Panarion (Medicine Chest Against Heresies), Haer. 1-64 31.31.1–32.7.9

Epiphanius of Salamis · Panarion (Medicine Chest Against Heresies), Haer. 1-64 · 374-377 · Salamis · 105 passages

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 31

31.31.1Holl GCS 25/31:432

30. τοῦτο τὸ κήρυγμα παρειληφυῖα καὶ ταύτην τὴν πίστιν ὡς προέφαμεν ἡ ἐκκλησία, καίπερ ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ κόσμῳ διεσπαρμένη, ἐπιμελῶς φυλάσσει ὡς ἕvα οἰκον οἰκοῦσα καὶ ὁμοίως πιστεύει τούτοις ὡς μίαv ψυχὴν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ἔχουσα καρδίαν καὶ συμφώνως τοῦτα κηρύσσει διδάσκει καὶ παραδίδωσιν ὡς ἕν στόμα κεκτημένη.

30. touto to kērygma pareilēphuia kai tautēn tēn pistin hōs proephamen hē ekklēsia, kaiper en holǭ tǭ kosmǭ diesparmenē, epimelōs phylassei hōs heva oikon oikousa kai homoiōs pisteuei toutois hōs miav psychēn kai tēn autēn echousa kardian kai symphōnōs touta kēryssei didaskei kai paradidōsin hōs hen stoma kektēmenē.

"Having received this preaching and this faith, as we said before, the Church, though scattered throughout the whole world, carefully guards it as if living in one house; and believes these things alike, as having one soul and the same heart; and proclaims, teaches and hands them down in harmony, as possessing one mouth."

Acts 4:32 (echo, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The scattered Church keeps this faith as one household with one voice.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.2. The chapter number printed at the start of this section in the digital text (30) is a slip for 31.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:432; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from Holl's Greek text (GCS 25, 1915; GCS 31, 1922); no public-domain English or FOTC translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

31.31.2Holl GCS 25/31:432

κἂν γὰρ αἱ κατὰ τὸν κόσμον διάλεκτοι ἀνόμοιαι, ἀλλʼ ἡ δύναμις τῆς παραδόσεως μία καὶ ἡ αὐτή, καὶ οὔτε αἱ ἐν Γερμανίαις ἱδρυμέναι ἐκκλησίαι ἄλλως πεπιστεύκασιν ἤ ἄλλως παραδιδόασιν οὔτε ἐν ταῖς Ἰβηρίαις οὔτε ἐν Κελτοῖς οὔτε κατὰ τὰς ἀνατολὰς οὔτε ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ οὔτε ἐν Λιβύῃ οὔτε αἱ κατὰ μέσα τοῦ κόσμου ἱδρυμέναι·

kan gar hai kata ton kosmon dialektoi anomoiai, allʼ hē dynamis tēs paradoseōs mia kai hē autē, kai oute hai en Germaniais hidrymenai ekklēsiai allōs pepisteukasin ē allōs paradidoasin oute en tais Ibēriais oute en Keltois oute kata tas anatolas oute en Aigyptǭ oute en Libyę̄ oute hai kata mesa tou kosmou hidrymenai;

"For though the languages of the world are unlike, the power of the tradition is one and the same. Neither the churches founded in the Germanies believe or hand down otherwise, nor those in the Iberias, nor among the Celts, nor in the East, nor in Egypt, nor in Libya, nor those founded in the middle of the world;"

Notes and citation

Summary: Churches in every region believe and hand down the same tradition.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.2.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:432; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.31.3Holl GCS 25/31:432

ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ὁ ἥλιος, τὸ κτίσμα τοῦ θεοῦ, ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ κόσμῳ εἷς καὶ ὁ αὐτός, οὕτω καὶ τὸ * φῶς, τὸ κήρυγμα τῆς ἀληθείας, πανταχῇ φαίνει καὶ φωτίζει πάντας ἀνθρώπους τοὺς βουλομένους εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἀληθείας ἐλθεῖν,

allʼ hōsper ho hēlios, to ktisma tou theou, en holǭ tǭ kosmǭ heis kai ho autos, houtō kai to * phōs, to kērygma tēs alētheias, pantachę̄ phainei kai phōtizei pantas anthrōpous tous boulomenous eis epignōsin alētheias elthein,

"but as the sun, God's creature, is one and the same in the whole world, so also the … light, the preaching of the truth, shines everywhere and enlightens all who wish to come to the knowledge of the truth."

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

1 Tim 2:4 (echo, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The preaching of truth shines everywhere like the sun.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.2, echoing 1 Tim 2:4. The edition marks a gap (*).

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:432; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from Holl's Greek text (GCS 25, 1915; GCS 31, 1922); no public-domain English or FOTC translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

31.31.4Holl GCS 25/31:432–433

καὶ οὔτε ὁ πάνυ δυνατὸς ἐν λόγῳ τῶν ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις προεστώτων ἕτερα τούτων ἐρεῖ (οὐδεὶς γὰρ ὑπὲρ διδάσκαλον) οὔτε ὁ ἀσθενὴς ἐν τῷ λόγῳ ἐλαττώσει τὴν παράδοσιν· μιᾶς γὰρ καὶ τῆς αὐτῆς πίστεως οὔσης, οὔτε ὁ πολὺ περὶ αὐτῆς δυνάμενος εἰπεῖν ἐπλεόνασεν οὔτε ὁ τὸ ὀλίγον ἠλαττόνησεν.

kai oute ho pany dynatos en logǭ tōn en tais ekklēsiais proestōtōn hetera toutōn erei (oudeis gar hyper didaskalon) oute ho asthenēs en tǭ logǭ elattōsei tēn paradosin; mias gar kai tēs autēs pisteōs ousēs, oute ho poly peri autēs dynamenos eipein epleonasen oute ho to oligon ēlattonēsen.

"Neither will one of those who preside in the churches who is very able in speech say anything different from these things (for no one is above his teacher), nor will one weak in speech diminish the tradition. For the faith being one and the same, neither did he who can say much about it add to it, nor did he who can say little diminish it."

Matt 10:24 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: No church leader, eloquent or not, adds to or diminishes the one faith.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.2, alluding to Matt 10:24.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Scripture and canon, Church office

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:432–433; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.31.5Holl GCS 25/31:433

Τὸ δὲ πλεῖον ἢ ἔλαττον κατὰ σύνεσιν εἰδέναι τινὰς οὐκ ἐν τῷ τὴν ὑπόθεσιν αὐτὴν ἀλλάσειν γίνεται καὶ ἄλλον θεὸν παρεπινοεῖν παρὰ τὸν δημιουργὸν καὶ ποιητὴν καὶ τροφέα τοῦδε τοῦ παντός, ὡς μὴ ἀρκουμένους τούτῳ, ἢ ἄλλον Χριστὸν ἢ ἄλλον Μονογενῆ,

To de pleion ē elatton kata synesin eidenai tinas ouk en tǭ tēn hypothesin autēn allasein ginetai kai allon theon parepinoein para ton dēmiourgon kai poiētēn kai trophea toude tou pantos, hōs mē arkoumenous toutǭ, ē allon Christon ē allon Monogenē,

"That some know more or less by understanding does not consist in changing the subject itself and inventing another God besides the Creator, Maker and Nourisher of this universe, as if not content with him, or another Christ, or another Only-begotten,"

Notes and citation

Summary: Greater understanding does not mean inventing another God or Christ.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.3.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:433; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.31.6Holl GCS 25/31:433

ἀλλὰ ἐν τῷ τὰ ὅσα ἔv παραβολαῖς εἴρηται προσεπεξεργάζεσθαι καὶ συνοικειοῦν τῇ τῆς πίστεως ὑποθέσει καὶ ἐν τῷ τήν τε πραγματείαν καὶ τὴν οἰκονομίαν τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν ἐπὶ τῇ ἀνθρωπότητι γενομένην ἐκδιηγεῖσθαι καὶ ὅτι ἐμακροθύμησεν ὁ θεὸς ἐπί τε τῇ τῶν παραβεβηκότων ἀγγέλων ἀποστασίᾳ καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ παρακοῇ

alla en tǭ ta hosa ev parabolais eirētai prosepexergazesthai kai synoikeioun tę̄ tēs pisteōs hypothesei kai en tǭ tēn te pragmateian kai tēn oikonomian tou theou tēn epi tę̄ anthrōpotēti genomenēn ekdiēgeisthai kai hoti emakrothymēsen ho theos epi te tę̄ tōn parabebēkotōn angelōn apostasią kai epi tę̄ parakoę̄

"but in working out further whatever is said in parables and fitting it to the substance of the faith; in explaining God's dealing and dispensation towards mankind; and in making clear that God was long-suffering over the apostasy of the transgressing angels and over the disobedience"

Notes and citation

Summary: True understanding explains parables and God's dealings within the faith.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.3.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:433; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.31.7Holl GCS 25/31:433

τῶι ἀνθρώπων σαφηνίζειν· καὶ διὰ τί τὰ μὲ πρόσκαιρα τὰ δὲ αἰώνια καὶ τὰ μὲ οὐράνια τὰ δὲ ἐπίγεια εἷς καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς θεὸς πεποίηκεν ἀπαγγέλλειν· καὶ διὰ τί ἀόρατος ὤν ἐφάνη τοῖς προφήταις ὁ θεòς οὐκ ἐν μιᾷ ἰδέᾳ, ἀλλὰ ἄλλως ἄλλοις συνιεῖν· καὶ διὰ τί διαθῆκαι πλείους γεγόνασι τῇ ἀνθρωπότητι μηνύειν, καὶ τίς ἑκάστης τῶν διαθηκῶν ὁ χαρακτὴρ διδάσκειν·

tōi anthrōpōn saphēnizein; kai dia ti ta me proskaira ta de aiōnia kai ta me ourania ta de epigeia heis kai ho autos theos pepoiēken apangellein; kai dia ti aoratos ōn ephanē tois prophētais ho theos ouk en mią ideą, alla allōs allois syniein; kai dia ti diathēkai pleious gegonasi tę̄ anthrōpotēti mēnyein, kai tis hekastēs tōn diathēkōn ho charaktēr didaskein;

"of human beings; in declaring why one and the same God made some things temporal and others eternal, some heavenly and others earthly; in understanding why God, being invisible, appeared to the prophets not in one form but differently to different ones; in indicating why several covenants were made with mankind, and teaching what is the character of each of the covenants;"

Notes and citation

Summary: It explains creation, God's appearances to prophets, and the covenants.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.3.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:433; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from Holl's Greek text (GCS 25, 1915; GCS 31, 1922); no public-domain English or FOTC translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

31.31.8Holl GCS 25/31:433

καἰ διὰ τί συνέκλεισε πάντα εἰς ἀπεἰθειαν ὁ θεός, ἴνα τοὺς πάντας ἐλεήσῃ, ἐξερευνᾶν· καὶ διὰ τί ὁ Λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ σὰρξ ἐγένετο καὶ ἔπαθεν, εὐχαριστεῖν· καὶ διὰ τί ἐπʼ ἐσχάτων τῶν καιρῶν ἡ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ, τουτέστιν ἐν τῷ τέλει ἐφάνη ἡ ἀρχή, ἀπαγγέλλειν·

kai dia ti synekleise panta eis apeitheian ho theos, ina tous pantas eleēsę̄, exereunan; kai dia ti ho Logos tou theou sarx egeneto kai epathen, eucharistein; kai dia ti epʼ eschatōn tōn kairōn hē tou huiou tou theou, toutestin en tǭ telei ephanē hē archē, apangellein;

"in searching out why God 'shut up all in disobedience, that he might have mercy on all'; in giving thanks why the Word of God became flesh and suffered; in declaring why the coming of the Son of God was at the last times, that is, why the beginning appeared at the end;"

Rom 11:32 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: It explores God's mercy, the incarnation and the timing of Christ's coming.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.3, quoting Rom 11:32.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Scripture and canon, Christology

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:433; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.31.9Holl GCS 25/31:433

καὶ περὶ τοῦ τέλους καὶ τῶν μελλόντων ὅσα τε κεῖται ἐν ταῖς γραφαῖς, ἀναπτύσσειν· καὶ τί ὅτι τὰ ἀπεγνωσμένα ἔθνη συγκληρονόμα καὶ σύσσωμα καὶ συμμέτοχα τῶν ἁγίων πεποίηκεν ὁ θεός, μὴ σιωπᾶν·

kai peri tou telous kai tōn mellontōn hosa te keitai en tais graphais, anaptyssein; kai ti hoti ta apegnōsmena ethnē synklēronoma kai syssōma kai symmetocha tōn hagiōn pepoiēken ho theos, mē siōpan;

"in unfolding whatever is contained in the Scriptures about the end and the things to come; in not keeping silent about how God made the despaired-of Gentiles fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers with the saints;"

Eph 3:6 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: It unfolds Scripture on the end and the inclusion of the Gentiles.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.3, alluding to Eph 3:6.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): σύοσωμα → σύσσωμα.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Scripture and canon, Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:433; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.31.10Holl GCS 25/31:433

καὶ πῶς τὸ θνητὸν τοῦτο σαρκίον ἐνδύσεται ἀθανασίαν καὶ τὸ φθαρτὸν ἀφθαρσίαν, διαγγέλλειν· πῶς τε ἐρεῖ »ὀ οὐ λαὸς λαὸς καὶ ἡ οὐκ ἠγαπημένη καὶ πῶς »πλείονα τῆς ἐρήμου τὰ τέκνα, μᾶλλον ἢ τῆς ἐχούσης τὸν ἄνδρα« κηρύσσειν —

kai pōs to thnēton touto sarkion endysetai athanasian kai to phtharton aphtharsian, diangellein; pōs te erei »o ou laos laos kai hē ouk ēgapēmenē kai pōs »pleiona tēs erēmou ta tekna, mallon ē tēs echousēs ton andra« kēryssein —

"in proclaiming how this mortal flesh will put on immortality and the corruptible incorruption; and in preaching how he will say, 'The not-people a people, and the not-beloved beloved', and how 'more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband' —"

1 Cor 15:53 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 9:25 (quotation, medium confidence) · Hos 2:23 (quotation, medium confidence) · Isa 54:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 4:27 (quotation, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: It proclaims the resurrection and God's call of those who were not his people.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.3, alluding to 1 Cor 15:53 and quoting Hos 2:23 (Rom 9:25) and Isa 54:1 (Gal 4:27). The Hosea quotation is broken in the digital text.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Scripture and canon, Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:433; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from Holl's Greek text (GCS 25, 1915; GCS 31, 1922); no public-domain English or FOTC translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

31.31.11Holl GCS 25/31:433–434

ἐπὶ τούτων γὰρ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ὀμοίων αὐτοῖς ἐπεβόησεν ὁ ἀπόστολος »ὦ βάθος πλούτου καὶ σοφίας καὶ γνώσεως θεοῦ, ὡς ἀνεξερεύνητα τὰ κρίματα αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνεξιχνίαστοι αἶ ὁδοὶ αὐτοῦ«, ἀλλὰ οὐκ ἐν τῷ ὐπὲρ τὸν κτιστὴν καὶ δημιουργὸν Μητέρα τούτου καὶ αὐτῶν Ἐνθύμησιν Αἰῶνος πεπλανημένου παρεπινοεῖν καὶ εἰς τοσοῦτον ἥκειν βλασφημίας·

epi toutōn gar kai epi tōn omoiōn autois epeboēsen ho apostolos »ō bathos ploutou kai sophias kai gnōseōs theou, hōs anexereunēta ta krimata autou kai anexichniastoi ai hodoi autou«, alla ouk en tǭ yper ton ktistēn kai dēmiourgon Mētera toutou kai autōn Enthymēsin Aiōnos peplanēmenou parepinoein kai eis tosouton hēkein blasphēmias;

"for over these things and the like the apostle cried out, 'O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements and his ways past finding out!' — but not in inventing, above the Creator and Demiurge, a Mother of him and of them, the Intention of an Aeon gone astray, and coming to such a pitch of blasphemy;"

Rom 11:33 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul marvelled at God's depth, not at invented beings above the Creator.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.3, quoting Rom 11:33.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:433–434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.31.12Holl GCS 25/31:434

οὐδὲ <ἐν τῷ> τὸ ὐπὲρ ταύτην πάλιν Πλήρωμα τότε μὲν τριάκοντα, νῦν δὲ † ἀνήριθμον φῦλον Αἰώνων ἐπιψεύδεσθαι, καθὼς λέγουσιν πάσης μίαν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν πίστιν ἐχούσης εἰς πάντα τὸν κόσμον, καθὼς προέφαμεν.

oude <en tǭ> to yper tautēn palin Plērōma tote men triakonta, nyn de † anērithmon phylon Aiōnōn epipseudesthai, kathōs legousin pasēs mian kai tēn autēn pistin echousēs eis panta ton kosmon, kathōs proephamen.

