479; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.9Holl GCS 25/31:479
ἀλλὰ ἐν σαρκὶ μὴ ὄντα αὐτὸν ἀπεσταλκέναι ταῦτα, οὐ λεκτέον. φανερὸν γὰρ ὅτι ἦν ἐν σαρκὶ καὶ αὐτὸς καὶ οἷς ταῦτα ἐπέστελλεν. πῶς οὖν »ὅτε γὰρ ἦμεν ἐν σαρκί, τὰ παθήματα τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τὰ διὰ τοῦ ωόμου ἐνηργεῖτο τεῖτο ἐν τοῖς μέλεσιν ἡμῶν« ὡς οὐκ ὥν οὔτε αὐτὸς ἔτι ἐν σαρκὶ οὔτε οἷς ταῦτα ἐπέστελλεν, λέγει;
alla en sarki mē onta auton apestalkenai tauta, ou lekteon. phaneron gar hoti ēn en sarki kai autos kai hois tauta epestellen. pōs oun »hote gar ēmen en sarki, ta pathēmata tōn hamartiōn ta dia tou ōomou enērgeito teito en tois melesin hēmōn« hōs ouk hōn oute autos eti en sarki oute hois tauta epestellen, legei?
But one cannot say that he sent these words when he was not in the flesh. For it is plain that both he and those to whom he wrote were in the flesh. How then does he say, “For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were at work in our members,” as though neither he nor those to whom he wrote were still in the flesh?
Rom 7:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: “In the flesh” cannot mean simply having a body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:5.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:479; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.10Holl GCS 25/31:479
οὐκοῦν περὶ τῆς κατὰ ἀκρασίαν πολιτείας διαλέγεται καὶ οὐ περὶ τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτῆς. ἔθος γὰρ αὐτῷ σαρκικὸν τὸν οὕτως ζῶντα ἄνθρωπον λέγειν, καθάπερ καὶ ψυχικὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν ἀπηλγηκότα πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἀτενίσαι καὶ τὸν φωτισμὸν τοῦ μυστηρίου.
oukoun peri tēs kata akrasian politeias dialegetai kai ou peri tēs sarkos autēs. ethos gar autǭ sarkikon ton houtōs zōnta anthrōpon legein, kathaper kai psychikon anthrōpon ton apēlgēkota pros tēn alētheian atenisai kai ton phōtismon tou mystēriou.
Therefore he is speaking about a life of incontinence, and not about the flesh itself. For it is his custom to call a man who lives in this way fleshly, just as he calls “natural” (psychic) the man who has become too dull to gaze at the truth and the illumination of the mystery.
1 Cor 3:3 (echo, medium confidence) · 1 Cor 2:14 (echo, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: “Fleshly” describes a way of life.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. Echoes 1 Cor 3:1–3 and 2:14.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:479; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.11Holl GCS 25/31:479
ἐπεὶ λεγέτωσαν μηδὲ τὴν ψυχὴν δύνασθαι σᾠζεσθαι τὸ σύνολον· γέγραπται γάρ »ψυχικὸς δὲ ἄνθρωπος οὐ δίχεται τὰ τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ θεοῦ·
epei legetōsan mēde tēn psychēn dynasthai sǭzesthai to synolon; gegraptai gar »psychikos de anthrōpos ou dichetai ta tou pneumatos tou theou;
Otherwise let them say that the soul too cannot be saved at all; for it is written, “The natural (psychic) man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God;
1 Cor 2:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: By their logic the soul could not be saved either.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 2:14. ψυχικός (“natural”) is formed from ψυχή, “soul”.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:479; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.12Holl GCS 25/31:479
μωρία γὰρ αὐτῷ ἀστιν· ὁ δὲ πνευματικὸς πάντα ἀνακρίνει«. ὥσπερ ἐκεῖ ψυχικὸς εἰσάγεταί τις καὶ πνευματικὸς ἄνθρωπος, καὶ ὁ μὲν πνευματικὸς τῶν σῳζομένων *, ὁ δὲ ψυχικὸς τῶν ἀπολλυμένων, καὶ οὐ παρὰ τοῦτο δὴ ψυχὴ μὲν απόλυται, <τὰ> ἄλλα δὲ παρὰ τὴν ψυχὴν οὕτω δὴ καὶ ἐνθάδε σαρκικοὺς καὶ ἐν σαρξὶν ὑπάρχοντας απόλλυσθαι λέγων καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι ἀρέσαι θεῷ, οὐ τὴν σάρκα ἀλλὰ τὴν κατὰ σάρκα πολιτείαν ἀναιρεῖσθαι ἀγωνίζεται.
mōria gar autǭ astin; ho de pneumatikos panta anakrinei«. hōsper ekei psychikos eisagetai tis kai pneumatikos anthrōpos, kai ho men pneumatikos tōn sǭzomenōn *, ho de psychikos tōn apollymenōn, kai ou para touto dē psychē men apolytai, <ta> alla de para tēn psychēn houtō dē kai enthade sarkikous kai en sarxin hyparchontas apollysthai legōn kai mē dynasthai aresai theǭ, ou tēn sarka alla tēn kata sarka politeian anaireisthai agōnizetai.
for they are foolishness to him; but the spiritual man judges all things.” Just as there a natural man and a spiritual man are introduced, the spiritual one among those being saved and the natural among those perishing, and the soul does not on that account perish while other things besides the soul are saved, so too here, when he says that the fleshly, those who are in the flesh, perish and cannot please God, he contends that not the flesh but the fleshly way of life is to be done away.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Cor 2:14 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 2:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:8 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul condemns the fleshly way of life, not the flesh.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 2:14–15; Rom 8:8. The asterisk marks a small gap; the digital text has a stray character code (x003E;).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (leaked character code): x003E; → .
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:479; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.13Holl GCS 25/31:479–480
ὑποβὰς δὲ καὶ εἰπών »οἱ δὲ ἐν σαρκὶ ὅντες θεῷ ἀρέσαι οὐ δύνανται« εὐθέως ἐπιφέρει »ὑεῖς δὲ οὑκ ἐστὲ ἐν σαρκὶ ἀλλὰ ἐν πνεύματι,
hypobas de kai eipōn »hoi de en sarki hontes theǭ aresai ou dynantai« eutheōs epipherei »hyeis de houk este en sarki alla en pneumati,
Going on, after saying, “Those who are in the flesh cannot please God,” he at once adds, “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit,
Rom 8:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul’s readers are “not in the flesh” though embodied.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 8:8–9.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.13 (Holl GCS 25/31:479–480; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.50.14Holl GCS 25/31:480
εἴπερ πνεῦμα Χριστοῦ οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν« καὶ μετʼ ὀλίγον »ὅτι δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ ἐγείραντος Ἰησοῦν ἐκ νεκρῶν οἱκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν, ὁ ἐγείρας Χριστὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν ζωοποιήσει καὶ τὰ θνητὰ σώματα ὑμῶν διὰ τοῦ ἐνοικοῦντος αὐτοῦ πνεύματος ἐν ὑμῖν. ἄρα οὖν, ἀδελφοί, ὀφειλέται ἐσμὲν οὐ τῇ σαρκὶ τοῦ κατὰ σάρκα ζῆν. εἰ γὰρ κατὰ σάρκα ζῆτε, μέλλετε ἀποθνᾐσκειν· εἰ δὲ πνεύματι τὰς πράξεις τοῦ σώματος θανατοῦτε, ζήσεσθε«. προσεκτέον γὰρ ὡς τὴν τοῦ σώματος πρὸς τὰς ἡδονὰς ὁρμὴν καὶ οὐχὶ τὸ σῶμα θανατοῦσθαι διεβεβαιώσατο.
eiper pneuma Christou oikei en hymin« kai metʼ oligon »hoti de to pneuma tou egeirantos Iēsoun ek nekrōn hoikei en hymin, ho egeiras Christon ek nekrōn zōopoiēsei kai ta thnēta sōmata hymōn dia tou enoikountos autou pneumatos en hymin. ara oun, adelphoi, opheiletai esmen ou tę̄ sarki tou kata sarka zēn. ei gar kata sarka zēte, mellete apothnę̄skein; ei de pneumati tas praxeis tou sōmatos thanatoute, zēsesthe«. prosekteon gar hōs tēn tou sōmatos pros tas hēdonas hormēn kai ouchi to sōma thanatousthai diebebaiōsato.
if indeed the Spirit of Christ dwells in you,” and shortly after, “And because the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. So then, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” For we must note that he affirmed that the body’s impulse toward pleasures, not the body, is put to death.
Rom 8:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:13 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The Spirit gives life to mortal bodies; only the body’s evil impulses die.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 8:9–13.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.50.14 (Holl GCS 25/31:480; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-50-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 51
64.51.1Holl GCS 25/31:480
51. Ἐὰν δὲ πάλιν ἀθυποφέρωσι λέγοντες· πῶς δὴ οὖν »τὸ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκός« εἶναι εἴρηται »ἔχθρα εἰς θεόν; τῷ γὰρ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ οὐχ ὑποτάσσεται· οὐδὲ γὰρ δύναται«, λεκτέον ὡς ἄρα καὶ ἐνθάδε διαπίπτουσιν.
51. Ean de palin athypopherōsi legontes; pōs dē oun »to phronēma tēs sarkos« einai eirētai »echthra eis theon? tǭ gar nomǭ tou theou ouch hypotassetai; oude gar dynatai«, lekteon hōs ara kai enthade diapiptousin.
And if they object again, saying, “How then is it said that ‘the mind of the flesh is enmity toward God, for it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it’?”, we must say that here too they fall into error.
Rom 8:7 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: An objection from Rom 8:7.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 8:7.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.51.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:480; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-51-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.51.2Holl GCS 25/31:480
οὐ γὰρ τὴν σάρκα αὐτήν, ἀλλὰ τὸ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκὸς ὐποτάσσεσθαι μὴ δύνασθαι τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ ὑπέθετο, ἕτερον παρὰ τὴν σάρκα ὑπάρχον.
ou gar tēn sarka autēn, alla to phronēma tēs sarkos ypotassesthai mē dynasthai tǭ nomǭ tou theou hypetheto, heteron para tēn sarka hyparchon.
For he did not suppose that the flesh itself, but the mind of the flesh, which is something other than the flesh, cannot submit to God’s law.
Rom 8:7 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The “mind of the flesh” is not the flesh itself.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.51.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:480; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-51-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.51.3Holl GCS 25/31:480
καθάπερ εἰ ἔλεγεν· ὁ ῥύπος τοῦ μὴ καλῶς ἀργρύρου καθαρισθέντος εἰς τὸ γενέσθαι σκεῦος ἐπιτήδειον οὐχ ὑποτάσσεται τῷ δῆμιουργῷ. οὐδὲ γὰρ δύναται· ἐκβληθῆναι γὰρ αὐτὸν πρότερον καὶ ἐκτακῆναι δεῖ.
kathaper ei elegen; ho rhypos tou mē kalōs argryrou katharisthentos eis to genesthai skeuos epitēdeion ouch hypotassetai tǭ dēmiourgǭ. oude gar dynatai; ekblēthēnai gar auton proteron kai ektakēnai dei.
It is as if he said: the dross of silver not properly refined does not submit to the craftsman so as to become a suitable vessel; nor can it, for it must first be cast out and melted away.
