The Well-Anchored Man

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Reading pages: 1.1–11.8 · 12.1–22.7 · 23.1–33.7 · 34.1–45.5 · 46.1–59.4 · 60.1–69.10 · 70.1–80.8 · 81.1–94.9 · 95.1–108.7 · 109.1–119.16

1. 1.1Epiphanius counts himself blessed to be prompted by devout people to write.
2. 1.2His humility would keep him silent, but he is now compelled to write.
3. 1.3Many, including Hypatius from Egypt, have asked him to write on the faith from Scripture.
4. 1.4Moved by the requests of Conops, the addressees, and Hypatius, he resolves to write this letter.
5. 2.1He sees the request as moved by God's grace.
6. 2.2Those who confess Christ as Peter did will be blessed as Peter was.
7. 2.3Eternal life is to know the only true God and Jesus Christ.
8. 2.4Christ's words lead to the one God, away from idolatry, which Scripture calls fornication.
9. 2.5John calls Christ the only-begotten God, so the Son is God with the Father.
10. 2.6The Son is not foreign to the one God; there is a Trinity in unity.
11. 3.1Only by the Holy Spirit can anyone confess Jesus as Lord.
12. 3.2Jews and Arians use the name of Jesus without confessing him as true Lord and God.
13. 3.3Without the Spirit no one confesses Jesus as truly Lord, God, and King.
14. 3.4The Son does not bear witness to himself.
15. 3.5Christ says another bears witness to him.
16. 3.6The Father, the works, and Moses bear witness to the Son.
17. 3.7The first saying rebukes self-commendation.
18. 3.8The second saying shows Christ's witness is God's; Father, Son, and Spirit are true.
19. 3.9Scripture calls the Father true God and light, the Son only-begotten God and true light.
20. 4.1Scripture calls the Son true light but the Father only light.
21. 4.2No one would deny the Father is true light just because the word is absent.
22. 4.3If the Son is true light, so is the Father who begot him.
23. 4.4As the Father is true light without the word, so the Son is true God without the word.
24. 4.5The terms applied to Father and Son balance each other.
25. 4.6Combining the terms, we confess one Godhead and one power.
26. 5.1Scripture speaks likewise of the Spirit as the Spirit of truth.
27. 5.2The Spirit works with the Son, leading and anointing him.
28. 5.3The Spirit speaks in the prophets; Amos's “creating spirit” refers to wind.
29. 5.4Amos distinguishes creating the wind from declaring Christ.
30. 5.5The Son is the uncreated one who always is, as Moses and John attest.
31. 5.6Father and Son both are; the Son is eternally begotten, not merged with the Father.
32. 5.7The Father was never without the Son.
33. 5.8In God there is no time.
34. 5.9The names Father and Son imply each other.
35. 6.1The Father was always Father; one must not blaspheme but believe he truly begot the Son.
36. 6.2The Son truly is with the Father.
37. 6.3The Son is Son by nature and consubstantial with the Father, not adopted.
38. 6.4Confessing “consubstantial” refutes Sabellius.
39. 6.5Each of the three truly subsists.
40. 6.6Consubstantial means one Godhead, not three gods.
41. 6.7Calling Father and Son God does not make two gods.
42. 6.8The three names signify one Godhead.
43. 6.9The Spirit is not a second son but proceeds from the Father and receives from the Son.
44. 6.10The Trinity is always of one substance and one Godhead.
45. 7.1The Spirit is third in the baptismal name and seals the one faith and baptism.
46. 7.2The Trinity never admits addition.
47. 7.3Each person of the Trinity is perfect, without merging or separation.
48. 7.4Paul names Spirit, Lord, and God together in the gifts.
49. 7.5We speak of God piously, not as comprehending him.
50. 7.6God's honor infinitely exceeds our mind.
51. 7.7Nothing in the Trinity is created; the Son is eternally begotten.
52. 7.8Father unbegotten, Son begotten, Spirit neither, all uncreated and of one substance.
53. 8.1Each divine name is unique.
54. 8.2The Son is only-begotten, true God from true God.
55. 8.3The Spirit is named neither Son nor Father.
56. 8.4Christ's words show the Spirit is of the same substance and uniquely named.
57. 8.5The name God is common to all three.
58. 8.6The Spirit is of Father and Son, not by composition.
59. 8.7Baptism in the one divine name shows the Spirit is not foreign to the Godhead.
60. 8.8If Son and Spirit were creatures, baptism in their name would make no sense.
61. 9.1Misbelief is worse than unbelief.
62. 9.2Lying to the Spirit is lying to God.
63. 9.3Acts and Paul show that the Spirit is God.
64. 9.4The saints are God's temple because the Spirit dwells in them.
65. 9.5The Father revealed the Son and the Spirit to Peter.
66. 9.6Peter is the firm rock of the faith; the gates of Hades are the heresies.
67. 9.8Peter's confession contains the whole faith.
68. 9.9Peter, who boasted and denied, wept at the cock's crow.
69. 9.10Peter's tears confess the reality of Christ's arrest and humanity.
70. 9.11Peter and John each received knowledge.
71. 9.12At Tiberias John recognized the Lord, truly man and God.
72. 9.13Peter was entrusted with the flock and gave Paul the right hand of fellowship.
73. 10.1The faith rests on the threefold witness of Father, Son, and Spirit.
74. 10.2The heavenly beings cry “Holy” three times.
75. 10.3The threefold “Holy” is exact: neither two nor four.
76. 10.4Three cries in the singular show three persons, one God.
77. 10.5Three subsistent persons, one Godhead and substance.
78. 10.6Naming one person of the Trinity implies the others.
79. 10.7Honoring the Father honors the Son and vice versa.
80. 11.1No father wants his son diminished, still less God the Father.
81. 11.2Diminishing the Son dishonors the Father.
82. 11.3Only Father and Son know the Spirit.
83. 11.4Those who call the Spirit foreign to God ignore Paul.
84. 11.5Paul uses the human spirit as an example for God's Spirit.
85. 11.6No creature can be a likeness of its Master.
86. 11.7Humanity has God's image as a gift of grace.
87. 11.8Man, made in the image, is not like God in himself.
88. 12.1Paul compares God's Spirit to the human spirit.
89. 12.2Paul avoids implying that God is composite.
90. 12.3The Spirit searches the depths of God.
91. 12.4The Spirit's searching is not the forbidden prying of which Sirach warns.
92. 12.5The Spirit does not search God as an outsider would.
93. 12.6The indwelling Spirit enables the saints to glorify God deeply, unlike the Arians.
94. 12.7Epiphanius counts eighty heresies in all.
95. 12.8The five mother-heresies and the four Greek schools.
96. 12.9Eleven heresies arose among Jews and Samaritans between the law and Christ.