"nor ⟨in⟩ falsely asserting again a Pleroma above her, now of thirty, now of a numberless tribe of Aeons, as these teachers say who are truly empty of divine understanding; while the whole Church, as we said before, has one and the same faith throughout the whole world."

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Notes and citation

Summary: Nor in inventing a Pleroma of aeons; the Church has one faith everywhere.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.3. The edition marks a corrupt place (†); the clause 'who are truly empty of divine understanding' is supplied by sense from Irenaeus, as words have fallen out of the digital text.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.10.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.31.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-31-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 31, chapter 32

31.32.1Holl GCS 25/31:434

32. Ἴδωμεν νῦν καὶ τὴν τούτων ἄστατον γνώμην, δύο που καὶ τριῶν ὄντων πῶς περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν οὐ τὰ | αὐτὰ λέγουσιν, ἀλλὰ τοῖς πράγμασιν καὶ τοῖς ὀνόμασιν ἐναντία ἀποφαίνονται.

32. Idōmen nyn kai tēn toutōn astaton gnōmēn, dyo pou kai triōn ontōn pōs peri tōn autōn ou ta | auta legousin, alla tois pragmasin kai tois onomasin enantia apophainontai.

"Let us now see also their unstable opinion: how, when there are two or three of them, they do not say the same things about the same matters, but declare things contrary both in substance and in names."

Notes and citation

Summary: Irenaeus shows how the Valentinian teachers contradict each other.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.1.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.32.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-32-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.32.2Holl GCS 25/31:434

ὁ με) γὰρ πρῶτος ἀπὸ τῆς λεγομένης Γνωστικῆς αἱρέσεως τὰς ἀρχὰς εῖς ἵδιον χαρακτῆρα διδασκαλείου μεθαρμόσας Οὐαλεντῖνος οὕτως ἐξεφόρησεν, ὁρισάμενος εἶναι δυάδα <τὶνὰ>

ho me) gar prōtos apo tēs legomenēs Gnōstikēs haireseōs tas archas eis hidion charaktēra didaskaleiou metharmosas Oualentinos houtōs exephorēsen, horisamenos einai dyada <tina>

"For the first, Valentinus, who adapted the principles of the so-called Gnostic heresy into a school of his own character, set them out thus, defining that there is ⟨a⟩ certain"

Notes and citation

Summary: Valentinus himself adapted the Gnostic principles into his own school.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.1.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.32.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-32-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.32.3Holl GCS 25/31:434

ἀνονόμαστον, ἧς τὸ μέν τι καλεῖσθαι Ἄρρητον, τὸ δὲ Σιγήν· ἔπειτα ἐκ ταύτης τῆς δυάδος δευτεραν δυάδα προβεβλῆσθαι, ἧς τὸ μέν τι ὀνομάζει, τὸ δὲ Ἀλήθειαν· ἐκ δὲ τῆς τετράδος ταύτης καρποφορεῖσθαι Λόγον καὶ Ζωήν, Ἄνθρωπον καὶ Ἐκκλησίαν· εἶναί τε ταύτην Ὀγδοάδα πρώτην, καὶ ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ Λόγου καὶ τῆς Ζωῆς δέκα δυνάμεις λέγει προβεβλῆσθαι,

anonomaston, hēs to men ti kaleisthai Arrēton, to de Sigēn; epeita ek tautēs tēs dyados deuteran dyada probeblēsthai, hēs to men ti onomazei, to de Alētheian; ek de tēs tetrados tautēs karpophoreisthai Logon kai Zōēn, Anthrōpon kai Ekklēsian; einai te tautēn Ogdoada prōtēn, kai apo men tou Logou kai tēs Zōēs deka dynameis legei probeblēsthai,

"unnameable dyad, of which one part is called Ineffable and the other Silence; then from this dyad a second dyad was emitted, of which one part he names [Father] and the other Truth; and from this tetrad were brought forth Word and Life, Man and Church; and this is the first Ogdoad. And from Word and Life, he says, ten powers were emitted,"

Notes and citation

Summary: Valentinus's version: Ineffable and Silence, Father and Truth, then the rest of the Ogdoad.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.1. 'Father' has fallen out of the digital text and is supplied from Irenaeus.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.32.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-32-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.32.4Holl GCS 25/31:434

καθὼς προειρήκαμεν· ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἀνθρώπου καὶ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας δώδεκα, ὧν μίαν ἀποστᾶσαν καἰ ὑστερήσασαν τὴν λοιπὴν πεποιῆσθαι.

kathōs proeirēkamen; apo de tou Anthrōpou kai tēs Ekklēsias dōdeka, hōn mian apostasan kai hysterēsasan tēn loipēn pepoiēsthai.

"as we said before; and from Man and Church twelve, of which one, having revolted and fallen short, produced the rest of the story."

Notes and citation

Summary: One of the twelve aeons fell, causing the rest.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.1.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.32.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-32-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.32.5Holl GCS 25/31:434

Ὅρους τε δύο ὑπέθετο, ἕνα μὲν μεταξὺ τοῦ Βυθοῦ καὶ τοῦ λοιποῦ Πληρώματος, διορίζοντα τοὺς γεν<ν>ητοὺς Αἰῶνας ἀπὸ τοῦ Πατρός, ἔτερον δὲ τὸν ἀφορίζοντα αὐτῶν τὴν Μητέρα ἀπὸ τοῦ Πληρώματος.

Horous te dyo hypetheto, hena men metaxy tou Bythou kai tou loipou Plērōmatos, diorizonta tous gen<n>ētous Aiōnas apo tou Patros, eteron de ton aphorizonta autōn tēn Mētera apo tou Plērōmatos.

"He posited two Limits: one between Depth and the rest of the Pleroma, separating the begotten Aeons from the Father; the other separating their Mother from the Pleroma."

Notes and citation

Summary: Valentinus posited two Limits.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.1.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.32.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-32-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.32.6Holl GCS 25/31:434

καὶ τὸν Χριστὸν δὲ οὐκ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν τῷ Πληρώματι Αἰώνων προβεβλῆσθαι ἀλλὰ ὑπὸ τῆς Μητρὸς ἔξω γενομένης κατὰ τὴν μνήμην τῶν κρειττόνων ἀποκεκυῆσθαι μετὰ σκιᾶς τινος.

kai ton Christon de ouk apo tōn en tǭ Plērōmati Aiōnōn probeblēsthai alla hypo tēs Mētros exō genomenēs kata tēn mnēmēn tōn kreittonōn apokekyēsthai meta skias tinos.

"And Christ was not emitted by the Aeons in the Pleroma, but was borne, with a certain shadow, by the Mother when she was outside, in remembrance of the better things."

Notes and citation

Summary: In Valentinus's version Christ was born of the Mother outside the Pleroma.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.1.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy, Christology

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.32.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:434; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-32-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.32.7Holl GCS 25/31:434–435

καὶ τοῦτον μέν, ἅτε ἄρρενα ὑπάρχοντα, ἀποκόψαντα ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ τὴν σκιὰν ἀναδραμεῖν εἰς τὸ Πλήρωμα, τὴν Μητέρα ὑπολειφθεῖσαν μετὰ τῆς σκιᾶς κεκενωμένην τε τῆς πνευματικῆς ὑποστάσεως ἔτερον υἱὸν προενέγκασθαι, καὶ τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν Δημιουργόν, ὃν καὶ παντοκράτορα λέγει τῶν ὑποκειμένων. συμπροβεβλῆσθαι δὲ καὶ ἀριστερὸν ἄρχοντα ἐδογμάτισεν ὁμοίως τοῖς ῥηθησομένοις ὑφʼ ἡμῶν ψευδωνύμοις Γνωστικοῖς.

kai touton men, hate arrena hyparchonta, apokopsanta aphʼ heautou tēn skian anadramein eis to Plērōma, tēn Mētera hypoleiphtheisan meta tēs skias kekenōmenēn te tēs pneumatikēs hypostaseōs eteron huion proenenkasthai, kai touton einai ton Dēmiourgon, hon kai pantokratora legei tōn hypokeimenōn. symprobeblēsthai de kai aristeron archonta edogmatisen homoiōs tois rhēthēsomenois hyphʼ hēmōn pseudōnymois Gnōstikois.

"He, being male, cut off the shadow from himself and hastened up into the Pleroma; the Mother, left behind with the shadow and emptied of the spiritual substance, brought forth another son, and this is the Demiurge, whom he also calls ruler of all things below. And he taught that a left-hand ruler was emitted along with him, like those who will be described as the falsely named Gnostics."

1 Tim 6:20 (echo, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Christ rose to the Pleroma; the Mother then bore the Demiurge and a left-hand ruler.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.1, echoing 1 Tim 6:20 ('falsely named').

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (A word has dropped out and a letter is lost; Irenaeus has ὑφʼ ἡμῶν ψευδωνύμοις.): ὑφʼ ψευωνύμοις → ὑφʼ ἡμῶν ψευδωνύμοις.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.32.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:434–435; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-32-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.32.8Holl GCS 25/31:435

καὶ τὸν Ἰησοῦν > ποτὲ μὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ συσταλέντος ἀπὸ τῆς Μητρὸς αὐτῶν συναναχυθέντος <τε> τοῖς ὅλοις φησι, τουτέστιν <ἀπὸ> τοῦ Θελητοῦ, ποτὲ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναδραμόντος εἰς τὸ Πλήρωμα, τουτέστιν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ποτὲ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀνθρώπου καἰ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας.

kai ton Iēsoun > pote men apo tou systalentos apo tēs Mētros autōn synanachythentos <te> tois holois phēsi, toutestin <apo> tou Thelētou, pote de apo tou anadramontos eis to Plērōma, toutestin tou Christou, pote de apo tou Anthrōpou kai tēs Ekklēsias.

"And Jesus he says sometimes [came] from the one who was drawn in from their Mother and blended with all things, that is, ⟨from⟩ Willed; sometimes from the one who hastened back into the Pleroma, that is, Christ; and sometimes from Man and Church."

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Notes and citation

Summary: Valentinus gave inconsistent accounts of Jesus's origin.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.1. The edition marks a gap.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): Ἐκκληοίας → Ἐκκλησίας.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy, Christology

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.32.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:435; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-32-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.32.9Holl GCS 25/31:435

καἰ τὸ Πνεῦμα δὲ τὸ ἅγιον ὑπὸ τῆς Ἀληθείας φησὶ προβεβλῆσθαι εἰς ἀνάκριστιν καὶ καρποφορίαν τῶν Αἰώνων, ἀοράτως εἰς αὐτοὺς εἰσιόν· διʼ οὗ τοὺς Αἰῶνας καρποφορεῖν τὰ φυτὰ τῆς. Πεπλήρωται τὰ Εἰρηναίου κατὰ τῶν Οὐαλεντίνων.

kai to Pneuma de to hagion hypo tēs Alētheias phēsi probeblēsthai eis anakristin kai karpophorian tōn Aiōnōn, aoratōs eis autous eision; diʼ hou tous Aiōnas karpophorein ta phyta tēs. Peplērōtai ta Eirēnaiou kata tōn Oualentinōn.

"And the Holy Spirit, he says, was emitted by Truth for the testing and fruit-bearing of the Aeons, entering them invisibly; through him the Aeons bore the plants of truth." Here end the words of Irenaeus against the Valentinians.

Notes and citation

Summary: The Holy Spirit was emitted by Truth; the Irenaeus extract ends.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.1. 'Of truth' is supplied from Irenaeus; the word has fallen out after τῆς.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.32.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:435; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-32-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 31, chapter 33

31.33.1Holl GCS 25/31:435

33. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα * ὁ προειρημένος ἀνὴρ πρεσβύτης Εἰρηναῖος, ὁ κατὰ πάντα ἐκ πνεύματος ἁγίου κεκοσμήμένος, ὡς γενναῖος ἀθλητὴς ὑπὸ <τοῦ> κυρίου προβεβλημένος καὶ τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις χαρίσμασι τοῖς κατὰ τὴν ἀληθινὴν Πίστιν καὶ γνῶσιν, καταπαλαίσας τε καὶ καταγωνισάμενος τὴν πᾶσαν αὐτῶν ληρώδη ὑπόθεσιν, διεξῆλθεν κατὰ λεπτὸν τὰ ὑπʼ αὐτῶν κενοφωνούμενα.

33. Kai tauta men kai ta toiauta * ho proeirēmenos anēr presbytēs Eirēnaios, ho kata panta ek pneumatos hagiou kekosmēmenos, hōs gennaios athlētēs hypo <tou> kyriou probeblēmenos kai tois epouraniois charismasi tois kata tēn alēthinēn Pistin kai gnōsin, katapalaisas te kai katagōnisamenos tēn pasan autōn lērōdē hypothesin, diexēlthen kata lepton ta hypʼ autōn kenophōnoumena.

These and similar things … the aforementioned man, the elder Irenaeus, adorned in all things by the Holy Spirit, set forth by the Lord as a noble athlete, and endowed with the heavenly gifts that belong to the true faith and knowledge, having wrestled down and defeated their whole silly system, went through in detail what they utter in empty talk.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Notes and citation

Summary: Epiphanius praises Irenaeus for refuting the Valentinians in detail.

The edition marks a gap (*).

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; allusion)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.33.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:435; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-33-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.33.2Holl GCS 25/31:435

ἀκρότατα δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ ἑξῆς δευτέρῳ αὐτοῦ λόγῳ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις διήλεγξεν περιττοτέρως, βουλόμενός πως τὸν χαμαὶ ῥιφέντα καὶ εἰς ἡτταν τραπέντα σῦραι καὶ ἐνώπιον πάντων θριαμβεῦσαί τε καὶ φωρᾶσαι τὴν ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ ῥιφέντι ἀναίσχυντόν τε καὶ ἀσθενῆ πρόκλησιν ματαιοφροσύνης.

akrotata de autous en tǭ hexēs deuterǭ autou logǭ kai tois allois diēlenxen perittoterōs, boulomenos pōs ton chamai rhiphenta kai eis hēttan trapenta syrai kai enōpion pantōn thriambeusai te kai phōrasai tēn en autǭ tǭ rhiphenti anaischynton te kai asthenē proklēsin mataiophrosynēs.

In his second book, which follows, and in the others, he refuted them even more thoroughly, wanting, as it were, to drag the one thrown down and routed and parade him before all, and to expose the shameless and weak challenge of vain-mindedness in the very one thrown down.

Notes and citation

Summary: Irenaeus refuted them further in his later books.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; allusion)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.33.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:435; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-33-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.33.3Holl GCS 25/31:435–436

ἡμεῖς δὲ ἀρκεσθέντες τοῖς τε παρ΄ ἡμῶν λεχθεῖσιν ὀλίγοις καὶ τοῖς ὑπὸ τῶν τῆς ἀληθείας συγγραφέων τούτων λεχθεῖσίν τε καὶ συνταχθεῖσιν, καὶ ὁρῶντες ὅτι ἄλλοι πεπονήκασι, φημὶ δὲ Κλήμης καὶ Εἰρηναῖος καὶ Ἱππόλυτος καὶ ἄλλοι πλείους, καὶ θαυμαστῶς τὴν κατʼ αὐτῶν πεποίηνται ἀνατροπήν, οὐ πάνυ τι τῷ καμάτῳ προσθεῖναι ὡς προεῖπον ἠθελήσαμεν, ἱκανωθέντες προειρημένοις ἀνδράσιν καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦτο διανοηθέντες, ὅτι παντὶ συνετῷ καὶ ἀπὸ αὐτῶν τῶν ἐν τοῖς διδάγμασιν αὐτῶν λόγων ἡ ἀνατροπὴ αὐτῶν † κατʼ αὐτῶν

hēmeis de arkesthentes tois te par΄ hēmōn lechtheisin oligois kai tois hypo tōn tēs alētheias syngrapheōn toutōn lechtheisin te kai syntachtheisin, kai horōntes hoti alloi peponēkasi, phēmi de Klēmēs kai Eirēnaios kai Hippolytos kai alloi pleious, kai thaumastōs tēn katʼ autōn pepoiēntai anatropēn, ou pany ti tǭ kamatǭ prostheinai hōs proeipon ēthelēsamen, hikanōthentes proeirēmenois andrasin kai auto touto dianoēthentes, hoti panti synetǭ kai apo autōn tōn en tois didagmasin autōn logōn hē anatropē autōn † katʼ autōn

But we, content with the few things said by us and with what was said and composed by these writers of the truth, and seeing that others have laboured — I mean Clement, Irenaeus, Hippolytus and many others — and have made a wonderful refutation of them, did not wish to add much to the labour, as I said before, being satisfied with the men already mentioned, and considering this very thing: that to every intelligent person their refutation … against them from the very words in their teachings.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Notes and citation

Summary: Epiphanius relies on Clement, Irenaeus and Hippolytus, and adds only a little.