Notes and citation
Summary: Analogy of silver and dross.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.51.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:480; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-51-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.51.4Holl GCS 25/31:480
καὶ οὐ παρὰ τοῦτο τὸν ἄργυρον ἀπεφαίνετο μὴ δύνασθαι εἰς σκεῦος πονηθῆναι χρήσιμον, ἀλλὰ τὸ χαλκῶδες τὸ ἐν τῷ ἀργύρῳ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην σκληρότητα.
kai ou para touto ton argyron apephaineto mē dynasthai eis skeuos ponēthēnai chrēsimon, alla to chalkōdes to en tǭ argyrǭ kai tēn allēn sklērotēta.
And he would not on that account be declaring that the silver cannot be worked into a useful vessel, but the brassy element in the silver and its other hardness.
Notes and citation
Summary: It is the dross, not the silver, that resists.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.51.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:480; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-51-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.51.5Holl GCS 25/31:480
οὕτω καὶ τὸ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκὸς εἰπὼν οὐ τὴν σάρκα ἔφη μὴ δύνασθαι ὐποτάσσεσθαι τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ τὸ φρόνημα τὸ ἐν τῇ σαρκί, οἷον τὸ πρὸς τὰς ἀκρασίας αὐτῆς λέγων ὅρμημα· ὅπερ ἀλλαχοῦ ὁτὲ μὲν »παλαιὰν ζύμην« κακίας καὶ πονηρίας ἐκάλεσεν, ἐπισπέρχων αὐτὸ τελε<ί>ως ἀφʼ ἡμῶν ἀιστωθῆναι, ὁτὲ »νόμον ἀντιστρατευόμεον τῷ τοῦ νοὸς καὶ αἰχμαλωτίζοντα«.
houtō kai to phronēma tēs sarkos eipōn ou tēn sarka ephē mē dynasthai ypotassesthai tǭ nomǭ tou theou, alla to phronēma to en tę̄ sarki, hoion to pros tas akrasias autēs legōn hormēma; hoper allachou hote men »palaian zymēn« kakias kai ponērias ekalesen, episperchōn auto tele<i>ōs aphʼ hēmōn aistōthēnai, hote »nomon antistrateuomeon tǭ tou noos kai aichmalōtizonta«.
So too, in saying “the mind of the flesh,” he did not say that the flesh cannot submit to God’s law, but the mind that is in the flesh, meaning its impulse toward incontinence; this elsewhere he calls at one time “the old leaven” of malice and wickedness, urging that it be utterly removed from us, and at another “a law warring against the law of the mind and taking it captive.”
1 Cor 5:7 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Cor 5:8 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 7:23 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The mind of the flesh is the impulse to sin, called old leaven and a warring law.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 5:7–8; Rom 7:23.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.51.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:480; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-51-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.51.6Holl GCS 25/31:480–481
ἐπεί, εἰ αὐτὴν τὴν σάρκα ἔλεγε μὴ δύνασθαι ὑποτάσσεσθαι τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ, πρῶτον οὐδὲ μέμψιν ἀσελγαί- νοντες ἢ λῃστεύοντες ἢ τὰ ἄλλα ὅσʼ ἄττα διὰ σώματος πράσσοντες ἢ ποιοῦντες ἔχειv ἐδυνάμεθα παρὰ δικαίῳ κριτῇ, ἀδυνάτως ἐχούσης τῆς σαρκὸς ὑποτάσσεσθαι τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ. πῶς γὰρ ἂν μεμπτέον ἐδύνατο τὸ σῶμα κατὰ τὴν προσοῦσαν αὐτῷ φύσιν βιοῦν εἶναι;
epei, ei autēn tēn sarka elege mē dynasthai hypotassesthai tǭ nomǭ tou theou, prōton oude mempsin aselgai- nontes ē lę̄steuontes ē ta alla hosʼ atta dia sōmatos prassontes ē poiountes echeiv edynametha para dikaiǭ kritę̄, adynatōs echousēs tēs sarkos hypotassesthai tǭ nomǭ tou theou. pōs gar an mempteon edynato to sōma kata tēn prosousan autǭ physin bioun einai?
For if he said that the flesh itself cannot submit to God’s law, then, first, we could incur no blame before a just judge when we are licentious or rob or do whatever else we do or perform through the body, since the flesh would be incapable of submitting to God’s law. For how could the body be blamed for living according to the nature that belongs to it?
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Summary: If the flesh cannot obey, sins of the body would be blameless.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.51.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:480–481; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-51-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.51.7Holl GCS 25/31:481
ἀλλὰ οὐδὲ ἄλλως εἰς ἁγνείαν ἢ ἀρετὴν ὑπαχθῆναι τὸ οῶμα ἐδύνατο, πεφυκὸς μὴ ὑποτάσσεσθαι τῷ ἀγαθῷ. εἰ γὰρ ἡ φύσις τοιαύτη τῆς σαρκός, μὴ δύνασθαι ὐποτάσσεσθαι τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ, νόμος δὲ θεοῦ δικαιοσύνη καὶ σωφροσύνη, ἐχρῆν Με παρθενεύειν μήτε ἐγκρατεύεσθαι δύνασθαι τὸ σύνολον ὅλως ἐκ παντός.
alla oude allōs eis hagneian ē aretēn hypachthēnai to oōma edynato, pephykos mē hypotassesthai tǭ agathǭ. ei gar hē physis toiautē tēs sarkos, mē dynasthai ypotassesthai tǭ nomǭ tou theou, nomos de theou dikaiosynē kai sōphrosynē, echrēn Me partheneuein mēte enkrateuesthai dynasthai to synolon holōs ek pantos.
Nor again could the body be brought to purity or virtue at all, being by nature unable to submit to the good. For if the nature of the flesh were such as to be unable to submit to God’s law, and God’s law is righteousness and self-control, then no one could remain a virgin or practise continence at all.
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Summary: Otherwise virginity and continence would be impossible.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. ἐχρῆν Με is garbled (perhaps ἐχρῆν μηδένα); translated by sense.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.51.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:481; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-51-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.51.8Holl GCS 25/31:481
εἰ Τε παρθενεύουσι καὶ ἐγκρατεύοται, ἐγκρατεύονται δὲ ὁπότε τὸ σῶμα ὑποτάσσουσιν (ἄλλως γὰρ ἐγκρατεύεσθαι ἁμαρτίας οὐκ ἄρα οὐ δύναται τὸ σῶμα ὑποτάσσεσθαι τῷ τοῦ θεοῦ νόμῳ.
ei Te partheneuousi kai enkrateuotai, enkrateuontai de hopote to sōma hypotassousin (allōs gar enkrateuesthai hamartias ouk ara ou dynatai to sōma hypotassesthai tǭ tou theou nomǭ.
But if people remain virgins and practise continence, and they practise continence when they bring the body into subjection (for otherwise one cannot be continent from sin), then it is not true that the body cannot submit to God’s law.
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Summary: Continence shows that the body can obey God.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The closing parenthesis is missing in the printed text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.51.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:481; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-51-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.51.9Holl GCS 25/31:481
ἐπεὶ πῶς ἂν ὁ Ἰωάννης ὐπέταξεν ἑαυτοῦ τὸ οῶμα εἰς ἁγνείαν; ἢ πῶς Πέτρος εἰς ὁσιότητα; ἢ οἶ καθεξῆς εἰς δικαιοσύνην; πῶς Τε καὶ Παῦλος »μὴ οὖν βασιλευέτω ἡ ἁμαρτία ἐν τῷ θνητῷ ὑμῶν« λέγει »σώματι εἰς τὸ ὑπακούειν ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις αὐτοῦ μηδὲ παριστάνετε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν ὅπλα ἀδικίας τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, ἀλλὰ παραστήσατε ἑαυτοὺς τῷ θεῷ ὡσεὶ ἐκ νεκρῶν ζῶντας καὶ τὰ μέλη ὑμὼν ὅπλα δικαιοσύνης τῷ θεῷ«
epei pōs an ho Iōannēs ypetaxen heautou to oōma eis hagneian? ē pōs Petros eis hosiotēta? ē oi kathexēs eis dikaiosynēn? pōs Te kai Paulos »mē oun basileuetō hē hamartia en tǭ thnētǭ hymōn« legei »sōmati eis to hypakouein tais epithymiais autou mēde paristanete ta melē hymōn hopla adikias tę̄ hamartią, alla parastēsate heautous tǭ theǭ hōsei ek nekrōn zōntas kai ta melē hymōn hopla dikaiosynēs tǭ theǭ«
For how else would John have subjected his body to purity, or Peter to holiness, or the rest in turn to righteousness? And how does Paul say, “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to obey its desires; nor present your members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness to God”?
Rom 6:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 6:13 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The apostles and Paul’s exhortation show the body can serve righteousness.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 6:12–13.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.51.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:481; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-51-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.51.10Holl GCS 25/31:481
καὶ πάλιν »ὕσπερ γὰρ παρεστήσατε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν δοῦλα τῇ ἀκαθαρσίᾳ καὶ τῇ ἀνομίᾳ εἰς τὴν ἀνομίαν, οὔτως νῦν παραστήσατε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν δοὺλα τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ εἰς ἁγιασμόν«;
kai palin »hysper gar parestēsate ta melē hymōn doula tę̄ akatharsią kai tę̄ anomią eis tēn anomian, outōs nyn parastēsate ta melē hymōn doula tę̄ dikaiosynę̄ eis hagiasmon«?
And again: “For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification”?
Rom 6:19 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul urges presenting bodily members to righteousness.
- Methodius, On the Resurrection, quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 6:19.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.51.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:481; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-51-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 52
64.52.1Holl GCS 25/31:481
52. Οὐκοῦν ἐγίγνωσκεν δύνασθαι διευθύνεσθαι τὸ σκήνωμα τοῦτο καὶ νεύειν πρός τὸ ἀγαθόν, ἵνα νεκρωθῶσιν ἐν αὐτῷ τὰ ἁμαρτήματα.
52. Oukoun egignōsken dynasthai dieuthynesthai to skēnōma touto kai neuein pros to agathon, hina nekrōthōsin en autǭ ta hamartēmata.
He knew, then, that this tabernacle can be set straight and incline toward the good, so that sins may be put to death in it.
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Summary: The body can be directed toward the good.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.52.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:481; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-52-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.52.2Holl GCS 25/31:481–482
ἐπεὶ πῶς ἑτέρως δουλωθῆναι τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ δύναται ἄνθρωπος καὶ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν, ἐὰν μὴ πρότερον ὑποτάξας ἑαυτοῦ τὰ μέλη τῆς σαρκὸς εἰς τὸ μὴ ὑπακούειν αὐτὸ τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, ἀλλὰ τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ, πολιτεύσηται κατʼ ἀξίαν τοῦ Χριστοῦ; ἐπειδὴ τὸ ἁμαρτῆσαι καὶ τὸ μὴ ἀμαρτῆσαι διὰ τοῦ σώματος αὐτῷ.
epei pōs heterōs doulōthēnai tę̄ dikaiosynę̄ dynatai anthrōpos kai ephʼ hēmōn, ean mē proteron hypotaxas heautou ta melē tēs sarkos eis to mē hypakouein auto tę̄ hamartią, alla tę̄ dikaiosynę̄, politeusētai katʼ axian tou Christou? epeidē to hamartēsai kai to mē amartēsai dia tou sōmatos autǭ.
For how else can a man, even among us, be enslaved to righteousness, unless he first subjects the members of his flesh so that it obeys not sin but righteousness, and lives worthily of Christ? For sinning and not sinning come to him through the body.