97. 13.1Twenty heresies before Christ and sixty after, up to the present emperors.
98. 13.2Epiphanius lists the sixty Christian heresies of the Panarion.
99. 14.1He is weary of recounting the heresies and the two schisms.
100. 14.2The Melitians split over the readmission of the lapsed.
101. 14.3The Audians are schismatics, not heretics, over the image of God, wealth, and Easter's date.
102. 14.4Without the Spirit people wander into heresies and schisms.
103. 14.5Paul's words show the Spirit is not foreign to God.
104. 14.6The opponent of the Spirit harms only himself.
105. 15.1Some say the Spirit searches but does not comprehend God's depths.
106. 15.2The word “comprehends” did not need to be added.
107. 15.3Scripture says God “searches” too, without implying ignorance.
108. 15.4No one would say God fails to comprehend what he searches.
109. 15.5The Spirit's searching implies full knowledge.
110. 15.6As of the Father, so of the Spirit: searching means knowing.
111. 15.7“Let us make man” includes the Son and the Spirit.
112. 15.8The Word and the Spirit create with the Father.
113. 15.9God's searching expresses his full knowledge of man.
114. 16.1Father and Spirit both search and know.
115. 16.2Angels do not search God's depths; the saying about the day is introduced.
116. 16.3Everything the Father has belongs to the Son.
117. 16.4Godhead, life, light, immortality belong to Father and Son alike.
118. 16.5The Father's knowledge is also the Son's and the Spirit's.
119. 16.6Epiphanius begins his answer to those who say the Son does not know the day.
120. 16.7The Spirit distributes gifts as he wills, showing his authority.
121. 16.8Prayer to Father and Son brings the Spirit, who shows the Son is not ignorant.
122. 17.1Angels may fall short, but not the Son or the Spirit.
123. 17.2Whoever knows the Father must know the lesser thing, the day.
124. 17.3The Son lacks no knowledge.
125. 17.4“The Father is greater” is the Son's honoring of the Father.
126. 17.5The Father is not greater in any respect of Godhead.
127. 17.6The Son's session at the right hand refutes both Sabellius and Arius.
128. 18.1Christ's saying “no one is good but God” does not deny his goodness.
129. 18.2Christ refers honor to the Father, revealing his own goodness.
130. 18.3It is feeble to deny the Son's goodness on this basis.
131. 18.4Scripture calls many creatures and things “good.”
132. 18.5The Son ascribes goodness to the Father out of honor.
133. 18.6Christ exposed the insincerity of the man who called him good.
134. 19.1Epiphanius begins a litany of the Word's titles.
135. 19.2The Word is Wisdom from Wisdom and the spring of life.
136. 19.3The Word is the root of Jesse and lion of Judah.
137. 19.4He became truly man while remaining truly God.
138. 19.5John's word order shows the Word came from above and became flesh from Mary.
139. 19.6The Son spoke of the day in a figurative sense.
140. 19.7Knowing the Father, the Son cannot be ignorant of the lesser.
141. 19.8Search the Scriptures and the Spirit will teach you.
142. 20.1Scripture uses “know” in two senses: by action and by awareness.
143. 20.2Adam and Eve were naked and unashamed.
144. 20.3They were not blind, for they saw the tree.
145. 20.4They knew each other by sight, not by act.
146. 20.5Only after the expulsion did Adam “know” Eve.
147. 20.6Scripture calls sexual union “knowing.”
148. 20.7Jacob knew Leah first by sight, then by act.
149. 20.8David lay with Abishag but did not “know” her.
150. 20.9“Know” in Scripture does not always mean awareness.
151. 20.10God “knew” Israel in a special sense, not in ignorance of others.
152. 21.1The Father knows the day both by awareness and by act, having committed judgment to the Son.
153. 21.2The Son knows the day, for he brings it.
154. 21.3It is absurd that the Son who brings the day should not know it.
155. 21.4The Father knows the day in both senses.
156. 21.5The Son knows the day but has not yet “known” it by carrying it out.
157. 22.1Angels do not know the appointed times, but the Son shares the Father's authority.
158. 22.2Angels are created; Father, Son, and Spirit are uncreated.
159. 22.3Angels know the day in neither sense, for they have not yet been sent to reap.
160. 22.4This explains “only the Father” in Mark 13:32.
161. 22.5The Spirit opens the letter of Scripture.
162. 22.6The Father gave the Son and the Spirit to the church, which is sealed in their name.
163. 22.7The Trinity is a unity in Trinity and Trinity in unity.
164. 23.1The three youths in the furnace are called as witnesses.
165. 23.2The youths wished to give thanks to God.
166. 23.3They found nothing in creation worthy to offer God.
167. 23.4They offered only praise, already anticipating the new covenant.
168. 23.5In humility they chose to offer praise.
169. 23.6They summon all creation to join their praise.
170. 24.1“All the works of the Lord” includes every creature.
171. 24.2The Spirit enumerated all creatures to distinguish them from God.
172. 24.3The Spirit revealed all creation to them.
173. 24.4They distinguish works from Maker.
174. 24.5The Song lists all creatures, including angels and the youths themselves.
175. 24.6All creatures were made by God through the Word and the Spirit.
176. 24.7The youths did not count the Son or the Spirit among creatures.
177. 25.1Some claim the youths knew neither Son nor Spirit.
178. 25.2Daniel knew the Son of God and was filled with the Spirit.
179. 25.3They omitted Son and Spirit from the list of creatures deliberately.
180. 25.4The Song also covers Cherubim and Seraphim.
181. 25.5The youths' blessings mention the throne and the Cherubim.
182. 25.6Even the highest angels are among the works that bless God.
183. 26.1The angels glorify the Trinity with the threefold Holy.
184. 26.2Three, not two or four, “holies” honor the Trinity.
185. 26.3The three are equally holy.
186. 26.4Father, Son, and Spirit together gave this knowledge of God.
187. 26.5Christ is the eternal foundation of the church's building.
188. 26.6Not all have knowledge, only those taught by the Spirit.
189. 26.7Christ rebuked ignorance in several sayings.
190. 26.8Gifts of knowledge differ among people.
191. 27.1Scripture's deeper words become stumbling blocks to those without knowledge.
192. 27.2Hosea: the Lord's ways are straight, but the ungodly stumble.
193. 27.3Some stumble over the stone of stumbling.
194. 27.4The Jews knew Christ only as a man.
195. 27.5Others stumble over his Godhead because of the incarnation.
196. 27.6Like the Jews, these misunderstand what was fulfilled in Christ.
197. 27.7Arians cite “my God and your God” to make the Son a creature.
198. 28.1Before the incarnation the Father said “Let us make man.”