The edition marks a corrupt place (†) at the end; the sense seems to be that their own teachings refute them.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ἱκανωθέτες → ἱκανωθέντες.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.33.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:435–436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-33-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 31, chapter 34

31.34.1Holl GCS 25/31:436

34. Πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι διάφορα παρʼ αὐτοῖς τὰ φρονήματα καὶ ἕτερος τὰ τοῦ ἑτέρου καταλύειν ἐπαγγέλλεται. δεύτερον δὲ ὅτι ἀσύστατα τὰ παρʼ αὐτοῖς μυθοποιήματα, οὔτε που γραφῆς νόμου οὔτε τινὸς προφήτου τῶν μετὰ Μωυσέα, ἀλλʼ οὔτε τῶν αὐτοῦ εὐαγγελιστῶν, ἀλλʼ οὕτε μὴν τῶν ἀποστόλων.

34. Prōton men hoti diaphora parʼ autois ta phronēmata kai heteros ta tou heterou katalyein epangelletai. deuteron de hoti asystata ta parʼ autois mythopoiēmata, oute pou graphēs nomou oute tinos prophētou tōn meta Mōysea, allʼ oute tōn autou euangelistōn, allʼ houte mēn tōn apostolōn.

First, because their opinions differ, and one professes to overthrow the views of another. Second, because their myths are without foundation, [found] neither anywhere in the writing of the Law, nor in any prophet after Moses, nor in [the Lord] himself or his evangelists, nor indeed in the apostles.

Notes and citation

Summary: Their myths contradict each other and have no basis in Law, prophets, Gospels or apostles.

The text seems to have lost a word ('the Lord') before 'his evangelists'; supplied by sense.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Repeated word.): οὔτε οὔτε τῶν → οὔτε τῶν.

Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.34.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-34-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.34.2Holl GCS 25/31:436

εἰ γὰρ ταῦτα ὑπῆρχεν, ὁ ἐλθὼν φωτίσαι τὴν οἰκουμένη κύριος καὶ πρὸ αὐτοῦ οἱ προφῆται, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι οἱ ἐλέγξαντες τὴν εἰδωλολατρείαν πᾶσάν τε παράνομον πρᾶξιν καὶ μὴ δειλιάσαντές γράφειν κατὰ πάσης παρανόμου διδασκαλίας καὶ ἐναντιότητος σαφῶς ἂν τὰ τοιαῦτα ἡμῖν κατήγγελλον,

ei gar tauta hypērchen, ho elthōn phōtisai tēn oikoumenē kyrios kai pro autou hoi prophētai, epeita de kai hoi apostoloi hoi elenxantes tēn eidōlolatreian pasan te paranomon praxin kai mē deiliasantes graphein kata pasēs paranomou didaskalias kai enantiotētos saphōs an ta toiauta hēmin katēngellon,

For if these things existed, the Lord who came to enlighten the world, and the prophets before him, and afterwards the apostles, who refuted idolatry and every lawless deed and did not shrink from writing against every lawless teaching and opposition, would have clearly proclaimed such things to us,

Notes and citation

Summary: If these things were true, the Lord, prophets and apostles would have taught them.

Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.34.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-34-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.34.3Holl GCS 25/31:436

καὶ μάλιστα αὐτοῦ τοῦ σωτῆρος λέγοντος ὅτι τοῖς μὲν ἔξω ἐν παραβολαῖς, ὑμῖν δὲ † τὰς παραβολὰς εἰς ἐπίλυσιν βασιλείας οὐρανῶν ῥητέον«.

kai malista autou tou sōtēros legontos hoti tois men exō en parabolais, hymin de † tas parabolas eis epilysin basileias ouranōn rhēteon«.

especially since the Saviour himself says, 'To those outside in parables, but to you …' — the parables are to be explained with a view to the solution of the kingdom of heaven.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Mark 4:11 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Jesus himself said he explains his parables to his disciples.

Alluding to Mark 4:11. The edition marks a corrupt place (†); the saying is translated by sense.

Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.34.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-34-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.34.4Holl GCS 25/31:436

ὅσας γοῦν ἐν εὐαγγελίοις παραβολὰς εἴρηκεν εὐθὺς ἐπιλύσας φαίνεται. | ἀμέλει φησὶν καὶ τίς ὁ κόκκος τοῦ σινάπεως καὶ τίς ἡ ζύμη καὶ τίς ἡ γυνὴ ἡ βαλοῦσα τὴν ζύμην εἰς τὰ τρία σάτα, τίς ὁ ἀμπελών, τίς ἡ συκῆ, τίς ὁ σπορεύς, τίς ἡ καλλίστη γῆ.

hosas goun en euangeliois parabolas eirēken euthys epilysas phainetai. | amelei phēsin kai tis ho kokkos tou sinapeōs kai tis hē zymē kai tis hē gynē hē balousa tēn zymēn eis ta tria sata, tis ho ampelōn, tis hē sykē, tis ho sporeus, tis hē kallistē gē.

At any rate, all the parables he spoke in the Gospels he is seen to have explained at once. Indeed he says what the mustard seed is, what the leaven is, and who the woman is who put the leaven into the three measures, what the vineyard is, what the fig tree is, who the sower is, what the best soil is.

Matt 13:31–33 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 13:3–23 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 21:33 (allusion, medium confidence) · Luke 13:6–9 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Christ explained his parables, such as the mustard seed and the sower.

Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.34.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-34-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.34.5Holl GCS 25/31:436

καὶ μάτην οὗτοι ἐνθουσιῶνται ὑπὸ δαιμόνων ἐλαυνόμενοι. περὶ ὡν φησιν ὁ ἁγιώτατος Παῦλος ἀπόστολος ἐν ὑστέροις καιροῖς ἀποστήσονταί τινες τῆς διδασκαλίας, προσέχοντες μύθοις καὶ διδασκαλίαις δαιμόνων«.

kai matēn houtoi enthousiōntai hypo daimonōn elaunomenoi. peri hōn phēsin ho hagiōtatos Paulos apostolos en hysterois kairois apostēsontai tines tēs didaskalias, prosechontes mythois kai didaskaliais daimonōn«.

And these people are inspired in vain, driven by demons. About them the most holy apostle Paul says, 'In later times some will depart from the teaching, giving heed to myths and teachings of demons.'

1 Tim 4:1 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Tim 1:4 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul foretold those who would follow myths and demonic teachings.

A loose quotation combining 1 Tim 4:1 and 1 Tim 1:4.

Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.34.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-34-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.34.6Holl GCS 25/31:436

καὶ πάλιν ὁ ἅγιος Ιάκωβος λέγων περὶ τῆς τοιαύτης διδασκαλίας ὅτι »οὐκ ἔστιν ἄνωθεν αὕτη ἡ σοφία κατερχομένη, ἀλλὰ ἐπίγειος ψυχικὴ δαιμονιώδης· ἡ δὲ ἄνωθεν σοφία πρῶτον μὲν ἁγνή ἐστιν, ἔπειτα εἰρηνικὴ εὐπειθὴς ἀδιάκριτος, μεστὴ ἐλέους καὶ καρπῶν ἀγαθῶν« καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς, ἧς οὑδὲ εἶς καρπὸς ἐν τοῖς προειρημένοις εὑρίσκεται.

kai palin ho hagios Iakōbos legōn peri tēs toiautēs didaskalias hoti »ouk estin anōthen hautē hē sophia katerchomenē, alla epigeios psychikē daimoniōdēs; hē de anōthen sophia prōton men hagnē estin, epeita eirēnikē eupeithēs adiakritos, mestē eleous kai karpōn agathōn« kai ta hexēs, hēs houde eis karpos en tois proeirēmenois heurisketai.

And again the holy James says about such teaching, 'This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic; but the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, obedient, impartial, full of mercy and good fruits', and so on — of which not one fruit is found among the people just mentioned.

Jas 3:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Jas 3:17 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: James contrasts earthly and heavenly wisdom; the heretics show none of the latter's fruits.

Quoting Jas 3:15, 17.

Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.34.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:436; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-34-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.34.7Holl GCS 25/31:436–437

παρʼ αὐτοῖς γάρ »ἀκαταστασία καὶ πᾶν παράνομον πρᾶγμα«, δαιμόνων τε κυήματα καὶ συρίγματα δρακόντων, ἄλλοτε ἄλλως καὶ ἄλλο ἑκάστου αὐτῶν λαλοῦντος· παρ΄ οἱς οὐκ ἔλεος οὐκ οἰκτος εὑρίσκεται, ἀλλὰ διακρίσεις καὶ διαφοραί, καὶ οὐδαμοῦ ἁγνεία οὐδαμοῦ εἰρήνη οὐδαμοῦ ἐπιείκεια.

parʼ autois gar »akatastasia kai pan paranomon pragma«, daimonōn te kyēmata kai syrigmata drakontōn, allote allōs kai allo hekastou autōn lalountos; par΄ hois ouk eleos ouk oiktos heurisketai, alla diakriseis kai diaphorai, kai oudamou hagneia oudamou eirēnē oudamou epieikeia.

For among them there is 'disorder and every lawless deed', offspring of demons and hissings of dragons, each of them saying something different at different times; among them no mercy, no compassion is found, but divisions and differences, and nowhere purity, nowhere peace, nowhere gentleness.

Jas 3:16 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Among the heretics there is disorder and division, not peace or purity.

Echoing Jas 3:16.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.34.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:436–437; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-34-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 31, chapter 35

31.35.1Holl GCS 25/31:437

35. Βούλομαι δὲ πάλιν άναγκαζόμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου, εἰ καὶ παύσασθαι ὑπεσχόμην ὀλίγων τῶν παρ΄ αὐτοῖς εἰρημένων μνημονεύσας άνατρέψαι. οὐ γὰρ τοῦ κατὰ τέχνην μοι λόγου μέλει. άλλὰ τῆς τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων ὠφελείας.

35. Boulomai de palin anankazomenos hypo tou logou, ei kai pausasthai hypeschomēn oligōn tōn par΄ autois eirēmenōn mnēmoneusas anatrepsai. ou gar tou kata technēn moi logou melei. alla tēs tōn entynchanontōn ōpheleias.

But, compelled again by the argument, although I promised to stop, I want to mention a few of the things said among them and overturn them. For I care not for artful speech but for the benefit of my readers.

Notes and citation

Summary: Epiphanius adds a brief refutation of his own.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Repeated word.): όλίγων ὀλίγων → ὀλίγων.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.35.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:437; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-35-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.35.2Holl GCS 25/31:437

λέγουσι τοίνυν ὅτι ὁ δωδέκατος αἰὼν ὁ ἐν ὑστερήματι γενόμενος παντελῶς τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τῶν δώδεκα ἐξέπεσεν καὶ ἀπόλλυται ὁ άριθμὸς ὸ δωδέκατος.

legousi toinyn hoti ho dōdekatos aiōn ho en hysterēmati genomenos pantelōs tou arithmou tōn dōdeka exepesen kai apollytai ho arithmos o dōdekatos.

They say, then, that the twelfth aeon, which came to be in deficiency, fell out entirely from the number of the twelve, and the twelfth number is lost.

Notes and citation

Summary: They say the twelfth aeon fell out of the twelve.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): δωδέ- κατος → δωδέκατος.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.35.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:437; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-35-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.35.3Holl GCS 25/31:437

τοῦτο δέ φασι γεγενῆσθαι τῷ τὸν Ἰούδαν, ὄντα δωδέκατον, ἐκπεπτωκέναι καὶ οὕτω τὸν δωδέκατον άριθμὸν ήφανίσθαι· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆς αἱμορροούσης καὶ τῆς τὴν μίαν δραχμὴν ἀπὸ τῶν δέκα δραχμῶν ἀπολεσάσης.

touto de phasi gegenēsthai tǭ ton Ioudan, onta dōdekaton, ekpeptōkenai kai houtō ton dōdekaton arithmon ēphanisthai; homoiōs de kai peri tēs haimorroousēs kai tēs tēn mian drachmēn apo tōn deka drachmōn apolesasēs.

They say this is shown by Judas, being the twelfth, falling away, and so the twelfth number disappeared; and likewise with the woman with the flow of blood, and with the woman who lost one drachma out of ten.

Mark 5:25 (allusion, medium confidence) · Luke 15:8 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: They cite Judas, the woman with the flow of blood and the lost coin.

Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.35.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:437; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-35-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.35.4Holl GCS 25/31:437

δείκνυται δὲ ὅτι οὔτε ὁ δωδέκατος αἰὼν πρόσωπον τοῦ Ἱούδα ἔχειν δυνήσεται, ὡς τῷ ὰγιωτάτῳ Εἰρηναίῳ προείρηται, — Ἰούδας μὲν γὰρ παντελῶς ἀπόλωλεν, ὁ δωδέκατος δὲ λεγόμενος αἰὼν κατὰ τὸ αὐτῶν πλάσμα οὐκ ἐκενώθη· ἔστη γὰρ ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ὁ Μεταγωγεὺς ἢ ὁ Ὀροθέτης, φήσας πρὸς αὐτὸν Ἰαώ, ὡς αὐτοί φασι, καὶ οὕτως ἐστερεώθη, —

deiknytai de hoti oute ho dōdekatos aiōn prosōpon tou Hiouda echein dynēsetai, hōs tǭ agiōtatǭ Eirēnaiǭ proeirētai, — Ioudas men gar pantelōs apolōlen, ho dōdekatos de legomenos aiōn kata to autōn plasma ouk ekenōthē; estē gar enōpion autou ho Metagōgeus ē ho Orothetēs, phēsas pros auton Iaō, hōs autoi phasi, kai houtōs estereōthē, —

But it is shown that the twelfth aeon cannot be represented by Judas, as the most holy Irenaeus has already said — for Judas perished completely, whereas the so-called twelfth aeon, according to their fiction, was not emptied out; for the Transferrer or Limit-setter stood before her, saying 'Iao' to her, as they say, and so she was made firm —

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Summary: Judas perished, but their twelfth aeon was restored, so the comparison fails.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 2.20.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; allusion)

Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.35.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:437; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-35-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.35.5Holl GCS 25/31:437

οὔτε ἡ δώδεκα ἔτεσιν αἱμορροοῦσα τῷ αὐτῶν δράματι ὁμοιωθήσεται· ἐσώθη γὰρ μετὰ δώδεκα ἔτη, ἐν οἶς τῷ αἵματι τῆς ῥύσεως ἐφέρετο. οὐ γὰρ ἐν τοῖς δώδεκα ἔτεσιν ἀπαθὴς διετέλει καὶ έν τῷ δωδεκάτῳ ἔρρευσεν, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον έν τοῖς ἕνδεκα ἔρρει, τῷ δωδεκάτῳ δὲ σέσωσται, —

oute hē dōdeka etesin haimorroousa tǭ autōn dramati homoiōthēsetai; esōthē gar meta dōdeka etē, en ois tǭ haimati tēs rhyseōs ephereto. ou gar en tois dōdeka etesin apathēs dietelei kai en tǭ dōdekatǭ erreusen, alla mallon en tois hendeka errei, tǭ dōdekatǭ de sesōstai, —

nor can the woman with the flow of blood for twelve years be likened to their drama; for she was saved after twelve years, during which she was afflicted with the flow of blood. She did not remain free of suffering for [eleven] years and bleed in the twelfth; rather she bled during the eleven and was saved in the twelfth —

Mark 5:25–29 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The woman was healed after twelve years of illness, which does not fit their scheme.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ἔώδεκα → δώδεκα.

Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.35.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:437; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-35-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.35.6Holl GCS 25/31:437

οὔτε ἡ τὰς δέκα δραχμὰς κεκτημένη ἀπώλεσε τὴν μίαν εἰς τέλος, ἵνα ὁ αἰὼν τῆς ὕλης ἀπολωλὼς μυθεύηται παρʼ αὐτοῖς· ἠψεν γὰρ τὸν λύχνον καὶ ηὑρεν τὴν δραχμήν.

oute hē tas deka drachmas kektēmenē apōlese tēn mian eis telos, hina ho aiōn tēs hylēs apolōlōs mytheuētai parʼ autois; ēpsen gar ton lychnon kai hēuren tēn drachmēn.

nor did the woman who had ten drachmas lose the one for good, so that their aeon of matter could be told as lost; for she lit the lamp and found the drachma.

Luke 15:8–9 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: The woman found her lost coin, so it cannot signify a lost aeon.

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Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): κε- κτημένη → κεκτημένη; ἀπο- λωλὼς → ἀπολωλὼς.

Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.35.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:437; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-35-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 31, chapter 36

31.36.1Holl GCS 25/31:437

36. Ἐκ τοίνυν τῶν δύο λόγων τούτων ἢ τριῶν τὰ πάντα αὐτῶν εὐθὺς καταληφθήσεται δραματουργήματα καὶ ἀδρανῆ καὶ ἔωλα τοῖς τῆς φρονήσεως υἱοῖς καὶ τέκνοις τοῖς] τῆς ἁγίας τοῦ θεοῦ καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας.

36. Ek toinyn tōn dyo logōn toutōn ē triōn ta panta autōn euthys katalēphthēsetai dramatourgēmata kai adranē kai eōla tois tēs phronēseōs huiois kai teknois tois] tēs hagias tou theou katholikēs ekklēsias.

From these two or three arguments, then, all their dramatic inventions will at once be seen to be feeble and stale by the sons of wisdom and the children of God's holy catholic Church.

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Summary: A few arguments expose their fictions to the Church's children.

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Digital text corrected (Repeated word.): καταληφθήσεται καταληφθήσεται → καταληφθήσεται.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.36.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:437; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-36-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.36.2Holl GCS 25/31:437–438

ἵνα γὰρ μὴ κατὰ τῶν αὐτῶν φερόμενος εἰς μῆχος ἄπειρον ἐλάσω τὴν πραγματείαν, ἔως τῆς ἐνταῦθα ὑφηγήσεως ποιησάμενος τὴν ὑπόμνησιν καὶ ἐπιθεὶς πέρας τῇ

hina gar mē kata tōn autōn pheromenos eis mēchos apeiron elasō tēn pragmateian, eōs tēs entautha hyphēgēseōs poiēsamenos tēn hypomnēsin kai epitheis peras tę̄

For lest, by pressing on against the same people, I stretch the treatise to endless length, I will make my mention of them up to the account given here, and put an end to

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Summary: Epiphanius will not prolong the treatise.

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Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ἐν- ταῦθα → ἐνταῦθα.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.36.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:437–438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-36-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.36.3Holl GCS 25/31:438

τοσαύτῃ αὐτῶν μοχθηρίᾳ ἐπὶ τὰς ἑξῆς βαδιοῦμαι, θεὸν ἐπικαλούμενος ὸδηγόν τε καὶ ἐπίκουρον τῆς ἡμῶν ἀσθενείας εἰς τὸ σωθῆναι ἀπὸ ταύτης καὶ τῶν προειρημένων αἱρέσεων καὶ τῶν μελλουσῶν άναδείκνυσθαι τοῖς τε φιλολόγοις καὶ βουλομένοις τὰ ἀκριβῆ εἰδέναι τῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ κενοφωνιῶν τε καὶ ἀσυστάτων δεσμῶν.

tosautę̄ autōn mochthērią epi tas hexēs badioumai, theon epikaloumenos odēgon te kai epikouron tēs hēmōn astheneias eis to sōthēnai apo tautēs kai tōn proeirēmenōn haireseōn kai tōn mellousōn anadeiknysthai tois te philologois kai boulomenois ta akribē eidenai tōn en tǭ kosmǭ kenophōniōn te kai asystatōn desmōn.

their great wickedness, and go on to the next, calling on God as guide and helper of our weakness, that we may be saved from this and the heresies already mentioned and those still to be shown to the studious and to those who wish to know accurately the empty talk and incoherent bonds that are in the world.

Notes and citation

Summary: He moves on, praying for God's help.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.36.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-36-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.36.4Holl GCS 25/31:438

εἰς πολλοὺς γὰρ οὺτος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ὀνειροπολίαν ἐπισπείρας, Γνωστικὸν ἑαυτὸν καλέσας, πολλοὺς ὡς εἰπεῖν σκορπίους εἰς μίαν ἅλυσιν συνέδησεν, ὡς ἡ Παλαιὰ καὶ ἐναργὴς παραβολὴ ὑπάρχει. ὅτι ἅλυσίν τινα οἱ σκορπίοι ἀπὸ ἑνὸς εἰς τὸν ἕτερον δεσμοῦντες ἔως δέκα ἢ καὶ πλείους ἀπὸ στέγης ἢ δώματος ἑαυτοὺς χαλῶσι καὶ οὕτως μετὰ δόλου τὴν λύμην τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἐργάζονται.

eis pollous gar outos tēn heautou oneiropolian epispeiras, Gnōstikon heauton kalesas, pollous hōs eipein skorpious eis mian halysin synedēsen, hōs hē Palaia kai enargēs parabolē hyparchei. hoti halysin tina hoi skorpioi apo henos eis ton heteron desmountes eōs deka ē kai pleious apo stegēs ē dōmatos heautous chalōsi kai houtōs meta dolou tēn lymēn tois anthrōpois ergazontai.

For this man, having sown his dreaming among many and called himself a Gnostic, bound many scorpions, so to speak, into one chain, as the old and vivid parable has it: that scorpions, linking a chain from one to another, ten or even more, let themselves down from a roof or a house, and so work their harm on people by guile.

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Summary: Valentinus linked his followers like a chain of scorpions.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ὰαθτοῦ → ἑαυτοῦ.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.36.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-36-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.36.5Holl GCS 25/31:438

οὕτως καὶ οὑτος καὶ οἱ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ καλούμενοι Γνωστικοὶ τῆς πλάνης ἀρχηγέται γεγόνασι καὶ παρ αὐτοῦ τὰς προφάσεις εἰληφότες ἕκαστος ὑφʼ ἑτέρου μαθητευθεὶς μετὰ τὸν διδάσκαλον προσθήκην τῆς πλάνης εἰργάσατο καὶ ἑτέραν αἵρεσιν εἰσηγήσατο, ἐχομένην τῆς προτέρας.

houtōs kai houtos kai hoi apʼ autou kaloumenoi Gnōstikoi tēs planēs archēgetai gegonasi kai par autou tas prophaseis eilēphotes hekastos hyphʼ heterou mathēteutheis meta ton didaskalon prosthēkēn tēs planēs eirgasato kai heteran hairesin eisēgēsato, echomenēn tēs proteras.

So too he and the so-called Gnostics who came from him became leaders of error; and having taken their pretexts from him, each, taught by another, after his teacher made some addition to the error and introduced another heresy attached to the previous one.

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Summary: Each Gnostic teacher added to his predecessor's error.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.36.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-36-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.36.6Holl GCS 25/31:438

καὶ οὕτω κατὰ διαδοχὴν εἰς διαφόρους αἱρέσεις αὐτοὶ οἱ κληθέντες Γνωστικοὶ ἐμερίσθησαν· παρὰ Οὐαλεντίνου μέντοι ὡς ἕφην καὶ τῶν πρὸ αὐτοῦ τὰς προφάσεις εἰληφότες.

kai houtō kata diadochēn eis diaphorous haireseis autoi hoi klēthentes Gnōstikoi emeristhēsan; para Oualentinou mentoi hōs hephēn kai tōn pro autou tas prophaseis eilēphotes.

And so, in succession, those called Gnostics were divided into different heresies, having taken their pretexts, as I said, from Valentinus and those before him.

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Summary: The Gnostics split into many successive heresies.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.36.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-36-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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31.36.7Holl GCS 25/31:438

ὅμως αἱ προειρημέναι σὺν τῇ τούτου τοῦ Οὐαλεντίνου τῇ τῆς ἀληθείας διδασκαλίᾳ καταπατηθεῖσαι ὑφʼ ἡμῶν παρείσθωσαν, ἡμεῖς δὲ τὰς ἑξῆς ἐν τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ δυνάμει διασκοπήσωμεν.

homōs hai proeirēmenai syn tę̄ toutou tou Oualentinou tę̄ tēs alētheias didaskalią katapatētheisai hyphʼ hēmōn pareisthōsan, hēmeis de tas hexēs en tę̄ tou theou dynamei diaskopēsōmen.

However, let the aforementioned, together with that of this Valentinus, trampled by us with the teaching of the truth, be left aside, and let us examine the next ones in the power of God.

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Summary: Epiphanius closes the Valentinians and moves on.

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Digital text corrected (Repeated word.): Οὐαλεντίνου Οὐαλεντίνου → Οὐαλεντίνου.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 31.36.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-31-36-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 32, chapter 1

32.1.1Holl GCS 25/31:438

Παρελθόντες δὲ τὴν τοῦ Οὐαλεντίνου αἵρεσιν καὶ πολλὰ μοχθήσαντες ἐν τῇ ἀκανθώδει αὐτοῦ σπορᾷ, διὰ πολλοῦ ὡς εἰπεῖν * καμάτου καὶ γεωργικῆς κακοπαθείας, ἐπὶ τὰ λείψανα τῆς ἀκανθώδους αὐτοῦ σπορᾶς καὶ ἑρπετώδους αὐτοῦ θηριομορφίας ἐλευσόμεθα,

Parelthontes de tēn tou Oualentinou hairesin kai polla mochthēsantes en tę̄ akanthōdei autou sporą, dia pollou hōs eipein * kamatou kai geōrgikēs kakopatheias, epi ta leipsana tēs akanthōdous autou sporas kai herpetōdous autou thēriomorphias eleusometha,

Having passed the heresy of Valentinus, and having toiled much in his thorny sowing, with much … labour, so to speak, and a farmer's hardship, we shall come to the remnants of his thorny seed and his reptilian beast-shape,

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

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Summary: Epiphanius turns to the offshoots of Valentinus.

The edition marks a gap (*).

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Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): μοχ- θήσαντες → μοχθήσαντες.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:438; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.1.2Holl GCS 25/31:438–439

τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα αἰτησάμενοι παρὰ κυρίου εἰς τὸ διʼ αὐτοῦ σκεπάσαι τὰς ψυχὰς τῇ ἐν θεῷ διδασκαλίᾳ καὶ σεμνῶ λόγῳ καὶ τοὺς ἰοὺς άνασπάσαι δυνηθῆναι ἀπὸ τῶν οὕτως προειλημμένων.

to hagion pneuma aitēsamenoi para kyriou eis to diʼ autou skepasai tas psychas tę̄ en theǭ didaskalią kai semnō logǭ kai tous ious anaspasai dynēthēnai apo tōn houtōs proeilēmmenōn.

asking the Holy Spirit from the Lord, that through him we may protect souls with the teaching that is in God and with reverent speech, and be able to draw out the venom from those who have thus been seized.

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Summary: He asks the Holy Spirit's help to heal those infected.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): δυνθῆναι → δυνηθῆναι.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:438–439; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.1.3Holl GCS 25/31:439

ἄρξομαι δὲ περὶ τούτων λέγειν κατὰ διαδοχήν τίς τίνος διάδοχος γεγένηται τῶν ἐξ αὐτοῦ ὁρμωμένων καὶ ἑτέραν παρὰ τὴν ἐκείνου σπορὰν διδασκοντων.

arxomai de peri toutōn legein kata diadochēn tis tinos diadochos gegenētai tōn ex autou hormōmenōn kai heteran para tēn ekeinou sporan didaskontōn.

I shall begin to speak of them in succession: who succeeded whom among those who came from him and taught another seed besides his.

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Summary: He will treat Valentinus's successors in order.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:439; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.1.4Holl GCS 25/31:439

Σεκοῦνδος τοίνυν, τὶς ἐξ αὐτῶν ὤν καὶ περισσότερόν τι βουλόμενος φρονῆσαι, τὰ μὲν πάντα κατὰ τὸν Οὐαλεντῖνον ἐξηγεῖται, περισσότερον δὲ ἦχον εἰς ἀκοὰς τῶν ἐμβεβροντῃμένων ἐξήχησεν.

Sekoundos toinyn, tis ex autōn ōn kai perissoteron ti boulomenos phronēsai, ta men panta kata ton Oualentinon exēgeitai, perissoteron de ēchon eis akoas tōn embebrontę̄menōn exēchēsen.

Secundus, then, being one of them and wishing to think something more, explains everything according to Valentinus, but sounded a louder noise in the ears of those who were thunderstruck.

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Summary: Secundus followed Valentinus but added more.

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Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): βουλό- μενος → βουλόμενος.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:439; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.1.5Holl GCS 25/31:439

οὐτος γὰρ κατὰ Οὐαλεντῖνον ὤν ὡς προεῖπον, ὑπὲρ δὲ Οὐαλεντῖνον φρονῶν, λέγει εἶναι τὴν πρώτην Ὀγδοάδα τετράδα δεξιὰν καὶ τετράδα ἀριστερόν, οὕτως παραδιδοὺς καλεῖσθαι τὴν μὲν μίαν φῶς, τὴν δὲ ἄλλην σκότος·

outos gar kata Oualentinon ōn hōs proeipon, hyper de Oualentinon phronōn, legei einai tēn prōtēn Ogdoada tetrada dexian kai tetrada aristeron, houtōs paradidous kaleisthai tēn men mian phōs, tēn de allēn skotos;

For, being of Valentinus's school, as I said, but thinking beyond Valentinus, he says that the first Ogdoad is a right tetrad and a left tetrad, teaching that the one is called light and the other darkness;

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Summary: Secundus divided the first Ogdoad into a right tetrad of light and a left tetrad of darkness.

Cf. Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.2.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; allusion)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:439; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.1.6Holl GCS 25/31:439

τὴν δὲ ἀποστᾶσάν τε καὶ ὑστερήσασαν δύναμιν μὴ εἶναι ἀπὸ τῶν τριάκοντα αἰώνων, ἀλλὰ μετὰ τοὺς τριάκοντα αἰῶνας, ὡς εἶναι ἀπὸ τῶν > μετὰ τὴν Ὀγδοάδα τὴν ἄλλην κατωτέρω γενόμένων.

tēn de apostasan te kai hysterēsasan dynamin mē einai apo tōn triakonta aiōnōn, alla meta tous triakonta aiōnas, hōs einai apo tōn > meta tēn Ogdoada tēn allēn katōterō genomenōn.

and that the power which revolted and fell short was not from the thirty aeons but after the thirty aeons, so that it was from those … that came into being lower down, after the other Ogdoad.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

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Summary: Secundus placed the fallen power outside the thirty aeons.

The edition marks a gap.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): Ὀδοάδα → Ὀγδοάδα.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; allusion)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:439; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.1.7Holl GCS 25/31:439

τὰ δὲ πάντα περὶ Χριστοῦ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων δογμάτων ὡσαύτως τῷ ἰδίῳ χορηγῷ τοῦ ἰοῦ καὶ δοτῆρι τοῦ δηλητηρίου Οὐαλεντίνῳ δογματίζει.

ta de panta peri Christou kai tōn allōn dogmatōn hōsautōs tǭ idiǭ chorēgǭ tou iou kai dotēri tou dēlētēriou Oualentinǭ dogmatizei.

Everything about Christ and the other doctrines he teaches in the same way as Valentinus, his own supplier of venom and giver of poison.