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Summary: Righteousness requires subjecting the body’s members.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.52.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:481–482; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-52-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.52.3Holl GCS 25/31:482
εἰ γὰρ »οὔτε πόρνοι οὔτε εἰδωλολάτραι οὔτε μοιχοὶ οὔτε μαλακοὶ οὔτε ἀρσενοκοῖται οὔτε κλέπται οὔτε πλεονέκται οὔτε μέθυσοι οὔτε λοίδοροι οὔτε ἄρπαγες βασιλείαν θεοῦ κληρονομῆσαι δύνανται«,
ei gar »oute pornoi oute eidōlolatrai oute moichoi oute malakoi oute arsenokoitai oute kleptai oute pleonektai oute methysoi oute loidoroi oute arpages basileian theou klēronomēsai dynantai«,
For if “neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor the effeminate nor men who lie with males nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor revilers nor robbers can inherit the kingdom of God,”
1 Cor 6:9 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:10 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul’s list of those excluded from the kingdom.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 6:9–10.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.52.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:482; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-52-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.52.4Holl GCS 25/31:482
πληροῦνται δὲ ταῦτα καὶ κρατύνονται διὰ τοῦ σώματος, δικαιοῦται δὲ οὐδείς, ἐὰν μὴ πρῶτον κρατήσῃ τούτων, κρατεῖ Τε τούτων ὁ ἀκνεύων πρὸς σωφροσύνην καὶ πίστιν, ὑποτάσσεται ἄρα τὸ σῶμα τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ· ὁ νόμος γὰρ θεοῦ σωφροσύνη.
plērountai de tauta kai kratynontai dia tou sōmatos, dikaioutai de oudeis, ean mē prōton kratēsę̄ toutōn, kratei Te toutōn ho akneuōn pros sōphrosynēn kai pistin, hypotassetai ara to sōma tǭ nomǭ tou theou; ho nomos gar theou sōphrosynē.
and these things are carried out and strengthened through the body, and no one is justified unless he first masters them, and he masters them who does not shrink from self-control and faith, then the body does submit to God’s law; for God’s law is self-control.
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Summary: Mastering these sins shows the body can obey God’s law.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. ἀκνεύων is read as ἀοκνῶν, “not shrinking” (translated by sense).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.52.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:482; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-52-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.52.5Holl GCS 25/31:482
ὥστε ὁ ἀπόστολος οὐ τὴν σάρκα μὴ ὑποτάσσεσθαι τῷ ἀγαθῷ ἔφη, ἀλλὰ τὸ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκός, οἷον τὴν ὁρμὴν αὐτῆς αὐτὴν] τὴν πρὸς τὰς ἀκρασίας ἀναιρῶν, ὥσπερ δὴ καὶ τῆς ψυχῆς τὴν πρὸς τὸ ἄδικον ἔκκλισιν. ἐκκαθαίρεσθαι γοῦν ἄχρι καὶ τῆς γαστριμαργικῆς ἀκρασίας διαμιλλώμενος, διδάσκων τε τὰς τοιαύτας ὀρέξεις καἰ ἡδονὰς ἐξαπόλλυσθαι καὶ καταισχύνων τοὺς τὸ τρυφᾶν τοῦτο καὶ πολυτελεύεσθαι ζῆν εἶναι νομίζοντας, οἳ »θεὸν ἡγοῦνται τὴν κοιλίαν«, <φάσκοντες> καὶ πίωμεν· αὔριον γὰρ ἀποθνῄσκομεν«, καθάπερ ἀδηφάγα θρέμματα κάτω περὶ βορὰν μόνον καὶ τὰς τραπέζας ἀσχολούμενα, εἰπών τε »τὰ βρώματα τῇ κοιίᾳ καὶ ἡ κοιλία τοῖς βρώμασιν·
hōste ho apostolos ou tēn sarka mē hypotassesthai tǭ agathǭ ephē, alla to phronēma tēs sarkos, hoion tēn hormēn autēs autēn] tēn pros tas akrasias anairōn, hōsper dē kai tēs psychēs tēn pros to adikon ekklisin. ekkathairesthai goun achri kai tēs gastrimargikēs akrasias diamillōmenos, didaskōn te tas toiautas orexeis kai hēdonas exapollysthai kai kataischynōn tous to tryphan touto kai polyteleuesthai zēn einai nomizontas, hoi »theon hēgountai tēn koilian«, <phaskontes> kai piōmen; aurion gar apothnę̄skomen«, kathaper adēphaga thremmata katō peri boran monon kai tas trapezas ascholoumena, eipōn te »ta brōmata tę̄ koiią kai hē koilia tois brōmasin;
So the apostle did not say that the flesh does not submit to the good, but the mind of the flesh, that is, doing away with its impulse toward incontinence, just as also the soul’s inclination toward injustice. At any rate, he strives for cleansing even from the incontinence of gluttony, teaching that such appetites and pleasures are to be utterly destroyed, and shaming those who think that this luxury and extravagance is life, who “make the belly their god,” saying, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die,” like voracious cattle busied only with fodder and tables below; and having said, “Food is for the belly and the belly for food;
Phil 3:19 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 15:32 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 22:13 (quotation, medium confidence) · 1 Cor 6:13 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul targets the flesh’s impulse, including gluttony.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Phil 3:19; 1 Cor 15:32 (Isa 22:13); 1 Cor 6:13. The editor’s bracket deletes a repeated αὐτήν. There is no section 52.6 in the edition.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.52.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:482; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-52-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.52.7Holl GCS 25/31:482
ὁ Τε θεὸς καὶ ταύτην καὶ ταῦτα καταργήσει« ἐπήγαγε »τὸ δὲ σῶμα οὐ τῇ πορνείᾳ, ἀλλὰ τῷ κυρίῳ, καὶ ὁ κύριος τῷ σώματι.
ho Te theos kai tautēn kai tauta katargēsei« epēgage »to de sōma ou tę̄ porneią, alla tǭ kyriǭ, kai ho kyrios tǭ sōmati.
and God will destroy both the one and the other,” he added, “but the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Cor 6:13 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The body is for the Lord.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 6:13.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.52.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:482; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-52-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.52.8Holl GCS 25/31:482–483
ὁ δὲ θεὸς καὶ τὸν κύριον ἤγειρε καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐξεγερεῖ διὰ τῆς δυνάμεως αὐτοῦ. ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὄτι τὰ μέλη ἡμῶν μέλη Χριστοῦ ἐστιν; ἄρας οὖν τὰ μέλη τοῦ Χριστοῦ ποιήσω πόρνης μέλη; μὴ γένοιτο. ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ὁ κολλώμενος τῇ πόρνῃ ἓν σῶμά ἐστι; ἔσονται, γάρ φησιν, οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν. ὁ δὲ κολλώμενος τῷ κυρίῳ ἓν πνεῦμά ἐστιν. φεύγετε τὴν πορνείαν. πᾶν ἁμάρτημα ὃ ἐὰν ποιήσῃ ἄνθρωπος ἐκτὸς τοῦ σώματός ἐστιν. ὁ δὲ πορνεύων εἰς τὸ ἴδιον σῶμα ἁμαρτάνει. ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι τὰ σώματα ὑμῶν ναὸς τοῦ ἐν ὑμῖν ἁγίου πνεύματός ἐστιν, οὗ ἔχετε ἀπὸ θεοῦ; καὶ οὐκ ἐστὲ ἑαυτῶν· ἠγοράσθητε γὰρ τιμῆς. δοξάσατε οὖν τὸν θεὸν ἐν τῷ σώματι ὑμῶν«.
ho de theos kai ton kyrion ēgeire kai hēmas exegerei dia tēs dynameōs autou. ē ouk oidate oti ta melē hēmōn melē Christou estin? aras oun ta melē tou Christou poiēsō pornēs melē? mē genoito. ē ouk oidate hoti ho kollōmenos tę̄ pornę̄ hen sōma esti? esontai, gar phēsin, hoi dyo eis sarka mian. ho de kollōmenos tǭ kyriǭ hen pneuma estin. pheugete tēn porneian. pan hamartēma ho ean poiēsę̄ anthrōpos ektos tou sōmatos estin. ho de porneuōn eis to idion sōma hamartanei. ē ouk oidate hoti ta sōmata hymōn naos tou en hymin hagiou pneumatos estin, hou echete apo theou? kai ouk este heautōn; ēgorasthēte gar timēs. doxasate oun ton theon en tǭ sōmati hymōn«.
And God both raised the Lord and will raise us up by his power. Or do you not know that our members are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, he says, the two shall become one flesh. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? And you are not your own; for you were bought with a price. Glorify God, then, in your body.”
1 Cor 6:14 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:15 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 2:24 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:17 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:18 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:19 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:20 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul’s teaching on the body as Christ’s members and the Spirit’s temple.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 6:14–20, with Gen 2:24.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.52.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:482–483; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-52-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 53
64.53.1Holl GCS 25/31:483
53. Πρόσσχες γὰρ ὅτι ἐπειδὴ τὸ οῶμα τοῦτο δύναται τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ <ὐποτάσσεσθαι> καὶ τὴν ἀθανσίαν ὑποδέξασθαι, ἐὰν τῆς ἀκρασίας τῶν ὑπεκκαυμάτων, μὴ χραινόμενον ἀθέσμοις ὅλως οἴστρων παρατριβαῖς, ὁ ἀπόστολος ταῦτα ἀπεφθέγξατο.
53. Prossches gar hoti epeidē to oōma touto dynatai tǭ nomǭ tou theou <ypotassesthai> kai tēn athansian hypodexasthai, ean tēs akrasias tōn hypekkaumatōn, mē chrainomenon athesmois holōs oistrōn paratribais, ho apostolos tauta apephthenxato.
Note that the apostle uttered these things because this body can submit to God’s law and receive immortality, if it is kept from the incontinence of the inflaming passions and not stained at all by lawless frictions of frenzy.
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Summary: The body, kept pure, can receive immortality.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. A verb seems to be missing after ὑπεκκαυμάτων; translated by sense.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.53.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:483; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-53-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.53.2Holl GCS 25/31:483
ποῖον γὰρ »τὸ κολλάμενον« ἕτερον »τῇ πόρνῃ« καὶ πλησιάζον καὶ σὰρξ μετʼ αὐτῆς κατὰ τὴν σύνερξιν τῶν μελῶν καὶ τὴν κοινωίαν μία γιγνόμενον παρὰ τοῦτο τὸ οῶμα τὸ ἔξω, διʼ οὗ ταῦτα πάντα πληροῦνται τὰ πρὸς μῖξιν καὶ ἔκκαυσιν ἁμαρτήματα;
poion gar »to kollamenon« heteron »tę̄ pornę̄« kai plēsiazon kai sarx metʼ autēs kata tēn synerxin tōn melōn kai tēn koinōian mia gignomenon para touto to oōma to exō, diʼ hou tauta panta plērountai ta pros mixin kai ekkausin hamartēmata?
For what else is “joined to the prostitute,” and draws near, and becomes one flesh with her in the union of the members and in intercourse, besides this outward body, through which all these sins of intercourse and burning passion are carried out?
