Panarion (Medicine Chest Against Heresies), Haer. 1-64 31.2.1–31.11.6
Greek text: Holl, GCS 25/31 (Greek text: Karl Holl, ed., Epiphanius, Bände 1-2 (GCS 25, 1915, and GCS 31, 1922, Leipzig: Hinrichs), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0. The digitized file's own metadata describes it as spanning Holl's volumes 1-3 (1915-1933), but its text in fact ends at Haer. 64 (confirmed: the last division is Haer. 64, on Origen, matching the end of GCS 31); Holl's third volume (GCS 37, 1933) is not present in this digital text.).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Haer. 31, chapter 2
31.2.1Holl GCS 25/31:383–384
2. Οὐαλεντῖνος μὲν οὐν οὗτος τῷ χρόνῳ διαδέχεται τοὺς πρὸ αὐτοῦ προτεταγμένους, βασιλείδην τε καὶ Σατορνῖλον, Ἐβίωνά τε καὶ Κήρινθον καὶ Μήρινθον καὶ τοὺς ἀμφʼ αὐτούς· οὗτοι γὰρ πάντες ἐν ἑνὶ καιρῷ τῷ βίῳ κακῶς ἐφύησαν, ὀλίγῳ δὲ πρόσθεν μᾶλλον οἱ περὶ Κήρινθον καὶ Μήρινθον καὶ Ἐβίωνα· ἅμα γὰρ τοῖς ἤδη μοι πρὸ αὐτῶν δεδηλωμένοις ἀνεφύησαν.
2. Oualentinos men oun houtos tǭ chronǭ diadechetai tous pro autou protetagmenous, basileidēn te kai Satornilon, Ebiōna te kai Kērinthon kai Mērinthon kai tous amphʼ autous; houtoi gar pantes en heni kairǭ tǭ biǭ kakōs ephyēsan, oligǭ de prosthen mallon hoi peri Kērinthon kai Mērinthon kai Ebiōna; hama gar tois ēdē moi pro autōn dedēlōmenois anephyēsan.
This Valentinus, then, follows in time those set out before him, Basilides and Saturnilus, and Ebion and Cerinthus and Merinthus and their followers. For all these grew up evilly in life at one time, though those around Cerinthus, Merinthus and Ebion were a little earlier; for they sprang up together with those I have already described before them.
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Summary: Valentinus came after Basilides, Saturnilus, Ebion and Cerinthus, who were roughly contemporary.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.2.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:383–384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.2.2Holl GCS 25/31:384
τὴν μὲν οὖν αὐτοῦ πατρίδα ἢ πόθεν οὑτος γεγέννηται, οἱ πολλοὶ ἀγνοοῦσιν· οὐ γάρ τινι ῥᾴδιον τῶν συγγραφέων μεμέληται τούτου δεῖξαι τὸν τόπον. εἰς ἡμᾶς δὲ ὡς ἐνηχήσει φήμη τις ἐλήλθε· διὸ οὐ παρελευσόμεθα, καὶ τὸν τούτου τόπον μὴ ὑποδεικνύντες, ἐν ἀμφιλέκτῳ μέν εἰ δεῖ τὰ ἀληθῆ λέγειν), ὅμως τὴν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐλθοῦσαν φάσιν οὐ σιωπήσομεν.
tēn men oun autou patrida ē pothen houtos gegennētai, hoi polloi agnoousin; ou gar tini rhądion tōn syngrapheōn memelētai toutou deixai ton topon. eis hēmas de hōs enēchēsei phēmē tis elēlthe; dio ou pareleusometha, kai ton toutou topon mē hypodeiknyntes, en amphilektǭ men ei dei ta alēthē legein), homōs tēn eis hēmas elthousan phasin ou siōpēsomen.
Most people do not know his homeland or where he was born, for none of the writers has taken care to show his place. But a report of it has reached us like a rumour; so we shall not pass it over, and though we do not demonstrate his place with certainty (if one must speak the truth, it is doubtful), we shall not keep silent about the account that has come to us.
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Summary: Valentinus's birthplace is unknown to most, but Epiphanius will report a rumour about it.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.2.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.2.3Holl GCS 25/31:384
ἔφασαν γὰρ αὐτόν τινες γεγενῆσθαι Φρεβωνίτην, τῆς Αἰγύπτου Παραλιώτην, ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ δὲ πεπαιδεῦσαθι τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων παιδείαν.
ephasan gar auton tines gegenēsthai Phrebōnitēn, tēs Aigyptou Paraliōtēn, en Alexandreią de pepaideusathi tēn tōn Hellēnōn paideian.
For some said that he was born a Phrebonite, from the coastal region of Egypt, and was educated in Greek learning at Alexandria.
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Summary: Valentinus was said to be from the Egyptian coast and educated at Alexandria.
- 'Phrebonite' (Φρεβωνίτης) is otherwise unknown; the place is uncertain.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.2.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.2.4Holl GCS 25/31:384
ὅθεν κατὰ μίμημα τῆς κατὰ τὸν Ἡσίοδον θεογονίας τῶν <τε> παρʼ τῷ Ἡσιόδῳ τριάκοντα θεῶν λεγομένων καὶ αὐτὸς τὴν ἐθνόμυθον ποίησιν εἰς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ νοῦν λαβὼν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ πρὸ αὐτοῦ τῆς ἀληθείας ἐκπεπτωκότων τὴν ὑπόνοιαν κτησάμενος, καὶ αὐτὸς τὰ ἴσα τῷ Ἡσιόδῳ ἀπὸ ἑτέρων ὀνομάτων εἰς ἕτερα ματαποιήσας ἠθέλησε φαντάσαι τὸν κόσμον.
hothen kata mimēma tēs kata ton Hēsiodon theogonias tōn <te> parʼ tǭ Hēsiodǭ triakonta theōn legomenōn kai autos tēn ethnomython poiēsin eis ton heautou noun labōn kai apo tōn syn autǭ kai pro autou tēs alētheias ekpeptōkotōn tēn hyponoian ktēsamenos, kai autos ta isa tǭ Hēsiodǭ apo heterōn onomatōn eis hetera matapoiēsas ēthelēse phantasai ton kosmon.
So, in imitation of Hesiod's Theogony and of the thirty gods said to be in Hesiod, he too took the pagan myth-making into his own mind, and having got his notion from those with him and before him who had fallen from the truth, he too, turning the same things as Hesiod into other names, wanted to present a fanciful picture of the world.
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Summary: Valentinus modelled his system on Hesiod's Theogony, changing only the names.
Extrabiblical texts: Hesiod, Theog. (Hesiod, Theogony; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.2.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.2.5Holl GCS 25/31:384
τριάκοντα γὰρ καὶ οὗτος θεοὺς καὶ αἰῶνας καὶ οὐρανοὺς βούλεται παρεισάγειν· ὧν ὁ μὲν πρῶτός ἐστι Βυθός, ὡς καὶ αὐτὸς ἔφη ἀφραίνων τῇ διανοίᾳ ὁποῖα ἀμέλει καὶ ὁ αὐτοῦ προβολεὺς τῆς ἐννοίας Ἡσίοδος Χάος πρώτιστα θεῶν« ἔφη· Χάος δὲ καὶ Βυθὸς τίνι οὐκ ἂν σαφῆ εἵη τὸ ὁμώνυμον κεκτημένα;
triakonta gar kai houtos theous kai aiōnas kai ouranous bouletai pareisagein; hōn ho men prōtos esti Bythos, hōs kai autos ephē aphrainōn tę̄ dianoią hopoia amelei kai ho autou proboleus tēs ennoias Hēsiodos Chaos prōtista theōn« ephē; Chaos de kai Bythos tini ouk an saphē heiē to homōnymon kektēmena?
For he too wants to introduce thirty gods and aeons and heavens, of which the first is Depth, as he himself said in the folly of his mind, just as, of course, Hesiod, the father of his idea, said, 'Chaos first of the gods.' Who would not see that Chaos and Depth have the same meaning?
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Summary: Valentinus's first aeon, Depth, corresponds to Hesiod's Chaos.
- The quotation paraphrases Hesiod, Theogony 116.
Extrabiblical texts: Hesiod, Theog. 116 (Hesiod, Theogony; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.2.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.2.6Holl GCS 25/31:384
ὅρα δὲ τὴν τοῦ ἀγύρτου τετραγῳδημένην μυθοποιίαν καὶ μοχθηρὰν διδασκαλίαν. τριάκοντα γὰρ οὑτος, ὡς ἔφην, αἰῶνας βούλεται παριστᾶν, οὓς καὶ θεοὺς ὀνομίζει, δεκαπέντε ἄρρενας καὶ θηλείας τοσαύτας εἶναι λέγων.
hora de tēn tou agyrtou tetragǭdēmenēn mythopoiian kai mochthēran didaskalian. triakonta gar houtos, hōs ephēn, aiōnas bouletai paristan, hous kai theous onomizei, dekapente arrenas kai thēleias tosautas einai legōn.
See the charlatan's tragic myth-making and wicked teaching. For, as I said, he wants to present thirty aeons, whom he also calls gods, saying that fifteen are male and as many female.
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Summary: Valentinus posits thirty aeons, fifteen male and fifteen female.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.2.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:384; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.2.7Holl GCS 25/31:384–385
ἕκαστον δὲ αἰῶνα ἀρρενόθηλυν καὶ ζεῦγός φησιν αὐτὸς καὶ οἱ αὐτοῦ· δεκαπέντε δὲ δυάδας φασὶν εἶναι, ἃς συζυγίας καλοῦσι. τὸν ἀριθμὸν δὲ εἶναι τριάκοντα αἰῶνας, ἑκάστην δὲ θήλειαν γεννᾶν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἄρρενος τοὺς καθεξῆς αἰῶνας· εἶναι δὲ τούτους ὡς ὑποτέτακται, κατὰ ἀντιπαράθεσιν ἑκάστου ἀρ- ρενικοῦ ὀνόματος τεταγμένου ἄντικρυς τοῦ θηλυκοῦ ὀνόματος, καὶ ἔστιν·
hekaston de aiōna arrenothēlyn kai zeugos phēsin autos kai hoi autou; dekapente de dyadas phasin einai, has syzygias kalousi. ton arithmon de einai triakonta aiōnas, hekastēn de thēleian gennan apo tou arrenos tous kathexēs aiōnas; einai de toutous hōs hypotetaktai, kata antiparathesin hekastou ar- renikou onomatos tetagmenou antikrys tou thēlykou onomatos, kai estin;
He and his followers say that each aeon is male-female and a pair; they say there are fifteen dyads, which they call syzygies. The number, they say, is thirty aeons, and each female bears the following aeons from the male. They are as set out below, each male name placed opposite the female name, and it is this:
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Summary: The aeons form fifteen male-female pairs, listed next.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.2.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:384–385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-2-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.2.8Holl GCS 25/31:385
Ἀμψίου Αὐραὰν Βουκοῦα Θαρδουοῦ Οὐβουκοῦα θαρδεδδεὶν Μερεξὰ Ἀτὰρ Βαρβὰ οὐδουὰκ Ἐστὴν Οὐδουουὰκ Ἐσλὴν] Ἀμφαὶν Ἐσσουμὲν] Οὐανανὶν Λαμερτάρδα Ἀθαὲς Σουμὶν Ἀλλωρὰ Κουβιαθὰ Δαναδαρία Δαμμὼ Ὠρὴν λαναφὲκ Οὐδινφὲκ Ἐμφιβοχὲ Βάρρα Ἀσίου Ἀχὲ Βελὶμ Δεξαριχὲ Μασεμών.
Ampsiou Auraan Boukoua Thardouou Ouboukoua thardeddein Merexa Atar Barba oudouak Estēn Oudououak Eslēn] Amphain Essoumen] Ouananin Lamertarda Athaes Soumin Allōra Koubiatha Danadaria Dammō Ōrēn lanaphek Oudinphek Emphiboche Barra Asiou Ache Belim Dexariche Masemōn.
Ampsiu, Auraan; Bukua, Thardu-u; Ubukua, Thardeddein; Merexa, Atar; Barba, Uduak; Esten, Uduuak; Eslen, Amphain; Essumen, Uananin; Lamertarda, Athaes; Sumin, Allora; Kubiatha, Danadaria; Dammo, Oren; Lanaphek, Udinphek; Emphiboche, Barra; Asiu, Ache; Belim, Dexariche; Masemon.
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Summary: Epiphanius lists the barbarous names of the thirty aeons in pairs.
- The names are transliterated; their spelling varies between the three lists (31.2.8, 31.2.9, 31.6.10). Stray closing brackets in the digital text are left untranslated.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.2.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-2-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.2.9Holl GCS 25/31:385
καὶ οὕτως μὲν σύγκεινται ὡς κατὰ συζυγίαν ἀρρενοθήλεος, ἐν δὲ τῇ ἀκολουθίᾳ κατὰ διαδοχὴν οὕτως· Ἀμψίου Ἀὐραὰν Βουκοῦα Θαρδουοῦ Οὐβουκοῦα Θαρδεδδεὶν Μερεξὰ Ἀτὰρ βαρβὰ Οὐδουὰκ Ἐστὴν Οὐδουουὰκ Ἐσλὴν] Ἀμφαὶν Ἐσσουμὲν] Οὐανανὶν Λαμεράρδε Ἀθαμὲς Σουμὶν Ἀλλωρὰ Κουβιαθὰ Δαναδαρία Δαμμὼ Ὠρὴν Λαναφὲκ Οὐδινφὲκ Ἐμφιβοχὲ Βάρρα Ἀσσίου Ἀχὲ Βελὶμ Δεξαριχὲ Μασεμών·
kai houtōs men synkeintai hōs kata syzygian arrenothēleos, en de tę̄ akolouthią kata diadochēn houtōs; Ampsiou Auraan Boukoua Thardouou Ouboukoua Thardeddein Merexa Atar barba Oudouak Estēn Oudououak Eslēn] Amphain Essoumen] Ouananin Lamerarde Athames Soumin Allōra Koubiatha Danadaria Dammō Ōrēn Lanaphek Oudinphek Emphiboche Barra Assiou Ache Belim Dexariche Masemōn;
They are arranged thus as male-female pairs, but in order of succession thus: Ampsiu, Auraan, Bukua, Thardu-u, Ubukua, Thardeddein, Merexa, Atar, Barba, Uduak, Esten, Uduuak, Eslen, Amphain, Essumen, Uananin, Lamerarde, Athames, Sumin, Allora, Kubiatha, Danadaria, Dammo, Oren, Lanaphek, Udinphek, Emphiboche, Barra, Assiu, Ache, Belim, Dexariche, Masemon.
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Summary: The same names are given in order of succession.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.2.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-2-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.2.10Holl GCS 25/31:385–386
ὡν ὀνομάτων ἑρμηνεῖσί εἰσιν αἵδε· Βυθὸς <καὶ> Σιγή. Νοῦς καὶ Ἀλήθεια, Λόγος καὶ Ζωή, Ἄνθρωπος καὶ Ἐκκλησία, Παράκλητος καὶ Πίστις, Πατρικὸς καὶ Ἐλπίς, Μητρικὸς καὶ Ἀγάπη, Ἀείνους καὶ Σύνεσις, Θελητὸς (ὁ καὶ Φῶς) καὶ Μακαριότης, Ἐκκλησιαστικὸς καὶ Σοφία, Βύθιος καὶ Μῖξις Ἀγήρατος καὶ Ἕνωσις, Αὐτοφυὴς καὶ Σύγκρασις, Μονογενὴς καὶ Ἑνότης, Ἀκίνητος καὶ Ἡδονή.
hōn onomatōn hermēneisi eisin haide; Bythos <kai> Sigē. Nous kai Alētheia, Logos kai Zōē, Anthrōpos kai Ekklēsia, Paraklētos kai Pistis, Patrikos kai Elpis, Mētrikos kai Agapē, Aeinous kai Synesis, Thelētos (ho kai Phōs) kai Makariotēs, Ekklēsiastikos kai Sophia, Bythios kai Mixis Agēratos kai Henōsis, Autophyēs kai Synkrasis, Monogenēs kai Henotēs, Akinētos kai Hēdonē.
The translations of these names are as follows: Depth and Silence; Mind and Truth; Word and Life; Man and Church; Paraclete and Faith; Paternal and Hope; Maternal and Love; Ever-Mind and Understanding; Willed (also called Light) and Blessedness; Ecclesiastical and Wisdom; Deep and Mixture; Ageless and Union; Self-grown and Blending; Only-begotten and Unity; Unmoved and Pleasure.