Notes and citation

Summary: Otherwise Secundus follows Valentinus.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:439; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.1.8Holl GCS 25/31:439

μὴ πολλῶν δὲ ὄντων τῶν ὑπὸ τούτου διαφόρως ξενολεκτουμένων ἀρκεσθῆναι μὲν ἡγησάμην δεῖν τοῖς προειρημένοις, ἔχουσι καὶ ἀφʼ ἑαυτῶν τὴν ἀνατροπήν· ὅμως δʼ οὖν καὶ περὶ αὐτοῦ ὀλίγα λέξω, ἴνα μὴ διʼ ἀπορίαν παρεληλυθέναι τὰ κατʼ αὐτὸν δόξω.

mē pollōn de ontōn tōn hypo toutou diaphorōs xenolektoumenōn arkesthēnai men hēgēsamēn dein tois proeirēmenois, echousi kai aphʼ heautōn tēn anatropēn; homōs dʼ oun kai peri autou oliga lexō, ina mē diʼ aporian parelēlythenai ta katʼ auton doxō.

Since the strange things he says differently are not many, I thought I should be content with what has been said already, which carries its own refutation; but I shall still say a little about him, lest I seem to have passed over his views for lack of anything to say.

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Summary: Epiphanius will say a little against Secundus.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ἐρκεσθῆναι → ἀρκεσθῆναι.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:439; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.1.9Holl GCS 25/31:439

εἰ γὰρ τετράδες δεξιαὶ καὶ εὐώνυμοι παρʼ αὐτοῖς τάσσονται, εὑρεθήσεταί τι ζητούμενον μέσον τοῦ τε δεξιοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ.

ei gar tetrades dexiai kai euōnymoi parʼ autois tassontai, heurethēsetai ti zētoumenon meson tou te dexiou kai tou aristerou.

For if right and left tetrads are arranged among them, something will be required in the middle between the right and the left.

Notes and citation

Summary: Right and left imply a middle.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): εὑρε- θήσεταί → εὑρεθήσεταί.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:439; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.1.10Holl GCS 25/31:439

πᾶν γὰρ ὁτιοῦν δεξιὰς ἔχον καὶ εὐωνύμους τάξεις μέσον ἕστηκε τῶν εὐωνύμων αὐτοῦ καὶ δεξιῶν καὶ οὐδαμοῦ δυνήσεται εἶναι δεξιὰ ἢ ἀριστερά, εἰ μή τι ἂν ἐκ μεσολαβοῦντος σώματος ἑκατέρου μέρους ἡ διάκρισις γένοιτο.

pan gar hotioun dexias echon kai euōnymous taxeis meson hestēke tōn euōnymōn autou kai dexiōn kai oudamou dynēsetai einai dexia ē aristera, ei mē ti an ek mesolabountos sōmatos hekaterou merous hē diakrisis genoito.

For anything that has right and left ranks stands in the middle of its left and right, and there can nowhere be right or left unless the distinction of each side arises from a body in between.

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Summary: Left and right exist only relative to something in the middle.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): εὐω- νύμων → εὐωνύμων; ἀρι- στερά → ἀριστερά.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:439; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.1.11Holl GCS 25/31:439–440

ἄρα οὖν, ὦ ἀνόητε Σεκοῦνδε καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ σοῦ ἠπατημένοι, τὸ μεσαίτατον ἀφʼ οὐπερ καὶ ἀριστερὰ καὶ δεξιὰ ὑποπίπτουσιν, ἔσται ἔν τι καὶ οὐ δυνήσεται ἀλλότριον εἶναι τοῦ ἑνός τινος τὸ ἐξ αὐτοῦ ὑποπῖπτον δεξιόν τε καὶ εὐώνυμον, καὶ ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἀναχθήσεται τὸ πᾶν εἰς τὸ ἕν ὄν, οὗ ἀνώτατον οὐδὲ ἴν ἐστιν οὔτε ὑποβεβηκὸς οὔτε κατώτατον, εἰ μὴ τὰ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ ἐκτισμένα.

ara oun, ō anoēte Sekounde kai hoi apo sou ēpatēmenoi, to mesaitaton aphʼ ouper kai aristera kai dexia hypopiptousin, estai en ti kai ou dynēsetai allotrion einai tou henos tinos to ex autou hypopipton dexion te kai euōnymon, kai ex anankēs anachthēsetai to pan eis to hen on, hou anōtaton oude in estin oute hypobebēkos oute katōtaton, ei mē ta hypʼ autou ektismena.

So then, foolish Secundus, and you who have been deceived by him, the very middle, from which left and right both come, will be some one thing, and the right and left that come from it cannot be foreign to that one; and of necessity everything will be traced back to the One who is, above whom there is nothing, and nothing beneath or lowest except what he has created.

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Summary: Left and right lead back to one God above all.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.; Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ἠπατη- μένοι → ἠπατημένοι; ἐξ αἰτοῦ → ἐξ αὐτοῦ.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:439–440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.1.13Holl GCS 25/31:440

καὶ ἔσται τοῦτο φανερὸν τοῖς τὴν ἀλήθειαν καταμανθάνουσιν, ὅτι εἶς θεός ἐστιν. καὶ καὶ υἱὸς καὶ ἅγιον πνεῦμα. εἰ δὲ εἶς θεός ἐστιν, ἐξ οὗ τὰ παντα, οὔτε τι ἀριστερόν ἐστιν ἐν αὐτῷ οὔτε ἐλάττωμα ἕτερον οὔτε τι ὑποβεβηκός, πλὴν τῶν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ ἐκτισμένων. τὰ δὲ μετὰ πατέρα καὶ υἱὸν καὶ ἄγιον πνεῦμα πάντα καλῶς ἐκτισμένα καὶ εἰς σύστασιν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ ἀφθόνως εὖ] προεληγυθότα.

kai estai touto phaneron tois tēn alētheian katamanthanousin, hoti eis theos estin. kai kai huios kai hagion pneuma. ei de eis theos estin, ex hou ta panta, oute ti aristeron estin en autǭ oute elattōma heteron oute ti hypobebēkos, plēn tōn hypʼ autou ektismenōn. ta de meta patera kai huion kai agion pneuma panta kalōs ektismena kai eis systasin hypʼ autou aphthonōs eu] proelēgythota.

And this will be plain to those who learn the truth: that there is one God, [Father,] Son and Holy Spirit. And if there is one God, from whom are all things, there is nothing left-handed in him, no other deficiency, nothing lower, except what he has created. And everything after Father, Son and Holy Spirit has been well created and has come into existence from him generously.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

1 Cor 8:6 (echo, medium confidence)

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Summary: There is one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with no deficiency; all else is his good creation.

There is no 32.1.12 in the digital text. 'Father' is supplied where the text repeats καί; the editor deletes εὖ ('well') at the end.

Topics: Heresy, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.1.13 (Holl GCS 25/31:440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-1-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 32, chapter 2

32.2.1Holl GCS 25/31:440

2. Εἰ δὲ καὶ πάλιν ἐρεῖ ὁ τοιοῦτος ἡμῖν προελθὼν ἕτερος ὄφις, ὅτι τὰ μὲν δεξιὰ καὶ εὐώνυμα ἐκτὸς τοῦ ἑνὸς ὑπάρχει, αὐτὸς δὲ μεσαίτατός ἐστιν καὶ ἑαυτῷ μὲν προσάγεται τὰ δεξιὰ καὶ χαίρει τούτοις, δεξιὰ δὲ ταῦτα καλεῖ καὶ φῶς, τὰ δὲ εὐώνυμα ὡς ἀλλότρία αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ ἀριστερᾷ κείμενα ἀπωθεῖται, λεγέτω μοι πόθεν λαμβάνει ταύτην τὴν γεωμετρίαν, ἵνα καλῶς ῥυθμίσῃ ἀμετάστατον δεξιάν τε καὶ εὐώνυμον.

2. Ei de kai palin erei ho toioutos hēmin proelthōn heteros ophis, hoti ta men dexia kai euōnyma ektos tou henos hyparchei, autos de mesaitatos estin kai heautǭ men prosagetai ta dexia kai chairei toutois, dexia de tauta kalei kai phōs, ta de euōnyma hōs allotria autou kai epi aristerą keimena apōtheitai, legetō moi pothen lambanei tautēn tēn geōmetrian, hina kalōs rhythmisę̄ ametastaton dexian te kai euōnymon.

And if such a one, another serpent come forth, tells us again that the right and left are outside the One, but he himself is in the very middle and draws the right to himself and rejoices in them, calling them right and light, and pushes away the left as foreign to him and lying on the left, let him tell me where he gets this geometry, so as to fix a right and left that do not change.

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Summary: Epiphanius asks where the heretic gets a fixed right and left.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.; Word split by a line-end hyphen.; Word split in the digital text.): τού τοις → τούτοις; γεγέτω → λεγέτω; λαμ- βάνει → λαμβάνει.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.2.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.2.2Holl GCS 25/31:440

παρʼ ἡμῖν γὰρ δεξιὰ εἰκότως ὀνομάζεται ῆτοι ἀριστερὰ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν τῷ σώματι πεπηγμένων μελῶν, ἐν οἱς οὐδέποτε ἐναλλαγὴ γίνεται.

parʼ hēmin gar dexia eikotōs onomazetai ētoi aristera apo tōn en tǭ sōmati pepēgmenōn melōn, en hois oudepote enallagē ginetai.

For among us 'right' or 'left' is properly named from the limbs fixed in the body, in which no exchange ever takes place.

Notes and citation

Summary: Right and left are fixed only for the limbs of a body.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.2.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.2.3Holl GCS 25/31:440

τὰ δὲ ἐκτὸς ἡμῶν δύναται εἶναι ποτὲ μὲν δεξιά, ποτὲ δὲ εὐώνυμα. παντὶ μὲν γὰρ τῷ ὁρῶντι κατὰ ἀνατολὴν νότος εἴτʼ οὖν μεσημβρία δεξιὰ κληθήσεται. τὸ κλίμα δὲ τὸ βόρειον ἤτοι ἀρκτῷον ἀριστερόν.

ta de ektos hēmōn dynatai einai pote men dexia, pote de euōnyma. panti men gar tǭ horōnti kata anatolēn notos eitʼ oun mesēmbria dexia klēthēsetai. to klima de to boreion ētoi arktǭon aristeron.

But things outside us can be sometimes right and sometimes left. For to anyone facing east, the south, or midday, will be called right, and the northern or arctic region left.

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Summary: Outside the body, right and left depend on which way one faces.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ἀνα- τολὴν → ἀνατολὴν.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.2.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.2.4Holl GCS 25/31:440

τὸ δὲ ἀνάπαλιν ἐπὶ τὰ δυτικὰ μέρη ἀναστραφέντος ἀνθρώπου τινὸς εὑρεθήσεται ἑτερωνύμως τὰ κλίματα· ὅπερ πρὸ ὥρας δεξιὸν ὑπῆρχεν νότιόν τε καὶ μεσημβρινόν, εἰς ἀριστερὰ αὖθις μεταβαλλόμενον, καὶ τὸ εἰς ἀριστερὰν τοῦ τινος κεκλιμένον ἀνθρώπου εἴτʼ οὖν ἀρκτῷον εἴτ οὖν βόρειον κλίμα, εἰς δεξιὰν αὐτοῦ μεταβαλλόμενον.

to de anapalin epi ta dytika merē anastraphentos anthrōpou tinos heurethēsetai heterōnymōs ta klimata; hoper pro hōras dexion hypērchen notion te kai mesēmbrinon, eis aristera authis metaballomenon, kai to eis aristeran tou tinos keklimenon anthrōpou eitʼ oun arktǭon eit oun boreion klima, eis dexian autou metaballomenon.

But conversely, when a person turns round towards the west, the regions will be found named the other way: what a moment ago was right, the south or midday, is changed to the left, and the region on a person's left, the arctic or northern, is changed to his right.

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Summary: Turning around reverses right and left.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.; Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ἀνθρώπους τινὸς → ἀνθρώπου τινὸς; κεκλι- μένον → κεκλιμένον.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.2.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.2.5Holl GCS 25/31:440

ποῦ τοίνυν ὁ ἀπατεὼν ἐξῃῦρεν ἑαυτῷ τὴν κατὰ θεὸν γεωμετρίαν; κοὶ ὦ τῆς τοιαύτης πολλῆς γηρολογίας τῆς τὰ πάντα συγχεούσης.

pou toinyn ho apateōn exę̄uren heautǭ tēn kata theon geōmetrian? koi ō tēs toiautēs pollēs gērologias tēs ta panta syncheousēs.

Where, then, did the deceiver find for himself a geometry applying to God? Oh, such great babbling that confuses everything!

Notes and citation

Summary: Such geometry cannot apply to God.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): συγχεύύσης → συγχεούσης.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.2.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:440; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.2.6Holl GCS 25/31:440–441

φάσκει δὲ τὸ ὑστέρημα μετὰ τοὺς τρίακοντα αἰῶνας γεγενῆσθαι. πόθεν ἄρα τὴν τοῦ γστερήματος φύσιν κατείληφας, ὠ οὑτος, ἢ τὴν ἀποστᾶσαν δύναμιν, λέγε;

phaskei de to hysterēma meta tous triakonta aiōnas gegenēsthai. pothen ara tēn tou gsterēmatos physin kateilēphas, ō houtos, ē tēn apostasan dynamin, lege?

He declares that the deficiency came into being after the thirty aeons. Where did you grasp the nature of the deficiency, you there, or of the power that revolted? Tell me!

Notes and citation

Summary: Epiphanius challenges Secundus's account of the deficiency.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.; Word split by a line-end hyphen.): τὸ γστέρημα → τὸ ὑστέρημα; κατεί- ληφας → κατείληφας.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.2.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:440–441; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.2.7Holl GCS 25/31:441

εἰ μὲν γὰρ εὺρες ταύτην ἀπὸ βλαστήματος τῶν ἄνω *, οὐ κτιστὴν ἀλλὰ γεννητήν, ἐπειδὴ σοί τε καὶ τῷ σου ἐπιστάτῃ οὐκ ἐκτισμένα τὰ κτιστὰ ὸρί- ζεται, ἀλλὰ γεννητὰ καὶ ἀπὸ μετουσίας, ἑκάστης φύσεως παρʼ ἑκάστης λαβούσης, τὰ σύθις γεννώμενα * ἀναφῦναι), ἄρα γε κατὰ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ λόγον κατὰ σαυτοῦ ὁπλίζῃ.

ei men gar eures tautēn apo blastēmatos tōn anō *, ou ktistēn alla gennētēn, epeidē soi te kai tǭ sou epistatę̄ ouk ektismena ta ktista ori- zetai, alla gennēta kai apo metousias, hekastēs physeōs parʼ hekastēs labousēs, ta sythis gennōmena * anaphynai), ara ge kata ton heautou logon kata sautou hoplizę̄.

For if you found it to be from a shoot of those above …, not created but begotten — since for you and your master created things are not defined as created but as begotten and by participation, each nature receiving from another, so that the things begotten in turn … spring up — then by your own argument you arm yourself against yourself.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Notes and citation

Summary: If the deficiency sprang from the higher beings, Secundus refutes himself.

The edition marks gaps (*).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ὐπλίζῃ → ὁπλίζῃ.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.2.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:441; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-2-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.2.8Holl GCS 25/31:441

εἰ γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν ἄνω καὶ ὴ ὑστέρα δύναμις καὶ ἡ ἀποστασία γεγένηται, ἔφυ δὲ ὡς εἰπεῖν καὶ ἐβλάστησεν, μετέχει ἄρα τῶν ἄνω χαρισμάτων, ἐπειδὴ τῷ Πληρώματι ἡ ὑστέρα καὶ τὸ Πλήρωμα τῇ ὑστέρᾳ, καὶ οὐδὲν διενεχθήσεται τοῦτο πρὸς ἐκεῖνο οὔτε ἐκεῖνο πρὸς τοῦτο, ἑκατέρων κατὰ τὰ τέρματα ἀλλήλοις ἐπικονωνούντων.

ei gar apo tōn anō kai ē hystera dynamis kai hē apostasia gegenētai, ephy de hōs eipein kai eblastēsen, metechei ara tōn anō charismatōn, epeidē tǭ Plērōmati hē hystera kai to Plērōma tę̄ hysterą, kai ouden dienechthēsetai touto pros ekeino oute ekeino pros touto, hekaterōn kata ta termata allēlois epikonōnountōn.

For if the later power and the revolt came from those above, and grew, so to speak, and sprouted, then it shares in the gifts above, since the later is [joined] to the Pleroma and the Pleroma to the later, and there will be no difference between this and that, both communicating with each other at their boundaries.