199. 28.2“Let us make” shows the Son was with the Father.
200. 28.3“Our image” shows one Godhead, refuting the Anomoeans.
201. 28.4The Son is fellow creator, not a mere instrument.
202. 28.5Father and Son work together.
203. 28.6The Son took the form of a servant because he was God.
204. 29.1An objection: the Father always comes first.
205. 29.2The order of Father and Son does not mean many principles.
206. 29.3Before the incarnation Scripture never has the Son say “my God.”
207. 29.4Likewise with Noah.
208. 29.5At Mamre one of the three was God, the others angels.
209. 29.6God spoke to Abraham without “my God and your God.”
210. 29.7“The Lord rained … from the Lord” shows two persons.
211. 29.8Angels worship the Son, showing one kingdom of Father and Son.
212. 30.1David calls the Son Lord, before the incarnation.
213. 30.2Isaiah's Emmanuel prophecy did not yet require “my God.”
214. 30.3Micah's prophecy of the eternal ruler.
215. 30.4Only after the incarnation does the Son say “my God.”
216. 30.5Epiphanius explains each phrase of John 20:17.
217. 30.6The Father is God of the Son by the flesh, Father by nature.
218. 30.7He calls the Father God because of the incarnation.
219. 31.1Our salvation is no dishonor to God.
220. 31.2Opponents contrast God's impassibility with Christ's hunger, weariness, and sleep.
221. 31.3The Word truly bore human weakness and suffering.
222. 31.4Luke's “he wept,” removed from some copies, was cited by Irenaeus.
223. 31.5Christ's agony and sweat like blood.
224. 31.6Christ asked questions as a man.
225. 31.7Christ grew weary and grew as a child.
226. 31.8The Wisdom of God endured all human conditions to make the incarnation real.
227. 32.1He will explain each saying the opponents misuse.
228. 32.2“My God and your God” was said with reason.
229. 32.3Jeremiah's words show Christ's visible humanity and invisible Godhead.
230. 32.4Man, yet unknown.
231. 32.5Every ordinary man is known by those around him.
232. 32.6The prophecy fits only the Word, man yet unknowable God.
233. 32.7He was truly born of the virgin Mary.
234. 32.8Ahaz declined to ask a sign in the depth or height.
235. 32.9The sign came from the height (the Word) and the depth (the flesh).
236. 32.10“They shall call” shows people recognizing God among them.
237. 33.1“Born of a woman” refers to the flesh; hunger and thirst were necessary for us.
238. 33.2Christ's human needs prove the reality of the incarnation.
239. 33.3Eating and drinking refutes the Manichaeans; also the Lucianists and Arius.
240. 33.4Lucianists deny Christ a soul so as to ascribe his passions to the Word.
241. 33.5Flesh alone does not hunger or tire.
242. 33.6The Word took flesh and soul, to which the passions belong.
243. 33.7His tears and thirst show a real body and a soul.
244. 34.1Psalm 16 and Acts 2 show Christ had a soul that went to Hades.
245. 34.2Christ was free among the dead; Hades could not hold him.
246. 34.3Christ speaks of his own soul.
247. 34.4He came willingly, and his trouble shows the reality of the incarnation.
248. 34.5Like a king feigning retreat, Christ did not fear death.
249. 34.6Christ foretold his passion and rebuked Peter.
250. 34.7Christ's prayer about the cup was not fear.
251. 34.8The prayer drew the devil into bringing death upon him.
252. 34.9Christ died in the flesh; his Godhead remained impassible.
253. 35.1Opponents note that Scripture speaks of the Father's “soul.”
254. 35.2They say “soul” is figurative.
255. 35.3They claim Christ's “soul” is likewise figurative.
256. 35.4The Father had no flesh, but Christ did, so his soul is not figurative.
257. 35.5“Flesh” in John 1:14 includes the whole man, as “formed” does in Genesis.
258. 35.6Scripture's summary words include all parts, so the Savior took a soul.
259. 36.1The passions belong to his humanity, not to a diminished Godhead.
260. 36.2Christ grew weary in the flesh, not in his Godhead.
261. 36.3Sleep and weariness show real humanity; he was “found” as man.
262. 36.4Being found in the flesh, he could be seized and suffer.
263. 36.5His sufferings were bodily, yet willingly his.
264. 36.6Like a stain on a garment, the flesh's suffering is ascribed to the Godhead.
265. 37.1Epiphanius turns to Luke's account of the agony.
266. 37.2Misunderstanding the deeper words harms the misreaders.
267. 37.3The agony and sweat show a true human body.
268. 37.4The angel's “strengthening” fulfills Moses' song, not a need of Christ.
269. 37.5“Strengthening” means ascribing strength in praise.
270. 37.6The angel marveled at Christ's victory through meekness.
271. 37.7The angel acclaims Christ's strength over death and the devil.
272. 38.1Christ's human questions concern his flesh and humanity.
273. 38.2Questions in both Testaments are God's condescension, not ignorance.
274. 38.3He knew of Lazarus's death from afar.
275. 38.4His question showed forbearance to weak faith.
276. 38.5He wept at the hardness of their faith.
277. 38.6He asked who touched him so the woman would confess.
278. 38.7As with Adam, God asks without ignorance.
279. 38.8God asked Cain to give him room for repentance.
280. 39.1The God who asked Moses a question is “He who is.”
281. 39.2Christ cites God's words to Moses on the resurrection.
282. 39.3The Old Testament speaks in the person of each of the three.
283. 39.4At Mamre the Son of God knew Sarah's name.
284. 39.5Sarah's staying inside is a pattern of modesty.
285. 39.6Calling Sarah by name showed the guest's divine knowledge.
286. 39.7Peter's confession answered Christ's question.
287. 39.8The question drew out Peter's confession, taught by the Father.
288. 40.1Father draws to the Son, Son leads to the Father: one Godhead.
289. 40.2His growth in wisdom reflects his self-emptying into humanity.
290. 40.3Like ointment emptied out, Christ passed from place to place.
291. 40.4His coming sanctified the earth like perfume.
292. 40.5Daniel's stone that becomes a mountain is Christ.
293. 40.6Wisdom made man “advanced” by spreading grace.
294. 40.7Wisdom itself cannot have been ignorant of how to speak.
295. 40.8He grew as a child so his incarnation would not seem illusory.
296. 41.1Opponents cite “made” in Hebrews and Acts.
297. 41.2“Made” in Hebrews is not about the Godhead.
298. 41.3Scripture is plain to those who understand.
299. 41.4Without God's instruction Scripture seems crooked.
300. 41.5Every high priest is taken from among men.
301. 41.6“Made” refers to his becoming high priest in the flesh.
302. 41.7A king's son “made” king is still his son by nature.