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Summary: The aeon names are translated into Greek: Depth and Silence, Mind and Truth, and so on.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.2.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:385–386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-2-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.2.11Holl GCS 25/31:386
κατὰ δὲ ἀριθμὸν διαδοχῆς καὶ ἀκολουθίας ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνωτάτου ἀκατονομάστου Πατρὸς καὶ Βυθοῦ παρʼ αὐτοῖς ὀνομαζομένου ἕως τούτου τοῦ καθʼ ἡμᾶς οὐρανοῦ ὁ τῶν τριάκοντα ἀριθμὸς οὕτως ἔχει· Βυθὸς Σιγὴ Νοῦς Ἀλήθεια Λόγος Ζωὴ Ἄνθρωπος Ἐκκλησία Παράκλητος Πίστις Πατρικὸς Ἐλπὶς Μητρικὸς Ἀγάπη Ἀείνους Σύνεσις Θελητὸς (ὁ καὶ Φῶς) Μακαριότης Ἐκκλησιαστικὸς Σοφία Βύθιος Μῖξις Ἀγήρατος, Ἕνωσις Αὐτοφυὴς Σύγκρασις Μονογενὴς Ἑνότης Ἀκίνητος Ἡδονή.
kata de arithmon diadochēs kai akolouthias apo tou anōtatou akatonomastou Patros kai Bythou parʼ autois onomazomenou heōs toutou tou kathʼ hēmas ouranou ho tōn triakonta arithmos houtōs echei; Bythos Sigē Nous Alētheia Logos Zōē Anthrōpos Ekklēsia Paraklētos Pistis Patrikos Elpis Mētrikos Agapē Aeinous Synesis Thelētos (ho kai Phōs) Makariotēs Ekklēsiastikos Sophia Bythios Mixis Agēratos, Henōsis Autophyēs Synkrasis Monogenēs Henotēs Akinētos Hēdonē.
In numerical order of succession, from the highest unnameable Father, whom they call Depth, down to this heaven of ours, the number of the thirty is as follows: Depth, Silence, Mind, Truth, Word, Life, Man, Church, Paraclete, Faith, Paternal, Hope, Maternal, Love, Ever-Mind, Understanding, Willed (also called Light), Blessedness, Ecclesiastical, Wisdom, Deep, Mixture, Ageless, Union, Self-grown, Blending, Only-begotten, Unity, Unmoved, Pleasure.
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Summary: The thirty aeons are listed in order from Depth to Pleasure.
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- Digital text corrected (Repeated syllables in the digital text.): Ἄνθρωπος θρωπος → Ἄνθρωπος.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.2.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-2-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 31, chapter 3
31.3.1Holl GCS 25/31:386
3. Καὶ αὕτη μὲν ἡ τῶν τριάκοντα Αἰώνων παρʼ αὐτοῖς μυθοποιουμένη τραγῳδία καὶ ἡ κατὰ συζυγίαν πνευματικοῦ δῆθεν Πληρώματος κενοφωνία· ἐάν τις συγκρίνων τῇ
3. Kai hautē men hē tōn triakonta Aiōnōn parʼ autois mythopoioumenē tragǭdia kai hē kata syzygian pneumatikou dēthen Plērōmatos kenophōnia; ean tis synkrinōn tę̄
This, then, is the tragedy of the thirty aeons as myth-made among them, and the empty talk about a supposedly spiritual Pleroma arranged in syzygies. If anyone compares it with the
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Summary: Epiphanius calls the thirty-aeon system a tragedy and empty talk.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Repeated word fragment in the digital text.): μυθοποιουμένη ποιουμἐνη → μυθοποιουμένη.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.3.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-3-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.3.2Holl GCS 25/31:386
παρὰ Ἡσιόδῳ καὶ Στησιχόρῳ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ποιηταῖς τῶν Ἑλλήνων παραθῆται, εὕροι ἂν ἐκ παραλλήλου τὰ αὐτὰ ὄντα καὶ οὐδὲν ἕτερον, καὶ ἐκ τούτου γνώσεται ὡς οὐδὲν θαυμαστὸν οἱ τῶν δογμάτων αἱρεσιάρχαι μυστηριωδῶς ἐπαγγέλλονται λέγειν.
para Hēsiodǭ kai Stēsichorǭ kai tois allois poiētais tōn Hellēnōn parathētai, heuroi an ek parallēlou ta auta onta kai ouden heteron, kai ek toutou gnōsetai hōs ouden thaumaston hoi tōn dogmatōn hairesiarchai mystēriōdōs epangellontai legein.
[myth-making] in Hesiod and Stesichorus and the other Greek poets and sets them side by side, he will find that they are the same, and nothing else; and from this he will know that the heresiarchs say nothing wonderful in the doctrines they announce as mysteries.
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Summary: Compared with Hesiod and Stesichorus, the Valentinian system is the same myth.
Extrabiblical texts: Hesiod, Theog. (Hesiod, Theogony; allusion); Stesichorus (Stesichorus; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.3.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:386; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.3.3Holl GCS 25/31:386–387
οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄλλο ἢ Ἑλλήνων ἀπεμάξαντο τὴν ἐπίπλαστον ποιητικὴν ἕξιν τῆς ἐθνομύθου πλάνης καὶ διδασκαλίας, οὐδὲν ἀλλοιώσαντες πλὴν τῆς παρʼ αὐτοῖς μεταπεποιημένης βαρβαρικῆς ὀνοματοποιίας.
ouden gar allo ē Hellēnōn apemaxanto tēn epiplaston poiētikēn hexin tēs ethnomythou planēs kai didaskalias, ouden alloiōsantes plēn tēs parʼ autois metapepoiēmenēs barbarikēs onomatopoiias.
For they did nothing but copy the Greeks' fabricated poetic habit of pagan mythical error and teaching, changing nothing except the barbarous names they have remade.
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Summary: The heretics merely copied Greek myth with new barbarous names.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.3.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:386–387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.3.4Holl GCS 25/31:387
οὕτω γάρ φασι καὶ οἱ περὶ Ἡσίοδον· πρῶτον πάντων γίνεται Χάος, ἴνα εἴπωσι Βυθόν, εἶτα Νὺξ Ἔρεβος Γῆ Ἡμέρα Ἔρως Μῆτις Μόρος Ὀϊζὺς Πότμος Νέμεσις Μῶμος Φιλότης Θάνατος Δυσνομία Γήρως Ἄτη Ἵμερος Λήθη Ὕπνος Ὑσμίνη Λυσιμελὴς Ὕβρις Εὐφρόνιος Αἴγλη παυσιμέριμνος Ἀπάτη Ἡδυμελὴς Ἔρις.
houtō gar phasi kai hoi peri Hēsiodon; prōton pantōn ginetai Chaos, ina eipōsi Bython, eita Nyx Erebos Gē Hēmera Erōs Mētis Moros Oïzys Potmos Nemesis Mōmos Philotēs Thanatos Dysnomia Gērōs Atē Himeros Lēthē Hypnos Hysminē Lysimelēs Hybris Euphronios Aiglē pausimerimnos Apatē Hēdymelēs Eris.
For Hesiod and his school say this: first of all comes Chaos (as they would say, Depth), then Night, Erebus, Earth, Day, Love, Counsel, Doom, Woe, Fate, Nemesis, Blame, Affection, Death, Lawlessness, Old Age, Ruin, Desire, Forgetfulness, Sleep, Battle, Limb-loosener, Insolence, Euphronius, Radiance, Care-ender, Deceit, Sweet-song, Strife.
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Summary: Epiphanius lists Hesiod's primeval deities for comparison.
- The list draws on Hesiod, Theogony 116–232, with some names not in Hesiod.
Extrabiblical texts: Hesiod, Theog. 116–232 (Hesiod, Theogony; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.3.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-3-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.3.5Holl GCS 25/31:387
καὶ οὑτος μὲν ὁ ἀριθμὸς κατὰ ἀκολουθίαν ἀρρενοθήλεος οὕτως ἔχει τὴν τριακοντάδα. εἰ δέ τις θελήσειεν ἰδεῖν πῶς πλαττόμενοι οὗτοι ἓν πρὸς τὸ ἕν, εὕροι ἂν οὕτως συναπτόμενα καὶ συζευγνύμενα ἀλλήλοις ἃ τοῖς ποιηταῖς ἔδοξεν,
kai houtos men ho arithmos kata akolouthian arrenothēleos houtōs echei tēn triakontada. ei de tis thelēseien idein pōs plattomenoi houtoi hen pros to hen, heuroi an houtōs synaptomena kai syzeugnymena allēlois ha tois poiētais edoxen,
This number, in male-female sequence, makes up the thirty. And if anyone wanted to see how these are fashioned one with another, he would find the things the poets imagined joined and yoked to each other thus:
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Summary: The poets' deities can also be paired like the Valentinian aeons.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.3.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-3-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.3.6Holl GCS 25/31:387
ὡς τὸν μὲν Βυθὸν Νυκτί τε καὶ Σιγῇ συνάψαντες ἐποίησαν Γῆν γεννᾶσθαι· ἄλλοι δὲ Οὐρανόν, ὃν δὴ καὶ Ὑπερίονα κεκλήκασι, τὸν δὲ] αὐτὸν τῇ Γῇ συναφθέντα φασὶ γεγεννηκέναι ἄρσενάς τε καὶ θηλείας, καὶ τοὺς καθεξῆς ὁμοίως ἕως τῆς πάσης αὐτῶν ποιήσεως, ὡς ἔχει ἡ ἀπέραντος τοῦ μύθου ληρώδης φλυαρία.
hōs ton men Bython Nykti te kai Sigę̄ synapsantes epoiēsan Gēn gennasthai; alloi de Ouranon, hon dē kai Hyperiona keklēkasi, ton de] auton tę̄ Gę̄ synaphthenta phasi gegennēkenai arsenas te kai thēleias, kai tous kathexēs homoiōs heōs tēs pasēs autōn poiēseōs, hōs echei hē aperantos tou mythou lērōdēs phlyaria.
they joined Depth with Night and Silence and made Earth be born; others [say] Heaven, whom they have also called Hyperion, and say that he, joined with Earth, begot males and females, and those that follow likewise, to the whole of their creation, as the endless, silly babble of the myth has it.
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Summary: In the poets, primal beings pair and produce Earth, Heaven and their offspring.
Extrabiblical texts: Hesiod, Theog. (Hesiod, Theogony; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.3.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-3-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.3.7Holl GCS 25/31:387
εὕροι δʼ ἂν οὕτως συναπτόμενά τε καὶ συζευγνύμενα καὶ δυνάμενα οὕτως συντίθεσθαι· Χάος Νύξι Ἔρεβος Γῆ, Αἰθὴρ Ἡμέρα, Ἔρως Μῆτις, Μόρος Ὀϊζύς, Πότμος Νέμεσις, Μῶμος Φιλότης, Θάνταος Δυσνομία, Γήρως Ἄτη, Ἵμερος Λήθη, Ὕπνος Ὑσμίνη, Λυσιμελὴς Ὕβρις, Εὐφρόνιος Αἴγλη, Παυσιμέριμνος Ἀπάτη, Ἡδυμελὴς Ἔρις.
heuroi dʼ an houtōs synaptomena te kai syzeugnymena kai dynamena houtōs syntithesthai; Chaos Nyxi Erebos Gē, Aithēr Hēmera, Erōs Mētis, Moros Oïzys, Potmos Nemesis, Mōmos Philotēs, Thantaos Dysnomia, Gērōs Atē, Himeros Lēthē, Hypnos Hysminē, Lysimelēs Hybris, Euphronios Aiglē, Pausimerimnos Apatē, Hēdymelēs Eris.
One would find them joined and paired and able to be combined thus: Chaos, Night; Erebus, Earth; Aether, Day; Love, Counsel; Doom, Woe; Fate, Nemesis; Blame, Affection; Death, Lawlessness; Old Age, Ruin; Desire, Forgetfulness; Sleep, Battle; Limb-loosener, Insolence; Euphronius, Radiance; Care-ender, Deceit; Sweet-song, Strife.
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Summary: The poets' deities are set out in pairs like the aeons.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.3.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-3-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.3.8Holl GCS 25/31:387
εἰ δὲ προσέχοι τις τῷ αὐτῶν πλάσματι καὶ βουληθείη γνῶναι ὡς ἀπὸ τῶν κοσμικῶν καὶ Ἑλληνικῶν ποιητῶν, ἐξ ὧν οὗτοι ἐνεβροντήθησαν, μάτην ἐνθουσιῶντες > ἃ μὴ δεῖ, ματαιοπονίαν τε καὶ κάματον ἀνωφελῆ, *, εὕροι ἂν αὐτοὺς τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον πεπλανημένους.
ei de prosechoi tis tǭ autōn plasmati kai boulētheiē gnōnai hōs apo tōn kosmikōn kai Hellēnikōn poiētōn, ex hōn houtoi enebrontēthēsan, matēn enthousiōntes > ha mē dei, mataioponian te kai kamaton anōphelē, *, heuroi an autous tosoutǭ mallon peplanēmenous.
And if anyone paid attention to their fiction and wished to know how, from the worldly and Greek poets by whom they were thunderstruck, raving in vain … what they should not, a vain and useless toil …, he would find them all the more led astray.
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Summary: Close study shows how much the Valentinians borrowed from the poets.
- The edition marks gaps here; the sentence is translated by sense.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.3.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-3-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 31, chapter 4
31.4.1Holl GCS 25/31:387–388
4. Ὅθεν καὶ ἔτι ὑφηλοτέρως δῆθεν ἐξερευνῶντες ᾠήθησαν καὶ Υστέρημα τῷ ἰδίῳ αὐτῶν δαιμονισθέντι διανοήματι ἐξευρεῖν, ὅπερ Υστέρημα καὶ Παντοκράτορα καὶ Δημιουργὸν καλοῦσι καὶ κτιστὴν οὐσιῶν·
4. Hothen kai eti hyphēloterōs dēthen exereunōntes ǭēthēsan kai Ysterēma tǭ idiǭ autōn daimonisthenti dianoēmati exeurein, hoper Ysterēma kai Pantokratora kai Dēmiourgon kalousi kai ktistēn ousiōn;
Hence, searching still more loftily, as they suppose, they thought in their own demon-possessed reasoning that they had also found a Deficiency, which Deficiency they also call Almighty and Demiurge and creator of substances.
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Summary: The Valentinians invented a 'Deficiency', whom they call the Demiurge.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.4.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:387–388; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-4-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.4.2Holl GCS 25/31:388
ἀφʼ οὗπερ πάλιν καὶ ὑστέραν Ὀγδοάδα μετὰ ἑπτὰ οὐρανῶν, κατὰ τὴν πρώτην Ὀγδοάδα ἀφομοιωθεῖσαν, ἐκτίσθαι λέγουσιν, αὐτοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῇ Ὀγδοάδι καὶ ἑπτὰ οὐρανοὺς μετʼ αὐτὴν
aphʼ houper palin kai hysteran Ogdoada meta hepta ouranōn, kata tēn prōtēn Ogdoada aphomoiōtheisan, ektisthai legousin, autou ontos en tę̄ Ogdoadi kai hepta ouranous metʼ autēn
From him in turn they say a later Ogdoad was created after seven heavens, made in the likeness of the first Ogdoad, he himself being in the Ogdoad, and seven heavens after it.
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Summary: From the Demiurge came a lower Ogdoad and seven heavens.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.4.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:388; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-4-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.4.3Holl GCS 25/31:388
ᾡ Ὑστερήματι βούλονται συνάπτειν μὲν ἀμιγῆ τινα Αἰῶνα καὶ ἀθήλυντον, ἀπὸ Πληρώματος δὲ ἐνταῦθα ἐλθόντα κατʼ ἀναζήτησιν τῆς ψυχῆς τῆς ἄνωθεν ἀπὸ τῆς μητρὸς Σοφίας Μούσης, δὴ καὶ Ἀχαμὼθ βούλονται τὸ ὄνομα ἀνατυποῦν τε καὶ πλάττειν, ὃν δὴ καὶ Σωτῆρα καλεῖν * καὶ Ὅρον καὶ Σταυρὸν καὶ Ὁροθέτην καὶ Μεταγωγέα καὶ Ἰησοῦν τὸν διὰ Μαρίας ὡς διὰ σωλῆνος παρελθόντα.
hǭ Hysterēmati boulontai synaptein men amigē tina Aiōna kai athēlynton, apo Plērōmatos de entautha elthonta katʼ anazētēsin tēs psychēs tēs anōthen apo tēs mētros Sophias Mousēs, dē kai Achamōth boulontai to onoma anatypoun te kai plattein, hon dē kai Sōtēra kalein * kai Horon kai Stauron kai Horothetēn kai Metagōgea kai Iēsoun ton dia Marias hōs dia sōlēnos parelthonta.
With this Deficiency they want to join a certain unmixed and non-female Aeon, who came here from the Pleroma in search of the soul from above, from the mother Wisdom, … whose name they want to represent and fashion as Achamoth. Him they call Saviour, Limit, Cross, Limit-setter, Transferrer, and Jesus who passed through Mary as through a pipe.
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Summary: An aeon came from the Pleroma, called Saviour, Limit, Cross and Jesus, who passed through Mary like water through a pipe.