1 Cor 6:16 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: It is the visible body that is joined to a prostitute.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 6:16.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.53.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:483; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-53-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.53.3Holl GCS 25/31:483
ὅθεν καὶ »πᾶν ἁμάρτημα ὃ ἐὰν ποιήσῆ ἄνθρωπος ἐκτὸς τοῦ σώματός ἐστιν, ὁ δὲ πορνεύων εἰς τὸ ἴδιον σῶμα ἁμαρτάνει.«
hothen kai »pan hamartēma ho ean poiēsē anthrōpos ektos tou sōmatos estin, ho de porneuōn eis to idion sōma hamartanei.«
Hence also: “Every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”
1 Cor 6:18 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Sexual immorality is sin against one’s own body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 6:18.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.53.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:483; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-53-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.53.4Holl GCS 25/31:483
τῦφος μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἀπιστία καὶ θυμὸς καὶ ὑπόκρισις ψυχῆς ἁμαρτήματα, πορνεία δὲ καὶ οἶστρος καὶ τρυφὴ σώματος· μεθʼ ὧν οὔτε ψυχὴ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ἀναπτήσεται οὔτε σῶμα σωφροσύνης ὑποταχθήσεται δόγμασιν, ἀλλὰ ἄμφω διολισθήσουσι τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ Χριστοῦ.
typhos men gar kai apistia kai thymos kai hypokrisis psychēs hamartēmata, porneia de kai oistros kai tryphē sōmatos; methʼ hōn oute psychē pros alētheian anaptēsetai oute sōma sōphrosynēs hypotachthēsetai dogmasin, alla amphō diolisthēsousi tēs basileias tou Christou.
For conceit, unbelief, anger, and hypocrisy are sins of the soul, while sexual immorality, frenzy, and luxury are sins of the body; with these neither will the soul fly up to the truth nor will the body be subjected to the teachings of self-control, but both will slip away from the kingdom of Christ.
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Summary: Sins of soul and of body both exclude from the kingdom.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.53.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:483; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-53-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.53.5Holl GCS 25/31:483–484
καὶ τοίνυν εἶ τὰ σώματα ἡμῶν ἐν ἁγιασμῷ διακρατούμενα »ναός ἐστι τοῦ ἐν ἡμῖν οἰκοῦντος πνεύ- ματος« καὶ »ό κύριος ὲν τῷ αώματοι«, καὶ τὰ μέλη ταῦ αύματος »μέλη Χριστοῦ«, ὐποτάσσεται τὸ σῶμα τῷ ωόμῳ θείῳ καὶ »κλγρονομῆσαι δύναται τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ δεοῦ«.
kai toinyn ei ta sōmata hēmōn en hagiasmǭ diakratoumena »naos esti tou en hēmin oikountos pneu- matos« kai »o kyrios en tǭ aōmatoi«, kai ta melē tau aumatos »melē Christou«, ypotassetai to sōma tǭ ōomǭ theiǭ kai »klgronomēsai dynatai tēn basileian tou deou«.
And so, if our bodies, kept in sanctification, are “a temple of the Spirit dwelling in us,” and “the Lord is for the body,” and the members of the body are “members of Christ,” then the body submits to the divine law and “can inherit the kingdom of God.”
1 Cor 6:19 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:13 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:15 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:9 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: The sanctified body can inherit the kingdom.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 6:19, 13, 15; 1 Cor 6:9 (inverted).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.53.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:483–484; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-53-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.53.6Holl GCS 25/31:484
· ὁ «ό γὰρ έγείρας Χριστὸν ὲκ νεκρῶν ξωοπιήσει« φησί »καὶ θνητὰ αώμτα ύμῶν διὰ τοῦ ἀνοικοῦντγος αύτοῦ πνεύματος ὲν ύμῖν«, »iva τὸ θνητὸν τοῦτο ἐνδύσηται τὴν ἀθανασίαν καὶ τὸ φθαρτὸν τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν, νῖνκός τε καταποθῇ ὁ θάνατος«.
; ho «o gar egeiras Christon ek nekrōn xōopiēsei« phēsi »kai thnēta aōmta ymōn dia tou anoikountgos autou pneumatos en ymin«, »iva to thnēton touto endysētai tēn athanasian kai to phtharton tēn aphtharsian, ninkos te katapothę̄ ho thanatos«.
“For he who raised Christ from the dead,” he says, “will give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you,” “so that this mortal may put on immortality and this perishable imperishability, and death be swallowed up in victory.”
Rom 8:11 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 15:53 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 15:54 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: God will give life to mortal bodies.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 8:11; 1 Cor 15:53–54.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.53.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:484; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-53-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.53.7Holl GCS 25/31:484
οὐ γὰρ περὶ διελάμβανεν καθʼ ήμᾶς ὲνταῦθα οώματος ὁ ἀπόστολος, ἀλλὰ περὶ τούτου τοῦ ἀποθνήσκοντος καὶ νεκρουμένου, διʼ οὖ καἰ πορνεῦ σαι καὶ άλλως ὰμαρτῆσαι δυνατόν.
ou gar peri dielambanen kathʼ ēmas entautha oōmatos ho apostolos, alla peri toutou tou apothnēskontos kai nekroumenou, diʼ ou kai porneu sai kai allōs amartēsai dynaton.
For the apostle was not speaking here, according to us, about another body, but about this one that dies and is put to death, through which it is possible to commit sexual immorality and sin in other ways.
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Summary: Paul speaks of this mortal body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. A word such as ἄλλου (“another”) seems to have fallen out after περί; translated by sense.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.53.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:484; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-53-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 54
64.54.1Holl GCS 25/31:484
54. Ἐὰν δὲ διαφορὰν εἶναι σώματος πρὸς σάρκα ὐποτγοπάξωσιν ίνα δὴ καὶ ταῦτα αὐτοῖς ὲπιτπέψωμεν λογικεύεσθαι) καὶ σῶμα μὲν ἄλλο νομίξοιεν, οἶον αὐτῆς τῆς φυχῆς <τὸ ἴδιον>, ὅ μὴ βλέπεται, αἀρκα δὲ τοῦτο τὸ ε͂ζω τὸ βλεπόμενον, λεκτέοv, ὡς οὐ μόνον ὁ Παῦλος καὶ οί προφῆται σῶμα γιγνώσκαυσι τὴν σάρκα ὸνομάξεσθαι ταύτην, άλλλὰ καὶ ἄλλαι Ε; φιλόσοφοι, παρʼ οἶς δὴ μάλιστα καὶ ή τῶν ὸνομάτων ἀκρίβεινα παρατετήρηται.
54. Ean de diaphoran einai sōmatos pros sarka ypotgopaxōsin ina dē kai tauta autois epitpepsōmen logikeuesthai) kai sōma men allo nomixoien, oion autēs tēs phychēs <to idion>, ho mē blepetai, aarka de touto to ezō to blepomenon, lekteov, hōs ou monon ho Paulos kai oi prophētai sōma gignōskausi tēn sarka onomaxesthai tautēn, allla kai allai E? philosophoi, parʼ ois dē malista kai ē tōn onomatōn akribeina paratetērētai.
And if they suppose that there is a difference between body and flesh (to allow them to reason about this too), and think that the body is something else, such as the soul’s own, which is not seen, while the flesh is this outward, visible thing, we must say that not only Paul and the prophets know this flesh to be called body, but also the philosophers, among whom exactness of terms is most carefully observed.
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Summary: Scripture and philosophers alike call the visible flesh “body.”
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.54.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:484; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-54-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.54.2Holl GCS 25/31:484
τετήρηται. αὰρξ γὰρ ὅλως, εὶ βούλονται καὶ περὶ τούτγων ἐπιστημόνως ἐπισκέφασθαι, πᾶς ὁ ογκξος οὖτος τοῦ σκηνώματος ήμῶν κυρίως οὺ λέγεται, ται, ἀλλά τι μέρος τοῦ ὁλου, καθάπερ ἤ ὸστᾶ ἢ ωεῦρα ἢ φλέβες, σῶμα δὲ τὸ ὄλον οθεν καὶ ἰατροί, οἴ δή καὶ περὶ φύσεως σωμάτων δυσρίγως διειλήφααι, σῶμα γιγνώσκουσι τοῦτο τὸ βλεπόμενον.
tetērētai. aarx gar holōs, ei boulontai kai peri toutgōn epistēmonōs episkephasthai, pas ho onkxos outos tou skēnōmatos ēmōn kyriōs ou legetai, tai, alla ti meros tou holou, kathaper ē osta ē ōeura ē phlebes, sōma de to olon othen kai iatroi, oi dē kai peri physeōs sōmatōn dysrigōs dieilēphaai, sōma gignōskousi touto to blepomenon.
For, if they wish to examine these matters scientifically, the whole mass of our tabernacle is not properly called flesh, but a part of the whole, like the bones or sinews or veins; the whole is body. Hence physicians too, who have studied closely the nature of bodies, know this visible thing as body.
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Summary: Flesh is a part; the whole visible frame is body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The word τετήρηται at the start repeats the end of the previous section. δυσρίγως is read as ἀκριβῶς or similar, “closely”.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.54.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:484; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-54-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.54.3Holl GCS 25/31:484–485
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ Πλάτων καὶ αὺτὸ <τὸ σῶμα> σῶμα καὶ αὐτὸς επίσταται. ἐν γοῦν τῷ Φαίδωνι ὁ Σωκράτης «ἄπα μὴ ἄλλο τι τὸν θάνατον ἠγούμεθα εἶναι« ἔφη »ἤ τεθνάναι, χωπὶς με) ἀπὸ τῆς ψυχῆς άπαλλαγὲν αὐτὸ καθʼ ἑαυτὸ τὸ σῶμα γεγονέναι, Χψρὶς δὲ τὴν ψυχὴν <ἀπὸ> τοῦ αώματος;
alla kai ho Platōn kai auto <to sōma> sōma kai autos epistatai. en goun tǭ Phaidōni ho Sōkratēs «apa mē allo ti ton thanaton ēgoumetha einai« ephē »ē tethnanai, chōpis me) apo tēs psychēs apallagen auto kathʼ heauto to sōma gegonenai, Chpsris de tēn psychēn <apo> tou aōmatos?
And Plato too knows this very body as body. At any rate, in the Phaedo Socrates said, “Do we think death is anything other than this: that the body, released from the soul, has come to be apart by itself, and the soul apart from the body?”
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Summary: Plato uses “body” for the visible body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Plato, Phaedo 64c, quoted freely.
Extrabiblical texts: Plato, Phaed. 64c (Plato (works); quotation); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.54.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:484–485; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-54-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.54.4Holl GCS 25/31:485
ὁ γάρ Μωυσῆς ὁ μακάμος (ἥκομεν γὰρ ὲπὶ τὰς κυριακὰς ἤδη γραφά) οὺ τοῦτο ὀνομάξειν ἐπίσταται, ὅ βλέπομεν· »καὶ πλυνεῖ τὰ ίμάτια« λέγνων ἐν τοῖς καθαπισμοῖς ὁ ἐπιμαύσας τοῦ ἀκαθάρτου »καὶ λούσεται τὰ σῶμα ὔδατι« »καὶ ἀκάθαρτος ἔσται ἕως ἐσπέρας῀ τί δὲ καὶ ὁ Τώβ;
ho gar Mōysēs ho makamos (hēkomen gar epi tas kyriakas ēdē grapha) ou touto onomaxein epistatai, ho blepomen; »kai plynei ta imatia« legnōn en tois kathapismois ho epimausas tou akathartou »kai lousetai ta sōma ydati« »kai akathartos estai heōs esperas῀ ti de kai ho Tōb?
For blessed Moses (for we now come to the Lord’s Scriptures) knows how to call what we see by this name, when he says in the purifications that he who has touched the unclean “shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water” “and be unclean until evening.” And what of Job?
Lev 15:5 (quotation, medium confidence)
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Summary: Moses calls the visible body “body.”
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Lev 15:5–11 and similar purity laws.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.54.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:485; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-54-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.54.5Holl GCS 25/31:485
οὐ σῶμα ἐπίσταται καὶ αὐτὸς τοῦτο τὸ νεκρούμενον καλεῖν, »φύθρεται δὲ μου τὸ σῦμα ὲν σαπρίᾳ ακωλήκων« λέγων;
ou sōma epistatai kai autos touto to nekroumenon kalein, »phythretai de mou to syma en saprią akōlēkōn« legōn?