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Summary: Then the deficiency would share the Pleroma's gifts and not differ from it.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.2.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:441; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-2-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.2.9Holl GCS 25/31:441

καὶ ἐκ παντὸς λόγου διελεγχθήσῃ ἐξ ἐπισπορᾶς δαίμονος ἔχων τὴν τῆς πλάνης σου βόσκησιν, πάντων ἐλεεινῶν ἐλεεινότατε.

kai ek pantos logou dielenchthēsę̄ ex episporas daimonos echōn tēn tēs planēs sou boskēsin, pantōn eleeinōn eleeinotate.

And by every argument you will be convicted of having the pasture of your error from a demon's sowing, most pitiable of all pitiable men.

Notes and citation

Summary: Secundus's error comes from a demon.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.2.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:441; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-2-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 32, chapter 3

32.3.1Holl GCS 25/31:441

3. Ἴνα δὲ μὴ παραλείψωμέν τι τῶν παρά τισιν γινομένων τε καὶ λεγομένων, κἄν τε ἐν ἑκάστῃ· πολλοὶ εἶεν οἱ ἔξαρχοι καὶ αὐχοῦντες ἔτερα ἀνθʼ ἑτέρων ὑπὲρ τοὺς αὐτῶν διδασκάλους μυθοποιεῖσθαι, ἔτι ἐπιμενῶ ὑφηγούμενος τοὺς έν αὐτῇ τῇ αἱρέσει ὄντας, ἔτερα δὲ παρὰ τούτους λέγοντας,

3. Ina de mē paraleipsōmen ti tōn para tisin ginomenōn te kai legomenōn, kan te en hekastę̄; polloi eien hoi exarchoi kai auchountes etera anthʼ heterōn hyper tous autōn didaskalous mythopoieisthai, eti epimenō hyphēgoumenos tous en autę̄ tę̄ hairesei ontas, etera de para toutous legontas,

So that we may not omit anything that is done and said by some — even if in each [heresy] there may be many leaders boasting that they invent other myths in place of others, beyond their own teachers — I will continue describing those within this same heresy who say other things than these,

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Summary: Epiphanius will describe others within this sect.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): αὐ- χοῦντες → αὐχοῦντες.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.3.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:441; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-3-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.3.2Holl GCS 25/31:441–442

φημὶ δὲ περὶ Ἐπιφάνους τοῦ Ἰσιδώρου, ἐκ προφάσεως παραινετικῶν ῥημάτων ἑαυτὸν ἔτι εἰς περισσότερον βυθὸν ταλαιπωρίας καταγαγόντος, τἀληθῆ μὲν εἰπεῖν ἀπὸ Καρποκράτους τοῦ ἰδίου πατρὸς κατὰ σάρκα εἰληφότος τὰς προφάσεις, συνημμένου δὲ τῇ αἱρέσει τοῦ προειρημένου Σεκούνδου καὶ αὐτοῦ τῶν Σεκουνδιανῶν ὑπάρχοντος.

phēmi de peri Epiphanous tou Isidōrou, ek prophaseōs parainetikōn rhēmatōn heauton eti eis perissoteron bython talaipōrias katagagontos, talēthē men eipein apo Karpokratous tou idiou patros kata sarka eilēphotos tas prophaseis, synēmmenou de tę̄ hairesei tou proeirēmenou Sekoundou kai autou tōn Sekoundianōn hyparchontos.

I mean Epiphanes [and] Isidore: Epiphanes, who on the pretext of hortatory sayings led himself into a still deeper depth of misery, having, to tell the truth, taken his pretexts from Carpocrates, his own father according to the flesh, but joined to the heresy of the aforementioned Secundus and himself one of the Secundians.

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Summary: Epiphanes, son of Carpocrates, joined Secundus's heresy.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): Ἰσι- δώρου → Ἰσιδώρου.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.3.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:441–442; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.3.3Holl GCS 25/31:442

πολλὴ γὰρ ἑκάστου τῶν πεπλανημένων πρὸς τὸν ἔτερον διαφορὰ καὶ συρφετώδης ὡς εἰπεῖν πολυμιξία κενοφωνίας.

pollē gar hekastou tōn peplanēmenōn pros ton eteron diaphora kai syrphetōdēs hōs eipein polymixia kenophōnias.

For there is much difference of each of those led astray from the other, and a rubbish-heap mixture of empty talk, so to speak.

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Summary: The heretics differ widely among themselves.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): πεπλανη- μένων → πεπλανημένων.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.3.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:442; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.3.4Holl GCS 25/31:442

οὑτος γὰρ ὁ Ἐπιφάνης, ὡς ἔφην, υἱὸς ὤν Καρποκράτους, μητρὸς δὲ Ἀλεξανδρείας οὕτω καλουμένης, τούτοις ὡς προεῖπον συνάπτεται· ἀπὸ Κεφαλληνίας μὲν τὸ πρὸς πατρὸς γένος ὤν, ἑπτακαιδεκαετῆ <δὲ> βιώσας χρόνον θᾶττον τὸν κατέστρεψεν, τοῦ κυρίου ὥσπερ ἀκάνθας τοὺς φαύλους ἀπαλλάσσοντος, κρεῖττόν τι περὶ τῆς οἰκουμένης προνοοῦντος.

houtos gar ho Epiphanēs, hōs ephēn, huios ōn Karpokratous, mētros de Alexandreias houtō kaloumenēs, toutois hōs proeipon synaptetai; apo Kephallēnias men to pros patros genos ōn, heptakaidekaetē <de> biōsas chronon thatton ton katestrepsen, tou kyriou hōsper akanthas tous phaulous apallassontos, kreitton ti peri tēs oikoumenēs pronoountos.

For this Epiphanes, as I said, being the son of Carpocrates and of a mother called Alexandria, is linked to these, as I said before. On his father's side he was from Cephallenia; he lived seventeen years and died quickly, the Lord removing the wicked like thorns and providing something better for the world.

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Summary: Epiphanes, from Cephallenia, died at seventeen.

Cf. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.2.5.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slips.; Word split by a line-end hyphen.): Καρ- ποκράτους → Καρποκράτους; Ἀλξανθρείας → Ἀλεξανδρείας.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.2.5 (Miscellanies; allusion)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.3.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:442; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-3-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.3.5Holl GCS 25/31:442

μετὰ δὲ τὴν αὐτοῦ τελευτὴν οἱ πρὸς αὐτοῦ πεπλανημένοι τῆς ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ πληγῆς οὐκ ἀπέσχοντο.

meta de tēn autou teleutēn hoi pros autou peplanēmenoi tēs apʼ autou plēgēs ouk apeschonto.

But after his death, those he had led astray did not refrain from the blow he dealt.

Notes and citation

Summary: His followers continued after his death.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.3.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:442; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-3-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.3.6Holl GCS 25/31:442

ἐν Σάμῳ γὰρ ὡς θεὸς ἔτι καὶ εἰς δεῦρο τιμᾶται· τέμενος γὰρ αὐτῷ ἱδρύσαντες οἱ ἐπιχώριοι θυσίας καὶ τελετὰς ἐπιτελοῦσι κατὰ νεομηνίαν, βωμοὺς δὲ αὐτῷ ἔστησαν καὶ μουσεῖον εἰς ὅνομα αὐτοῦ περίπυστον ἀνεστήσαντο, τὸ δὴ Ἐπιφάνους μουσεῖον καλούμενον.

en Samǭ gar hōs theos eti kai eis deuro timatai; temenos gar autǭ hidrysantes hoi epichōrioi thysias kai teletas epitelousi kata neomēnian, bōmous de autǭ estēsan kai mouseion eis honoma autou peripyston anestēsanto, to dē Epiphanous mouseion kaloumenon.

For in Same he is still honoured as a god to this day: the inhabitants built him a sacred precinct and perform sacrifices and rites at each new moon; they set up altars to him and erected a famous hall of the Muses in his name, called the Museum of Epiphanes.

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Summary: Epiphanes was worshipped as a god at Same in Cephallenia.

Same (Σάμη) is a town on Cephallenia; the digital text reads Σάμῳ (Samos), but the context requires Cephallenia (cf. Clement, Miscellanies 3.2.5).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): τέμε- νος → τέμενος; καλού- μενον → καλούμενον.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.2.5 (Miscellanies; allusion)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.3.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:442; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-3-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.3.7Holl GCS 25/31:442

θύουσι γὰρ αὐτῷ οἱ Κεφαλλῆνες εἰς τοσαύτην πλάνην ἐληλακότες καὶ σπένδουσι καὶ ἐν τῷ ἰδρυμένῳ αὐτοῦ τεμένει εὐωχοῦνται ὔμνους τε αὐτῷ ᾄδουσι.

thyousi gar autǭ hoi Kephallēnes eis tosautēn planēn elēlakotes kai spendousi kai en tǭ idrymenǭ autou temenei euōchountai ymnous te autǭ ądousi.

For the Cephallenians, having gone so far into error, sacrifice to him and pour libations, feast in the precinct built for him and sing hymns to him.

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Summary: The Cephallenians sacrifice and sing hymns to Epiphanes.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ἐλη- λακότες → ἐληλακότες.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.3.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:442; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-3-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.3.8Holl GCS 25/31:442

διʼ ὑπερβολὴν δὲ τῆς ἐκείνου παιδείας, ἐγκυκλίου τε καὶ Πλατωνικῆς, ἡ πᾶσα τοῖς προειρημένοις κατά τε τὴν αἵρεσιν καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἑτέραν πλάνην, λέγω <δὲ> τὴν εἰς μανίαν τοὺς ἐπιχωρίους τρέψασαν, γέγονεν ἀπ΄ αὐτοῦ άπάτη.

diʼ hyperbolēn de tēs ekeinou paideias, enkykliou te kai Platōnikēs, hē pasa tois proeirēmenois kata te tēn hairesin kai kata tēn heteran planēn, legō <de> tēn eis manian tous epichōrious trepsasan, gegonen ap΄ autou apatē.

Because of the excellence of his education, both general and Platonic, the whole deception came about from him, for the aforementioned both in the heresy and in the other error, I mean the one that turned the locals to madness.

Notes and citation

Summary: His learning enabled both the heresy and the local cult.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.3.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:442; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-3-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.3.9Holl GCS 25/31:442–443

συνήπτετο γοῦν οὖτος ὁ Ἐπιφάνης Σεκούνδῳ καὶ τοῖς ἀμφʼ αὐτόν. τὴν γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἰοβολίαν ἀπεμάξατο, λέγω > τὴν τῆς ἀδικούσης ἑρπετώδους φθορᾶς περιττολογίαν.

synēpteto goun outos ho Epiphanēs Sekoundǭ kai tois amphʼ auton. tēn gar autou iobolian apemaxato, legō > tēn tēs adikousēs herpetōdous phthoras perittologian.

This Epiphanes, at any rate, was joined to Secundus and those around him; for he copied his venom, I mean … the superfluous talk of harmful, snake-like corruption.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Notes and citation

Summary: Epiphanes copied Secundus's teaching.

The edition marks a gap.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): συνήπ- τετο → συνήπτετο.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.3.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:442–443; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-3-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 32, chapter 4

32.4.1Holl GCS 25/31:443

4. Ἰσίδωρον δὲ φάσκουσιν ἐν παραινέσεσι τῆς αὐτοῦ μοχθηρίας αἴτιον γεγενῆσθαι. εἰ δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς τὰ ἴσα φρονῶν καὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν ὁρμώμενος ἐτύγχανεν ἢ ἐκ φιλοσόφων μαθὼν παραινετικός τις καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπῆρχεν, οὐ πάνυ σαφῶς περὶ τοῦ Ἰσιδώρου γνῶναι ἠδυνήθημεν. πλὴν οὑτοι πάντες καττύουσι τὴν ἴσην πραγματείαν.

4. Isidōron de phaskousin en parainesesi tēs autou mochthērias aition gegenēsthai. ei de kai autos ta isa phronōn kai ex autōn hormōmenos etynchanen ē ek philosophōn mathōn parainetikos tis kai autos hypērchen, ou pany saphōs peri tou Isidōrou gnōnai ēdynēthēmen. plēn houtoi pantes kattyousi tēn isēn pragmateian.

They say that Isidore, in his Exhortations, was the cause of his wickedness. But whether Isidore too held the same views and came from them, or was himself a moralist who had learned from philosophers, we have not been able to know clearly. At any rate, all these stitch together the same business.

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Summary: Isidore's role is unclear, but all these share the same teaching.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): Ἰσιδώ- ρου → Ἰσιδώρου.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.4.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:443; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-4-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.4.2Holl GCS 25/31:443

Πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ἐνομοθέτει αὐτὸς ὀ Ἐπιφάνης σὺν τῷ αὐτοῦ πατρί τε καὶ προστάτῃ τῆς αἱρέσεως Καρποκράτει καὶ τοῖς ἀμφʼ αὐτὸν κοινὰς εἰναι τὰς τῶν άνθρώπων γυναῖκας, ἔκ τε τῶν Πλάτωνος Πολιτειῶν τὴν πρόφασιν λαβὼν καὶ τὴν ἰδίαν ἐπιθυμίαν ἐκτελῶν.

Prōton men oun enomothetei autos o Epiphanēs syn tǭ autou patri te kai prostatę̄ tēs haireseōs Karpokratei kai tois amphʼ auton koinas einai tas tōn anthrōpōn gynaikas, ek te tōn Platōnos Politeiōn tēn prophasin labōn kai tēn idian epithymian ektelōn.

First, then, Epiphanes himself, with his father and the leader of the heresy, Carpocrates, and those around him, laid down that men's wives should be held in common, taking his pretext from Plato's Republic and fulfilling his own desire.

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Summary: Epiphanes taught that wives should be held in common, citing Plato's Republic.

A hostile report; cf. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.2.5–10.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Two words run together.; Word split by a line-end hyphen.): άμφαύτὸν → ἀμφʼ αὐτὸν; Πλά- τωνος → Πλάτωνος.

Extrabiblical texts: Plato, Resp. 457c (Plato (works); allusion); Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.2.5 (Miscellanies; allusion)

Topics: Heresy, Marriage, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.4.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:443; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-4-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.4.3Holl GCS 25/31:443

ἐντεῦθεν δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν ποιεῖται λέγων, ὡς έν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ ἐκφέρεται τοῦ σωτῆρος φάσκοντος τρεῖς μὲν εὐνούχους εἶναι τόν τε ἐξ άνθρώπων εύνουχιζόμενον καὶ τὸν ἐκ γεννητῆς καὶ τὸν διὰ τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν ἑαυτὸν ἑκουσίως εὐνουχίσαντα, καί φησιν·

enteuthen de tēn archēn poieitai legōn, hōs en tǭ euangeliǭ ekpheretai tou sōtēros phaskontos treis men eunouchous einai ton te ex anthrōpōn eunouchizomenon kai ton ek gennētēs kai ton dia tēn basileian tōn ouranōn heauton hekousiōs eunouchisanta, kai phēsin;

He [Isidore] starts from this, saying: as it is set out in the Gospel, the Saviour says that there are three eunuchs — the one made a eunuch by men, the one from birth, and the one who willingly made himself a eunuch for the kingdom of heaven — and he says:

Matt 19:12 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Isidore starts from Jesus's saying about three kinds of eunuchs.

The following comes from Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.1.1, where Clement quotes Basilides' followers and Isidore. Alluding to Matt 19:12.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ἐξφέρεται → ἐκφέρεται.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.1.1 (Miscellanies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy, Marriage

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.4.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:443; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-4-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.4.4Holl GCS 25/31:443

»οἱ τοίνυν κατὰ ἀνάγκη, οὐ κατὰ λόγον εὐνοῦχοι γίνονται. οἶ δὲ ἕνεκα τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν ἑαυτοὺς εὐνουχίσαντες, διὰ τὰ ἐκ τοῦ γάμου συμβαίνοντα, φασί, τὸν ἐπιλογισμὸν τοῦτον λαμβάνουσιν, τὴν περὶ τὸν πορτ- > τῶν ἐπιτηδείων ἀσχολίαν δεδιότες.

»hoi toinyn kata anankē, ou kata logon eunouchoi ginontai. oi de heneka tēs basileias tōn ouranōn heautous eunouchisantes, dia ta ek tou gamou symbainonta, phasi, ton epilogismon touton lambanousin, tēn peri ton port- > tōn epitēdeiōn ascholian dediotes.

"Those, then, who are eunuchs by necessity are not so by reason. But those who made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven," they say, "take up this reasoning because of what comes with marriage, fearing the busy concern of providing … necessities."