- Μούσης after 'Wisdom' appears to be corrupt; it is left untranslated. The Valentinian doctrine that Christ took nothing from Mary is reported here as Epiphanius gives it.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Latin a for Greek alpha.; OCR slip for καί.; Repeated word.): Σωτῆρa → Σωτῆρα; κοὶ Σταυρὸν → καὶ Σταυρὸν; ἀπὸ ἀπὸ Πληρώματος → ἀπὸ Πληρώματος.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.4.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:388; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-4-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.4.4Holl GCS 25/31:388–389
εἶναι δὲ αὐτὸν φῶς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἄνω Χριστοῦ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πατρωνυμικῶς καλεῖσθαι Φῶς διὰ τὸ ἄνω Φῶς καὶ Χριστὸν διὰ τὸν ἄνω Χριστὸν καὶ Λόγον διὰ τὸν ἄνω Λόγον καὶ Νοῦν ὡσαύτως >
einai de auton phōs apo tou anō Christou kai dia touto patrōnymikōs kaleisthai Phōs dia to anō Phōs kai Christon dia ton anō Christon kai Logon dia ton anō Logon kai Noun hōsautōs >
He is light from the Christ above, and therefore he is called by his father's name 'Light' because of the Light above, and 'Christ' because of the Christ above, and 'Word' because of the Word above, and 'Mind' likewise …
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: This saviour takes his names from the higher Light, Christ and Word.
- The edition marks a gap at the end.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): Χριοτὸν → Χριστὸν.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.4.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:388–389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-4-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.4.5Holl GCS 25/31:389
Σωτῆρα λέγεσθαι. ἀεὶ δὲ ὑπερβαίνειν τὸν αὐτοῦ πατέρα τὸν Δημιουργόν, συνανφέρειν δὲ τοὺς αὐτῷ πειθομένους ἅμα αὐτῷ πρὸς τὰς ἄνω συζυγίας τοῦ Πληρώματος.
Sōtēra legesthai. aei de hyperbainein ton autou patera ton Dēmiourgon, synanpherein de tous autǭ peithomenous hama autǭ pros tas anō syzygias tou Plērōmatos.
… is called Saviour. He always surpasses his father the Demiurge, and carries up with him those who obey him to the syzygies of the Pleroma above.
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Summary: The saviour rises above the Demiurge and lifts his followers to the Pleroma.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip for αὐτῷ.): συνανφέρειν δὲ τοὺς οὐτῷ → συνανφέρειν δὲ τοὺς αὐτῷ.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.4.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-4-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.4.6Holl GCS 25/31:389
καὶ ὠ τῆς τούτων ληρῳδίας καὶ τοσαύτης ματαιολογίας. παραθήσομαι δὲ ὡς προεῖπον) καὶ ὡς αὐτοὶ συνέζευξαν τοῖς ποιητικοῖς καὶ ἐθνομύθοις πλάσμασι τὴν αὐτῶν ληρολογίαν,
kai ō tēs toutōn lērǭdias kai tosautēs mataiologias. parathēsomai de hōs proeipon) kai hōs autoi synezeuxan tois poiētikois kai ethnomythois plasmasi tēn autōn lērologian,
Oh, their nonsense and such great vanity! But I shall also set out (as I said before) how they joined their babble to the poetic and pagan fictions.
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Summary: Epiphanius will show how they joined their fables to the poets'.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.4.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-4-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.4.7Holl GCS 25/31:389
μετὰ τὴν τριακοντάδα γὰρ * τὸ ἓν ὄνομα μέσον καὶ ἀθήλυντον καὶ μετʼ αὐτὸ τὴν κατὰ συζυγίαν πάλιν Ὀγδοάδα εὑρεθεῖσαν ἀπὸ τοῦ Δημιουργοῦ, δυναμένην καὶ οὕτως συντίθεσθαι, καὶ ἔσςτιν τὰ ὀνόματα τάδε· πρῶτος ἐξέπαφος, Πορφυρίων Κλωθὼ Ῥύακος Λάχεσις Ἐπιφάων Ἄτροπος Ὑπερίων Ἀστεροπή.
meta tēn triakontada gar * to hen onoma meson kai athēlynton kai metʼ auto tēn kata syzygian palin Ogdoada heuretheisan apo tou Dēmiourgou, dynamenēn kai houtōs syntithesthai, kai esstin ta onomata tade; prōtos exepaphos, Porphyriōn Klōthō Rhyakos Lachesis Epiphaōn Atropos Hyperiōn Asteropē.
For after the thirty … the one name in the middle, not female, and after it again the Ogdoad in syzygies found from the Demiurge, which can also be arranged thus. The names are these: first Ekpaphus, Porphyrion, Clotho, Rhyacus, Lachesis, Epiphaon, Atropos, Hyperion, Asterope.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: Epiphanius lists poetic names that correspond to the lower Ogdoad.
- The edition marks a gap (*). The source of this list of names is uncertain.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.4.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-4-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.4.8Holl GCS 25/31:389
καὶ αὕτη μὲν ἡ τῶν ποιητῶν τούτων σκηνή, ἔχουσα καὶ ἄλλας πολλὰς όνομασίας θεῶν παρ΄ αὐτοῖς ὀνομαζομένων, ἀρρένων τε καὶ θηλειῶν, ἄλλως καὶ ἄλλως παρά τισι λεγομένων, δυναμένων ποιῆσαι καὶ τριακοσίων ἑξήκοντα πέντε ἀριθμὸν καὶ ἔτι εἰς πρόφασιν τῶν ἄλλων αἱρέσεων τῶν ταύτην πάλιν τὴν τραγικὴν ὑπόθεσιν ἐνστησαμένων ὀνειρωττομένων.
kai hautē men hē tōn poiētōn toutōn skēnē, echousa kai allas pollas onomasias theōn par΄ autois onomazomenōn, arrenōn te kai thēleiōn, allōs kai allōs para tisi legomenōn, dynamenōn poiēsai kai triakosiōn hexēkonta pente arithmon kai eti eis prophasin tōn allōn haireseōn tōn tautēn palin tēn tragikēn hypothesin enstēsamenōn oneirōttomenōn.
And this is the stage of these poets, which also has many other names of gods named among them, male and female, called differently by different writers, which could make up the number three hundred and sixty-five, and also provide a pretext for the other heresies which, dreaming, set up this tragic scheme again.
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Summary: The poets' many deities could supply the 365 of other heresies.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.4.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-4-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.4.9Holl GCS 25/31:389
μετὰ γὰρ τὰ προειρημένα ὀνόματά φασιν οἱ περὶ Ἡσίοδον καὶ Ὀρφέα καὶ Στησίχορον γεγενῆσθαι Οὐρανόν τε καὶ Τάρταρον, Κρόνον τε καὶ ῥέαν, Δία τε καὶ Ἥραν καὶ Ἀπόλλωνα, Ποσειδῶνά τε καὶ Πλούτωνα, καὶ μυρίους λοιπὸν τοὺς παρʼ αὐτοῖς ὀνομαζομένους 〈θεούς〉. πολλὴ γὰρ τούτων ἡ ἀπατηλὸς ἐξ ὑπονοίας πλάνη, ἥτις κενοφωνίαν ἐγκισσήσασα καὶ ἐξευραμένη πολλοὺς μύθους ἐποιητευσατο.
meta gar ta proeirēmena onomata phasin hoi peri Hēsiodon kai Orphea kai Stēsichoron gegenēsthai Ouranon te kai Tartaron, Kronon te kai rhean, Dia te kai Hēran kai Apollōna, Poseidōna te kai Ploutōna, kai myrious loipon tous parʼ autois onomazomenous 〈theous〉. pollē gar toutōn hē apatēlos ex hyponoias planē, hētis kenophōnian enkissēsasa kai exeuramenē pollous mythous epoiēteusato.
For after the names already mentioned, Hesiod, Orpheus and Stesichorus say that Heaven and Tartarus came into being, Cronus and Rhea, Zeus and Hera and Apollo, Poseidon and Pluto, and the countless others named ⟨gods⟩ among them. For great is their deceitful error, born of conjecture, which, weaving empty talk like ivy and inventing it, has composed many myths.
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Summary: The poets go on to the Olympian gods and countless others.
Extrabiblical texts: Hesiod, Theog. (Hesiod, Theogony; allusion); Orpheus (attributed), Orph. frag. (Orpheus (attributed), Orphic poems (fragments); allusion); Stesichorus (Stesichorus; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.4.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-4-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.4.10Holl GCS 25/31:389–390
Καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν δοκοῦσα φαντάζειν τὴν τῶν ἀπατωμένων τούτων διάνοιαν. γελοῖα δὲ εὐθὺς πᾶσιν εὑρίσκεται ταῦτα τοῖς κατὰ θεὸν τὸν νοῦν πεφωτισμένοις.
Kai hautē estin dokousa phantazein tēn tōn apatōmenōn toutōn dianoian. geloia de euthys pasin heurisketai tauta tois kata theon ton noun pephōtismenois.
And this is what seems to fill the minds of these deceived people with fancies. But these things are at once found ridiculous by all whose minds are enlightened in God.
Notes and citation
Summary: Such fancies are ridiculous to those enlightened by God.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.4.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:389–390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-4-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.4.11Holl GCS 25/31:390
παρελθὼν δὲ ταῦτα αὐθις ταῖς ἀπὸ τῶν βιβλίων αὐτῶν ἀκολουθίαις * πρὸς ἔπος ἔπος κατὰ λέξιν τὴν παράθεσιν τῆς παρʼ αὐτοῖς ἀναγνώσσεως, λέγω δὴ τῆς βίβλου, ἐνταῦθα ποιήσομαι, καὶ ἔστιν τάδε·
parelthōn de tauta authis tais apo tōn bibliōn autōn akolouthiais * pros epos epos kata lexin tēn parathesin tēs parʼ autois anagnōsseōs, legō dē tēs biblou, entautha poiēsomai, kai estin tade;
Passing over these, I shall now set out here, word for word, from the sequence of their books …, the text of what is read among them, I mean the book, and it is as follows:
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: Epiphanius introduces a verbatim extract from a Valentinian book.
- The edition marks a gap (*).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.4.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-4-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 31, chapter 5
31.5.1Holl GCS 25/31:390
5. Παρὰ φρονίμοις, παρὰ δὲ ψυχικοῖς, παρὰ δὲ σαρκικοῖς, παρὰ δὲ κοσμικοῖς παρὰ δὲ τῷ Μεγέθει * νοῦς ἀκατάργητος τοῖς ἀκαταργήτοις χαίρειν.
5. Para phronimois, para de psychikois, para de sarkikois, para de kosmikois para de tǭ Megethei * nous akatargētos tois akatargētois chairein.
"To the wise, to the psychics, to the fleshly, to the worldly, from the Greatness …: an indestructible mind to the indestructible ones, greeting.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Valentinian letter opens with its greeting.
- 31.5.1–31.6.10: a Valentinian didactic letter quoted by Epiphanius; no separate work id exists. The edition marks a gap (*).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.5.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-5-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.5.2Holl GCS 25/31:390
Ἀνονομάστων ἐγὼ καὶ ἀρρήτων καὶ ὐπερουρανίων μνείαν ποιοῦμαι μυστηρίων πρὸς ὑμᾶς, οὔτε ἀρχαῖς οὔτε ἐξουσίαις οὔτε ὑποταγαῖς οὔτε πάσῃ συγχύσει περινοηθῆναι δυναμέ΄νων, μόνῃ δὲ τῇ τοῦ Ἀτρέπτου ἐννοίᾳ πεφανερωμένων.
Anonomastōn egō kai arrētōn kai yperouraniōn mneian poioumai mystēriōn pros hymas, oute archais oute exousiais oute hypotagais oute pasę̄ synchysei perinoēthēnai dyname΄nōn, monę̄ de tę̄ tou Atreptou ennoią pephanerōmenōn.
I make mention to you of mysteries that are nameless, ineffable and above the heavens, which cannot be comprehended by principalities, or powers, or subordinates, or any confusion, but have been revealed only to the thought of the Unchangeable.
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Summary: The writer claims to reveal ineffable mysteries known only to the Unchangeable's thought.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.5.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-5-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.5.3Holl GCS 25/31:390
ὅτε γὰρ > ἀρχῆς ὁ Αὐτοπάτωρ αὐτὸς ἐν ἐαυτῷ περιεῖχε τὰ πάντα, ὄντα ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἐν ἀγνωσίᾳ, ὃν καλοῦσί τινες Αἰῶνα ἀγήρατον ἀεὶ νεάζοντα, ἀρρενόθηλυν, ὃς πάντοτε περιέχει τὰ πάντα καὶ οὐκ περιέχεται, τότε ἡ ἐν αὐτῷ Ἔννοια ἠθέλησεν —
hote gar > archēs ho Autopatōr autos en eautǭ perieiche ta panta, onta en heautǭ en agnōsią, hon kalousi tines Aiōna agēraton aei neazonta, arrenothēlyn, hos pantote periechei ta panta kai ouk periechetai, tote hē en autǭ Ennoia ēthelēsen —
For when in the beginning the Self-Father himself contained all things within himself, which were in him in unknowing (whom some call the ageless, ever-young Aeon, male-female, who always contains all things and is not contained), then the Thought within him willed —
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Summary: In the beginning the Self-Father contained all things, and his Thought willed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Garbled word in the digital text; the sense requires 'is contained'.): ἐνπερειέχεται → περιέχεται.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.5.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:390; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-5-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.5.4Holl GCS 25/31:390–391
ἐχείνη, ἣν τινες Ἔν- Σιγὴν προσηγόρευσαν, ὅτι διʼ ἐνθυμήσεως χωρὶς λόγου τὰ ἅπαντα τὸ Μέγεθος ἐτελείωσεν —
echeinē, hēn tines En- Sigēn prosēgoreusan, hoti diʼ enthymēseōs chōris logou ta hapanta to Megethos eteleiōsen —
that Thought whom some have called Silence, because the Greatness perfected all things by reflection without speech —
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Summary: The Thought is also called Silence.
- Ἔν- (for Ἔννοιαν) is broken off in the digital text.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.5.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:390–391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-5-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.5.5Holl GCS 25/31:391
ὡς οὖν προεῖπον, ἠ ἄφθαρτος > αἰώνια βουληθεῖσα δεσμὰ ῥῆξαι ἐθήλυνε τὸ Μέγεθος ἐπʼ ὀρέξει ἀναπαύσεως αὐτοῦ. καὶ αὕτη μιγεῖσα ἀνέδειξε τὸν Πατέρα τῆς ἀληθείας, ὃν οἰκείως οἱ τέλειοι Ἀνθρωπον ὠνόμασαν, ὅτι ἦι ἀντίτυπος τοῦ προόντος Ἀγεννήτου.
hōs oun proeipon, ē aphthartos > aiōnia boulētheisa desma rhēxai ethēlyne to Megethos epʼ orexei anapauseōs autou. kai hautē migeisa anedeixe ton Patera tēs alētheias, hon oikeiōs hoi teleioi Anthrōpon ōnomasan, hoti ēi antitypos tou proontos Agennētou.
as I said, the imperishable [Thought], wishing to break the eternal bonds, made the Greatness female through its desire for rest. And she, having united with him, brought forth the Father of Truth, whom the perfect fittingly named Man, because he was the counterpart of the pre-existent Unbegotten.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: Thought united with the Greatness and brought forth the Father of Truth, called Man.
- The edition marks a gap.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.5.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-5-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.5.6Holl GCS 25/31:391–392
μετὰ τοῦτο δὲ ἡ Σιγή, φυσικὴν ἐνότητα Φωτὸς προενεγκαμένη σὺν τῷ Ἀνθρώπῳ ἦν δὲ αὐτῶν ἡ συνέλευσις τὸ θέλειν), καὶ] ἀναδείκνυσι τὴν Ἀλήθειαν. Ἀλήθεια δὲ ὐπὸ τῶν τελείων οἰκείως ὠνομάσθη, ὅτι ἀληθῶς ὁμοία ἦν τῇ ἐαυτῆς μητρὶ Σιγῇ, τῆς Σιγῆς τοῦτο βουληθείσης, ἀπομερισμὸν φύτων τοῦ τε ἄρρενος καὶ τῆς θηλείας ἴσον εἶναι, ὅπως διʼ ἑαυτῶν καὶ ἡ ἐν αὐτοῖς * φανερωθῇ τοῖς ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐν αὐτῷ] εἰς αἰσθη- τικὰ φῶτα μερισθεῖσι.
meta touto de hē Sigē, physikēn enotēta Phōtos proenenkamenē syn tǭ Anthrōpǭ ēn de autōn hē syneleusis to thelein), kai] anadeiknysi tēn Alētheian. Alētheia de ypo tōn teleiōn oikeiōs ōnomasthē, hoti alēthōs homoia ēn tę̄ eautēs mētri Sigę̄, tēs Sigēs touto boulētheisēs, apomerismon phytōn tou te arrenos kai tēs thēleias ison einai, hopōs diʼ heautōn kai hē en autois * phanerōthę̄ tois ex autōn en autǭ] eis aisthē- tika phōta meristheisi.