Does not he too know how to call this dying thing body, when he says, “My body is defiled in the corruption of worms”?
Job 7:5 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Job calls his decaying frame “body.”
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Job 7:5 (LXX).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.54.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:485; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-54-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.54.6Holl GCS 25/31:485
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ Σολομῶν ὅτι »εὶς κακὸτεχνον φυχὴν οὐκ εἰσελεύσται σοφία, αὐδὲ κατοικήσει έν σώματι καταχρίῳ ἀμαρτίας«/ καὶ ὲν Δαντὴλ ἐπὶ τῶν μαρτύτων »οὺκ ἐκυρίευσεν αύτῶν τὸ πῦρ σώματος« λέγεται, »καὶ ἡ θρὶξ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτῶν οὐκ ἐφλονᾶτε καὶ ὁ κύριος ὲν τῷ εὐαγγελῳ »διὰ τοῦτο λέγω ύμῖν·
alla kai ho Solomōn hoti »eis kakotechnon phychēn ouk eiseleustai sophia, aude katoikēsei en sōmati katachriǭ amartias«/ kai en Dantēl epi tōn martytōn »ouk ekyrieusen autōn to pyr sōmatos« legetai, »kai hē thrix tēs kephalēs autōn ouk ephlonate kai ho kyrios en tǭ euangelǭ »dia touto legō ymin;
And Solomon too: “Wisdom will not enter a soul that plots evil, nor dwell in a body enslaved to sin”; and in Daniel it is said of the martyrs, “the fire had no power over their bodies, and the hair of their head was not singed”; and the Lord in the Gospel: “Therefore I say to you,
Dan 3:27 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 6:25 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Wisdom, Daniel, and the Gospel speak of the body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Wis 1:4; Dan 3:27 (3:94 LXX/Theodotion); Matt 6:25.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 1:4 (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. 64.54.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:485; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-54-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.54.7Holl GCS 25/31:485
μὴ μεριμνᾶτε τί φάγητε ἢ τί ενδύσηθε. αὐχὶ ἡ φυχὴ πλεῖοόν έστι τῆς τροφῆς καὶ τὸ σῶμα τοῦ ένδύματος;«
mē merimnate ti phagēte ē ti endysēthe. auchi hē phychē pleioon esti tēs trophēs kai to sōma tou endymatos?«
do not be anxious about what you will eat or what you will wear. Is not the soul more than food and the body more than clothing?”
Matt 6:25 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Jesus contrasts soul and body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Matt 6:25.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.54.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:485; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-54-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.54.8Holl GCS 25/31:485
καὶ ὁ ἀπόστολος δὲ »μὴ οὖν βασιλενέτω ἡ ἀμαρτία ἐν τῷ θνητῶ ύμῶν σώματι« λέγων, σῶμα γινώσκειν öxo ὅ περικείμεθα ουνίστησιν, καὶ πάλιν »εὶ δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ ἐγείραντος Ιησοῦν αἰκεῖ ὲν ὐμῖν, ὁ ἐγείρας Χριστὸν έκ νεκρῶν ξωοποιήσει καὶ τὰ θνητὰ ώματα ὐμῶν« καὶ πάλιν »ἐὰν εἴπῃ ὁ πούς·
kai ho apostolos de »mē oun basilenetō hē amartia en tǭ thnētō ymōn sōmati« legōn, sōma ginōskein oxo ho perikeimetha ounistēsin, kai palin »ei de to pneuma tou egeirantos Iēsoun aikei en ymin, ho egeiras Christon ek nekrōn xōopoiēsei kai ta thnēta ōmata ymōn« kai palin »ean eipę̄ ho pous;
And the apostle too, saying, “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body,” shows that he knows what we wear as body; and again, “But if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life also to your mortal bodies”; and again, “If the foot says,
Rom 6:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:11 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 12:15 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul’s uses of “body.”
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 6:12; Rom 8:11; 1 Cor 12:15.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.54.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:485; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-54-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.54.9Holl GCS 25/31:485–486
ὄτι οὐκ εἰμὶ χείρ, ούκ εἰμὶ έκ τοῦ σώματος οὐ παρὰ τοῦτο οὺκ ἔστιν ἐκ τοῦ σώματο«, καὶ πάλιν »καὶ μὴ ἀσθενήσας Ἀβραὰμ τῆ πίστει οὐ κατενόησε τὸ ἐαυτοῦ σῶμα νενκρωμένον«. καὶ πάλιν »τοὺς γὰρ ἄπαντας ἡμᾶς φανερωθῆναι δεὶ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ βήματος τοῦ χριστοῦ, ἵνα κομίσηται ἕκαστος τὰ διὰ τοῦ σώματος πρὸς ἄ ἔπραξε«, καὶ πάλιν »αἱ μὲν ἐπιστολαὶ βαρεῖαι καὶ ἰσχυραί,
oti ouk eimi cheir, ouk eimi ek tou sōmatos ou para touto ouk estin ek tou sōmato«, kai palin »kai mē asthenēsas Abraam tē pistei ou katenoēse to eautou sōma nenkrōmenon«. kai palin »tous gar apantas hēmas phanerōthēnai dei emprosthen tou bēmatos tou christou, hina komisētai hekastos ta dia tou sōmatos pros a epraxe«, kai palin »hai men epistolai bareiai kai ischyrai,
‘Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,’ it is not for that reason not of the body”; and again, “And not being weak in faith, Abraham did not consider his own body, which was as good as dead”; and again, “For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive what was done through the body, according to what he has done”; and again, “His letters are weighty and strong,
1 Cor 12:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 4:19 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 5:10 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 10:10 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: More Pauline texts using “body.”
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 12:15; Rom 4:19; 2 Cor 5:10; 2 Cor 10:10.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.54.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:485–486; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-54-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.54.10Holl GCS 25/31:486
ἡ δὲ παρουσία τοῦ σώματος ἀσθενής«, καὶ πάλιν »οἶδα ἄνθρωπον ἐν Χριστῷ πρὸ ἐτῶν δεκατεσσάρων, εἴτε ἐν σώματι οὐκ οἶδα εἴτε ἐκτὸς τοῦ σώματος οὐκ οἶδα« καὶ πάλιν »οὕτως ὀφείλουσιν οἱ ἄνδρες ἀγαπᾶν τὰς ἑαυτῶν γυναῖκας, ὡς τὰ ἑαυτῶν σώματα«, καὶ πάλιν »αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης ἀγιάσαι ὁμᾶς ἡλοτελείς, καὶ ὁλόκληρον ὑμῶν τὸ πνεῶνα καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ καὶ τὸ σῶμα ἀμέμπτως ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν ’Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ τηρηθείη«.
hē de parousia tou sōmatos asthenēs«, kai palin »oida anthrōpon en Christǭ pro etōn dekatessarōn, eite en sōmati ouk oida eite ektos tou sōmatos ouk oida« kai palin »houtōs opheilousin hoi andres agapan tas heautōn gynaikas, hōs ta heautōn sōmata«, kai palin »autos de ho theos tēs eirēnēs agiasai homas hēloteleis, kai holoklēron hymōn to pneōna kai hē psychē kai to sōma amemptōs en tę̄ parousią tou kyriou hēmōn ’Iēsou Christou tērētheiē«.
but his bodily presence is weak”; and again, “I know a man in Christ fourteen years ago, whether in the body I do not know or outside the body I do not know”; and again, “So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies”; and again, “May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept whole and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
2 Cor 10:10 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 12:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 5:28 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Thess 5:23 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Further Pauline texts using “body.”
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 2 Cor 10:10; 2 Cor 12:2; Eph 5:28; 1 Thess 5:23.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.54.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:486; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-54-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.54.11Holl GCS 25/31:486
οἱ δέ, ἀσφαλῶς οὐ νοήσαντες τούτων οὐδέν, ἐν σάλῳ καὶ ταραχῇ φέρεσθαι τὸν ἀπόστολον ὑπέλαβον, ὡς στάσιν αὑτοῦ τὰς διανοήδεις τῶν λόγων καὶ ἔδαραν οὐκ ἐχούσας, ἀλλὰ ἀναπλεούσας ἄνω καὶ κάτω καὶ ὁμισούσας παλίμφημα, ὁτὲ μὲν τὴν σάρκα ἀνίστασθαι, ὁτὲ δὲ οὐκ ἀνίστασθα.
hoi de, asphalōs ou noēsantes toutōn ouden, en salǭ kai tarachę̄ pheresthai ton apostolon hypelabon, hōs stasin hautou tas dianoēdeis tōn logōn kai edaran ouk echousas, alla anapleousas anō kai katō kai homisousas palimphēma, hote men tēn sarka anistasthai, hote de ouk anistastha.
But they, plainly understanding none of these things, supposed that the apostle was carried about in turmoil and confusion, as though the meaning of his words had no stability or foundation but floated up and down and said contradictory things, now that the flesh rises, now that it does not rise.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Origenists make Paul contradict himself.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Heresy, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.54.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:486; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-54-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 55
64.55.1Holl GCS 25/31:486
55. Ὅθεν ἵνα μὴ παραλειφθῇ τῶν προταθέντων μηδὲ ἔν, ὅπως τε- λε<ί>ως ως ἐκτέμνωμεν <τὴν> ὕδραν, εἰς τὸ προκείμενον ἐφεξῆς γάρ, καθάπερ ὑπεσχόμην, καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἃ προσαποροῦσι κεφάλαια θεὶς καὶ ἃ χρὴ πρὸς αὐτὰ λέγεσθαι ἀποδείξας, ἀκόλουθα παραστήσω αὐτὸν καὶ σύμφωνα εἰς τὴν περὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως τῆς σαρκὸς πίστιν καὶ αὐτὰ εἰρηκότα.
55. Hothen hina mē paraleiphthę̄ tōn protathentōn mēde en, hopōs te- le<i>ōs ōs ektemnōmen <tēn> hydran, eis to prokeimenon ephexēs gar, kathaper hypeschomēn, kai ta alla ha prosaporousi kephalaia theis kai ha chrē pros auta legesthai apodeixas, akoloutha parastēsō auton kai symphōna eis tēn peri tēs anastaseōs tēs sarkos pistin kai auta eirēkota.
Therefore, so that none of the points put forward may be left out, and so that we may cut off the hydra completely, I will next, as I promised, set out the other headings they raise as difficulties and show what should be said against them, and I will present him as consistent and in agreement, in these very sayings, with the faith in the resurrection of the flesh.