Matt 19:12 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Those who renounce marriage do so to avoid its cares.

Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.1.1. A word is broken off (πορτ-, probably πορισμόν, 'providing').

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): βασιλέας → βασιλείας; ἐκ κοῦ γάμου → ἐκ τοῦ γάμου.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.1.1 (Miscellanies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy, Marriage

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.4.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:443; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-4-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.4.5Holl GCS 25/31:443

καὶ <καὶ τῷ> »βέλτιον γαμῆσαι ἢ πυροῦσθαι, μὴ εἰς πῦρ ἐμβάλῃς τὴν ψυχήν σου«, φησὶ λέγειν τὸν ἀπό- στολον· ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτὸς ἀντέχων καὶ φοβούμενος, μὴ τῆς ἐγκρατείας ἀποπέσῃς. πρὸς γὰρ τὸ ἀντέχειν γινομένη ψυχὴ μερίζεται τῆς ἐλπίδος«.

kai <kai tǭ> »beltion gamēsai ē pyrousthai, mē eis pyr embalę̄s tēn psychēn sou«, phēsi legein ton apo- stolon; hēmeras kai nyktos antechōn kai phoboumenos, mē tēs enkrateias apopesę̄s. pros gar to antechein ginomenē psychē merizetai tēs elpidos«.

And ⟨by⟩ 'It is better to marry than to burn', he says the apostle means: "Do not cast your soul into the fire, resisting night and day and fearing lest you fall from continence. For a soul occupied with resisting is cut off from hope."

1 Cor 7:9 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Isidore reads 'better to marry than to burn' as advice not to struggle endlessly against desire.

Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.1.1–2, quoting 1 Cor 7:9. The wording is somewhat garbled in the digital text.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.1.2 (Miscellanies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy, Marriage

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.4.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:443; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-4-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.4.6Holl GCS 25/31:443–444

»ἀντέχου τοίνυν« ὡς ἤδη προεῖπον, τῆς παραινέσεως εἰς μέσον φέρων τὸν λόγον φησὶ κατὰ λέξιν ὁ Ἰσίδωρος ἐν τοῖς Ἠθικοῖς ἀποσπερματίσας εὐσυνειδήτως προσεύχου. ὅταν δέ, φησίν, ἠ εὐχαριστία ΣΟΥ εῖς αἴτησιν ὑποπέσῃ καὶ στῇς <εὶς> τὸ λοιπόν, οὐ κατορθώσας, [μὴ] αφαλῆναι, γάμησον«.

»antechou toinyn« hōs ēdē proeipon, tēs paraineseōs eis meson pherōn ton logon phēsi kata lexin ho Isidōros en tois Ēthikois apospermatisas eusyneidētōs proseuchou. hotan de, phēsin, ē eucharistia SOU eis aitēsin hypopesę̄ kai stę̄s <eis> to loipon, ou katorthōsas, [mē] aphalēnai, gamēson«.

"Hold out, then," as I said before — bringing into the open the text of his exhortation, Isidore says word for word in his Ethics — "[against a quarrelsome woman,] and having discharged your seed, pray with a good conscience. But when," he says, "your thanksgiving sinks into a petition, and for the future you stand not to succeed [but only not] to fall, marry."

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Summary: Isidore's Ethics advises marriage when prayer turns into a struggle against desire.

Isidore, Ethics, as quoted in Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.1.2. The digital text has lost words; the bracketed words follow Clement's text. The editor's square brackets around μή ('not') are noted; the sense follows Clement. Translated exactly as quoted.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.1.2 (Miscellanies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy, Marriage, Prayer

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.4.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:443–444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-4-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.4.7Holl GCS 25/31:444

εἶτα πάλιν φησίν «ἀλλὰ νέος τις ἤ πένης ἐστὶν ἤ κατωφερὴς (τουτέστιν ἀσθενὴς) καὶ οὐ θέλει γῆμαι κατὰ τὸν λόγον, οὖτος τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ μὴ χωριζέσθω«.

eita palin phēsin «alla neos tis ē penēs estin ē katōpherēs (toutestin asthenēs) kai ou thelei gēmai kata ton logon, outos tou adelphou mē chōrizesthō«.

Then again he says, "But if someone is young, or poor, or of a downward inclination (that is, weak), and does not wish to marry according to the word, let him not separate himself from his brother."

Notes and citation

Summary: One who is weak but will not marry should stay close to his brother.

Isidore, as quoted in Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.1.2.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.1.2 (Miscellanies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy, Marriage

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.4.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-4-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.4.8Holl GCS 25/31:444

αἰσχρὰς δέ τινας ὑπονοίας ἑαυτῷ προσποριζόμενος δραματουργεῖ ὁ τάλας »λεγέτω« <γάρ> φησιν »ὅτι εἰσελήλυθα ὲγὼ εῖς τὰ ἄγια, οὐδὲν δύναμαι παθεῖν«. ἀὰν δὲ ὑπόνοταν ἔχῃ, εῖπάτω· ἀδελφέ, ἐπίθες μοι χεῖρα, ἴνα μὴ ἀμαρτήσω, καὶ λήψεται βοήθειαν καὶ νοητὴν καὶ αἰσθητήν. θελησάτω μόνον ἀπαρτίσαι τὸ καλὸν καὶ ἐπιτεύξεται«.

aischras de tinas hyponoias heautǭ prosporizomenos dramatourgei ho talas »legetō« <gar> phēsin »hoti eiselēlytha egō eis ta agia, ouden dynamai pathein«. aan de hyponotan echę̄, eipatō; adelphe, epithes moi cheira, ina mē amartēsō, kai lēpsetai boētheian kai noētēn kai aisthētēn. thelēsatō monon apartisai to kalon kai epiteuxetai«.

Procuring shameful suspicions for himself, the wretch makes a drama of it. "Let him say," ⟨for⟩ he says, "'I have entered into the holy things; I can suffer nothing.' But if he has a suspicion, let him say, 'Brother, lay your hand on me, that I may not sin', and he will receive help both spiritual and perceptible. Let him only will to accomplish the good, and he will attain it."

Notes and citation

Summary: Isidore advises one tempted to ask a brother to lay hands on him.

Isidore, as quoted in Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.1.2. Epiphanius reads the advice in a hostile sense.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen, with an OCR slip.): εἰσε- γήλυθα → εἰσελήλυθα.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.1.2 (Miscellanies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.4.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-4-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.4.9Holl GCS 25/31:444

εἶτα πάλιν φησίν »ἐνίοτε τῷ μὲν στόματι λέγομεν· οὐ δέλομεν ἁμαρτῆσαι, ἡ δὲ διάνοια ἔγκειται εὶς τὸ ἁμαρτάνειν. ὁ τοιοῦτος διὰ φόβον οὐ ποιεὶ ὅ θέλει, ἴνα μὴ ἡ κόλασις αὐτῷ ἐλλογισθῇ. ἡ δὲ ἀνθρωπότης ἔχει ἀναγκαῖά τινα καὶ φυσικά, <τινὰ δὲ φυσικὰ> μόνα· ἔχει τὸ περιβάλλεσθαι [τὸ] ἀναγκαίον καὶ φυσικόν, φυσικὸν Τε καὶ τὸ τῶν ἠφροδισίων, <οὐκ> ἀναγκαῖον δέ«·

eita palin phēsin »eniote tǭ men stomati legomen; ou delomen hamartēsai, hē de dianoia enkeitai eis to hamartanein. ho toioutos dia phobon ou poiei ho thelei, ina mē hē kolasis autǭ ellogisthę̄. hē de anthrōpotēs echei anankaia tina kai physika, <tina de physika> mona; echei to periballesthai [to] anankaion kai physikon, physikon Te kai to tōn ēphrodisiōn, <ouk> anankaion de«;

Then again he says, "Sometimes we say with the mouth, 'We do not want to sin', but the mind is set on sinning. Such a one does not do what he wants because of fear, lest punishment be reckoned to him. But human nature has some things necessary and natural, ⟨and some⟩ only natural: to be clothed is necessary and natural, and sexual intercourse is natural but ⟨not⟩ necessary."

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Notes and citation

Summary: Isidore distinguishes needs that are natural and necessary from those only natural, like sex.

Isidore, as quoted in Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.1.3. The editor deletes τό before 'necessary'.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.; Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ὁ τοιοῦτος διὰ φόβον οὐ ποιεὶ ὅ δέλει → ὁ τοιοῦτος διὰ φόβον οὐ ποιεὶ ὅ θέλει; ἀν- θρωπότης → ἀνθρωπότης.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.1.3 (Miscellanies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.4.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-4-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 32, chapter 5

32.5.1Holl GCS 25/31:444

5. »Ταύτας παρεθέμην τὰς φωνάς«, <φησὶν> ὁ κατὰ τούτων γράψας, »εἰς ἔλεγχον τῶν μὴ βιούντων ὀρθῶς«, καὶ Βασιλειδιανῶν καὶ Καρποκρα- 20 τιανῶν καὶ τῶν ἀπὸ Οὐαλεντίνου καὶ τῶν Ἐπιφάνους καλουμένων, ᾡ δὴ συνήφθη Σεκοῦνδος ὸ προτεταγμένος.

5. »Tautas parethemēn tas phōnas«, <phēsin> ho kata toutōn grapsas, »eis elenchon tōn mē biountōn orthōs«, kai Basileidianōn kai Karpokra- 20 tianōn kai tōn apo Oualentinou kai tōn Epiphanous kaloumenōn, hǭ dē synēphthē Sekoundos o protetagmenos.

"I have set out these sayings," ⟨says⟩ the one who wrote against them, "to refute those who do not live rightly" — Basilidians, Carpocratians, followers of Valentinus, and those called followers of Epiphanes, with whom Secundus, mentioned before, was joined.

Notes and citation

Summary: Clement quoted these sayings to refute those who live badly.

Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.1.4. A stray line number '20' is left untranslated.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): Σκεοῦνδος → Σεκοῦνδος.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.1.4 (Miscellanies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.5.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-5-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.5.2Holl GCS 25/31:444–445

ἐξ άλλήλων γὰρ ἕκαστος, ἤτοι οὑτος ἐκείνῳ μεταδοὺς ἢ ἐκεῖνος τούτῳ. τὰ δεινὰ ἀπεμπολήσαντες καὶ εἴς τι πρὸς ἀλλήλους διαφερόμενοι, ὅμως ἐν μιᾷ αἱρέσει ἑαυτοὺς κατέθεντο,

ex allēlōn gar hekastos, ētoi houtos ekeinǭ metadous ē ekeinos toutǭ. ta deina apempolēsantes kai eis ti pros allēlous diapheromenoi, homōs en mią hairesei heautous katethento,

For each took from another, either this one sharing with that one or that one with this; having traded in terrible things and differing among themselves in some respect, they nevertheless placed themselves in one heresy,

Notes and citation

Summary: These teachers borrowed from each other and form one heresy.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ἀπεμπολή- σαντες → ἀπεμπολήσαντες.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.5.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:444–445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-5-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.5.3Holl GCS 25/31:445

»ὥστε καὶ ἔχειν ἐξουσίαν ἐδογμάτισαν καὶ τοῦ ἁμαρτάνειν διὰ τὴν τελειότητα, ἦ πάντως Τε σωθησομένων φύσει, κἄν τε νυνὶ ἁμάρτωσι, διὰ τὴν ἔμφυτον ἐκλογήν, ἐπεὶ μηδὲ τὰ αὐτὰ αὐτοῖς πράττειν συγχωροῦσιν οἱ προπάτορες τῶν δογμάτων τούτων«.

»hōste kai echein exousian edogmatisan kai tou hamartanein dia tēn teleiotēta, ē pantōs Te sōthēsomenōn physei, kan te nyni hamartōsi, dia tēn emphyton eklogēn, epei mēde ta auta autois prattein synchōrousin hoi propatores tōn dogmatōn toutōn«.

"so that they taught that they have authority even to sin because of their perfection, or that they will certainly be saved by nature, even if they sin now, because of their innate election; for the forefathers of these doctrines do not even allow them to do the same things."

Notes and citation

Summary: They claimed freedom to sin because of their perfection or election.

Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.1.3–4 (paraphrased).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ἁμαρ- τάνειν → ἁμαρτάνειν.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.1.3 (Miscellanies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.5.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-5-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.5.4Holl GCS 25/31:445

»Φασὶ δὲ καὶ οὖτοι ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ ὑψηλότερον καὶ γνωστικώτερον ἐπεκτεινόμενοι τὴν πρώτην τετράδα οὕτως· ἔστι τις πρὸ πάντων προαρχὴ προανεννόητος, ἄρρητός τε καὶ ἀνονόμαστος, ἥν ἐγὼ Μονότητα καλῶ. ταύτῃ τῇ Μονότητι συνυπάρχει δύναμις, ἥν καὶ αὐτὴν ὀνομάζω Ἐνότητα.

»Phasi de kai outoi hōs epi to hypsēloteron kai gnōstikōteron epekteinomenoi tēn prōtēn tetrada houtōs; esti tis pro pantōn proarchē proanennoētos, arrētos te kai anonomastos, hēn egō Monotēta kalō. tautę̄ tę̄ Monotēti synyparchei dynamis, hēn kai autēn onomazō Enotēta.

"And these too, reaching out to something loftier and more gnostic, [describe] the first tetrad thus: 'There is before all things a certain Pre-Beginning, pre-unthinkable, ineffable and unnameable, which I call Oneness. With this Oneness there coexists a power, which I also name Unity."

Notes and citation

Summary: Epiphanes' system begins with Oneness and Unity.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.3.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.; Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ἐπεκ- τεινόμενοι → ἐπεκτεινόμενοι; προανεννόνητος → προανεννόητος; Ἐνό- τητα → Ἐνότητα.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.5.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-5-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.5.5Holl GCS 25/31:445

αὕτη ἡ Ἐνότης ἥ τε Μονότης, τὸ Ἔν οὖσαι, προήκαντο, μὴ πρόέ- μεναι. ἀρχὴν ἐπῖ πάντων νητήν, ἀγέννητόν τε καὶ ἀόρατον, ἥν ἀρχὴν ὁ λόγος Μονάδα καλεῖ.

hautē hē Enotēs hē te Monotēs, to En ousai, proēkanto, mē proe- menai. archēn epi pantōn nētēn, agennēton te kai aoraton, hēn archēn ho logos Monada kalei.

This Unity and Oneness, being the One, put forth, without putting forth, a beginning over all things, intelligible, unbegotten and invisible, which beginning the account calls Monad.

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Summary: Oneness and Unity emitted the Monad.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.3. νητήν is read as νοητήν ('intelligible').

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.5.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-5-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.5.6Holl GCS 25/31:445

ταύτῃ τῇ Μονάδι συνυπάρχει δύναμις ὁμοούσιος αὐτῇ, ἥν καὶ αὐτὴν ὀνομάζω τὸ Ἔν. αὖται αἱ δυνάμεις, ἥ τε Μονότης καὶ Ἐνότης, Μονάς τε καὶ τὸ Ἔν, προήκαντο τὰς λοιπὰς προβολὰς τῶν αιωνων«.

tautę̄ tę̄ Monadi synyparchei dynamis homoousios autę̄, hēn kai autēn onomazō to En. autai hai dynameis, hē te Monotēs kai Enotēs, Monas te kai to En, proēkanto tas loipas probolas tōn aiōnōn«.

With this Monad there coexists a power of the same substance as it, which I also name the One. These powers, Oneness and Unity, Monad and the One, put forth the remaining emissions of the aeons.'"

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Summary: These four powers emitted the other aeons.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.3.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.5.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-5-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 32, chapter 6

32.6.1Holl GCS 25/31:445

6. Εἶτα οἱ καλῶς συγγραψάμενοι τὴν ἀλήθειαν <περὶ> τούτων ἐν τοῖς σφῶν αὐτῶν συγγράμμασιν ἤλεγξαν <αὐτούς>, Κλήμης τε, φασί τινες Ἀλεξανδρέα, ἔτεροι δὲ Ἀθηναῖον),

6. Eita hoi kalōs syngrapsamenoi tēn alētheian <peri> toutōn en tois sphōn autōn syngrammasin ēlenxan <autous>, Klēmēs te, phasi tines Alexandrea, eteroi de Athēnaion),

Then those who have written the truth well ⟨about⟩ these people refuted ⟨them⟩ in their own writings: Clement (of Alexandria, some say; of Athens, say others),

Notes and citation

Summary: Clement refuted them in his writings.