After this Silence, bringing forth a natural unity of Light with Man (their coming together was the act of will), brings forth Truth. Truth was fittingly so named by the perfect because she was truly like her own mother Silence, since Silence willed this: that the distribution of lights, male and female, should be equal, so that through them … too might be manifested to those who come from them, divided into perceptible lights.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: Silence and Man brought forth Truth, like her mother.
- The edition marks a gap (*); φύτων ('growths') seems to stand for φώτων ('lights'). Stray brackets are left untranslated.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.5.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:391–392; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-5-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.5.7Holl GCS 25/31:392
μετὰ τοῦτο ἡ Ἀλήθεια μητρικὴν προενεγκαμένη προυνικίαν ἐθήλυνε τὸν Πατέρα ἑαυτῆς εἰς ἑαυτὴν καὶ συνῄεσαν ἐαυτοῖς ἀφθάρτῳ μίξει καί ἀγηράτῳ συγκράσει καὶ ἀναδεικνύ<ου>σι τετράδα ἀρρενόθηλυν, ἀντίτυπον τῆς προούσης τετράδος ἥτις ἦν Βυθὸς Σιγὴ Πατὴρ Ἀλήθεια). αὕτη δὲ ἡ ἐκ τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τῆς Ἀληθείας τετράς· Ἀνθρωπος Ἐκκλησία Λόγος Ζωή.
meta touto hē Alētheia mētrikēn proenenkamenē prounikian ethēlyne ton Patera heautēs eis heautēn kai synę̄esan eautois aphthartǭ mixei kai agēratǭ synkrasei kai anadeikny<ou>si tetrada arrenothēlyn, antitypon tēs proousēs tetrados hētis ēn Bythos Sigē Patēr Alētheia). hautē de hē ek tou Patros kai tēs Alētheias tetras; Anthrōpos Ekklēsia Logos Zōē.
After this Truth, putting forth her mother's wantonness, made her Father female towards herself, and they came together in imperishable mixture and ageless blending and bring forth a male-female tetrad, the counterpart of the pre-existent tetrad (which was Depth, Silence, Father, Truth). This is the tetrad from the Father and Truth: Man, Church, Word, Life.
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Summary: Truth and the Father produce a second tetrad: Man, Church, Word, Life.
- προυνικία ('wantonness', 'lustful impulse') is a Gnostic technical term.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; the term is προυνικία, as elsewhere in the passage.): παρουνικίαν → προυνικίαν.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.5.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:392; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-5-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.5.8Holl GCS 25/31:392
τότε τοῦ πάντα περιέχοντος Βυθοῦ θελήματι ὁ Ἀνθρωπος καὶ ἠ Ἐκκλησία πατρικῶν μνησθέντες λόγων συνῄεσαν ἑαυτοῖς καὶ ἀναδεικνύουσι δωδεκάδα προυνίκων >. οἶ οὖν ἄρρενές εἰσι· Παράκλητος Πατρικὸς Μητρικὸς Ἀείνους 10 Θελητός, ὅ ἐστι Φῶς, Ἐκκλησιαστικός, αἱ δὲ θήλειαι· Πίστις Ἐλπίς Ἀγάπη Σύνεσις Μακαρία Σοφία.
tote tou panta periechontos Bythou thelēmati ho Anthrōpos kai ē Ekklēsia patrikōn mnēsthentes logōn synę̄esan heautois kai anadeiknyousi dōdekada prounikōn >. oi oun arrenes eisi; Paraklētos Patrikos Mētrikos Aeinous 10 Thelētos, ho esti Phōs, Ekklēsiastikos, hai de thēleiai; Pistis Elpis Agapē Synesis Makaria Sophia.
Then, by the will of Depth who contains all things, Man and Church, remembering their Father's words, came together and bring forth a dodecad of wanton [aeons] … The males are: Paraclete, Paternal, Maternal, Ever-Mind, Willed (that is, Light), Ecclesiastical; the females: Faith, Hope, Love, Understanding, Blessed, Wisdom.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Man and Church produce a group of twelve aeons.
- The edition marks a gap; a stray line number '10' in the digital text is left untranslated.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Repeated word where the article is required.): τότε τότε πάντα → τότε τοῦ πάντα.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.5.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:392; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-5-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.5.9Holl GCS 25/31:392
μετέπειτα Τε Λόγος καὶ Ζωή, καὶ αὐτοὶ τὸ τῆς ἑνώσεως μεταπλάσαντες δώρημα, ἑαυτοῖς ἐκοινώνησαν ἦν δὲ ἡ κοινωνία αὐτῶν τὸ θέλημα) καὶ συνελθόντες ἀνεδείξαντο δεκάδα προυνίκων καὶ αὐτῶν ἀρρενοθηλύντων. οἱ μὲν ἄρρενές εἰσι· βύθιος Ἀγήρατος Αὐτοφυὴς Μονογενὴς Ἀκίνητος οὗτοι τὴν προσωνυμίαν > τὴν δόξαν τοῦ πάντα περιέχοντος εποιήσαντο), αἱ δὲ θήλειαι· Μῖξις Ἕνωσις Σύγκρασις Ἑνότης Ἡδονή, καὶ οὗται τὴν προσωνυμίαν εἰς δόξαν τῆς Σιγῆς πιριεποιήσαντο.
metepeita Te Logos kai Zōē, kai autoi to tēs henōseōs metaplasantes dōrēma, heautois ekoinōnēsan ēn de hē koinōnia autōn to thelēma) kai synelthontes anedeixanto dekada prounikōn kai autōn arrenothēlyntōn. hoi men arrenes eisi; bythios Agēratos Autophyēs Monogenēs Akinētos houtoi tēn prosōnymian > tēn doxan tou panta periechontos epoiēsanto), hai de thēleiai; Mixis Henōsis Synkrasis Henotēs Hēdonē, kai houtai tēn prosōnymian eis doxan tēs Sigēs piriepoiēsanto.
Afterwards Word and Life, they too transforming the gift of union, entered into fellowship with each other (their fellowship was the act of will), and coming together they brought forth a decad of wanton [aeons], they too male-female. The males are: Deep, Ageless, Self-grown, Only-begotten, Unmoved (these took their names … the glory of the one who contains all things); the females: Mixture, Union, Blending, Unity, Pleasure (and these took their names for the glory of Silence).
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Summary: Word and Life produce a group of ten aeons.
- The edition marks a gap.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.5.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:392; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-5-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 31, chapter 6
31.6.1Holl GCS 25/31:392–393
6. Τετελειωμένης οὖν τῆς κατὰ Πατέρα Ἀληθείας τριακάδος, ἣν οἱ ἐπίγειοι μὴ ἐπιστάμενοι ἀριθμοῦσι καὶ ὁπόταν ἔλθωσιν ἐπʼ αὐτὴν, μηκέτι ἀριθμὸν εὑρίσκοντες ἀνακυκλοῦσι, πάλιν ἀριθμοῦντες αὐτὴν — ἔστι δὲ Βυθὸς Σιγὴ Πατὴρ Ἀλήθεια Ἄνθρωπος Ἐκκλησία Λόγος Ζωὴ Παράκλητος Πατρικὸς Μητρικὸς Ἀείνους Θελητὸς Ἐκκλησιαστικὸς Πίστις ἐλπὶς Ἀγάπη Σύνεσις Μακαρία Σοφία Βύθιος Ἀγήρατος Αὐτοφυὴς Μονογενὴς Ἀκίνητος Μῖξις Ἕνωσις Σύγκρασις Ἑνότης Ἡδονὴ —,
6. Teteleiōmenēs oun tēs kata Patera Alētheias triakados, hēn hoi epigeioi mē epistamenoi arithmousi kai hopotan elthōsin epʼ autēn, mēketi arithmon heuriskontes anakyklousi, palin arithmountes autēn — esti de Bythos Sigē Patēr Alētheia Anthrōpos Ekklēsia Logos Zōē Paraklētos Patrikos Mētrikos Aeinous Thelētos Ekklēsiastikos Pistis elpis Agapē Synesis Makaria Sophia Bythios Agēratos Autophyēs Monogenēs Akinētos Mixis Henōsis Synkrasis Henotēs Hēdonē —,
When, therefore, the Triacontad of Truth according to the Father had been completed (which those on earth, not knowing, count, and when they come to it, finding no further number, turn back in a circle and count it again) — it is Depth, Silence, Father, Truth, Man, Church, Word, Life, Paraclete, Paternal, Maternal, Ever-Mind, Willed, Ecclesiastical, Faith, Hope, Love, Understanding, Blessed, Wisdom, Deep, Ageless, Self-grown, Only-begotten, Unmoved, Mixture, Union, Blending, Unity, Pleasure —
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Summary: The thirty aeons are complete and are listed again.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.6.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:392–393; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-6-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.6.2Holl GCS 25/31:393
τότε ὁ τὰ πάντα περιέχων συνέσιε τῇ ἀνυπερβλήτῳ δογματίσας τε κληθῆναι ἑτέραν Ὀγδοάδα ἀντί τῆς προούσης αὐθεντικῆς Ὀγδοάδος, ἥτις ἐν τῷ ἀριθμῷ τῆς Τρια κάδος μείνῃ οὐ γὰρ ἦν Μεγέθους φρόνημα δἱς ἀριθμὸν πίπτειν), ἀντέστησεν ἀντὶ τῶν ἀρρένων τοὺς ἄρρενας· Μόνον Τρίτον Πέμπτον Ἕβδομον καὶ τὰς θηλείας· Δυάδα Τετράδα Ἑξάδα Ὀγδοάδα.
tote ho ta panta periechōn synesie tę̄ anyperblētǭ dogmatisas te klēthēnai heteran Ogdoada anti tēs proousēs authentikēs Ogdoados, hētis en tǭ arithmǭ tēs Tria kados meinę̄ ou gar ēn Megethous phronēma dis arithmon piptein), antestēsen anti tōn arrenōn tous arrenas; Monon Triton Pempton Hebdomon kai tas thēleias; Dyada Tetrada Hexada Ogdoada.
then he who contains all things, having decreed with unsurpassable understanding that another Ogdoad should be called in place of the pre-existent original Ogdoad, which was to remain in the number of the Triacontad (for it was not the Greatness's mind that a number should fall twice), set up males in place of the males: One, Third, Fifth, Seventh; and the females: Dyad, Tetrad, Hexad, Ogdoad.
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Summary: A second Ogdoad of numbers replaces the first.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.6.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:393; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-6-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.6.3Holl GCS 25/31:393
αὕτη οὖν ἡ Ὀγδοάς ἐστιν], ἡ ἀντικληθεῖσα ἀντὶ τῆς προούσης Ὀγδοάδος Βυθοῦ Πατρὸς Ἀνθρώπου Λὁγου καὶ Σιγῆς Ἀληθείας ἐκκλησίας Ζωῆς), ἡνώθη τοῖς φωσὶ καὶ ἐγένετο Τριακὰς ἀπηρτισμένη.
hautē oun hē Ogdoas estin], hē antiklētheisa anti tēs proousēs Ogdoados Bythou Patros Anthrōpou Logou kai Sigēs Alētheias ekklēsias Zōēs), hēnōthē tois phōsi kai egeneto Triakas apērtismenē.
This Ogdoad, then, called in place of the pre-existent Ogdoad (of Depth, Father, Man, Word, and Silence, Truth, Church, Life), was united with the lights, and the Triacontad was made complete.
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Summary: The substitute Ogdoad joins the lights and completes the thirty.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.6.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:393; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-6-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.6.4Holl GCS 25/31:393–394
καὶ > ἡ προοῦσα Ὀγδοὰς ἀναπαυομένη. ὁ δὲ Βυθὸς ἐξῆλθεν Μεγέθους στηρίγματι ἑνωθῆναι τῇ Τριακάδι· συνῄει γὰρ τῇ Ἀληθείᾳ καὶ ὁ Πατὴρ τῆς Ἀληθείας συνήρχετο τῇ ἐκκλησίᾶ καὶ ὁ Μητρικὸς εἶχε τὴν Ζνὴνν καὶ ὁ Παράκλητος τὴν Ἑνάδα καὶ ἡ Ἑνὰς ἡνοῦτο τῷ Πατρὶ τῆς Ἀληθείας καὶ ὁ Πατὴρ τῆς Ἀληθείας ἦν μετὰ τῆς Σιγῆς, ὁ Λόγος δὲ ὁ πνευματικὸς ἐκοινώνει * πνευματικῇ μίξει καὶ ἀφθάρτῳ συγκράσει, ποιοῦντος τὸ τέλος τοῦ Αὐτοπάτορος ἀδιχοτόμητον ἡ οὖν Τριακὰς ἀπαρτίσασα βυθια μυστήρια,
kai > hē proousa Ogdoas anapauomenē. ho de Bythos exēlthen Megethous stērigmati henōthēnai tę̄ Triakadi; synę̄ei gar tę̄ Alētheią kai ho Patēr tēs Alētheias synērcheto tę̄ ekklēsia kai ho Mētrikos eiche tēn Znēnn kai ho Paraklētos tēn Henada kai hē Henas hēnouto tǭ Patri tēs Alētheias kai ho Patēr tēs Alētheias ēn meta tēs Sigēs, ho Logos de ho pneumatikos ekoinōnei * pneumatikę̄ mixei kai aphthartǭ synkrasei, poiountos to telos tou Autopatoros adichotomēton hē oun Triakas apartisasa bythia mystēria,
And … the pre-existent Ogdoad resting. But Depth went out, by the support of the Greatness, to be united with the Triacontad: for he came together with Truth, and the Father of Truth came together with the Church, and Maternal had Life, and the Paraclete the Henad, and the Henad was united with the Father of Truth, and the Father of Truth was with Silence, and the spiritual Word had fellowship … in spiritual mixture and imperishable blending, the Self-Father making the end undivided. The Triacontad, therefore, having completed deep mysteries,
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Summary: The aeons of the Triacontad unite in pairs in spiritual union.
- The edition marks gaps; the pairings are confused in the text and are translated as they stand. Ζνὴνν is read as Ζωήν ('Life').
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.6.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:393–394; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-6-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.6.5Holl GCS 25/31:394
τελειώσασα γάμον ἐν ἀφθάρτοις ἀνέδειξε φῶτα ἄφθαρτα, ἅτινα Μεσότητος ὡνομάσθησαν τέκνα καὶ ἀχαρακτήριστα ἦσαν, τοῦ νοϊκοῦ μὴ παρακειμένου, ἐκτὸς φρονήσεως ἀναπαυόμενα χωρὶς Ἐννοίας. περὶ γὰρ οὗ τις πράσσει, ἐὰν μὴ νοῇ καθολικῶς, οὐ πράσσει.
teleiōsasa gamon en aphthartois anedeixe phōta aphtharta, hatina Mesotētos hōnomasthēsan tekna kai acharaktērista ēsan, tou noïkou mē parakeimenou, ektos phronēseōs anapauomena chōris Ennoias. peri gar hou tis prassei, ean mē noę̄ katholikōs, ou prassei.
having completed a marriage among the imperishable ones, brought forth imperishable lights, which were named children of the Middle; they were without character, since the intellectual was not present, resting outside understanding, without Thought. For whoever does something, if he does not understand it wholly, does not do it.
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Summary: The union produced formless lights called children of the Middle.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.6.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:394; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-6-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.6.6Holl GCS 25/31:394
τότε γενομένων τῶν φύτων, ὧν τὴν πολυπληθίαν πρὸς ἀριθμὸν ἐξειπεῖν οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον, περινοεῖν δὲ ἕκαστον γὰρ τὸ ἴδιον ὄνομα κεκλήρωται διʼ ἐπίγνωσιν ἀρρήτων μυστηρίων),
tote genomenōn tōn phytōn, hōn tēn polyplēthian pros arithmon exeipein ouk anankaion, perinoein de hekaston gar to idion onoma keklērōtai diʼ epignōsin arrētōn mystēriōn),
Then, when the growths had come into being, whose multitude it is not necessary to state by number, but to understand (for each has been allotted its own name for the knowledge of ineffable mysteries),
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Summary: Countless further beings came into being, each with its own name.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.6.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:394; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-6-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.6.7Holl GCS 25/31:394–395
ἡ οὖν Σιγὴ ουληθεῖσα εἰς ἐκλογὴν γνώσεως ἅπαντα σῶσαι συνῆγε τῇ δευτέρᾶ ἀντιτεθείσῃ Ὀγδοάδι ἀφθάρτῳ μίξει, νοϊκῇ δὲ βουλήσει· ἦν δὲ αὐτῆς ἡ νοϊκὴ βούλησις Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιιον, τὸ ἐν μέσῳ τῶν ἁγίων ἐκκλησιῶν. τοῦτο οὖν εἰς τὴν δευτέραν Ὀγδοάδα πέμψασα ἔπεισε καὶ αὐτὴν ἑνωθῆναι αὐτῇ. γάμος οὖν ἐτελειοῦτο ἐν τοῖς τῆς Ὀγδοάδος μέρεσιν,
hē oun Sigē oulētheisa eis eklogēn gnōseōs hapanta sōsai synēge tę̄ deutera antitetheisę̄ Ogdoadi aphthartǭ mixei, noïkę̄ de boulēsei; ēn de autēs hē noïkē boulēsis Pneuma to hagiion, to en mesǭ tōn hagiōn ekklēsiōn. touto oun eis tēn deuteran Ogdoada pempsasa epeise kai autēn henōthēnai autę̄. gamos oun eteleiouto en tois tēs Ogdoados meresin,
Silence, wishing to save all for the election of knowledge, came together with the second, substituted Ogdoad in imperishable mixture, but by intellectual will; and her intellectual will was the Holy Spirit, which is in the midst of the holy churches. Having sent this into the second Ogdoad, she persuaded it too to be united with her. So a marriage was completed in the parts of the Ogdoad,
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Summary: Silence joined the second Ogdoad through her will, the Holy Spirit.