303. 41.8Eternal sonship and priestly appointment in the flesh coexist.
304. 42.1Proverbs 8:22 is proverbial speech, not literal.
305. 42.2Parables do not correspond literally to their subject.
306. 42.3The mustard seed parable is not literal.
307. 42.4Proverbial language is not to be taken literally.
308. 42.5Other parables are likewise figurative.
309. 42.6It is uncertain Proverbs 8 speaks of the Son.
310. 42.7Scripture uses “wisdom” in many senses.
311. 43.1If the Son is not from the Father, the Father would lack Wisdom.
312. 43.2God alone is wise, and he gives wisdom to men.
313. 43.3The Father's Wisdom is unique.
314. 43.4Epiphanius leaves open whether Proverbs 8 is about the Son.
315. 43.5Created and begotten are incompatible.
316. 43.6In God, what is begotten is not created.
317. 43.7Creating and begetting cannot both apply.
318. 43.8If Proverbs 8 concerns the Son, “created” refers to the incarnation.
319. 43.9“Beginning of ways” and “founded” refer to the incarnation.
320. 43.10The Word is not created; Scripture is not crooked.
321. 44.1Aquila translates Proverbs 8:22 as “acquired,” not “created.”
322. 44.2Acts 2:36 speaks of the flesh, not the Word from above.
323. 44.3Scripture ascribes suffering and descent to Christ's flesh.
324. 44.4Christ calls himself a man to locate his suffering.
325. 44.5Paul calls Christ the man who is mediator and who emptied himself.
326. 44.6Christ mediates as true God and true man.
327. 45.1Philippians 2:6 affirms he was God by nature.
328. 45.2Being equal to God, he took the servant's form to free us.
329. 45.3The Jews testify that Christ claimed equality with God.
330. 45.4Scripture uses many figurative names for Christ.
331. 45.5Each figurative name has a reason.
332. 46.1Opponents insist on calling him a creature.
333. 46.2Figurative names benefit us; “creature” does not.
334. 46.3Opponents say begetting would imply passion in the Father.
335. 46.4No one should imagine God suffering in begetting.
336. 46.5God is not a body that swells in begetting.
337. 46.6As Spirit, the Father begot the Son without passion or time.
338. 47.1An illustration from creatures will be offered.
339. 47.2The sun kindles fire through glass without being diminished.
340. 47.3Much more does God beget the Word without loss.
341. 47.4Fire lights many lamps, yet can be gathered from many.
342. 47.5Unlike fire, the persons do not merge.
343. 48.1The Manichaean view of souls merging into one column is foolish.
344. 48.2The feeding of the five thousand is a counter-example.
345. 48.3The fragments were gathered but not merged back into loaves.
346. 48.4The illustrations are not allegories or equations.
347. 48.5Souls remain individual in God's many mansions.
348. 48.6Begetting does not attach passion to God.
349. 48.7Human passions must not be ascribed to God.
350. 49.1The Father calls the Son “chosen.”
351. 49.2Some say “chosen” means Son by grace.
352. 49.3No son by grace can equal the Son by nature.
353. 49.4The “choosing” refers to the flesh taken from Mary.
354. 49.5Psalm 47's “chosen inheritance” points to Christ's flesh.
355. 49.6The Father's good pleasure concerns the incarnation.
356. 50.1Paul calls him the Son of God's love.
357. 50.2Some say he became Son by advance in love.
358. 50.3The Son is Love from Love.
359. 50.4A created Son could not be worshiped.
360. 50.5The Word is worshiped, so he is not created.
361. 50.6Nowhere in the four Gospels is the Son said to be created.
362. 51.1The objection: worshiping Christ's body is worshiping a creature.
363. 51.2The king's purple is honored together with the king.
364. 51.3No one asks the king to leave his temple to be honored.
365. 51.4Christ is worshiped together with his body.
366. 51.5Christ is worshiped with his buried and risen body.
367. 52.1The Arian dilemma: did the Father beget willingly or not?
368. 52.2“Once” implies time; the Arians use words deceptively.
369. 52.3Both answers to the dilemma seem to fail.
370. 52.4The Father begot by the transcendence of his nature, beyond will and necessity.
371. 52.5God begot the Word in his transcendent nature, not by deliberation.
372. 53.1Opponents allegorize the literal and literalize the figurative.
373. 53.2Some deny the prophets' visions of God.
374. 53.3They set John 1:18 against the prophets.
375. 53.4Since the prophets are truthful, the matter needs understanding.
376. 53.5One can truly see the sea and yet not see it whole.
377. 53.6We see the sky truly but partially.
378. 53.7The prophets saw through the narrow opening of the body.
379. 53.8Prophets and Gospel agree: God was truly but not fully seen.
380. 54.1Isaiah saw with his eyes, truly but not fully.
381. 54.2Origen allegorized paradise.
382. 54.3Paul's “third heaven” means three heavens, not part of the air.
383. 54.4Paul was also caught up into paradise.
384. 54.5Paul distinguishes the third heaven from paradise.
385. 54.6An illustration: two routes to the same place.
386. 54.7Paul rose to heaven, then went down into paradise.
387. 55.1If paradise is allegory, all of Genesis would be.
388. 55.2Creation in Genesis is real and visible.
389. 55.3God placed man, made in his image, in paradise.
390. 55.4All humans bear God's image.
391. 55.5The image cannot be identified with body, soul, mind, or virtue.
392. 55.6The image is in man; how, God knows.
393. 55.7The visible body cannot image the invisible God.
394. 55.8Scripture calls both body and soul “man.”
395. 55.9The soul is created, not a part of God.
396. 56.1The soul is divisible, as Hebrews says.
397. 56.2The soul is limited, so it cannot simply be the image.
398. 56.3The mind can be captive, so it is not simply the image.
399. 56.4Virtue cannot be the image, since Adam was made before any virtue.
400. 56.5Baptism cannot be the image; the righteous before it bore the image.
401. 57.1All bear the image by grace, not by equality with God.
402. 57.2God truly gave the image, as a comparison shows.
403. 57.3At the supper Christ said of what he held, “This is my …”.
404. 57.4What he held does not look like his body.
405. 57.5Christ's word is to be believed; disbelief forfeits grace.
406. 57.6We believe it is his, though the Lord is wholly beyond it.
407. 58.1Eden is on earth: its spring goes up, not down.
408. 58.2The Pishon is identified with the Ganges or Indus.
409. 58.3The Gihon is the Nile.
410. 58.4The Tigris is the third river.
411. 58.5Denying paradise undoes the rivers too.
412. 58.7The chain continues to Adam and Eve.
413. 58.8Adam is real, for we are his descendants.
414. 59.1The generations from Adam to Noah and the flood are real.
415. 59.2“Souls” in Scripture means whole persons.