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Summary: Methodius will show Paul consistent with the resurrection of the flesh.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The words εἰς τὸ προκείμενον appear misplaced in the printed text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.55.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:486; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-55-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.55.2Holl GCS 25/31:486
ἴδωμεν δὴ οὖν ἃ τὸ πρῶτον εἰς τὸν ἀπόστολον προήχθημεν εἰπεῖν. τὸ γάρ »ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων« λεχθὲν αὐτῷ »χωρὶς νόμου ποτέ« ἄνω τὴν ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ, καθάπερ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ὑπεθέμεθα, πρὸ τῆς ἐντολῆς, οὐκ ἐκτὸς σώματος, ἀλλὰ μετὰ σώματος ἡμῶν ἐν τοῖς πρωτοπλάστοις διαγωγὴν παρεγγυᾷ,
idōmen dē oun ha to prōton eis ton apostolon proēchthēmen eipein. to gar »egō de ezōn« lechthen autǭ »chōris nomou pote« anō tēn en tǭ paradeisǭ, kathaper ex archēs hypethemetha, pro tēs entolēs, ouk ektos sōmatos, alla meta sōmatos hēmōn en tois prōtoplastois diagōgēn parengyą,
Let us see, then, what we were first led to say about the apostle. His saying, “I was once alive apart from the law,” refers to our life above in paradise, as we supposed from the beginning, in the first-formed before the commandment, not outside the body but with the body,
Rom 7:9 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Rom 7:9 refers to embodied life in paradise before the commandment.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:9.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.55.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:486; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-55-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.55.3Holl GCS 25/31:486–487
ἐπειδὴ πρὸ τοῦ δοθῆναι τὴν ἐντολὴν »χοῦν ὁ θεὸς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς λαβὼν ἔπλασε τὸν ἄνθρωπον«. ἐκτὸς δὲ ἐπιθυμίας διήγομεν, οὖ γινώσκοντες ὅλως ἐπιθυμίας ἀλόγου προσβολάς, βιαξομένης ἡμᾶς ἐλκτικαῖς ἡδονῶν περιαγωγαῖς πρὸς ἀκρασίαν.
epeidē pro tou dothēnai tēn entolēn »choun ho theos apo tēs gēs labōn eplase ton anthrōpon«. ektos de epithymias diēgomen, ou ginōskontes holōs epithymias alogou prosbolas, biaxomenēs hēmas elktikais hēdonōn periagōgais pros akrasian.
since before the commandment was given, “God took dust from the earth and formed man.” And we lived without desire, not knowing at all the assaults of irrational desire forcing us toward incontinence by the dragging enticements of pleasures.
Gen 2:7 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Man was formed with a body and lived without desire before the commandment.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Gen 2:7.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.55.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:486–487; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-55-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.55.4Holl GCS 25/31:487
τὸ γὰρ μὴ ἔχον διορισμὸν καθʼ ὃν δεῖ πολιτεύεσθαι μηδὲ ἐξουσίαν αὐτοδέσποτον λογισμοῦ, ποίῳ χρῆσθαι αἱρεῖται πολιτεύματι, ἵνα δικαίως ἢ τιμηθῇ ἢ ψεχθῇ, ἀνυτπεύθυνον παντὸς λεκτέον ὑπάρχειν τοῦτο ἐγκηήματος, ὅτί μὴ δύναται τούτων ἐπιθυμῆσαι ὦν μὴ κεκώλυται. κἂν ἐπιθυμήσῃ δέ, οὐκ αἰτιαθήσεται.
to gar mē echon diorismon kathʼ hon dei politeuesthai mēde exousian autodespoton logismou, poiǭ chrēsthai haireitai politeumati, hina dikaiōs ē timēthę̄ ē psechthę̄, anytpeuthynon pantos lekteon hyparchein touto enkēēmatos, hoti mē dynatai toutōn epithymēsai ōn mē kekōlytai. kan epithymēsę̄ de, ouk aitiathēsetai.
For what has no rule by which it must live, nor self-determining authority of reason to choose which way of life to follow, so that it may justly be honoured or blamed, must be said to be free of all charge, since it cannot desire what has not been forbidden; and even if it does desire, it will not be accused.
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Summary: Without a commandment there is no culpable desire.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.55.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:487; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-55-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.55.5Holl GCS 25/31:487
τὸ γὰρ ἐπιθυμῆσαι οὐκ ἐπὶ τῶν παρόντων καὶ ὑποκειμένων ἐν ἐξουσίᾳ πίπτει, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τῶν παρόντων μέν, μὴ ὄντων δὲ ἐν ἐξουσίᾳ. πῶς γὰρ οὖ μὴ κεκώλυταί τις μηδὲ ἐνδεής ἐστι, τούτου ἐπιθυμεῖ καὶ ἐρᾷ; ὅθεν διὰ τοῦτο »τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν οὔκ ᾔδειν«, <ἔφη, > »εἰ μὴ ὁ νόμος ἔλεγεν, οὐκ ἑπιθυμήδεις«.
to gar epithymēsai ouk epi tōn parontōn kai hypokeimenōn en exousią piptei, allʼ epi tōn parontōn men, mē ontōn de en exousią. pōs gar ou mē kekōlytai tis mēde endeēs esti, toutou epithymei kai erą? hothen dia touto »tēn epithymian ouk ę̄dein«, <ephē, > »ei mē ho nomos elegen, ouk hepithymēdeis«.
For desire does not fall on things that are present and lie within one’s power, but on things present yet not within one’s power. For how does anyone desire and long for what he is not forbidden and does not lack? That is why he said, “I would not have known desire if the law had not said, ‘You shall not desire.’”
Rom 7:7 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 20:17 (quotation, medium confidence)
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Summary: Desire arises only for what is forbidden.
- Methodius, On the Resurrection, quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:7.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.55.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:487; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-55-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.55.6Holl GCS 25/31:487
ἀκούσαντες γάρ »ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ ξύλου τοῦ γινώσκειν καλὸν καὶ πονηρόν, οὐ φάγεσθε ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ· ᾗ δʼ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ φάγητε ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, θανάτῳ νάτῳ ἀποθανεῖσθε«, τίτε τὸ ἐπιθυμῆσαι συνέλαβον καὶ ἐνεκίσσησαν. οὑ γὰρ ὦν ἔχει καὶ ὦν ἐξουσιάζει καὶ κέχρηται αὐτοῖς, ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν ἐπιθυμεῖ, ἀλλὰ ὦν κεκώλυται καὶ ἀφῄρηται καὶ οὐκ ἔχει.
akousantes gar »apo de tou xylou tou ginōskein kalon kai ponēron, ou phagesthe apʼ autou; hę̄ dʼ an hēmerą phagēte apʼ autou, thanatǭ natǭ apothaneisthe«, tite to epithymēsai synelabon kai enekissēsan. hou gar ōn echei kai ōn exousiazei kai kechrētai autois, ho epithymōn epithymei, alla ōn kekōlytai kai aphę̄rētai kai ouk echei.
For when they heard, “But of the tree of knowing good and evil you shall not eat of it; on the day you eat of it you shall surely die,” then they conceived desire and began to crave. For one who desires does not desire what he has and controls and uses, but what he is forbidden and deprived of and does not have.
Gen 2:17 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The command in Eden awakened desire.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Gen 2:17. The word θανάτῳ is doubled in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.55.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:487; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-55-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.55.7Holl GCS 25/31:487–488
διὸ δὴ καλῶς »τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν οὐκ ᾔδειν« ἐλέχθη, »εἰ μὴ ὁ νόμος ἐλεγεν, οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις«, ὃ δή ἐστιν, εἰ μὴ εἴρητο »οὐ φάγεσθε ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ«. ἐντεῦθεν γὰρ ἐκτήσατο τόπον καὶ ἀφορμὴν εἰδελθεῖν εἰς τὸ διαπαῖξαί με καὶ παρατέψασθαι ἡ ἀμαρτία.
dio dē kalōs »tēn epithymian ouk ę̄dein« elechthē, »ei mē ho nomos elegen, ouk epithymēseis«, ho dē estin, ei mē eirēto »ou phagesthe apʼ autou«. enteuthen gar ektēsato topon kai aphormēn eidelthein eis to diapaixai me kai paratepsasthai hē amartia.
That is why it was rightly said, “I would not have known desire if the law had not said, ‘You shall not desire,’” that is, if it had not been said, “You shall not eat of it.” For from there sin gained room and occasion to come in to mock me and lead me astray.
Rom 7:7 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:8 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 2:17 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The Eden command gave sin its occasion.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:7–8; Gen 2:17.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.55.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:487–488; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-55-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 56
64.56.1Holl GCS 25/31:488
56. Δοθείσης γὰρ τῆς ἐντολῆς ἔσχε λαβὴν διὰ τῆς ἐντολῆς ὁ διάβο λος κατεργάσασθαι ἐν ἐμοὶ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν, παρορμήσας με καὶ προσκαλεσάμενος μενος ἐντέχνως εἰς ὄρεξιν παταπεσεῖν τῶν κεκωλυμένων.
56. Dotheisēs gar tēs entolēs esche labēn dia tēs entolēs ho diabo los katergasasthai en emoi tēn epithymian, parormēsas me kai proskalesamenos menos entechnōs eis orexin patapesein tōn kekōlymenōn.
For once the commandment was given, the devil gained a hold through the commandment to work desire in me, urging me and skilfully inviting me to fall into craving for the forbidden things.
Rom 7:8 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The devil used the commandment to work desire.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:8.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.56.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:488; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-56-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.56.2Holl GCS 25/31:488
»χωρὶς γάρ νόμου ἀμαρτία νεκρά«· οἶον οὐ δοθείσης γὰρ οὐδὲ οὐσης οὐδέπω τῆς ἐντολῆς ἀπρακτος ἦν ἡ ἀμαρτία· »ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων« ἀμέμπτως πρὸ τῆς ἐντολῆς, οὐκ ἔχων ἔχων διορισμὸν καὶ διαταγάν, καθʼ ἢν ἔδει πολιτεύσασθαι, ἦς καὶ διολισηήσας ἁμαρτήσομαι.
»chōris gar nomou amartia nekra«; oion ou dotheisēs gar oude ousēs oudepō tēs entolēs apraktos ēn hē amartia; »egō de ezōn« amemptōs pro tēs entolēs, ouk echōn echōn diorismon kai diatagan, kathʼ ēn edei politeusasthai, ēs kai diolisēēsas hamartēsomai.
“For apart from the law sin is dead”; that is, since the commandment had not yet been given and did not exist, sin was inactive. “But I was alive” blamelessly before the commandment, having no rule and ordinance by which I had to live, by slipping from which I would sin.
Rom 7:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:9 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Before the commandment sin was inactive.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:8–9.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.56.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:488; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-56-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.56.3Holl GCS 25/31:488
»ἐλθούσης δὲ τῆς ἐντολῆς ἡ ἁμαρτία ἀνέζησεν, ἐγὼ δὲ ἀπέθανον, καὶ ηὐρέθη μοι ἡ ἑντολὴ ἡ εἰς ζωὴν αὔτη εἰς θάνατον«, ὅτι μετὰ τὸ νομοθετῆσαι τὸν θεὸν καὶ διαστείλασθαι ὃ ποιητέον καὶ μὴ ποιητέον, πατεργάσατο ἐν ἐμοὶ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ὁ διάβολος.
»elthousēs de tēs entolēs hē hamartia anezēsen, egō de apethanon, kai ēurethē moi hē hentolē hē eis zōēn autē eis thanaton«, hoti meta to nomothetēsai ton theon kai diasteilasthai ho poiēteon kai mē poiēteon, patergasato en emoi tēn epithymian ho diabolos.
“But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died, and the very commandment that was for life was found to be for me unto death,” because after God had given the law and distinguished what is to be done and not done, the devil worked desire in me.