- The Valentinian use of 'Holy Spirit' is reported as Epiphanius quotes it.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.6.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:394–395; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-6-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.6.8Holl GCS 25/31:395
ἑνουμένου τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος τῷ Μόνῳ καὶ τῆς Δυάδος τῷ Τρίτῳ καὶ τοῦ Τρίτου τῇ Ἐξάδι καὶ τῆς Ὀγδοάδος τῷ Ἑβδόμῳ καὶ τοῦ Ἑβδόμου τῇ Δυάδι καὶ τῆς Ἑξάδος τῷ Πέμπτῳ.
henoumenou tou hagiou Pneumatos tǭ Monǭ kai tēs Dyados tǭ Tritǭ kai tou Tritou tę̄ Exadi kai tēs Ogdoados tǭ Hebdomǭ kai tou Hebdomou tę̄ Dyadi kai tēs Hexados tǭ Pemptǭ.
the Holy Spirit being united with the One, the Dyad with the Third, the Third with the Hexad, the Ogdoad with the Seventh, the Seventh with the Dyad, and the Hexad with the Fifth.
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Summary: The members of the second Ogdoad are paired.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.6.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:395; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-6-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.6.9Holl GCS 25/31:395
ὅλη δὲ ἡ Ὀγδοὰς συνῆλθε μετὰ ἡδονῆς ἀγηράτου καὶ ἀφθάρτου μίξεως οὐ γὰρ ἦν χωρισμὸς ἀλλήλων· ἦν δὲ σύγκρασις μεθʼ ἡδονῆς ἀμώμου) καὶ ἀνέδειξε πεντάδα προυνίκων ἀθηλύντων, ὧν | τὰ ἀνόματά ἐστι ταῦτα· Καρπιστὴς Ὁροθέτης Χαριστήριος Ἄφετος Μεταγωγεύς. οὗτοι τῆς Μεσότητος ὠνομέσθησαν υἱοί.
holē de hē Ogdoas synēlthe meta hēdonēs agēratou kai aphthartou mixeōs ou gar ēn chōrismos allēlōn; ēn de synkrasis methʼ hēdonēs amōmou) kai anedeixe pentada prounikōn athēlyntōn, hōn | ta anomata esti tauta; Karpistēs Horothetēs Charistērios Aphetos Metagōgeus. houtoi tēs Mesotētos ōnomesthēsan huioi.
The whole Ogdoad came together with ageless pleasure and imperishable mixture (for there was no separation from one another, but a blending with blameless pleasure) and brought forth a pentad of wanton [aeons] that are not female, whose names are these: Fruit-bearer, Limit-setter, Giver-of-thanks, Released, Transferrer. These were named sons of the Middle.
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Summary: The Ogdoad produced five male beings, the sons of the Middle.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.6.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:395; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-6-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.6.10Holl GCS 25/31:395
βούλομαι δὲ ὁμᾶς γβνώσκειν· Ἀμψίου Ἀὑραὰν βουκοῦα Θαρδουοῦ Οὐβουκοῦα Θαρρδεδδειν Μερεξὰ Ἀταραὰ Βαρβὰ Οὐδυάκ] Ἔστὴν Οὐδουουὰκ Ἐσλὴν] ἀμφαὶν Ἐσσουμὲν] Οὐανατάρδε Λαμερτάρδε Ἀθαμὲς Σουμὶνʼ Ἀλλωραὶ Κουβιαθὰ Δαναδαρία Δαμμὼ Ὠρὴν Λαναφὲκ Οὐδινφὲκ Ἐμφιβοχὲ Βάρρα Ἀσσίου Ἀχὲ Βελὶμ Δεξαριχὲ Μασεμών. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἀπὸ μέρους Ε; τῶν βιβλίων αὐτῶν παρατεθέντα ἕως ὧδέ μοι εἰρήσθω.
boulomai de homas gbnōskein; Ampsiou Hauraan boukoua Thardouou Ouboukoua Tharrdeddein Merexa Ataraa Barba Oudyak] Estēn Oudououak Eslēn] amphain Essoumen] Ouanatarde Lamertarde Athames Souminʼ Allōrai Koubiatha Danadaria Dammō Ōrēn Lanaphek Oudinphek Emphiboche Barra Assiou Ache Belim Dexariche Masemōn. Kai tauta men apo merous E? tōn bibliōn autōn paratethenta heōs hōde moi eirēsthō.
I want you to know: Ampsiu, Auraan, Bukua, Thardu-u, Ubukua, Thardeddein, Merexa, Ataraa, Barba, Uduak, Esten, Uduuak, Eslen, Amphain, Essumen, Uanatarde, Lamertarde, Athames, Sumin, Allorai, Kubiatha, Danadaria, Dammo, Oren, Lanaphek, Udinphek, Emphiboche, Barra, Assiu, Ache, Belim, Dexariche, Masemon." Let these things, set out in part from their books, be enough for me so far.
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Summary: The letter ends with the barbarous names; Epiphanius closes the extract.
- 'Ε;' in the digital text is apparatus residue and is left untranslated.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.6.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:395; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-6-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 31, chapter 7
31.7.1Holl GCS 25/31:395–396
Ἐποιήσατο δὲ οὗτος τὸ κήρυγμα καὶ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, ὅθεν δὴ καὶ ὡς λείψανα ἐχίδνης ὀστέων ἔτι ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ περιλείπεται τούτου ἡ σπορά, ἔν τε τῷ Ἀθριβίτῃ καὶ Προσωπίτῃ καὶ Ἀρσινοΐτῃ καὶ Θηβαΐδι καὶ τοῖς κάτω μέρεσι τῆς Παραλίας καὶ Ἀλεξανδρειοπολίτῃ· ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν Ῥώμῃ ἀνελθὼν κεκήρυχεν.
Epoiēsato de houtos to kērygma kai en Aigyptǭ, hothen dē kai hōs leipsana echidnēs osteōn eti en Aigyptǭ perileipetai toutou hē spora, en te tǭ Athribitę̄ kai Prosōpitę̄ kai Arsinoïtę̄ kai Thēbaïdi kai tois katō meresi tēs Paralias kai Alexandreiopolitę̄; alla kai en Rhōmę̄ anelthōn kekērychen.
He also preached in Egypt, so that his seed still survives in Egypt like the remains of a viper's bones, in the Athribite, Prosopite, Arsinoite and Thebaid nomes, in the lower parts of the coastal region, and in the Alexandrian nome. He also went up to Rome and preached.
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Summary: Valentinus preached in Egypt, where his followers remain, and in Rome.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.7.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:395–396; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-7-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.7.2Holl GCS 25/31:396
εἰς Κύπρον δὲ ἐληλυθώς, †ὡς ναυάγιον ὑποστὰς φύσει σωματικῶς, τῆς πίστεως ἐξέστη καὶ τὸν νοῦν ἐξετράπη. ἐνομίζετο γὰρ πρὸ τούτου μέρος ἔχειν εὐσεβείας καὶ ὀρθῆς πίστεως ἐν τοῖς προειρημένοις τόποις. ἐν δὲ τῇ Κύπρῳ λοιπὸν εἰς ἔσχατον ἀσεβείας ἐλήλακεν καὶ ἐβάθυνεν ἑαυτὸν ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ καταγγελλομένῃ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ μοχθηρίᾳ.
eis Kypron de elēlythōs, †hōs nauagion hypostas physei sōmatikōs, tēs pisteōs exestē kai ton noun exetrapē. enomizeto gar pro toutou meros echein eusebeias kai orthēs pisteōs en tois proeirēmenois topois. en de tę̄ Kyprǭ loipon eis eschaton asebeias elēlaken kai ebathynen heauton en tautę̄ tę̄ katangellomenę̄ hypʼ autou mochthērią.
But when he came to Cyprus, … having suffered shipwreck, as it were, in nature bodily, he departed from the faith and turned his mind aside. For before this he was thought to have some share of piety and right faith in the places mentioned. But in Cyprus he finally went to the extreme of impiety and sank himself in this wickedness that he proclaimed.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: In Cyprus Valentinus fell from the faith into full impiety.
- The edition marks the phrase 'as having suffered shipwreck … bodily' as corrupt (†).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.7.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:396; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-7-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.7.3Holl GCS 25/31:396
λέγει δὲ αὐτός τε καὶ οἱ αὐτοῦ τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, ὡς ἔφην, καὶ Σωτῆρα καὶ Χριστὸν καὶ Λόγον καὶ Σταυρὸν καὶ Μεταγωέα καὶ Ὁροθέτην καὶ Ὅρον.
legei de autos te kai hoi autou ton kyrion hēmōn Iēsoun Christon, hōs ephēn, kai Sōtēra kai Christon kai Logon kai Stauron kai Metagōea kai Horothetēn kai Horon.
He and his followers call our Lord Jesus Christ, as I said, Saviour and Christ and Word and Cross and Transferrer and Limit-setter and Limit.
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Summary: The Valentinians give Christ several titles, including Cross and Limit.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.7.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:396; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-7-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.7.4Holl GCS 25/31:396
φασὶ δὲ ἄνωθεν κατενηνοχέναι τὸ σῶμα καὶ ὡς διὰ σωλῆνος ὕδωρ διὰ Μαρίας τῆς παρθένου διεληλυθέναι, μηδὲν δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς παρθενικῆς μήτρας ἐιληφέναι, ἀλλὰ ἄνωθεν τὸ σῶμα ἔχειν, ὡς προεῖπον.
phasi de anōthen katenēnochenai to sōma kai hōs dia sōlēnos hydōr dia Marias tēs parthenou dielēlythenai, mēden de apo tēs parthenikēs mētras eilēphenai, alla anōthen to sōma echein, hōs proeipon.
They say that he brought his body down from above and passed through the virgin Mary like water through a pipe, taking nothing from the virgin's womb but having his body from above, as I said before.
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Summary: They say Christ's body came from heaven and took nothing from Mary.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): φαοὶ δὲ → φασὶ δὲ.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.7.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:396; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-7-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.7.5Holl GCS 25/31:396
μὴ εἶναι δὲ αὐτὸν τὸν πρῶτον Λόγον μηδὲ τὸν μετὰ τὸν Λόγον Χριστὸν τὸν τὸν ὄντα ἐν τοῖς ἄνω Αἰῶσι, ἀλλὰ τοῦτον φάσκουσι προβεβλῆσθαι διʼ οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἢ μόνον εἰς τὸ ἐλθεῖν καὶ ἀνασῶσαι τὸ γένος τὸ ἄνωθεν πνευματικόν.
mē einai de auton ton prōton Logon mēde ton meta ton Logon Christon ton ton onta en tois anō Aiōsi, alla touton phaskousi probeblēsthai diʼ ouden heteron ē monon eis to elthein kai anasōsai to genos to anōthen pneumatikon.
He is not, they say, the first Word, nor the Christ after the Word who is in the Aeons above, but they declare that this one was emitted for no other reason than to come and save the spiritual race from above.
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Summary: The saviour is distinct from the higher Word and Christ and came to save the spiritual race.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.7.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:396; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-7-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.7.6Holl GCS 25/31:396–397
τὴν δὲ τῶν νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν ἀπαρνοῦνται, φάσκοντές τι μυθῶδες καὶ ληρῶδες, μὴ τὸ σῶμα τοῦτο ἀνίστασθαι, ἀλλʼ ἕτερον μὲν ἐξ αὐτοῦ, ὃ δὴ πνευματικὸν καλοῦσι· μόνων δὲ ἐκείνων παρʼ αὐτοῖς πνευματικῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων <τῶν> ψυχικῶν ἐάν γε οἱ ψυχικοὶ δικαιοπραγήσειαν, τοὺς δὲ ὑλικοὺς καὶ σαρκικοὺς καὶ γηΐνους καλουμένους παντάπασιν ἀπόλλυσθαι καὶ μηδʼ ὅλως σῴζεσθαι.
tēn de tōn nekrōn anastasin aparnountai, phaskontes ti mythōdes kai lērōdes, mē to sōma touto anistasthai, allʼ heteron men ex autou, ho dē pneumatikon kalousi; monōn de ekeinōn parʼ autois pneumatikōn kai tōn allōn <tōn> psychikōn ean ge hoi psychikoi dikaiopragēseian, tous de hylikous kai sarkikous kai gēïnous kaloumenous pantapasin apollysthai kai mēdʼ holōs sǭzesthai.
They deny the resurrection of the dead, saying something mythical and silly: that it is not this body that rises, but another from it, which they call spiritual. [Salvation belongs] only to those among them who are spiritual, and to the others, the psychics, if the psychics act justly; but those called material, fleshly and earthly perish altogether and are not saved at all.
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Summary: The Valentinians deny the resurrection of the body and say only spiritual and righteous psychic people are saved.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): μυ- θῶδες → μυθῶδες.
Topics: Heresy, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.7.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:396–397; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-7-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.7.7Holl GCS 25/31:397
χωρεῖν δὲ ἑκάστην οὐσίαν πρὸς τοὺς ἰδίους αὐτῆς προβολέας, τὴν μὲν ὑλικὴν τῇ ὕλῃ ἐκδιδομένην καὶ τὸ σαρκικὸν καἰ γήϊνον τῇ γῇ.
chōrein de hekastēn ousian pros tous idious autēs proboleas, tēn men hylikēn tę̄ hylę̄ ekdidomenēn kai to sarkikon kai gēïnon tę̄ gę̄.
Each substance, they say, goes back to those who emitted it: the material is handed over to matter, and the fleshly and earthly to the earth.
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Summary: Each kind of substance returns to its source.
Topics: Heresy, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.7.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:397; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-7-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.7.8Holl GCS 25/31:397
τρία γὰρ τάγματα βούλονται εἰναι ἀνθρώπων, πνευματικῶν ψυχικῶν σαρκικῶν, τὸ δὲ τάγμα τὸ πνευματικὸν ἑαυτοῦς λέγουσιν, ὥσπερ καὶ γνωστικούς, καὶ μήτε καμάτου ἐπιδεομένους ἢ μόνον τῆς γνώσεως καὶ τῶν ἐπιρρημάτων τῶν αὐτῶν μυστηρίων. πᾶν δὲ ὁτιοῦν ποιεῖν ἀδεῶς ἕκαστον αὐτῶν καὶ μηδὲν πεφροντικέναι· ἐξ ἅπαντος γάρ φασι σωθήσεσθαι πνευματικὸν ὂν τὸ αὐτῶν τάγμα.
tria gar tagmata boulontai einai anthrōpōn, pneumatikōn psychikōn sarkikōn, to de tagma to pneumatikon heautous legousin, hōsper kai gnōstikous, kai mēte kamatou epideomenous ē monon tēs gnōseōs kai tōn epirrēmatōn tōn autōn mystēriōn. pan de hotioun poiein adeōs hekaston autōn kai mēden pephrontikenai; ex hapantos gar phasi sōthēsesthai pneumatikon on to autōn tagma.
For they hold that there are three orders of human beings, spiritual, psychic and fleshly; and the spiritual order they say is themselves, as the 'Gnostics' too [say], needing no labour but only knowledge and the formulas of their mysteries. Each of them may do anything whatever without fear and care for nothing; for, they say, their order, being spiritual, will be saved in any case.
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Summary: The Valentinians claim to be the spiritual order, saved by knowledge whatever they do.
- A hostile report; translated as Epiphanius gives it.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.7.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:397; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-7-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.7.9Holl GCS 25/31:397
τὸ δὲ ἕτερον τάγμα τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐν κόσμῳ, ὅπερ ψυχικὸν καλοῦσιν, ἐφʼ ἑαυτοῦ σῴζεσθαι μὴ δυνάμενον, εἰ μή τι ἂν καμάτῳ καὶ δικαιοπραγίᾳ ἑαυτὸ ἀνασώσειε. τὸ δὲ ὑλικὸν τάγμα τῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἀνθρώπων μήτε δύνασθαι χωρεῖν τὴν γνῶσίν φασι μήτε δέχεσθαι ταύτην, κἂν θέλοι ὁ ἐκ τούτου τοῦ τάγματος ὁρμώμενος, ἀπόλλυσθαι δὲ ἅμα σὺν] ψυχῇ καὶ σώματι.
to de heteron tagma tōn anthrōpōn en kosmǭ, hoper psychikon kalousin, ephʼ heautou sǭzesthai mē dynamenon, ei mē ti an kamatǭ kai dikaiopragią heauto anasōseie. to de hylikon tagma tōn en tǭ kosmǭ anthrōpōn mēte dynasthai chōrein tēn gnōsin phasi mēte dechesthai tautēn, kan theloi ho ek toutou tou tagmatos hormōmenos, apollysthai de hama syn] psychę̄ kai sōmati.