416. 59.3Slaves are called “bodies” though they have souls.
417. 59.4The genealogy from Noah to Joseph.
418. 60.1Joseph was an elderly widower with children from a first marriage.
419. 60.2Joseph received Mary by lot from the temple.
420. 60.3Christ was born in the forty-second year of Augustus.
421. 60.4A list of Roman emperors from Augustus to Diocletian.
422. 60.5The work is dated to the consulship of Gratian and Equitius (AD 374).
423. 61.1The unbroken line from Adam shows Genesis is history.
424. 61.2The elements of the Eden story are real.
425. 61.3God can make earthly things incorruptible.
426. 61.4Christ showed that corruptible flesh can become incorruptible.
427. 61.5Adam dwelt opposite a real paradise.
428. 61.6God can make an earthly paradise.
429. 61.7Earth and heaven belong to the same God.
430. 61.8Our earthly bodies share the hope shown in Christ's body.
431. 61.9We accept all of Scripture simply and leave the incomprehensible to God.
432. 62.1Origen allegorized the garments of skin.
433. 62.2Origen held that the garments were bodies given after the fall.
434. 62.3Origen scoffed at God as tanner.
435. 62.4God, who made all from nothing, could make garments.
436. 62.5God's wonders with Moses and Israel were real.
437. 62.6Did the risen Christ appear naked?
438. 62.7The risen Christ was clothed; who made his garments?
439. 62.8If Christ could make his clothes, God could make the garments of skin.
440. 62.9Adam had flesh before the fall, as the rib shows.
441. 63.1The church's faith stands; Origen will not help on judgment day.
442. 63.2Readers of Origen's On First Principles should see his errors.
443. 63.3Epiphanius cites Origen's view on what each rank can see.
444. 63.4Origen deceived only himself and his followers.
445. 63.5Origen's disciples should yield to the apostles and prophets.
446. 63.6A call to the heresies to cease.
447. 63.7Scripture is true; heresies lack the Spirit of the church's tradition.
448. 64.1Epiphanius will set out the church's teaching for those who seek life.
449. 64.2He will gather more testimonies that the Trinity is consubstantial.
450. 64.3The teaching comes from the prophets and Christ's coming.
451. 64.4Christ our life came when we were lost in sin and idolatry.
452. 64.5The Father sent the Son to save him from sin.
453. 65.1The grace of God has appeared in Christ.
454. 65.2Christ canceled our debt and triumphed over the powers.
455. 65.3Christ dwelt among us and became the law of the Spirit.
456. 65.4Christ is the inner man dwelling in us.
457. 65.5Christ died so we might live for him; God reconciled the world in him.
458. 65.6All fullness dwells in Christ, who reconciles all.
459. 65.7Christ came to sum up all things.
460. 65.8Christ made Jews and Gentiles one and calls all to himself.
461. 65.9The Savior came in the likeness of flesh to redeem me.
462. 65.10How Christ is righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
463. 65.11Christ will transform our bodies; in him dwells all the Godhead.
464. 66.1Christ, God and man, mediates and gives the Spirit.
465. 66.2Rain takes the nature of each plant it feeds.
466. 66.3The Word came down on Mary like rain on a fleece.
467. 66.4The earth receiving rain yields fruit.
468. 66.5Mary received the Word at the annunciation.
469. 66.6Mary received the Word as earth draws up rain.
470. 66.7Christ is the fruit of Mary's womb.
471. 66.8Christ is the living bread, true olive, and true vine.
472. 66.9Christ is the living water; the new farmers shared it.
473. 66.10Those led by his Spirit live to God.
474. 66.11We must put to death the flesh and receive the Spirit.
475. 66.12Christ and his Spirit dwell in the righteous.
476. 67.1The mystery of the Trinity is grasped by faith and hearing.
477. 67.2God reveals himself; the Trinity is believed from Scripture.
478. 67.3Salvation comes from faith through hearing.
479. 67.4A rhythmic confession of three persons, one Godhead.
480. 67.5Only the Son reveals the Father, through the Spirit.
481. 67.6The three reveal themselves in various likenesses.
482. 67.7Scripture shows three persons at work in light and Spirit.
483. 68.1Christ and the Spirit do the same works.
484. 68.2Parallel sayings about the Spirit and the Word.
485. 68.3The Spirit and the Lord both direct the apostles.
486. 68.4The Spirit sends, as Christ sends.
487. 68.5The Spirit legislates as the Lord does.
488. 68.6The Spirit directs missions as Christ did.
489. 68.7The Spirit speaks as Christ speaks.
490. 68.8Bound by the Spirit, prisoner of Christ.
491. 68.9The Spirit testifies as the Lord does.
492. 68.10The Spirit of holiness and the Holy One.
493. 68.11Circumcision in the Spirit is circumcision of Christ.
494. 68.12The Spirit dwells as Christ does.
495. 68.13Firstfruits of the Spirit and Christ the firstfruits.
496. 68.14Spirit and Christ both intercede.
497. 68.15Spirit and Lord both sanctify.
498. 68.16God reveals through the Spirit and the Son.
499. 68.17Receiving the Spirit and having Christ within.
500. 68.18The Spirit's indwelling is God's indwelling.
501. 69.1Justification comes from both Christ and the Spirit.
502. 69.2Spirit, Lord, and God work together.
503. 69.3Grieving the Spirit is provoking the Lord.
504. 69.4The Spirit speaks as the Lord Almighty.
505. 69.5The Spirit dwells as Father and Son do.
506. 69.6The Spirit rests on Christ and sends him.
507. 69.7The Seraphim's threefold cry.
508. 69.8A catena of texts on the Spirit culminating in his deity.
509. 69.9Texts showing that the Son is God.
510. 69.10Both the Spirit and Christ appoint ministers.
511. 70.1Son and Spirit create with the Father; the Spirit is worshiped.
512. 70.2Co-creators cannot be creatures.
513. 70.3Worshiping a creature breaks the first commandment.
514. 70.4The names of Father, Son, and Spirit in Scripture.
515. 70.5The Son is light from light.
516. 70.6The Son is power, wisdom, and life from the Father.
517. 70.7The Spirit is Spirit from Spirit, giver of gifts.
518. 70.8The Spirit, like the Son, announces God's counsel.
519. 71.1The Spirit's procession does not make two sons.
520. 71.2Father, Son, and Spirit are true light, not by name only.
521. 71.3Creatures are sons or offspring only by adoption or figure.
522. 71.4The true Father never began to be Father.
523. 71.5The true Son is not newly a son.
524. 71.6Spirit and Son are not creatures like spirits and angels.
525. 71.7Contrasts between the uncreated three and creatures.
526. 71.8More contrasts between Creator and creatures.