Rom 7:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:10 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The commandment became an occasion for death.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:9–10.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.56.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:488; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-56-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.56.4Holl GCS 25/31:488
ἡ γὰρ παραίνεσις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ παραγγελία ἡ δοθεῖσά μοι μοι αὕτη ζωὴν καὶ ἀξθαρσίαν, ἵαν πειθόμενος αὐτῇ καὶ κατʼ αὐτὴν βιοὺς ἀπήμονα καὶ μακαριστότατον διʼ αἰῶνος καὶ ἀεὶ θάλλοντα πρὸς ἀθανασίαν βίον ἔχω καὶ χαράν, ἀθετήσαντι αὐτὴν εἰς θάνατον ἀπέβη καὶ καταδίκην,
hē gar parainesis tou theou kai parangelia hē dotheisa moi moi hautē zōēn kai axtharsian, hian peithomenos autę̄ kai katʼ autēn bious apēmona kai makaristotaton diʼ aiōnos kai aei thallonta pros athanasian bion echō kai charan, athetēsanti autēn eis thanaton apebē kai katadikēn,
For the exhortation and precept of God given to me was itself life and incorruption, so that by obeying it and living by it I might have a painless, most blessed life for ever, always flourishing toward immortality, and joy; but for me, who set it aside, it turned out to be for death and condemnation,
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Summary: God’s precept was meant for life.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.56.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:488; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-56-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.56.5Holl GCS 25/31:488
ἐπειδὴ ὁ διάβολος, ὂν ἁμαρτίαν νῦν οὕτως ἐκάλεσε διὰ τὸ δημιουργὸν αὐτὸν ἁμαρτίας ὑπάρχειν καὶ εὐρετήν, κιὰ τῆς ἐντολῆς ἀφορμὴν λαβὼν πρὸς παρακοὴν ἐξηπάτησέ με καὶ ἀπατήσας ἀπέκτεινεν, ὑπεύθυνον τῷ »ᾖ δʼ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ φάγητε ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, θανάτῳ ἀποθανείσθα« κατακρίματι γενέσθαι κατεργασάμενος.
epeidē ho diabolos, on hamartian nyn houtōs ekalese dia to dēmiourgon auton hamartias hyparchein kai euretēn, kia tēs entolēs aphormēn labōn pros parakoēn exēpatēse me kai apatēsas apekteinen, hypeuthynon tǭ »ę̄ dʼ an hēmerą phagēte apʼ autou, thanatǭ apothaneistha« katakrimati genesthai katergasamenos.
since the devil, whom he now calls sin because he is the maker and inventor of sin, took occasion through the commandment toward disobedience, deceived me, and having deceived me killed me, bringing it about that I became liable to the sentence, “On the day you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Rom 7:11 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 2:17 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: “Sin” in Romans 7 is the devil, who deceived and killed.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:11; Gen 2:17.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.56.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:488; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-56-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.56.6Holl GCS 25/31:488–489
»ὥστε ὁ μὲν νόμος ἅγιος καὶ ἡ ἐντολὴ τοῦ θεοῦ ἁγία καὶ δικαία καὶ ἀγαθή«, ὅτι μὴ ἐπὶ τῷ βλάψαι, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τῷ σῶσαι ἐδόθη. μὴ γὰρ οἰωμεθα ὅλως ἀνωφελές τι ποειῖν ἤ βλκβερὸν τὸν θεόν. τί οὖν;
»hōste ho men nomos hagios kai hē entolē tou theou hagia kai dikaia kai agathē«, hoti mē epi tǭ blapsai, allʼ epi tǭ sōsai edothē. mē gar oiōmetha holōs anōpheles ti poeiin ē blkberon ton theon. ti oun?
“So the law is holy, and the commandment of God is holy and just and good,” because it was given not to harm but to save. For let us not think at all that God does anything useless or harmful. What then?
Rom 7:12 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The law is holy and given to save.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:12.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.56.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:488–489; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-56-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.56.7Holl GCS 25/31:489
τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἐμοὶ ἐγένετο θάνατος«, ὅ τοῦ μεγίστου ἐμοὶ ὡς ἀγαθοῦ νομοθέτημα ἐδόθη; »μὴ γένοιτο«. ὅτι μὴ ἡ ἐντολὴ τοῦ τὸ καταδουλωθῆναί με ἐγένετο τῇ φθορᾷ καὶ ἐναπομάξασθαι κῆγρας ὀλέθρου αἰτία, ἀλλʼ ὁ διάβολος, ἵνα φανερωθῇ διὰ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ τὸ κακὸν ἐμοὶ κατασκεάσας, ἵνα γένηται καὶ ἐλεγχθῇ »καθʼ ὑπερβολὴν« ὁ εὑρετὴς καὶ τέκτων τῆς ἁμαρτίας »ἁμαρτωλός« καὶ διορισθῇ ἀπὸ τοῦ καλοῦ ὁ τὰναντία τῆς ἀντολῆς θεοῦ ἐπιτροπεύσας.
to agathon emoi egeneto thanatos«, ho tou megistou emoi hōs agathou nomothetēma edothē? »mē genoito«. hoti mē hē entolē tou to katadoulōthēnai me egeneto tę̄ phthorą kai enapomaxasthai kēgras olethrou aitia, allʼ ho diabolos, hina phanerōthę̄ dia tou agathou to kakon emoi kataskeasas, hina genētai kai elenchthę̄ »kathʼ hyperbolēn« ho heuretēs kai tektōn tēs hamartias »hamartōlos« kai dioristhę̄ apo tou kalou ho tanantia tēs antolēs theou epitropeusas.
“Did that which is good become death to me,” the law that was given to me as the greatest good? “Certainly not.” For it was not the commandment that became the cause of my being enslaved to corruption and stamped with the wax of destruction, but the devil, so that the evil he contrived for me might be made manifest through the good, so that the inventor and craftsman of sin, who directed things contrary to God’s commandment, might become and be proved “sinful beyond measure” and be separated from the good.
Rom 7:13 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The devil, not the commandment, caused death.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:13. The digital text has a stray character code (#x003E;).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (leaked character code): #x003E; → .
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.56.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:489; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-56-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.56.8Holl GCS 25/31:489
»οἴδαμεν γὰρ ὅτι ὁ νόμος πνευματικός«, διὸ καὶ ὸὐδὲν αἴτιος βλάβης οὐδενί· πόρρω γὰρ ἐπιθυμίας ἀλόγου ἁμαρτίας ἐσκήνωται τὰ πνευματικά. »ἐγὼ δὲ σάρκινός εἰμι, πεπραμένος ύπὸ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν«, οἶον·
»oidamen gar hoti ho nomos pneumatikos«, dio kai ouden aitios blabēs oudeni; porrō gar epithymias alogou hamartias eskēnōtai ta pneumatika. »egō de sarkinos eimi, pepramenos ypo tēn hamartian«, oion;
“For we know that the law is spiritual,” and therefore it is the cause of harm to no one; for spiritual things dwell far from the irrational desire of sin. “But I am fleshly, sold under sin,” that is:
Rom 7:14 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The law is spiritual; man is fleshly.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:14.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.56.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:489; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-56-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.56.9Holl GCS 25/31:489
ἐγὼ δὲ σάρκινος ὤν καὶ ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ πονηροῦ καὶ ἀγαθοῦ κατασταθεὶς ὡς αὐτεξούσιος, ἵνʼ ἐπʼ ἐμοὶ <τὸ> ἑλέσθαι ὅ βούλομια ᾖ »τέθεικα« γάρ φησι »πρὸ σου τὴν ζωὴν καὶ τὸν θάνατον«), νεύσας πρὸς τὸ παρακοῦσαι μὲν τοῦ πνευματικοῦ νόμου οἶον τῆς ἐντολῆς, ὑποκοῦσαι δὲ τοῦ ὑλικοῦ οἶον τοῦ ὅφεως τῆς συμβουλίας, πέπραμαι διὰ τὴν τοιαύτην αἵρεσιν, πεσὼν ὑπὸ ἁμαρτίαν, τῷ διαβόλῳ.
egō de sarkinos ōn kai en mesǭ tou ponērou kai agathou katastatheis hōs autexousios, hinʼ epʼ emoi <to> helesthai ho boulomia ę̄ »tetheika« gar phēsi »pro sou tēn zōēn kai ton thanaton«), neusas pros to parakousai men tou pneumatikou nomou oion tēs entolēs, hypokousai de tou hylikou oion tou hopheōs tēs symboulias, pepramai dia tēn toiautēn hairesin, pesōn hypo hamartian, tǭ diabolǭ.
being fleshly, and set between evil and good as free, so that it might rest with me to choose what I wish (for “I have set before you,” he says, “life and death”), I inclined to disobey the spiritual law, that is, the commandment, and to obey the material one, that is, the counsel of the serpent; and by this choice I was sold, falling under sin, to the devil.
Deut 30:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:6 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Man freely chose the serpent’s counsel and was sold to the devil.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Deut 30:15; Gen 3.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.56.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:489; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-56-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.56.10Holl GCS 25/31:489
ὅθεν ἐντεῦθεν πολιορκῆσάν με τὸ κακὸν καὶ ἐνιζάνει καὶ ἐμπολιτεύεται εἰσοικισθὲν ὲν τῇ σαρκί μου, καθάπερ κηφὴν ἐν κηρίῳ μελίσσης περιποτώμενος πολλάκις περὶ αὐτὸ καὶ βομβῶν, δίκης ἐπιτεθείσης μοι τὴν ἐντολὴν ἀθετήσαντι πραθῆναι τῷ κακῷ.
hothen enteuthen poliorkēsan me to kakon kai enizanei kai empoliteuetai eisoikisthen en tę̄ sarki mou, kathaper kēphēn en kēriǭ melissēs peripotōmenos pollakis peri auto kai bombōn, dikēs epitetheisēs moi tēn entolēn athetēsanti prathēnai tǭ kakǭ.
Hence evil, besieging me, settles in and dwells as a citizen, having made its home in my flesh, like a drone in the honeycomb of a bee, often flying around it and buzzing, since the penalty was laid on me, who set aside the commandment, to be sold to evil.
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Summary: Evil settled in the flesh like a drone in a honeycomb.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.56.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:489; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-56-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.56.11Holl GCS 25/31:489–490
διὸ καί »οὐ γινίσκω ὃ κατεργάζομαι«, λογιζόμενος ὃ μὴ θέλω· τὸ γάρ ὃ κατεργάζομαι οὐ γινώσκω, καὶ »ποιῶ ὃ μισῶ« λεγόμενον οὐκ ὲπὶ τοὺ τελεσιουργῆσαι τὸ φαῦλον καὶ δρᾶσαι παραληπτέον, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τοῦ μόνον ἐνθυμηθῃναι, λογισμῶν ἀνακείων ἡμῖν προσιπταμένων πλεονάκις καὶ ἐμφανταζόντων ήμᾶς πρὸς ἂ μὴ θέλομεν, τῆς ψυχῆς τοῖς λογισμοῖς περὶ πολλὰ περιαγομένης.
dio kai »ou giniskō ho katergazomai«, logizomenos ho mē thelō; to gar ho katergazomai ou ginōskō, kai »poiō ho misō« legomenon ouk epi tou telesiourgēsai to phaulon kai drasai paralēpteon, allʼ epi tou monon enthymēthę̄nai, logismōn anakeiōn hēmin prosiptamenōn pleonakis kai emphantazontōn ēmas pros a mē thelomen, tēs psychēs tois logismois peri polla periagomenēs.
That is why also “I do not know what I am doing,” when I think what I do not wish; for the saying “what I do I do not know,” and “I do what I hate,” must be taken not of accomplishing and performing evil, but of merely thinking it, since unfitting thoughts often fly at us and make us picture what we do not wish, as the soul is carried about in many directions by its thoughts.
Rom 7:15 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: “I do what I hate” refers to unwanted thoughts, not deeds.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:15. ἀνακείων is read as ἀνοικείων, “unfitting”.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.56.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:489–490; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-56-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 57
64.57.1Holl GCS 25/31:490
57. Οὐ γὰρ ἐφʼ ἡμῖν ὅλως τὸ ἐνθυμεῖσθαι ἢ μὴ ἐνθυμεῖσθαι καῖται τὰ ἄτοπα, ἀλλὰ τὸ χρῆσθαι ἢ μὴ χρῆσθαι τοῖς ἐνθυμήμασι. κωλῦσαι μὲν γὰρ μὴ ἐμπίπτειν εἰς ήμᾶς τοὺς λογισμοὺς οὐ δυνάμεθα, πρὸς δοκιμὴν ήμῶν ἔξωθεν εἰσπνεομένους, μὴ πεισθῆναι μέντοι ἤ μὴ χρῆσθαι αὐτοῖς δυνάμεθα.