The other order of human beings in the world, which they call psychic, cannot be saved by itself unless it saves itself by labour and just conduct. The material order of those in the world, they say, can neither contain knowledge nor receive it, even if one who comes from this order wants to, but perishes together with soul and body.
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Summary: Psychics may be saved by effort; the material perish body and soul.
Topics: Heresy, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.7.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:397; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-7-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.7.10Holl GCS 25/31:397
τὸ δὲ ἑαυτῶν τάγμα πνευματικὸν ὂν σῷζεσθαι σὺν σώματι ἄλλῳ, ἐνδοτέρῳ τινὶ ὄντι. ὅπερ αὐτοὶ σῶμα πνευματικὸν καλοῦσι φανταζόμενοι.
to de heautōn tagma pneumatikon on sǭzesthai syn sōmati allǭ, endoterǭ tini onti. hoper autoi sōma pneumatikon kalousi phantazomenoi.
But their own order, being spiritual, is saved with another body, an inner one, which in their fancy they call a spiritual body.
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Summary: The spirituals are saved in an inner 'spiritual body'.
Topics: Heresy, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.7.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:397; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-7-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.7.11Holl GCS 25/31:397–398
τοὺς δὲ ψυχικοὺς κεκμηκότας πολὺ καὶ ὑπεραναβεβηκότας τὸν Δημιουργὸν ἄνω δοθήσεσθαι τοῖς ἀγγέλοις τοῖς ἅμα Χριστῷ οὐσιν, οὐδέν τι τῶν σωμάτων ἀνακομιζομένους, ἀλλὰ μόνον τὰς ψυχὰς ἐν πληρώματι εὑρεθείσας τῆς αὐτῶν γνώσεως καὶ τὸν Δημιουργὸν ὑπερβεβηκυίας δίδοσθαι τοῖς μετὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀγγέλοις εἰς νύμφας.
tous de psychikous kekmēkotas poly kai hyperanabebēkotas ton Dēmiourgon anō dothēsesthai tois angelois tois hama Christǭ ousin, ouden ti tōn sōmatōn anakomizomenous, alla monon tas psychas en plērōmati heuretheisas tēs autōn gnōseōs kai ton Dēmiourgon hyperbebēkuias didosthai tois meta tou Christou angelois eis nymphas.
The psychics, when they have laboured much and risen above the Demiurge, will be given above to the angels who are with Christ, taking back none of their bodies; only their souls, found in the fullness of their knowledge and having risen above the Demiurge, are given as brides to the angels with Christ.
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Summary: Righteous psychic souls, without bodies, become brides of Christ's angels.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): κεκμη- κότας → κεκμηκότας.
Topics: Heresy, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.7.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:397–398; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-7-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 31, chapter 8
31.8.1Holl GCS 25/31:398
8. Τοιαύτη ἐστὶν ἡ κατʼ αὐτοὺς τραγῳδία, ἔχουσα μὲν καὶ πλείω τούτων· ἐγὼ δὲ μόνον ἅτινα φύσει ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι ἡγησάμην εἰς τοὐμφανὲς ἐλθεῖν, ταῦθʼ ὑπηγόρευσα, ὡς ἡ εἰς ἡμᾶς † γνῶσις ἦλθεν·
8. Toiautē estin hē katʼ autous tragǭdia, echousa men kai pleiō toutōn; egō de monon hatina physei anankaion einai hēgēsamēn eis toumphanes elthein, tauthʼ hypēgoreusa, hōs hē eis hēmas † gnōsis ēlthen;
Such is their tragedy, which has even more than this. But I have dictated only what I thought necessary by nature to bring to light, as the knowledge … came to us:
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: Epiphanius has reported only what he thought necessary.
- The edition marks a corrupt place (†).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.8.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:398; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-8-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.8.2Holl GCS 25/31:398
τὸ πόθεν τε ὡρμᾶτο ἐν ποίοις δὲ καιροῖς ὑπῆρχεν καὶ ἀπὸ ποίων τὰς προφάσεις εἴληφεν καὶ τίς αὐτοῦ ἡ διδασκαλία, ἅμα τε τίσιν ἐβλάστησε τῷ βίω̣ κακόν, ἀπὸ μέρους τε, ὡς ἔφην, τῆς τούτου διδασκαλίας ἐμνημόνευσα.
to pothen te hōrmato en poiois de kairois hypērchen kai apo poiōn tas prophaseis eilēphen kai tis autou hē didaskalia, hama te tisin eblastēse tǭ biō kakon, apo merous te, hōs ephēn, tēs toutou didaskalias emnēmoneusa.
where he started from, in what times he lived, from whom he took his pretexts, what his teaching is, and with whom he sprouted as an evil in life; and I have mentioned part of his teaching, as I said.
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Summary: He has covered Valentinus's origin, date, sources and part of his teaching.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.8.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:398; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-8-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.8.3Holl GCS 25/31:398
τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ τῆς αὐτοῦ λεπτολογίας οὐκ ἐβουλήθην ἀπʼ ἐμαυτοῦ συντάξαι, εὑρὼν παρὰ τῷ ἁγιωτάτῳ Εἰρηναίῳ τῷ ἀρχαίῳ τὴν κατʼ αὐτοῦ πραγματείαν γεγενημένην. ἕως δὲ ἐνταῦθα τὰ ὀλίγα ταῦτα διεξελθών, τὰ ἐξῆς ἀπὸ τῶν τοῦ προειρημένου ἀνδρός, δούλου θεοῦ, Εἰρηναίου δὲ φημι, τὴν παράθεσιν ὁλοσχερῶς ποιήσομαι. ἔχει δὲ οὕτως· <ek> twn tou agiou
ta de loipa tēs autou leptologias ouk eboulēthēn apʼ emautou syntaxai, heurōn para tǭ hagiōtatǭ Eirēnaiǭ tǭ archaiǭ tēn katʼ autou pragmateian gegenēmenēn. heōs de entautha ta oliga tauta diexelthōn, ta exēs apo tōn tou proeirēmenou andros, doulou theou, Eirēnaiou de phēmi, tēn parathesin holoscherōs poiēsomai. echei de houtōs; <ek> twn tou agiou
The rest of his subtle talk I did not wish to compose myself, since I found the treatise against him written by the most holy Irenaeus of old. Having gone through these few things so far, I shall set out what follows in full from the works of the aforementioned man, the servant of God, Irenaeus I mean. It runs thus: From the [writings] of the holy [Irenaeus]:
Notes and citation
Summary: Epiphanius will now quote Irenaeus's treatise against the Valentinians in full.
- The heading at the end appears in the digital text in Latin letters ('ek twn tou agiou'), apparently a broken heading; it is translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.; Repeated word fragment.): Εἰρηναίῳ ναίῳ → Εἰρηναίῳ; ὀγλίγα → ὀλίγα.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.8.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:398; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-8-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 31, chapter 9
31.9.1Holl GCS 25/31:398–399
Ἐπεὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν παραπεμπόμενοί τινες ἐπεισάγοθσι λόγους ψευδεῖς καὶ »γενεαλογίας ἀπεράντους, αἵτινες ζητήσεις μᾶλλον παρέχουσι«, καθὼς ὁ ἀπόστολός φησιν »ἤ οἰκοδομὴν θεοῦ τὴν ἐν πίστει«, καὶ διὰ τῆς πανούργως συγκεκροτημένης πιθανότητος παράγουσι τὸν νοῦν τῶν ἀπειροτέρων καὶ αἰχμαλωτίζουσιν αὐτούς, ῥᾳδιουργοῦντες τὰ λόγια τοῦ κυρίου,
Epei tēn alētheian parapempomenoi tines epeisagothsi logous pseudeis kai »genealogias aperantous, haitines zētēseis mallon parechousi«, kathōs ho apostolos phēsin »ē oikodomēn theou tēn en pistei«, kai dia tēs panourgōs synkekrotēmenēs pithanotētos paragousi ton noun tōn apeiroterōn kai aichmalōtizousin autous, rhądiourgountes ta logia tou kyriou,
"Since some, setting the truth aside, bring in false words and 'endless genealogies, which provide questions rather', as the apostle says, 'than God's building up in faith', and by a cunningly contrived plausibility lead astray the minds of the less experienced and take them captive, tampering with the Lord's sayings,"
1 Tim 1:4 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Irenaeus begins: some bring in false words and endless genealogies and mislead the simple.
- 31.9.1–31.32.9 quote Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1, preface–1.8.5, in the original Greek. Here 1.pref.1, quoting 1 Tim 1:4.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.9.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:398–399; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-9-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.9.2Holl GCS 25/31:399
ἐξηγηταὶ κακοὶ τῶι καλῶς εἰρημένων γινόμενοι, καὶ πολλοὺς ἀνατρέπουσιν, ἀπάγοντες αὐτοὺς προφάσει γνώσεως ἀπὸ τοῦ τόδε τὸ πᾶν συστησαμένου καὶ κεκοσμηκότος, ὡς ὑψηλότερόν τι καὶ μεῖζον ἔχοντες ἐπιδεῖξαι τοῦ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτοῖς πεποιηκότος θεοῦ,
exēgētai kakoi tōi kalōs eirēmenōn ginomenoi, kai pollous anatrepousin, apagontes autous prophasei gnōseōs apo tou tode to pan systēsamenou kai kekosmēkotos, hōs hypsēloteron ti kai meizon echontes epideixai tou ton ouranon kai tēn gēn kai panta ta en autois pepoiēkotos theou,
"becoming bad interpreters of what was well said, they overturn many, leading them away, under pretext of knowledge, from the one who established and ordered this universe, as though they had something higher and greater to show than the God who made heaven and earth and all that is in them,"
Exod 20:11 (echo, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The heretics lead people away from the Creator under pretext of knowledge.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.1.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.9.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:399; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-9-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.9.3Holl GCS 25/31:399
πιθανῶς μὲν ἐπαγόμενοι διὰ λόγων τέχνης τοὺς ἀκεραίους εἰς τὸν τοῦ ζητεῖν τρόπον, ἀπιθάνως δὲ ἀπολλύντες αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ βλάσφημον καὶ ἀσεβῆ τὴν γνώμην αὐτῶν κατασκευάςειν εἰς τὸν δημιουργόν, Με ἔν τῷ διακρίνειν δυναμένων τὸ ψεῦδος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀληθοῦς | —
pithanōs men epagomenoi dia logōn technēs tous akeraious eis ton tou zētein tropon, apithanōs de apollyntes autous en tǭ blasphēmon kai asebē tēn gnōmēn autōn kataskeuasein eis ton dēmiourgon, Me en tǭ diakrinein dynamenōn to pseudos apo tou alēthous | —
"plausibly drawing the simple by skill of words into their way of inquiry, but implausibly destroying them by making their opinion blasphemous and impious towards the Creator, since they cannot distinguish the false from the true —"
Notes and citation
Summary: They destroy the simple by teaching blasphemy against the Creator.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.1. 'Με ἔν' is read as μὴ ἐν.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Transposed letters.): τέχηνς → τέχνης.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.9.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:399; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-9-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.9.4Holl GCS 25/31:399
ἡ γὰρ πλάνη καθʼ ἑαυτὴν μὲν οὐκ ἐπιδείκνυται, ἵνα μὴ γυμνωθεῖσα γένηται κατάφωρος, πιθανῷ δὲ περιβλήματι πανούργως κοσμουμένη καὶ αὐτῆς τῆς ἀληθείας * αληθεστέραν ἑαυτὴν παρέχει φαίνεσθαι διὰ τῆς ἔξωθεν φαντασίας τοῖς ἀπειρτέροις,
hē gar planē kathʼ heautēn men ouk epideiknytai, hina mē gymnōtheisa genētai kataphōros, pithanǭ de periblēmati panourgōs kosmoumenē kai autēs tēs alētheias * alēthesteran heautēn parechei phainesthai dia tēs exōthen phantasias tois apeirterois,
"for error does not show itself as it is, lest, being stripped, it be detected; but, cunningly adorned with a plausible covering, it makes itself appear to the less experienced, through its outward show, truer than the truth itself …,"
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Error disguises itself to seem truer than truth.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.2. The edition marks a gap (*).
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.9.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:399; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-9-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.9.5Holl GCS 25/31:399
καθὼς ὑπὸ τοῦ κρείττονος ἡμῶν εἴρηται ἐπὶ τῶν τοιούτων, ὅτι λίθον τὸν τίμιον σμάραγδον ὄντα καὶ πολυτίμητόν τισιν ὕαλος ἐνυβρίζει διὰ τέχνης παρομοιουμένη, ὁπόταν μὴ παρῇ ὁ σθένων δοκιμάσαι καὶ τέχνην διελέγξαι τὴν πανούργως γενομένην· ὅταν δὲ ἐπιμιγῇ χαλκὸς εἰς τὸν ἄργυρον, τίς εὐκόλως δυνήσεται τοῦτον ἀκέραιος Ε; δοκιμάσαι; — ἵνα οὖν μὴ Ε;
kathōs hypo tou kreittonos hēmōn eirētai epi tōn toioutōn, hoti lithon ton timion smaragdon onta kai polytimēton tisin hyalos enybrizei dia technēs paromoioumenē, hopotan mē parę̄ ho sthenōn dokimasai kai technēn dielenxai tēn panourgōs genomenēn; hotan de epimigę̄ chalkos eis ton argyron, tis eukolōs dynēsetai touton akeraios E? dokimasai? — hina oun mē E?
"as has been said by one better than us about such things, that glass, cleverly made to resemble it, insults the precious stone, the emerald, which some value highly, whenever no one is present who is able to test it and expose the cunning craft. And when copper is mixed into silver, who that is simple will easily be able to test it? — So that, then,"
Notes and citation
Summary: Like glass imitating an emerald, error deceives those who cannot test it.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.2. The 'one better than us' is unidentified. 'Ε;' is apparatus residue.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.9.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:399; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-9-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.9.6Holl GCS 25/31:399
παρὰ τὴν ἡμετέραν αἰτίαν συναρπάζωνταί τινες ὡς πρόβατα ὐπὸ λύκων, ἀγνοοῦντες αὐτοὺς διὰ τὴν ἔξωθεν τῆς προβατίου δορᾶς ἐπιβολήν, οὕς φυλάσσειν παρήγγελκεν ἡμῖν ὁ κύριος, ὅμοια μὲν Ε; λαλοῦντας, ἀνόμοια δὲ φρονοῦντας, ἀναγκαῖον ἡγησάμην, ἐντυχὼν τοῖς ὑπομνήμασι τῶν ὡς αὐτοὶ λέγουσιν Οὐαλεντίνου μαθητῶν, ἐνίοις δʼ αὐτῶν καὶ συμβαλὼν καὶ καταλαβόμενος τὴν γνώμην αὐτῶν, μηνῦσαί σοι, ἀγαπητέ,
para tēn hēmeteran aitian synarpazōntai tines hōs probata ypo lykōn, agnoountes autous dia tēn exōthen tēs probatiou doras epibolēn, hous phylassein parēngelken hēmin ho kyrios, homoia men E? lalountas, anomoia de phronountas, anankaion hēgēsamēn, entychōn tois hypomnēmasi tōn hōs autoi legousin Oualentinou mathētōn, eniois dʼ autōn kai symbalōn kai katalabomenos tēn gnōmēn autōn, mēnysai soi, agapēte,
"some may not, through our fault, be snatched like sheep by wolves, not recognizing them because of the sheepskin they have put on outwardly — people whom the Lord has commanded us to guard against, who speak like us but think unlike us — I thought it necessary, having read the notes of those who call themselves disciples of Valentinus, and having met some of them and grasped their opinion, to disclose to you, beloved,"
Matt 7:15 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Irenaeus writes, having read and met the Valentinians, to warn his friend.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.2, alluding to Matt 7:15.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.9.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:399; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-9-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.9.7Holl GCS 25/31:399–400
τὰ τερατώδη καὶ βαθέα μυστή- ὅπως καὶ σὺ μαθὼν αὐτὰ πᾶσι τοῖς μετὰ σοῦ φανερὰ ποιήσῃς καὶ παραινέσῃς αὐτοῖς φυλάξασθαι τὸν βυθόν τῆς ἀνοίας καὶ τῆς εἰς τὸν θεὸν βλασφημίας.
ta teratōdē kai bathea mystē- hopōs kai sy mathōn auta pasi tois meta sou phanera poiēsę̄s kai parainesę̄s autois phylaxasthai ton bython tēs anoias kai tēs eis ton theon blasphēmias.