527. 72.1Scripture speaks of many spirits.
528. 72.2Spirits are heavenly, earthly, or infernal.
529. 72.3Scripture's many uses of “spirit.”
530. 72.4Spirits of prophets and a lying spirit.
531. 72.5Evil and other spirits named in Scripture.
532. 72.6Only the Holy Spirit is Spirit of Father and Son.
533. 72.7The one Spirit distributes many gifts.
534. 72.8The Spirit leads, blows where he wills, and gives new birth.
535. 72.9Christ's promises of the Paraclete.
536. 73.1Only Father and Son know the Spirit, and only the Spirit knows them.
537. 73.2A litany of the Holy Spirit's titles.
538. 73.3The Son is Son by nature; the Spirit is not a son.
539. 73.4The eternal Trinity is glorified in the church.
540. 73.5Moses proclaims one God, the prophets a duality, the Gospels the Trinity.
541. 73.6Revelation advances like the courts of the temple.
542. 73.7The one Godhead dwells in the righteous and unites all threes.
543. 73.8All creation cries “holy” to the Trinity; a doxology.
544. 74.1He has gathered Scripture on the Trinity for the faithful.
545. 74.2He turns to the incarnation and the resurrection.
546. 74.3The subsistent Word, through whom the ages were made.
547. 74.4No time preceded the Son, through whom all things were made.
548. 74.5Time before the Son leads to endless speculation.
549. 74.6Son and Spirit are eternal.
550. 75.1Some misread John 1:3 against the Holy Spirit.
551. 75.2Epiphanius's punctuation of John 1:3–4.
552. 75.3Son and Spirit are uncreated; all else was made through them.
553. 75.4All creatures came to be through the Word.
554. 75.5The Savior came from heaven, born of Mary, taking flesh and soul.
555. 75.6He truly became perfect man from Mary.
556. 75.7The Word became flesh, not dwelling in a man as in the prophets.
557. 75.8He took a complete humanity so that nothing is left unsaved.
558. 76.1Paul had his own mind and the mind of Christ; Christ had a human soul and mind.
559. 76.2Christ took a human mind and soul.
560. 76.3Christ's human mind was perfected, not ruling him.
561. 76.4Scripture condemns the flesh more than the mind.
562. 76.5The mind is the soul's governor and discerner.
563. 77.1Denying Christ a mind helps no one.
564. 77.2Christ took everything human, being the maker of his own body.
565. 77.3Some wrongly say Christ lacked a human mind.
566. 77.4They treat the mind as a separate hypostasis, equal to the spirit.
567. 77.5Their view multiplies hypostases in man.
568. 77.6Scripture's many terms for man are figurative.
569. 77.7Paul distinguishes spirit and mind.
570. 78.1“Soul” or “body” can each stand for the whole person.
571. 78.2The Word made flesh was not without a soul.
572. 78.3Excluding Christ's mind makes salvation deficient.
573. 78.4The mind is a faculty of the soul, not a separate hypostasis.
574. 78.5Christ took the whole man to save the whole man.
575. 78.6Prophecies of his human life require a complete humanity.
576. 78.7“My servant will understand” requires a human mind.
577. 78.8Christ's understanding shows he took a mind.
578. 78.9His humanity grew in wisdom and stature.
579. 79.1If a mind implied sin, so would flesh.
580. 79.2Christ's human flesh was without sin.
581. 79.3The Word governed his flesh, allowing only fitting needs.
582. 79.4Christ's true mind did not incline to irrational desire.
583. 79.5Luke's “he advanced” is literal, not a figure of speech.
584. 80.1A complete humanity does not mean Christ sinned.
585. 80.2The Word held his whole humanity free from sin.
586. 80.3Paul's phrases signify Christ's full, sinless humanity.
587. 80.4Perfect above, perfect below.
588. 80.5The risen Christ passed through doors yet was touched by Thomas.
589. 80.6Thomas touched the one who is both God and man.
590. 80.7One Lord, one Christ, not two.
591. 80.8The risen Christ sits at the Father's right hand with his flesh.
592. 81.1The exalted Christ commanded baptism in the threefold name.
593. 81.2The baptismal command shows three distinct, subsistent persons.
594. 81.3God sees through those who confess the faith deceitfully.
595. 81.4A heretic may use orthodox words deceptively.
596. 81.5Some liken the Trinity to body, soul, and spirit in man.
597. 81.6The heretical analogy of the Trinity to the parts of a man.
598. 81.7At the Jordan the three are seen distinctly.
599. 81.8The Son sits at the Father's right hand, not merged into him.
600. 81.9Christ's going and the Spirit's coming show two hypostases.
601. 82.1He has written the faith preserved from the apostles.
602. 82.2The faith has survived the heresies.
603. 82.3Some ascetics say another flesh, not this one, will rise.
604. 83.1Unbelievers deny the resurrection; misbelievers distort it.
605. 83.2The pagans deny the resurrection but will rise.
606. 83.3Day and night picture death and resurrection.
607. 83.4Harvest, seeds, and locusts picture resurrection.
608. 83.5Hair and nails that regrow are signs of resurrection.
609. 84.1Animals that seem to die and revive.
610. 84.2The dung beetle as an image of revival.
611. 84.3The phoenix of Heliopolis.
612. 84.4The phoenix burns itself.
613. 84.5A cloud quenches the flames.
614. 84.6The phoenix revives on the third day.
615. 85.1Pagan myths themselves speak of resurrection.
616. 85.2Alcestis and Pelops.
617. 85.3More myths of return from death.
618. 85.4Myths of punishment in Tartarus imply bodies after death.
619. 85.5Punishments by rock and wheel require bodies.
620. 86.1Manichaeans and pagans say only the soul rises.
621. 86.2A soul cannot “rise” since it did not fall.
622. 86.3Resurrection belongs to what fell: the body.
623. 86.4Pagan funerary offerings betray belief in the dead's return.
624. 86.5Pagans call on the dead at their tombs.
625. 86.6Their custom implies souls awaiting their bodies.
626. 86.7Otherwise their custom makes no sense.
627. 86.8Souls in storehouses, bodies in tombs: all agree, yet unbelievers deny.
628. 87.1Enough examples have been given.
629. 87.2Origenists say another flesh, not this one, is raised.
630. 87.3Raising another body would make God's judgment unjust.
631. 87.4A soul judged alone could blame the body.
632. 87.5The soul could plead that it sinned only through the body.
633. 87.6God's judgment would be void; Paul denies God is unjust.
634. 88.1God can raise bodies, as Ezekiel shows.
635. 88.2Ezekiel's dry bones moved with understanding.
636. 88.3Each bone found its proper place.
637. 88.4God showed he can raise even soulless bodies.