57. Ou gar ephʼ hēmin holōs to enthymeisthai ē mē enthymeisthai kaitai ta atopa, alla to chrēsthai ē mē chrēsthai tois enthymēmasi. kōlysai men gar mē empiptein eis ēmas tous logismous ou dynametha, pros dokimēn ēmōn exōthen eispneomenous, mē peisthēnai mentoi ē mē chrēsthai autois dynametha.
For it does not lie entirely with us whether or not we think unfitting things, but whether or not we make use of those thoughts. We cannot prevent thoughts from falling upon us, since they are breathed in from outside to test us; but we can refuse to be persuaded by them or to make use of them.
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Summary: We cannot stop thoughts, but can refuse to act on them.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.57.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:490; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-57-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.57.2Holl GCS 25/31:490
ἐπεὶ πῶς ὁ ἀπόστολος τὸ μὲν κακὸν οὐχ ἥκιστα ᾦἀπηρέσκετο ἐποίει, τὸ δὲ καλὸν ᾦ ἠρέσκετο ἥκιστα, εἰ μὴ περὶ τῶν ὀθνείων ἐνθυμημάτων ἔλεγεν, ἅ ἐνθυμούμεθα ἔσθʼ ὄτε καὶ μὴ βουλόμενοι, ἐξ οἵας οὐ γινύσκοντες αἰτίας;
epei pōs ho apostolos to men kakon ouch hēkista ǭapēresketo epoiei, to de kalon ǭ ēresketo hēkista, ei mē peri tōn othneiōn enthymēmatōn elegen, ha enthymoumetha esthʼ ote kai mē boulomenoi, ex hoias ou ginyskontes aitias?
For how could the apostle have done by no means least the evil that displeased him, and least the good that pleased him, unless he was speaking of alien thoughts, which we sometimes think even against our will, not knowing from what cause?
Rom 7:19 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul speaks of alien, unwanted thoughts.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.57.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:490; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-57-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.57.3Holl GCS 25/31:490
ἅ ἀνατρέπεσθαι χρὴ καὶ ἐπιστομίζεσθαι, ἵνα μὴ εὐρυνόμενα τῶν περάτων κρατήσωσι τῆς ψυχῆς. ἀμήχανον γὰρ τούτων ἐνευκαιρούντων ἐν ἡμῖν ἐπανατεῖλαι τὸ ἀγαθόν.
ha anatrepesthai chrē kai epistomizesthai, hina mē eurynomena tōn peratōn kratēsōsi tēs psychēs. amēchanon gar toutōn eneukairountōn en hēmin epanateilai to agathon.
These must be overturned and muzzled, so that they may not widen and master the bounds of the soul. For while they take their ease in us it is impossible for the good to rise.
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Summary: Such thoughts must be suppressed.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.57.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:490; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-57-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.57.4Holl GCS 25/31:490
ὀρθῶς ἄρα »ὃ γὰρ κατεργάζομαι οὐ γινώσκω« ἔλεγεν, »οὐ γὰρ ὃ θέλω πράσσω, ἀλλʼ ὃ μισῶ, τοῦτο ποιῶ«. θέλομεν γὰρ τὰ μὴ προσήκοντα καὶ ἅ μὴ θέμις μηδʼ ἐνθυμεῖσθαι, ἐπειδὴ ἐπειδὴ τοῦτο ἀγαθὸν τέλειον, μὴ μόνον τοῦ ποιῆσαι αὐτὸ ἐγκρατεύεσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ ἐνθυμηθῆναι.
orthōs ara »ho gar katergazomai ou ginōskō« elegen, »ou gar ho thelō prassō, allʼ ho misō, touto poiō«. thelomen gar ta mē prosēkonta kai ha mē themis mēdʼ enthymeisthai, epeidē epeidē touto agathon teleion, mē monon tou poiēsai auto enkrateuesthai, alla kai tou enthymēthēnai.
Rightly, then, he said, “For what I do I do not know; for I do not do what I wish, but what I hate, that I do.” For we wish not even to think of things unfitting and unlawful, since this is the perfect good: to refrain not only from doing it but even from thinking it.
Rom 7:15 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Perfect good refrains even from evil thoughts.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:15. ἐπειδή is repeated in the digital text. The printed θέλομεν γὰρ τὰ μὴ προσήκοντα lacks a negative required by the sense (“we wish not even to think …”); translated by sense.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.57.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:490; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-57-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.57.5Holl GCS 25/31:490–491
καὶ ὃ θέλομεν, τοῦτο ἀγαθὸν οὐ γίγνεται, ἀλλʼ ὅ οὐ θέλομεν, πονηρόν. ἐπιφοιτῶσι γὰρ ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν ἡμῶν καὶ ἐπιβαίνουσιν καὶ μὴ βουλομένων ἡμῶν πολλάκις μυρία τε περὶ μυρίων <ἐνθυμήματα, > περὶεργίας ήμᾶς καὶ φιλοπραγμοσύνης πιμπλάντα.
kai ho thelomen, touto agathon ou gignetai, allʼ ho ou thelomen, ponēron. epiphoitōsi gar epi tēn kardian hēmōn kai epibainousin kai mē boulomenōn hēmōn pollakis myria te peri myriōn <enthymēmata, > periergias ēmas kai philopragmosynēs pimplanta.
And what we wish, this good, does not happen, but what we do not wish, evil. For countless thoughts about countless things visit and invade our heart, often even against our will, filling us with idle curiosity and meddling.
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Summary: Unwanted thoughts invade the heart.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.57.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:490–491; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-57-5). (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.
64.57.6Holl GCS 25/31:491
διὸ τὸ θέλειν αὐτὰ μὴ ἐνθυμεῖσθαι παράκειται, τὸ δὲ κατεργάζεσθαι εἰς τὸ ἀφανίσαι, ἵνα μὴ καὶ αὖθις περὶ τὸν λογισμὸν ἀνέλθωσιν, #x003E; ὅτι μὴ κεῖται τοῦτο ἐφʼ ἠμῖν, ὡς ἔφην, ἀλλὰ τὸ χρήσασθαι μόνον αὐτοῖς Πως ἢ μὴ χρήσασθαι.
dio to thelein auta mē enthymeisthai parakeitai, to de katergazesthai eis to aphanisai, hina mē kai authis peri ton logismon anelthōsin, #x003E? hoti mē keitai touto ephʼ ēmin, hōs ephēn, alla to chrēsasthai monon autois Pōs ē mē chrēsasthai.
Therefore the wish not to think them is present, but not the accomplishing of their removal, so that they may not come up again into our thought; because this does not lie with us, as I said, but only whether we make some use of them or not.
Rom 7:18 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: We can will not to think, but cannot abolish thoughts.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:18. The digital text has a stray character code (#x003E;). A negative before κατεργάζεσθαι seems required by the sense (“but not the accomplishing”), as in Rom 7:18; translated so.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.57.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:491; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-57-6). (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.
64.57.7Holl GCS 25/31:491
ὡς ὡς εἶναι τὸν νοῦν τοιοῦτον τοῦ ῥητοῦ »οὐ γὰρ ὅ θέλω ποιῶ ἀγαθόν«· θέλω γὰρ μὴ ἐνθυμεῖσθαι ἃ βλάπτει με, ἐπειδὴ τοῦτο ἀγαθὸν πανάμωμον, κατὰ τὸ λεγόμενον »ἄνευ ψόγου τετυγμένον χερσί τε καὶ νόῳ τετράγωνον«. καὶ τοῦτο μέν »ὃ θέλω ἀγαθὸν οὐ ποιῶ, ὃ Τε μὴ θέλω κακὸν πράσσω«· οὐ θέλω ἐννοεῖσθαι καὶ ἐννοοῦμαι ὅσα μὴ θέλω.
hōs hōs einai ton noun toiouton tou rhētou »ou gar ho thelō poiō agathon«; thelō gar mē enthymeisthai ha blaptei me, epeidē touto agathon panamōmon, kata to legomenon »aneu psogou tetygmenon chersi te kai noǭ tetragōnon«. kai touto men »ho thelō agathon ou poiō, ho Te mē thelō kakon prassō«; ou thelō ennoeisthai kai ennooumai hosa mē thelō.
So the meaning of the saying “For I do not do the good I wish” is this: I wish not to think what harms me, since this is the blameless good, as the saying goes, “fashioned four-square in hand and mind without reproach.” And this is “the good I wish I do not do, and the evil I do not wish I do”: I do not wish to think, and I think what I do not wish.
Rom 7:19 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Rom 7:19 refers to involuntary thoughts.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:19. The saying is from Simonides (quoted in Plato, Prot. 339b); no id exists for Simonides. ὡς is doubled in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Plato, Prot. 339b (Plato (works); quotation); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.57.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:491; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-57-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.57.8Holl GCS 25/31:491
καὶ ἐπισκέψασθαι #x003E; εἶ μὴ διὰ ταῦτα αὐτὰ καὶ ὁ Δαυὶδ ἐνετύγχανε τῷ θεῷ, δυσχεραίνων ἐπὶ λογίζεσθαι καὶ καὶ αὐτὸν ἃ μὴ ἤθελεν· »ἀπὸ τῶν κρυφίων μου καθάρισόν με καὶ ἀπὸ ἀλλοτρίων φεῖσαι φεῖσαι δούλου σου. ἐὰν μή μου κατακυριεύσωσι, τότε ἄμωμος ἔσομαι καὶ καθαρισθήσομαι ἀπὸ ἁμαρτίας μεγάλης«.
kai episkepsasthai #x003E? ei mē dia tauta auta kai ho Dauid enetynchane tǭ theǭ, dyscherainōn epi logizesthai kai kai auton ha mē ēthelen; »apo tōn kryphiōn mou katharison me kai apo allotriōn pheisai pheisai doulou sou. ean mē mou katakyrieusōsi, tote amōmos esomai kai katharisthēsomai apo hamartias megalēs«.
And consider whether it was not for these very reasons that David too petitioned God, vexed that he too thought what he did not wish: “From my hidden faults cleanse me, and from alien ones spare your servant. If they do not gain dominion over me, then I shall be blameless and cleansed from great sin.”
Ps 19:12 (18:13 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 19:13 (18:14 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: David prayed to be cleansed of hidden and alien thoughts.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Ps 19:12–13 (18:13–14 LXX). Several words are doubled in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.57.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:491; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-57-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.57.9Holl GCS 25/31:491
καὶ αὐτὸς Τε ὁ ἀπόστολος ἐν ἑτέρῳ »λογσμοὺς καθαιροῦτες καὶ πᾶν ὕψωμα ἐπαιρόμενον κατὰ τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ αἰχμαλωτίζοντες πᾶν νόημα εἰς τὴν ὑπακοὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ«.
kai autos Te ho apostolos en heterǭ »logsmous kathairoutes kai pan hypsōma epairomenon kata tēs gnōseōs tou theou, kai aichmalōtizontes pan noēma eis tēn hypakoēn tou Christou«.
And the apostle himself says elsewhere: “destroying reasonings and every height raised up against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.”
2 Cor 10:4 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 10:5 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul on taking thoughts captive.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 2 Cor 10:4–5.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.57.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:491; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-49-1/#p-64-57-9). (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.