"their monstrous and deep mysteries …, so that you too, having learned them, may make them plain to all who are with you and urge them to guard against the depth of folly and of blasphemy against God."
Notes and citation
Summary: Irenaeus wants his reader to warn others against the Valentinian mysteries.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.2. The word μυστή[ρια] is broken off and something is missing in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.9.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:399–400; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-9-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.9.8Holl GCS 25/31:400
καὶ καθὼς δύναμις ἡμῖν, τὴν τε γνώμην αὐτῶν τῶν νῦν παραδιδασκόντων λέγω δῆ τῶν περὶ Πτολεμαῖον), ἀπάνθισμα οὖσαν τῆς Οὐαλεντίνου σχολῆς, συντόμως καὶ σαφῶς ἀπαγγελοῦμεν καὶ ἀφορμὰς <ἄλλοις> δώσομέν κατὰ τὴν ἡμετέραν μετριότητα πρὸς τὸ ἀνατρέπειν αὐτήν, ἀλλόκοτα καὶ ἀσύστατα καὶ ἀνάρμοστα τῇ ἀληθείᾳ ἐπιδεικνύντες τὰ ὑπʼ αὐτῶν λεγόμενα, μήτε συγγράφειν εἰθισμένοι μήτε λόγων τεχνην ἡσκηκότες,
kai kathōs dynamis hēmin, tēn te gnōmēn autōn tōn nyn paradidaskontōn legō dē tōn peri Ptolemaion), apanthisma ousan tēs Oualentinou scholēs, syntomōs kai saphōs apangeloumen kai aphormas <allois> dōsomen kata tēn hēmeteran metriotēta pros to anatrepein autēn, allokota kai asystata kai anarmosta tę̄ alētheią epideiknyntes ta hypʼ autōn legomena, mēte syngraphein eithismenoi mēte logōn technēn hēskēkotes,
"And as far as we are able, we shall report briefly and clearly the opinion of those who now teach otherwise (I mean the followers of Ptolemy), which is a flower plucked from the school of Valentinus, and, according to our modest ability, we shall give ⟨others⟩ starting points for overturning it, showing that what they say is strange, incoherent and out of tune with the truth — though we are not accustomed to writing and have not practised the art of words,"
Notes and citation
Summary: Irenaeus will briefly set out the teaching of Ptolemy's school and give means to refute it.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.2.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): δύνμις → δύναμις.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.9.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:400; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-9-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.9.9Holl GCS 25/31:400
ἀγάπης Τε ἡμᾶς προτρεπομένης σοί τε καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς μετὰ σοῦ μηνῦσαι τὰ μέχρι με) νῦν κεκρυμμένα, ἤδη δὲ κατὰ τὴν χάριν τοῦ θεοῦ εἰς φανερὸν ἐληλυθότα διδάγματα. »οὐδὲν γάρ ἐστι κεκαλυμμένον, ὅ οὐκ ἀποκαλυφθήσεται, καὶ κρυπτόν, ὅ οὐ γνωσθήσεται«.
agapēs Te hēmas protrepomenēs soi te kai pasi tois meta sou mēnysai ta mechri me) nyn kekrymmena, ēdē de kata tēn charin tou theou eis phaneron elēlythota didagmata. »ouden gar esti kekalymmenon, ho ouk apokalyphthēsetai, kai krypton, ho ou gnōsthēsetai«.
"but love urges us to disclose to you and to all with you the teachings that have been hidden until now but have now, by the grace of God, come into the open. 'For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.'"
Matt 10:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 12:2 (quotation, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Love moves Irenaeus to reveal the hidden teachings, for nothing hidden will stay unknown.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.2, quoting Matt 10:26 (cf. Luke 12:2).
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.9.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:400; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-9-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 31, chapter 10
31.10.1Holl GCS 25/31:400
10. Οὐκ ἐπιζητησεις δὲ παρʼ ἡμῶν, τῶν ἐν Κελτοῖς διατριβόντων καὶ περὶ βάρβαρον διάλεκτον τὸ πλεῖστον ἐσχολουμένων, λόγων τέχνην ἥν οὐκ ἐμάθομεν οὔτε δύναμιν συγγραφέως ἥν οὐκ ἠσκήσαμεν οὔτε καλλωπισμὸν λέξεων οὔτε πιθανότητα ἥν οὐκ οἴδαμεν, ἀλλὰ ἁπλῶ;
10. Ouk epizētēseis de parʼ hēmōn, tōn en Keltois diatribontōn kai peri barbaron dialekton to pleiston escholoumenōn, logōn technēn hēn ouk emathomen oute dynamin syngrapheōs hēn ouk ēskēsamen oute kallōpismon lexeōn oute pithanotēta hēn ouk oidamen, alla haplō?
"You will not look to us, who live among the Celts and are occupied mostly with a barbarous language, for an art of words that we have not learned, or a writer's power that we have not practised, or elegance of style, or persuasiveness that we do not know; but simply,"
Notes and citation
Summary: Irenaeus, living among the Celts, apologizes for his plain style.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.3.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:400; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.2Holl GCS 25/31:400
καὶ ἀληθῶς καὶ ἱδιωτικῶς τὰ μετὰ ἀγάπης σοὶ γραφέντα μετὰ ἀγάπης σὺ προσδέξῃ καὶ αὐτὸς αὐξήσεις αὐτὰ παρὰ σεαυτῷ ἄτε ἱκανώτερος ἡμῶν τυγχάνων), οἱονεὶ σπέρματα καὶ ἀρχὰς λαβὼν παρʼ ἡμῶν,
kai alēthōs kai hidiōtikōs ta meta agapēs soi graphenta meta agapēs sy prosdexę̄ kai autos auxēseis auta para seautǭ ate hikanōteros hēmōn tynchanōn), hoionei spermata kai archas labōn parʼ hēmōn,
"truly and plainly, you will receive with love what has been written to you with love, and you yourself will make it grow within you (being more capable than we are), taking these as seeds and beginnings from us,"
Notes and citation
Summary: The reader, more capable, should develop what Irenaeus writes.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.3.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:400; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.3Holl GCS 25/31:400
καὶ ἐν τῷ πλάτει σοῦ τοῦ νοῦ ἐπὶ πολὺ καρποφορήσεις τὰ διʼ ὀλίγων ὐφʼ ἡμῶν εἰρημένα καὶ δυνατῶς παραστήσεις τοῖς μετὰ σοῦ τὰ ἀσθενῶς ὑφʼ ἡμῶν ἀπηγγελμένα.
kai en tǭ platei sou tou nou epi poly karpophorēseis ta diʼ oligōn yphʼ hēmōn eirēmena kai dynatōs parastēseis tois meta sou ta asthenōs hyphʼ hēmōn apēngelmena.
"and in the breadth of your mind you will make what we have said in few words bear much fruit, and will present powerfully to those with you what we have reported weakly."
Notes and citation
Summary: The reader will expand Irenaeus's brief account for others.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.3.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:400; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.4Holl GCS 25/31:400–401
καὶ ὡς ἡμεῖς ἐφιλοτιμήθημεν, πάλαι ζητοῦντός σου μαθεῖν τὴν γνώμην αὐτῶν, μὴ μόνον σοὶ ποιῆσαι φανεράν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐφόδια δοῦναι πρὸς τὸ ἐπιδεικνύειν αὐτὴν ψευδῆ, οὕτως δὲ καὶ σὺ φιλοτίμως τοῖς λοιποῖς διακονήσεις, κατὰ τὴν χάριν τὴν ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου σοὶ διδομένην, εἰς τὸ μηκέτι παρασύρεσθαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ὑπὸ τῆς ἐκείνων πιθανολογίας, οὔσης τοιαύτης.
kai hōs hēmeis ephilotimēthēmen, palai zētountos sou mathein tēn gnōmēn autōn, mē monon soi poiēsai phaneran, alla kai ephodia dounai pros to epideiknyein autēn pseudē, houtōs de kai sy philotimōs tois loipois diakonēseis, kata tēn charin tēn hypo tou kyriou soi didomenēn, eis to mēketi parasyresthai tous anthrōpous hypo tēs ekeinōn pithanologias, ousēs toiautēs.
"And as we have made it our aim, since you have long sought to learn their opinion, not only to make it plain to you but also to provide means for showing it false, so you too will zealously serve the rest, according to the grace given you by the Lord, so that people may no longer be swept away by their plausible talk, which is as follows."
Notes and citation
Summary: Irenaeus asks his reader to help others resist the Valentinians' persuasive talk.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.pref.3.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.pref.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:400–401; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.5Holl GCS 25/31:401
Λέγουσιν γάρ τινα εἶναι ἐν ἀοράτοις καὶ ἀκατονομάστοις ὑψώμασι τέλειον Αἰῶνα προόντα· τοῦτον δὲ καὶ Προαρχὴν καὶ Προπάτορα καὶ Βυθὸν καλοῦσιν. ὑπάρχοντα δʼ αὐτὸν ἀχώρητον καὶ ἀόρατον, ἀίδόν τε χρόνων· συνυπάρχειν δʼ αὐτῷ καὶ Ἔννοιαν, ἥν δὴ καὶ Χάριν καὶ Σιγὴν ὀνομάζουσι.
Legousin gar tina einai en aoratois kai akatonomastois hypsōmasi teleion Aiōna proonta; touton de kai Proarchēn kai Propatora kai Bython kalousin. hyparchonta dʼ auton achōrēton kai aoraton, aidon te chronōn; synyparchein dʼ autǭ kai Ennoian, hēn dē kai Charin kai Sigēn onomazousi.
"They say that in invisible and unnameable heights there is a perfect pre-existent Aeon; him they call also Pre-Beginning, Forefather and Depth. He is uncontainable and invisible, eternal and unbegotten; and with him coexists Thought, whom they also name Grace and Silence."
Notes and citation
Summary: The Valentinians teach a perfect pre-existent Aeon, Depth, with his consort Thought or Silence.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.1. ἀίδόν τε χρόνων appears garbled; it is rendered by the usual sense, 'eternal and unbegotten'.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ὀόρατον → ἀόρατον; δνομάζουσι → ὀνομάζουσι.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:401; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.6Holl GCS 25/31:401
καὶ ποτὲ ἐννοηθῆναι ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ προβαλέσθαι τὸν Βυθὸν τοῦτον ἀρχὴν τῶν πάντων, καὶ καθάπερ σπέρμα τὴν προβολὴν ταύτην, ἥν προβαλέσθαι ἐνενοήθη, καὶ] καταθέσθαι ὡς ἐν μήτρᾳ Ε; τῇ συνυπαρχούσῃ ἑαυτῷ Σιγῇ.
kai pote ennoēthēnai aphʼ heautou probalesthai ton Bython touton archēn tōn pantōn, kai kathaper sperma tēn probolēn tautēn, hēn probalesthai enenoēthē, kai] katathesthai hōs en mētrą E? tę̄ synyparchousę̄ heautǭ Sigę̄.
"And once this Depth thought of emitting from himself a beginning of all things, and he deposited this emission, which he had thought to emit, like a seed, as in a womb, in Silence who coexisted with him."
Notes and citation
Summary: Depth deposited a seed of emission in Silence.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.1.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:401; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.7Holl GCS 25/31:401
ταύτην δὲ ὑποδεξαμένην τὸ σπέρμα τοῦτο καὶ ἐγκύμονα γενομένην ἀποκυῆσαι Νοῦν, ὅμοιόν τε καὶ ἴσον τῷ προβαλόντι καὶ μόνον χωροῦντα τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ πατρός· τὸν δὲ Νοῦν τοῦτον καὶ Μονογενῆ καλοῦσι καὶ Πατέρα καὶ ἀρχὴν τῶν πάντων.
tautēn de hypodexamenēn to sperma touto kai enkymona genomenēn apokyēsai Noun, homoion te kai ison tǭ probalonti kai monon chōrounta to megethos tou patros; ton de Noun touton kai Monogenē kalousi kai Patera kai archēn tōn pantōn.
"She received this seed, became pregnant and bore Mind, like and equal to the one who emitted him, and alone able to contain the Father's greatness. This Mind they also call Only-begotten, and Father, and beginning of all things."
Notes and citation
Summary: Silence bore Mind, the Only-begotten.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.1.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:401; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.8Holl GCS 25/31:401
συμπροβεβλῆσθαι δὲ αὐτῷ Ἀλήθειαν καὶ εἶναι ταύτην πρώτην καὶ ἀρχέγονον Πυθαγορικὴν τετρακτύν, ἥν καὶ ῥίζαν τῶν πάντων καλοῦσιν. ἔστιv γὰρ Βυθὸς καὶ Σιγή, ἔπειτα Νοῦς καὶ Ἀλήθεια.
symprobeblēsthai de autǭ Alētheian kai einai tautēn prōtēn kai archegonon Pythagorikēn tetraktyn, hēn kai rhizan tōn pantōn kalousin. estiv gar Bythos kai Sigē, epeita Nous kai Alētheia.
"Together with him Truth was emitted, and this is the first and original Pythagorean tetractys, which they also call the root of all things: for there are Depth and Silence, then Mind and Truth."
Notes and citation
Summary: With Mind came Truth, forming the first tetrad.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.1.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:401; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.9Holl GCS 25/31:401
αἰσθόμενον δὲ τὸν Μονογενῆ τοῦτον ἐφʼ οἷς προεβλήθη, προβαλεῖν καὶ αὐτὸν Λόγον καὶ Ζωήν, πατέρα πάντων τῶι μετʼ αὐτὸν ἐσομένων καὶ ἀρχὴν καὶ μόρφωσιν παντὸς τοῦ Πληρώματος· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ Λόγου καὶ τῆς Ζωῆς προβεβλῆσθαι κατὰ συζυγίαν Ἄνθρωπον καὶ Ἐκκλησίαν.
aisthomenon de ton Monogenē touton ephʼ hois proeblēthē, probalein kai auton Logon kai Zōēn, patera pantōn tōi metʼ auton esomenōn kai archēn kai morphōsin pantos tou Plērōmatos; ek de tou Logou kai tēs Zōēs probeblēsthai kata syzygian Anthrōpon kai Ekklēsian.
"This Only-begotten, perceiving the purpose for which he was emitted, himself emitted Word and Life, the father of all who would come after him and the beginning and forming of the whole Pleroma; and from Word and Life were emitted, as a pair, Man and Church."
Notes and citation
Summary: Mind emitted Word and Life, and they emitted Man and Church.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.1.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:401; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.10Holl GCS 25/31:401–402
καὶ εἶναι ταύτην ἀρχέγονον Ὀγδοάδα, ρίζαν καὶ ὑπόστασιν τῶν πάντων, τέτρασιν ὀνόμασι παρʼ αὐτοῖς καλουμένην, Βυθῷ καὶ Νῷ καὶ Λόγῳ καὶ Ἀνθρώπῳ. εἶναι γὰρ αὐτῶν ἕκαστον ἀρρενόθηλυν, οὕτως· πρῶτον τὸν Προπάτορα ἡνῶσθαι κατὰ συζυγίαν τῇ ἑαυτοῦ Ἐννοίᾳ, τὸν δὲ Μονογενῆ τουτέστιν τὸν Νοῦν τῇ Ἀληθείᾳ, τὸν δὲ Λόγον τῇ Ζωῇ καὶ τὸν Ἄνθρωπον τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ.
kai einai tautēn archegonon Ogdoada, rizan kai hypostasin tōn pantōn, tetrasin onomasi parʼ autois kaloumenēn, Bythǭ kai Nǭ kai Logǭ kai Anthrōpǭ. einai gar autōn hekaston arrenothēlyn, houtōs; prōton ton Propatora hēnōsthai kata syzygian tę̄ heautou Ennoią, ton de Monogenē toutestin ton Noun tę̄ Alētheią, ton de Logon tę̄ Zōę̄ kai ton Anthrōpon tę̄ Ekklēsią.
"And this is the original Ogdoad, root and substance of all things, called among them by four names: Depth, Mind, Word and Man. For each of them is male-female, thus: first the Forefather was united as a pair with his Thought, the Only-begotten, that is Mind, with Truth, Word with Life, and Man with Church."