638. 88.5The bodies were assembled first, then the souls entered.
639. 88.6A body alone could not be justly judged.
640. 88.7The body alone could blame the soul.
641. 88.8Body and soul will be judged together.
642. 89.1He turns to those who say another body rises.
643. 89.2The resurrection of the flesh grounds every good work.
644. 89.3Hope of resurrection motivates self-control and alms.
645. 89.4Faith, love, and martyrdom rest on the resurrection of the flesh.
646. 89.5Two clear testimonies establish the resurrection.
647. 90.1“This corruptible” must put on incorruption.
648. 90.2The seed image speaks of the glory of the raised saints.
649. 90.3Christ's saying about the grain of wheat.
650. 90.4Christ's own body, sown like a grain, rose.
651. 90.5The Gospels show the same body risen.
652. 90.6Believers confess the same body rose.
653. 91.1The risen body kept its wounds yet was spiritual.
654. 91.2Entering through shut doors shows the body transformed.
655. 91.3He kept the scars to refute unbelievers.
656. 91.4What suffered is what rose.
657. 91.5The whole body rose, none of it saw corruption.
658. 91.6Christ showed his flesh and bones.
659. 92.1Christ's unique conception does not make his body unlike ours.
660. 92.2Christ as firstfruits implies our bodies rise like his.
661. 92.4Others were raised before Christ.
662. 92.5Christ, unlike them, rose never to die again.
663. 92.6Christ died once to destroy death.
664. 92.7Suffering is reckoned to the Word, who remains impassible.
665. 92.8Christ is life; our hope is not in a mere man.
666. 93.1The Word truly became man.
667. 93.2Our hope is in God made man, not a man made divine.
668. 93.3As high priest he took our flesh to suffer for us.
669. 93.4Suffering is ascribed to the impassible Word by his good pleasure.
670. 93.5The illustration of blood on a garment.
671. 93.6Christ suffered in the flesh, as Peter says.
672. 93.7The flesh's suffering is reckoned to the Godhead.
673. 93.8Hence Paul can say the Lord of glory was crucified.
674. 94.1We worship the crucified and risen Lord.
675. 94.2We know God's plan only in part.
676. 94.3Scripture hints at resurrection; Christ fulfills it.
677. 94.4Abel, Enoch, and Noah point to resurrection.
678. 94.5Isaac's birth from the “dead” is a sign of resurrection.
679. 94.6Isaac's return from the altar proclaimed resurrection.
680. 94.7Jacob's care for his bones shows hope of resurrection.
681. 94.8Joseph's command about his bones implies resurrection.
682. 94.9God is the God of the living patriarchs.
683. 95.1Aaron's rod, dry for years.
684. 95.2In one night the rod budded: a likeness of resurrection.
685. 95.3Birth takes nine months.
686. 95.4The resurrection happens in a moment.
687. 95.5What takes months in nature happens instantly at the resurrection.
688. 96.1Moses' rod illustrates God's power.
689. 96.2The rod became a living serpent.
690. 96.3The miracle was real, not illusion.
691. 96.4Moses fled because the serpent was real.
692. 96.5It was the same rod that came alive.
693. 96.6No substitution took place.
694. 96.7The whole rod was changed, a pledge of resurrection.
695. 97.1Moses' blessing of Reuben shows hope of resurrection and escape from the second death.
696. 98.1Testimonies to the resurrection are abundant.
697. 98.2A partial resurrection would make God partial.
698. 98.3Elijah and Elisha raised whole bodies.
699. 98.4Lazarus came out whole.
700. 98.5Christ raised whole persons.
701. 98.6Enoch and Elijah, taken up bodily, show a complete resurrection.
702. 98.7Uncircumcised Enoch and circumcised Elijah show the resurrection is for all.
703. 98.8Virgin Elijah and married Enoch both live on.
704. 99.1Dathan and Abiram went down bodily to Hades.
705. 99.2Job, the Psalms, and Isaiah speak of resurrection.
706. 99.3Job means the resurrection waits for the end of the world.
707. 99.4At the end the dead will be raised.
708. 99.5Ezekiel's vision of the bones and the spirits.
709. 99.6Ezekiel spoke because those bones would die again; God's own word is final.
710. 100.1Christ's miracles foreshadow the universal resurrection.
711. 100.2At Christ's resurrection many saints rose.
712. 100.3Whole bodies of recently dead saints rose.
713. 100.4Jairus's daughter was raised by a word.
714. 100.5The widow's son was raised by a touch.
715. 100.6Lazarus was raised by a call alone.
716. 100.7Christ's miracles show the hope of resurrection.
717. 101.1In short, the one hope of resurrection is proclaimed throughout.
718. 101.2A prayer for those who reject the resurrection.
719. 101.3The faithful will refute the pagans.
720. 101.4The addressees feed Christ's flock from the holy ground.
721. 101.5No one who sees the faithful would doubt.
722. 101.6The faithful are children of the “valiant woman.”
723. 101.7The church is the valiant woman, dying in persecutions.
724. 102.1The church asks where Christ shepherds; he bids shepherds remove their sandals.
725. 102.2Pastors must loosen converts' sandals, which differ.
726. 102.3Converts put off their particular sins.
727. 102.4Converts give themselves to the good shepherd.
728. 102.5Pastors expose idols as nothing.
729. 102.6Idols are human inventions giving cover to passions.
730. 102.7Idolatry began with demons and spread through each trade's craft.
731. 103.1People made gods of their own passions.
732. 103.2More gods drawn from vices.
733. 103.3Artemis, Dionysus, Heracles, Zeus, and Apollo.
734. 103.4The Egyptians worshiped animals.
735. 103.5The animals the Egyptians deify.
736. 103.6The Egyptians do not see their own folly.
737. 103.7Not even their philosophers enlighten them.
738. 103.8Diagoras burned his wooden Heracles to cook a meal.
739. 104.1Heraclitus mocked the Egyptians' mourning for gods.
740. 104.2A comic poet and Homer on the gods.
741. 104.3Philemon on worship of one God.
742. 104.4Cambyses wounded Apis to show he was no god.
743. 104.5A chained god is no god.
744. 104.6Epiphanius turns to Isis.
745. 104.7Worshipers of Isis should be ashamed.
746. 104.8Isis's incestuous loves set her brothers at war.
747. 104.9She teaches fratricide.
748. 104.10Horus's paternity is uncertain.
749. 104.11Isis's alleged prostitution in Tyre.
750. 104.12Serapis was a deified king.
751. 105.1The Greeks erred even more than the Egyptians.
752. 105.2Cronus castrated his father Uranus.
753. 105.3Cronus wronged his father and his children.
754. 105.4Cronus swallowed his children and a stone.
755. 105.5Zeus and Hermes were adulterers.