Extrabiblical texts: Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.1-2 (Miscellanies; allusion)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.6.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-6-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.6.2Holl GCS 25/31:445

ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ ἱερὸς Εἰρηναῖος καταγελῶν αὐτῶν τὸ τραγικὸν ἐκεῖνο ὅ] ἐπὶ τοῖς προειρη- μένοις εἰς μέσον φέρων ἡκεν· »ἰοὺ ἰοὺ καὶ φεῦ φεῦ.

alla kai ho hieros Eirēnaios katagelōn autōn to tragikon ekeino ho] epi tois proeirē- menois eis meson pherōn hēken; »iou iou kai pheu pheu.

and also the holy Irenaeus, mocking them, brought forward that tragic [cry] over what has just been said: "Oh, oh! Alas, alas!

Notes and citation

Summary: Irenaeus mocked them with a tragic cry.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.4. A stray ὅ in brackets is left untranslated.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): Εἰρη- ναῖος → Εἰρηναῖος.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.6.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-6-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.6.3Holl GCS 25/31:445–446

τὸ τραγικὸν ὡς ἀληθῶς ἐπειπεῖς ἔστιν ἐπὶ τῇ τοιαύτῃ συμφορᾷ τῶν τὰ γελοιώδη ταῦτα γεγραφότων τῆς τοιαύτης ὀνοματοποιίας καὶ τῇ τοσαύτῃ τόλμη, ὡς ἀπερυθριάσας τῷ ψεύσματι αὐτοῦ ὀνόματα τέθεικεν.

to tragikon hōs alēthōs epeipeis estin epi tę̄ toiautę̄ symphorą tōn ta geloiōdē tauta gegraphotōn tēs toiautēs onomatopoiias kai tę̄ tosautę̄ tolmē, hōs aperythriasas tǭ pseusmati autou onomata tetheiken.

For truly one may utter the tragic cry over such a calamity of such naming by those who wrote these laughable things, and over such daring, since he shamelessly put names to his lie.

Notes and citation

Summary: Irenaeus laments the shameless invention of names.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.4.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): τοσαύῃ → τοσαύτῃ.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.6.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:445–446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-6-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.6.4Holl GCS 25/31:446

ἐν γὰρ τῷ λέ γειν »ἔστιν τις προαρχὴ πρὸ πάντων προανεννόητος, ἥν ἐγὼ Μονότητα καλῶ«, καὶ πάλιν »ταύτῃ τῇ Μονότητι συνυπάρχει δύναμις, ἥν καὶ αὐτὴν δνομάζω Ἐνότητα«, σαφέστατα ὅτι τε πλάσμα αὐτοὺ ἐστι τὰ εἰρημένα ὡμολόγηκε καὶ ὅτι αὐτὸς ὀνόματα τέθεικε τῷ πλάσματι, ὑπὸ μηδενὸς πρότερον ἄλλου τεθειμένα.

en gar tǭ le gein »estin tis proarchē pro pantōn proanennoētos, hēn egō Monotēta kalō«, kai palin »tautę̄ tę̄ Monotēti synyparchei dynamis, hēn kai autēn dnomazō Enotēta«, saphestata hoti te plasma autou esti ta eirēmena hōmologēke kai hoti autos onomata tetheike tǭ plasmati, hypo mēdenos proteron allou tetheimena.

For in saying, 'There is a certain Pre-Beginning before all things, pre-unthinkable, which I call Oneness', and again, 'With this Oneness there coexists a power, which I also name Unity', he has most clearly confessed that what he says is his own fiction, and that he himself has put names to the fiction, names never put by anyone else before.

Notes and citation

Summary: 'I call' shows the names are his own invention.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.4.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ὡμοόγηκε → ὡμολόγηκε.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.6.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-6-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.6.5Holl GCS 25/31:446

καὶ σαφές ἐστιν ὅτι αὐτὸς ταῦτα τετόλμηκεν όνοματοποτῆσαι, καὶ εἰ μὴ παρῆν τῷ βίῳ αὐτός, οὐκ ἄν ἡ ἠλήθεια εἶχεν ὄνομα.

kai saphes estin hoti autos tauta tetolmēken onomatopotēsai, kai ei mē parēn tǭ biǭ autos, ouk an hē ēlētheia eichen onoma.

And it is clear that he himself dared to invent these names, and if he had not been alive, the truth would have had no name.

Notes and citation

Summary: Without him, Irenaeus jokes, the truth would have had no name.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.4.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.6.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-6-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.6.6Holl GCS 25/31:446

οὐδὲν οὖν κωλύει καὶ ἄλλον τινὰ ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς ὑποθέσεως οὕτως ὁρίσασθαι όνόματα·

ouden oun kōlyei kai allon tina epi tēs autēs hypotheseōs houtōs horisasthai onomata;

So nothing prevents someone else too from defining names thus on the same subject."

Notes and citation

Summary: Anyone could invent names the same way.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.4.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.6.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-6-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.6.7Holl GCS 25/31:446

εἶτα λοιπὸν εἰς ταῦτα ὁ αὐτὸς μακάριος Εἰρηναίος, ὤς γε προείπαμεν, γελοιώδη ἡήματα καὶ αὐτὸς †προεῖπεν, ἑτερωνυμίαν ἀφʼ ἐαυτοῦ ὡς ἀντάξια τῆς αὐτῶν ληρῳδίας χαριεντιζόμενος, πεπόνων γένη καὶ σικύων καὶ κολοκυνθῶν ὡς ἐπὶ ὑποκειμένων τινῶν ἐπιπλασάμενος, † ὡς τοῖς τοῖς φιλοόγοις ἂν εἴη ἀφ ων προανεγνωσαν.

eita loipon eis tauta ho autos makarios Eirēnaios, ōs ge proeipamen, geloiōdē hēēmata kai autos †proeipen, heterōnymian aphʼ eautou hōs antaxia tēs autōn lērǭdias charientizomenos, peponōn genē kai sikyōn kai kolokynthōn hōs epi hypokeimenōn tinōn epiplasamenos, † hōs tois tois philoogois an eiē aph ōn proanegnōsan.

Then the same blessed Irenaeus, as we said, himself … laughable words in reply to these, jesting with other names of his own as worthy of their nonsense, fashioning kinds of melons, cucumbers and gourds as if they were real beings, … as readers may learn from what they have already read.

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Notes and citation

Summary: Irenaeus parodied them with a system of melons, cucumbers and gourds.

Referring to Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.4. The edition marks two corrupt places (†).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ὺποκει- μένων → ὑποκειμένων.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; allusion)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.6.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-6-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Haer. 32, chapter 7

32.7.1Holl GCS 25/31:446

7. Ἄλλοι δὲ πάλιν αὐτῶν τὴν πρώτην καὶ ἀρχέγονον Ὀγδοάδα τούτοις τοῖς ὀνόμασι κεκληκασι· πρῶτον Προαρχήν, ἔπειτα Ἀνεννόητον, τὴν δὲ τρίτην Ἄρρητον καὶ τὴν τετάρτην Ἀόρατον.

7. Alloi de palin autōn tēn prōtēn kai archegonon Ogdoada toutois tois onomasi keklēkasi; prōton Proarchēn, epeita Anennoēton, tēn de tritēn Arrēton kai tēn tetartēn Aoraton.

Others of them again have called the first and original Ogdoad by these names: first Pre-Beginning, then Unthinkable, the third Ineffable, and the fourth Invisible.

Notes and citation

Summary: Others name the first Ogdoad differently.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.5.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): τού- τοις → τούτοις.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.7.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-7-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.7.2Holl GCS 25/31:446

καὶ ἐκ μὲν τῆς πρώτης προαρχῆς προβεβλῆσθαι πρώτῳ καὶ πέμπτῳ > Ἀρχήν, ἐκ Τε τῆς ἀρχῆς τῆς] Ἀνεννοήτου δευτέρῳ καὶ ἔκτῳ τόπῳ Ἀκατάληπτον, ἐκ δὲ τῆς Ἀρρήτου τρίτῳ καὶ ἑβδόμῳ τόπῳ Ἀνονόμαστον, ἐκ δὲ τῆς Ἀοράτου Ἀγέννητον, Πλήρωμα τῆς πρώτης Ὀγδοάδος.

kai ek men tēs prōtēs proarchēs probeblēsthai prōtǭ kai pemptǭ > Archēn, ek Te tēs archēs tēs] Anennoētou deuterǭ kai ektǭ topǭ Akatalēpton, ek de tēs Arrētou tritǭ kai hebdomǭ topǭ Anonomaston, ek de tēs Aoratou Agennēton, Plērōma tēs prōtēs Ogdoados.

And from the first, Pre-Beginning, was emitted in the first and fifth place Beginning; from Unthinkable, in the second and sixth place, Incomprehensible; from Ineffable, in the third and seventh place, Unnameable; and from Invisible, Unbegotten — the Pleroma of the first Ogdoad.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Notes and citation

Summary: Each of the four emitted a further power, completing the Ogdoad.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.5. The edition marks a gap.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): προβεβλπῆσθαι → προβεβλῆσθαι.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.7.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-7-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.7.3Holl GCS 25/31:446–447

ταύτας βούλονται τὰς δυνάμεις προΟπχρ/κν τθΟ Βυθοϋ ka· tt, s ?nx τελείων ζελειίτερζ· -*νο»3· ν ὄντες καὶ Γνωστικῶν γνωστικώτεροι· πρὸς οὕς δικαίως ἄν τις ἐπιφωνήσειεν·

tautas boulontai tas dynameis proOpchr/kn tthO Bythoÿ ka; tt, s ?nx teleiōn zeleiiterz; -*no»3; n ontes kai Gnōstikōn gnōstikōteroi; pros hous dikaiōs an tis epiphōnēseien;

These powers they want to be prior to Depth and Silence, so that they may be more perfect than the perfect and more gnostic than the Gnostics; against whom one might justly exclaim:

Notes and citation

Summary: They put these powers before Depth to seem more perfect than the Gnostics.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.5. The first half of this section is garbled beyond reading in the digital text; it is translated by sense from the parallel in Irenaeus.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.7.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:446–447; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-7-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.7.4Holl GCS 25/31:447

ὦ ληρολόγοι σοφισταί. καὶ γὰρ περὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Βυθοῦ διάφοροι γνῶμαι παρʼ αὐτοῖς. οἱ μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸν ἄζυγον λέγουσι, μήτε ἄρρενα μήτε θῆλυν μήτε ὅλως ὄντα τι, ἄλλοι δὲ ἀρρενόθηλυν αὐτὸν λέγουσιν εἶναι, ἑρμαφροδίτου φύσιν αὐτῷ περιάπτοντες.

ō lērologoi sophistai. kai gar peri autou tou Bythou diaphoroi gnōmai parʼ autois. hoi men gar auton azygon legousi, mēte arrena mēte thēlyn mēte holōs onta ti, alloi de arrenothēlyn auton legousin einai, hermaphroditou physin autǭ periaptontes.

O babbling sophists! For even about Depth himself there are different opinions among them. Some say he is without consort, neither male nor female nor anything at all; others say he is male-female, attaching to him the nature of a hermaphrodite.

Notes and citation

Summary: They disagree even about Depth.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.5.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): γέγουσι → λέγουσι.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.7.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:447; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-7-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.7.5Holl GCS 25/31:447

Σιγὴν δὲ πάλιν ἄλλοι συνευνέτιν αὐτῷ προσάπτουσιν, ἵνα γένηται πρώτη συζυγία καὶ ἐκ τούτου καὶ ἐκ ταύτης τὰ κατάλοιπα οὕτω δραματουργήσωσι.

Sigēn de palin alloi syneunetin autǭ prosaptousin, hina genētai prōtē syzygia kai ek toutou kai ek tautēs ta kataloipa houtō dramatourgēsōsi.

Others again attach Silence to him as bedfellow, so that there may be a first pair, and from him and her they so dramatize the rest.

Notes and citation

Summary: Others give Depth a consort, Silence.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.11.5.

Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.11.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.7.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:447; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-7-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.7.6Holl GCS 25/31:447

καὶ πολλή τίς ἐστιν ἐν αὐτοῖς ἡ εἰς ὕπονον βαθὺν τὸν νοῦν αὐτῶν καταφέρουσα ληρολόγος όνειροπολία.

kai pollē tis estin en autois hē eis hyponon bathyn ton noun autōn katapherousa lērologos oneiropolia.

And there is among them much babbling dreaming that carries their minds down into deep sleep.

Notes and citation

Summary: Their system is babbling dreams.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.7.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:447; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-7-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.7.7Holl GCS 25/31:447

Καὶ τί μοι ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ κατατρίβεσθαι, φωρατῆς οὔσης τῆς κατʼ αὐτοὺς ὑποθέσεως καὶ τοῦ κατʼ αὐτῶν ἐλέγχου καὶ ἀνατροπῆς ἀπὸ τῶν προειρημένων παντὶ τῷ βουλομένῳ τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ ἔχεσθαι καὶ μὴ ἄπατασθαι κενοῖς μύθοις;

Kai ti moi epi to poly katatribesthai, phōratēs ousēs tēs katʼ autous hypotheseōs kai tou katʼ autōn elenchou kai anatropēs apo tōn proeirēmenōn panti tǭ boulomenǭ tēs zōēs autou echesthai kai mē apatasthai kenois mythois?

And why should I spend long on this, since their system is exposed, and the refutation and overthrow of them is plain from what has been said to anyone who wishes to hold on to his life and not be deceived by empty myths?

Notes and citation

Summary: Their system is already refuted.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.7.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:447; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-7-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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32.7.8Holl GCS 25/31:447

ἀλλὰ ταῦτά μοι περὶ τούτων εἰρήσθω. παρελθὼν δὲ ταύτην ἐπὶ τὰς ἐξῆς >, > ὁδὸν ἐμαυτῷ ἀσφαλῆ καὶ τρίβον λείαν, ὅπως τὰς τούτων μοχθηρίας διεξιών τε καὶ ἐλέγχων ἐμαυτόν τε καὶ τοὺς ἀκούοντας ἐν τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ δυνάμει διασώσω διὰ τῆς τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν διδασκαλίας καὶ ἀληθινῆς θεωρίας.

alla tauta moi peri toutōn eirēsthō. parelthōn de tautēn epi tas exēs >, > hodon emautǭ asphalē kai tribon leian, hopōs tas toutōn mochthērias diexiōn te kai elenchōn emauton te kai tous akouontas en tę̄ tou theou dynamei diasōsō dia tēs tou kyriou hēmōn didaskalias kai alēthinēs theōrias.

But let this be said by me about them. Passing this one by, [I go] on to the next …, [asking] a safe road and a smooth path for myself, so that, going through and refuting their wickedness, I may preserve myself and my hearers in the power of God through the teaching and true contemplation of our Lord.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Notes and citation

Summary: Epiphanius moves on, praying for safe passage.

The edition marks gaps.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip.; Word split by a line-end hyphen.): εἰρή- σθω → εἰρήσθω; μοχθη- ρίας → μοχθηρίας; διασώσν → διασώσω.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.7.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:447; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-7-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from Holl's Greek text (GCS 25, 1915; GCS 31, 1922); no public-domain English or FOTC translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

32.7.9Holl GCS 25/31:447–448

ὡς μύαγρον <οὑν> ταύτην τὴν ἔχιδναν, τὴν πολλαῖς ἐχίδναις ἐοικυῖαν τῷ ὑποδήματι τοῦ εὐαγγελίου καταπατήσαντες τὰς εξῆς διασκοπήσωμεν.

hōs myagron <houn> tautēn tēn echidnan, tēn pollais echidnais eoikuian tǭ hypodēmati tou euangeliou katapatēsantes tas exēs diaskopēsōmen.

So, having trampled this viper, which is like many vipers, like a shrew-mouse, with the shoe of the Gospel, let us examine the next ones.

Eph 6:15 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Having crushed this heresy, he moves on.

μύαγρος may be a kind of snake ('mouse-hunter'); uncertain. Alluding to Eph 6:15.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Repeated word with an OCR slip.): ἐχίσναις ἐχίδναις → ἐχίδναις.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 32.7.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:447–448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/31-31-1/#p-32-7-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from Holl's Greek text (GCS 25, 1915; GCS 31, 1922); no public-domain English or FOTC translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.