Notes and citation
Summary: The first eight aeons form the Ogdoad of four pairs.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.1.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:401–402; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.11Holl GCS 25/31:402
Τούτους δὲ τοὺς Αἰῶνας εἰς δόξαν τοῦ Πατρὸς προβεβλημένους, βουληθέντας καὶ αὐτοὺς διὰ τοῦ ἰδίου δοξάσαι τὸν Πατέρα, προβαλεῖν προβολὰς ἐν συζυγίᾳ· τὸν μὲv Λόγον καὶ τὴν Ζωὴν μετὰ τὸ προβαλέσθαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν, ἄλλους δέκα Αἰῶνας, ὧν τὰ ὀνόματα λέγουσι ταῦτα· Βύθιος καὶ Μῖξις, Ἀγήρατος καὶ Ἕνωσις, Αὐτοφυὴς καὶ Ἡδονή, Ἀκίνητος καὶ Σύγκρασις, Μονογενὴς καὶ Μακαρία. οὗτοι Ε;
Toutous de tous Aiōnas eis doxan tou Patros probeblēmenous, boulēthentas kai autous dia tou idiou doxasai ton Patera, probalein probolas en syzygią; ton mev Logon kai tēn Zōēn meta to probalesthai ton anthrōpon kai tēn Ekklēsian, allous deka Aiōnas, hōn ta onomata legousi tauta; Bythios kai Mixis, Agēratos kai Henōsis, Autophyēs kai Hēdonē, Akinētos kai Synkrasis, Monogenēs kai Makaria. houtoi E?
"These Aeons, emitted for the glory of the Father, wishing themselves also to glorify the Father through something of their own, emitted emissions in pairs. Word and Life, after emitting Man and Church, [emitted] ten other Aeons, whose names they give as these: Deep and Mixture, Ageless and Union, Self-grown and Pleasure, Unmoved and Blending, Only-begotten and Blessed. These are"
Notes and citation
Summary: Word and Life emitted ten more aeons.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.2.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:402; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.12Holl GCS 25/31:402
δέκα Αἰῶνες, οὕς φάσκουσιν ἐκ Λόγου καὶ Ζωῆς προβεβλῆσθαι. τὸν δὲ Ἄνθρωπον καὶ αὐτὸν προβαλεῖν μετὰ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας Αἰῶνας δώδεκα, δς ταῦτα τὰ ὀνόματα χαρίζονται· Παράκλητος καὶ Πίστις, Πατρικὸς καὶ Ἐλπίς, Μητρικὸς καὶ ἀγάπη, Ἀείνους καὶ Σύνεσις, Ἐκκλησιαστικὸς καὶ Μακαριότης, Θελητὸς καὶ Σοφία.
deka Aiōnes, hous phaskousin ek Logou kai Zōēs probeblēsthai. ton de Anthrōpon kai auton probalein meta tēs Ekklēsias Aiōnas dōdeka, ds tauta ta onomata charizontai; Paraklētos kai Pistis, Patrikos kai Elpis, Mētrikos kai agapē, Aeinous kai Synesis, Ekklēsiastikos kai Makariotēs, Thelētos kai Sophia.
"the ten Aeons which they say were emitted from Word and Life. Man too, with Church, emitted twelve Aeons, to whom they grant these names: Paraclete and Faith, Paternal and Hope, Maternal and Love, Ever-Mind and Understanding, Ecclesiastical and Blessedness, Willed and Wisdom."
Notes and citation
Summary: Man and Church emitted twelve aeons.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.2.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:402; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.13Holl GCS 25/31:402
Οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ τριάκοντα Αἰῶνες τῆς πλάνης αὐτῶν, οἱ σεσιγημένοι καὶ μὴ γινωσκόμενοι. τοῦτο τὸ ἀόρατον καὶ πνευματικὸν κατʼ αὐτοὺς Πλήρωμα, τριχῆ διεσταμένον εἰς ὀγδοάδα καὶ δεκάδα καὶ δωδεκάδα.
Houtoi eisin hoi triakonta Aiōnes tēs planēs autōn, hoi sesigēmenoi kai mē ginōskomenoi. touto to aoraton kai pneumatikon katʼ autous Plērōma, trichē diestamenon eis ogdoada kai dekada kai dōdekada.
"These are the thirty Aeons of their error, kept in silence and not known. This is their invisible and spiritual Pleroma, divided threefold into an ogdoad, a decad and a dodecad."
Notes and citation
Summary: The thirty aeons make up the Pleroma of eight, ten and twelve.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.2.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.13 (Holl GCS 25/31:402; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.14Holl GCS 25/31:402
καὶ διὰ τοῦτο τὸν σωτῆρα λέγουσιν οὐδὲ γὰρ κύριον ὀνομάζειν αὐτὸν θέλουσι) tr· akonta i~iz·. kata to faneron mt, oen pepoihkena·. ep· oe· knunta to μυστήριον τούτων των Αιώνων, άλλα κα· επί τη;
kai dia touto ton sōtēra legousin oude gar kyrion onomazein auton thelousi) tr; akonta i~iz;. kata to faneron mt, oen pepoihkena;. ep; oe; knunta to mystērion toutōn tōn Aiōnōn, alla ka; epi tē?
"And that is why they say the Saviour (for they do not want to call him Lord) did nothing openly for thirty years, showing the mystery of these Aeons; and also in the"
Luke 3:23 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: The Saviour's thirty hidden years are said to signify the thirty aeons.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.3. Most of this section is garbled in the digital text (Greek typed in Latin letters, without accents); it is translated by sense, following the parallel in Irenaeus.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.14 (Holl GCS 25/31:402; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.15Holl GCS 25/31:402
παραβολής των είς τον ά; χπελώνα πεμπομένων εργατών φανερώτατα του; τριάκοντα τούτου; Αιώνας μεμηνϋσθ-αι. πέμποντα· γαρ οί μεν περί πρώτην ώραν. οἱ δὲ περὶ τρίτην, οἱ δὲ περὶ ἕκτην, οἱ δὲ περὶ ἐνάτην, ἄλλοι δὲ περὶ ἑνδεκάτην· συντιθέμεναι οὖν αἰ προειρημέναι ὧραι εἰς αὑτὰς τὸv τῶν τριάκοντα ἀριθμὸν ἀναπληροῦσι. μία γὰρ καὶ τρεῖς καὶ ἕξ καὶ ἐννέα καὶ ἕνδεκα τριάκοντα γίνονται. διὰ δὲ τῶν ὡρῶν τοὺς Αἰῶνας μεμηνῦσθαι θέλουσι.
parabolēs tōn eis ton a? chpelōna pempomenōn ergatōn phanerōtata tou? triakonta toutou? Aiōnas memēnÿsth-ai. pemponta; gar oi men peri prōtēn ōran. hoi de peri tritēn, hoi de peri hektēn, hoi de peri enatēn, alloi de peri hendekatēn; syntithemenai oun ai proeirēmenai hōrai eis hautas tov tōn triakonta arithmon anaplērousi. mia gar kai treis kai hex kai ennea kai hendeka triakonta ginontai. dia de tōn hōrōn tous Aiōnas memēnysthai thelousi.
"parable of the labourers sent into the vineyard, the thirty Aeons, they say, are most plainly indicated. For some are sent about the first hour, some about the third, some about the sixth, some about the ninth, and others about the eleventh; and the hours mentioned, added together, make up the number thirty: one and three and six and nine and eleven make thirty. They hold that the Aeons are indicated by the hours."
Matt 20:1–7 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The hours in the parable of the labourers add up to thirty, for the thirty aeons.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.3, on Matt 20:1–7. The opening of this section lacks accents in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.15 (Holl GCS 25/31:402; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.10.16Holl GCS 25/31:402
καὶ ταῦτʼ εἶναι τὰ μεγάλα καὶ θαυμαστὰ καὶ ἀπόρρητα μυστίρια, ἃ καρποφοροῦσιν αὐτοί, καὶ εῖ πού τι τῶν ἐν πλήθει εἰρημένων ἐν ταῖς γραφαῖς δυνηθείη προσαρμόσαι καὶ εἰκάσαι τῷ πλάσματι αὐτῶν.
kai tautʼ einai ta megala kai thaumasta kai aporrēta mystiria, ha karpophorousin autoi, kai ei pou ti tōn en plēthei eirēmenōn en tais graphais dynētheiē prosarmosai kai eikasai tǭ plasmati autōn.
"And these are the great, wonderful and secret mysteries which they bring forth as fruit, wherever they can fit and liken to their fiction any of the many things said in the Scriptures."
Notes and citation
Summary: They adapt scattered Scripture texts to their fiction.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.1.3.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.10.16 (Holl GCS 25/31:402; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-10-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 31, chapter 11
31.11.1Holl GCS 25/31:402–403
11. Τὸν μὲν οὖν Προπάτορα αὐτῶν γινώσκεσθαι μόνῳ λέγουσι τῷ ἐξ αὐτοῦ γεγονότι Μονογενεῖ τουτέστιν τῷ Νῷ, τοῖς δὲ λοιποῖς πᾶσιν ἀόρατον καὶ ἀκατάληπον ὑπάρχειν. μόνος Γε ὁ Νοῦς κατʼ αὐτοὺς ἐτέρπετο θεωρῶν τὸν Πατέρα καὶ τὸ μέγεθος τὸ ἀμέτρητον αὐτοῦ κατανοῶν ἠγάλλετο.
11. Ton men oun Propatora autōn ginōskesthai monǭ legousi tǭ ex autou gegonoti Monogenei toutestin tǭ Nǭ, tois de loipois pasin aoraton kai akatalēpon hyparchein. monos Ge ho Nous katʼ autous eterpeto theōrōn ton Patera kai to megethos to ametrēton autou katanoōn ēgalleto.
"Their Forefather, they say, is known only to the Only-begotten who came from him, that is, to Mind, and is invisible and incomprehensible to all the rest. Only Mind, according to them, delighted in beholding the Father and rejoiced in contemplating his immeasurable greatness."
Notes and citation
Summary: Only Mind knows the Forefather.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.2.1.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slips.): γινώσκισθθαι μδνῳ → γινώσκεσθαι μόνῳ.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.2.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.11.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:402–403; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-11-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.11.2Holl GCS 25/31:403
καὶ διενοεῖτο καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς Αἰῶσιν ἀνακοινώσασθαι τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ Πατρός, ἡλίκος τε καὶ ὅσος ὑπῆρχεν, καὶ ὡς ἦν ἄναρχός τε καὶ ἀχώρητος καὶ οὐ καταληπτὸς ἰδεῖν· κατέσχεν δὲ αὐτὸν ἡ Σιγὴ βουζητήσεως τοῦ προειρημένου Προπάτορος αὐτῶν ἀναγαγεῖν.
kai dienoeito kai tois loipois Aiōsin anakoinōsasthai to megethos tou Patros, hēlikos te kai hosos hypērchen, kai hōs ēn anarchos te kai achōrētos kai ou katalēptos idein; kateschen de auton hē Sigē bouzētēseōs tou proeirēmenou Propatoros autōn anagagein.
"And he planned to share with the other Aeons the Father's greatness, how great and how vast he was, and that he was without beginning, uncontainable and not able to be seen; but Silence restrained him, by the will of the Father, because she wished to lead them all to the thought and longing of seeking their aforementioned Forefather."
Notes and citation
Summary: Mind wanted to reveal the Father, but Silence restrained him.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.2.1. The words βουζητήσεως are garbled in the digital text (several words have fallen out); the rendering follows the sense of the parallel in Irenaeus.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.2.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.11.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:403; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-11-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.11.3Holl GCS 25/31:403
καὶ οἱ μὲν λοιποὶ ὁμοίως Αἰῶνες ἡσυχῆ πως ἐπεπόθουν τὸν προβολέα τοῦ σπέρματος αὐτῶν ἰδεῖν καὶ τὴν ἄναρχον ῥίζαν ἱστορῆσαι.
kai hoi men loipoi homoiōs Aiōnes hēsychē pōs epepothoun ton probolea tou spermatos autōn idein kai tēn anarchon rhizan historēsai.
"And the other Aeons likewise quietly longed to see the emitter of their seed and to learn about the root without beginning."
Notes and citation
Summary: The other aeons longed to see their source.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.2.1.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.2.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.11.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:403; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-11-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.11.4Holl GCS 25/31:403
προήλατο δὲ ὁ πολὺ τελευταῖος καὶ νεώτατος τῆς δωδεκάδος τῆς ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀνθρώπου καὶ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας προβεβλημένης Αἰὼν τουτέστιν ἡ Σοφία καὶ ἔπαθε πάθος ἄνευ τῆς ἐπιπλοκῆς τοῦ Ε; ζύγου τοῦ Θελητοῦ, ὅ ἐνήρξατο μὲν ἐν τοῖς περὶ τὸν Νοῦν καὶ τὴν Ἀληθειαν ἀπέσκηψε δὲ εἰς τοῦτον τὸν παρατραπέντα, προφάσει μὲν ἀγάπης † τόλμης δὲ, διὰ τὸ μὴ κεκοινωνῆσθαι τῷ Πατρὶ τῷ τελείῳ, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Νοῦς. τὸ δὲ πάθος εἶναι ζήτησιν τοῦ Πατρός·
proēlato de ho poly teleutaios kai neōtatos tēs dōdekados tēs hypo tou Anthrōpou kai tēs Ekklēsias probeblēmenēs Aiōn toutestin hē Sophia kai epathe pathos aneu tēs epiplokēs tou E? zygou tou Thelētou, ho enērxato men en tois peri ton Noun kai tēn Alētheian apeskēpse de eis touton ton paratrapenta, prophasei men agapēs † tolmēs de, dia to mē kekoinōnēsthai tǭ Patri tǭ teleiǭ, kathōs kai ho Nous. to de pathos einai zētēsin tou Patros;
"But the very last and youngest Aeon of the dodecad emitted by Man and Church, that is, Wisdom, leapt forward and suffered a passion without the embrace of her consort Willed. It began among those around Mind and Truth, but broke out into this Aeon who had turned aside, in pretext out of love, but in fact out of … rashness, because she had no fellowship with the perfect Father as Mind had. The passion was a seeking after the Father;"
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Wisdom, the youngest aeon, leapt forward in a passion to seek the Father.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.2.2. The edition marks a corrupt place (†).
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.2.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.11.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:403; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-11-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.11.5Holl GCS 25/31:403
ἤθελε γάρ, ὡς λέγουσι, τὸ μέγεθος αὐτοῦ καταλαβεῖν. ἔπειτα μὴ δυνηθέντα διὰ τὸ ἀδυνάτῳ ἐπιβαλεῖν πράγματι καὶ ἐν πολλῷ πάνυ ἀγῶνι γενόμενον διά τε τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ βάθους καὶ τὸ ἀνεξιχνίαστον τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν στοργήν, ἐκτενόμενον ἀεὶ ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσθεν ὑπὸ τῆς γλυκύτητος αὐτοῦ τελευταῖον ἄν καταπεπόσθαι καὶ ἀναλελύσθαι εἰς τὴν ὅλην οὐσίαν, εἰ μὴ τῇ στηριζούσῃ καὶ ἐκτὸς τοῦ ἀρρήτου μεγέθους φυλασσούσῃ τὰ ὅλα συνέτυχε δυνάμει.
ēthele gar, hōs legousi, to megethos autou katalabein. epeita mē dynēthenta dia to adynatǭ epibalein pragmati kai en pollǭ pany agōni genomenon dia te to megethos tou bathous kai to anexichniaston tou Patros kai tēn pros auton storgēn, ektenomenon aei epi to prosthen hypo tēs glykytētos autou teleutaion an katapeposthai kai analelysthai eis tēn holēn ousian, ei mē tę̄ stērizousę̄ kai ektos tou arrētou megethous phylassousę̄ ta hola synetyche dynamei.
"for she wanted, as they say, to comprehend his greatness. Then, unable to do so, because she had undertaken an impossible thing, and falling into very great agony because of the greatness of the depth, the Father's unsearchableness and her affection for him, and ever straining forward, she would at last have been swallowed up by his sweetness and dissolved into the universal substance, had she not met the power that supports all things and guards them outside the ineffable greatness."
Notes and citation
Summary: Wisdom would have been dissolved had a supporting power not stopped her.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.2.2.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.2.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.11.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:403; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-11-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.11.6Holl GCS 25/31:403
ταύτην δὲ τὴν δύναμιν καὶ Ὅρον καλοῦσιν, ὑφʼ ἧς ἐπεσχῆσθαι καὶ ξστηρίχθαι καὶ μόγις ἐπιστρέψαντα εἰς ἑαυτὸν καὶ πεισθέντα, ὅτι ἀκατάληπτός ἐστιν 6 Πατήρ, ἀποθέσθαι τὴν προτέραν ἐνθύμησιν σὺν τῷ ἐπιγενομένῳ πάθει ἐκ τοῦ ἐκπλήκτου ἐκείνου θαύματος.
tautēn de tēn dynamin kai Horon kalousin, hyphʼ hēs epeschēsthai kai xstērichthai kai mogis epistrepsanta eis heauton kai peisthenta, hoti akatalēptos estin 6 Patēr, apothesthai tēn proteran enthymēsin syn tǭ epigenomenǭ pathei ek tou ekplēktou ekeinou thaumatos.
"This power they also call Limit; by it she was held back and made firm, and, returning with difficulty to herself and persuaded that the Father is incomprehensible, she laid aside her former intention together with the passion that had come upon her from that astonished wonder."
Notes and citation
Summary: Limit restrained Wisdom, who then set aside her passion.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.2.2.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.2.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.11.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:403; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-2-1/#p-31-11-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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