756. 105.6Myths of Hermes' seductions.
757. 105.7Zeus seduced Danaë with gold.
758. 105.8Zeus as a swan with Leda.
759. 105.9Zeus carried off Ganymede.
760. 105.10Zeus as a bull.
761. 106.1Zeus's tomb is shown in Crete.
762. 106.2There were several Zeuses.
763. 106.3A proverb about the satyr and fire.
764. 106.4There were several Athenas.
765. 106.5There were several Artemises and Dionysuses.
766. 106.6Heracles' labors mocked.
767. 106.7He tires of recounting the myths.
768. 106.8Kings deified their favorites, like Antinous.
769. 106.9Other deified mortals.
770. 107.1Teachers lead people from idolatry, adultery, and fornication to chastity.
771. 107.2Teachers must practice what they teach.
772. 107.3Like the sun, example teaches silently.
773. 107.4They inspire many to the monastic life.
774. 107.5They refute Manichaeans and Marcionites.
775. 107.6These heretics blaspheme the Creator and the prophets.
776. 107.7Refute their errors promptly.
777. 108.1Marcionites mock the Old Testament God's questions.
778. 108.2The Savior asked similar questions.
779. 108.3Father and Son both ask while knowing.
780. 108.4Christ's question rebuked Martha and Mary's weaker faith.
781. 108.5He asked so the woman would confess.
782. 108.6His questions highlight his miracles.
783. 108.7Seeking to kill “Jesus,” they lose the Savior.
784. 109.1Both Testaments' questions are explained the same way.
785. 109.2“Where are you?” showed Adam's fall.
786. 109.3“Where is Abel?” reproved Cain.
787. 109.4God's words to Cain show he knew.
788. 109.5“Where is Sarah?” set her modesty as an example.
789. 109.6Sarah's modesty is a pattern.
790. 110.1The plundering of Egypt was just.
791. 110.2Israel worked unpaid for many years.
792. 110.3The 430 years of sojourning were fulfilled.
793. 110.4The 430 years are split into 215 in Canaan and 215 in Egypt.
794. 110.5Epiphanius's chronology from Abraham to the descent into Egypt.
795. 110.6From the descent to the birth of Moses' father.
796. 110.7Moses is born.
797. 110.8The crossing of the Red Sea.
798. 110.9Fifty years in the wilderness.
799. 110.10Totals: 430 years, of which 215 after the descent into Egypt.
800. 111.1The spoils were Israel's just wages.
801. 111.2Exodus 12:40 LXX confirms the count.
802. 111.3No blame attaches to God.
803. 111.4The objection about the conquest of Canaan.
804. 111.5God remembers and avenges over generations.
805. 112.1Noah bound his sons by oath.
806. 112.2Noah divided the world by lot.
807. 112.3Shem's portion.
808. 112.4Ham's and Japheth's portions.
809. 113.1Shem's twenty-five descendants.
810. 113.2The peoples descended from Shem.
811. 113.3The peoples descended from Ham.
812. 113.4Ham's islands.
813. 113.5The peoples descended from Japheth.
814. 113.6Japheth's islands.
815. 113.7Duplicates are due to borders, colonies, or Ham's encroachment.
816. 114.1Noah's sons swore not to encroach on each other.
817. 114.2Transgressors would be destroyed.
818. 114.3Canaan seized Shem's land.
819. 114.4God gave Canaan time to repent.
820. 114.5God avenged the broken oath.
821. 114.6Canaan's descendants.
822. 114.7From Shem to Salmon, who entered Canaan.
823. 114.8The conquest restored Shem's land justly.
824. 115.1Loosening sandals prefigures baptism.
825. 115.2Baptism was revealed only to the church.
826. 115.3Stages of stripping prefigure baptism's new garment.
827. 115.4Israel did not recognize the Savior as God.
828. 115.5He was the one addressed in “Let us make man.”
829. 115.6The Father took counsel with Son and Spirit.
830. 115.7Genesis 19:24 shows two Lords.
831. 115.8They did not understand Micah's prophecy.
832. 116.1His eternal origin shows he is God.
833. 116.2“They will call” refers to the faithful.
834. 116.3The faithful confess the crucified as “God with us.”
835. 116.4David foresaw the Lord at God's right hand.
836. 116.5The true sabbath and the heavenly circumcision.
837. 116.6Baptism circumcises the whole person.
838. 116.7Heretics arose within the church.
839. 116.8Arians and Sabellians long for Egypt.
840. 116.9The Sabellians deny distinct Son and Spirit.
841. 116.10The Arians separate the Son from the Father's substance.
842. 116.11The Pneumatomachi are the Arians' offspring.
843. 117.1The baptism in the Jordan refutes the Sabellians.
844. 117.2At the Jordan the incarnate Son is present.
845. 117.3The Father bears witness to the Son.
846. 117.4The Spirit descends to purify the waters of baptism.
847. 117.5John 14:10 refutes the Arians.
848. 117.6Two testimonies against the Pneumatomachi.
849. 117.7The Song of the Three and the Seraphim.
850. 118.1Peter's rebuke of Ananias.
851. 118.2The Spirit searches God's depths, so he is of God's substance.
852. 118.3One Trinity, one church, one baptism, one faith.
853. 118.4Let those who attack the church cease.
854. 118.5The faith is received from the apostles and handed on.
855. 118.6The addressees hand on the apostolic teaching.
856. 118.7Keep the faith received from the apostles.
857. 118.8Catechumens are to be taught the creed word for word.
858. 118.9The creed: first article, on the Father.
859. 118.10The creed: second article, on the Son.
860. 118.11The creed: third article, on the Spirit and the church.
861. 118.12The creed: baptism, resurrection, and the life to come.
862. 118.13The Nicene anathemas.
863. 118.14This faith was handed down by the apostles and the bishops of Nicaea.
864. 119.1New heresies have arisen in the present reign.
865. 119.2An expanded creed is given for the baptized.
866. 119.3The second creed: on the Father.
867. 119.4The second creed: the Son's eternal generation.
868. 119.5The second creed: the incarnation, with a complete humanity.
869. 119.6The Word did not merely indwell a man.
870. 119.7One Lord Jesus Christ, not two.
871. 119.8The second creed: passion, resurrection, ascension, and return in the same body.
872. 119.9The second creed: the Spirit's work.
873. 119.10The second creed: the Spirit uncreated, proceeding from the Father.
874. 119.11The second creed: church, baptism, resurrection, judgment, and life.
875. 119.12The anathemas of the second creed.
876. 119.13He asks their prayers.
877. 119.14Request for prayer and doxology.
878. 119.15Epiphanius closes, acknowledging his weakness.
879. 119.16Closing greetings; the scribe Anatolius.