Panarion (Medicine Chest Against Heresies), Haer. 1-64 34.19.1–36.6.8
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. 34, chapter 19
34.19.1Holl GCS 25/31:34–35
19. Τὴν δὲ τῆς ἀπολυτρώσεως <παρ᾿> αὐτοῖς παράδοσιν συμβέβηκεν ἀόρατον εἶναι καὶ ἀκατάληπτον, ἅτε † τῶν ἀκρατήτων καὶ ἀοράτων Μητέρα ὑπάρχουσαν καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἄστατον οὖσαν, οὐχ ἁπλῶς οὐδὲ ἑνὶ λόγῳ ἀπαγγεῖλαι ἔστιν διὰ τὸ ἕνα ἕκαστον αὐτῶν, καθὼς αὐτοὶ βούλονται, παραδιδόναι αὐτήν. ὅσοι γὰρ εἰσι ταύτης τῆς γνώμης μυσταγωγοί, τοσαῦται καὶ ἀπολυτρώσεις.
19. Tēn de tēs apolytrōseōs <par᾿> autois paradosin symbebēken aoraton einai kai akatalēpton, hate † tōn akratētōn kai aoratōn Mētera hyparchousan kai dia touto astaton ousan, ouch haplōs oude heni logǭ apangeilai estin dia to hena hekaston autōn, kathōs autoi boulontai, paradidonai autēn. hosoi gar eisi tautēs tēs gnōmēs mystagōgoi, tosautai kai apolytrōseis.
"Their tradition of the redemption happens to be invisible and incomprehensible, since it is the Mother of things … ungraspable and invisible, and for this reason unstable; it cannot be described simply or in one account, because each of them hands it down as he pleases. For there are as many redemptions as there are mystagogues of this opinion."
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Their 'redemption' rite takes as many forms as they have teachers.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.1. The edition marks a corrupt word before 'ungraspable'.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR capitalization slip.): οὐχ ἁΠλῶς → οὐχ ἁπλῶς.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.19.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:34–35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-19-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.19.2Holl GCS 25/31:35
καὶ ὅτι μὲν εἰς ἐξάρνησιν τοῦ βαπτίσματος τῆς εἰς θεὸν ἀναγεννήσεως καὶ πάσης τῆς πίστεως ἀπόθεσιν ὑποβέβληται τὸ εἲδος τοῦτο ὑπὸ τοῦ Σατανᾶ, ἐλέγχοντες αὐτοὺς ἀπαγγελοῦμεν ἐν τῷ προσηκοντι τοπῳ.
kai hoti men eis exarnēsin tou baptismatos tēs eis theon anagennēseōs kai pasēs tēs pisteōs apothesin hypobeblētai to eidos touto hypo tou Satana, elenchontes autous apangeloumen en tǭ prosēkonti topǭ.
"That this kind of thing was introduced by Satan to deny the baptism of rebirth to God and to set aside the whole faith, we shall show when we refute them in the proper place."
Titus 3:5 (echo, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Irenaeus calls the rite a satanic denial of baptism.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.1.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.1 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.19.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-19-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.19.3Holl GCS 25/31:35
Λέγουσι δὲ αὐτὴν ἀναγκαίαν εἲναι τοῖς τὴν τελείαν γνῶσιν εἰληφόσιν, ἵνα εἰς τὴν ὑπὲρ πάντα δύναμιν ὦσιν ἀναγεγεννημένοι. ἄλλως γὰρ ἀδύνατον > ἐντὸς Πληρώματος εἰσελθεῖν, ἐπειδὴ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ εἰς τὸ βάθος τοῦ Βυθοὺ κατάγουσα κατʼ αὐτούς.
Legousi de autēn anankaian einai tois tēn teleian gnōsin eilēphosin, hina eis tēn hyper panta dynamin ōsin anagegennēmenoi. allōs gar adynaton > entos Plērōmatos eiselthein, epeidē hautē estin hē eis to bathos tou Bythou katagousa katʼ autous.
"They say that it is necessary for those who have received perfect knowledge, so that they may be reborn into the power that is above all. Otherwise it is impossible to enter within the Pleroma, since, according to them, it is this that leads down into the depth of Depth."
Notes and citation
Summary: They hold the 'redemption' necessary to enter the Pleroma.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.2.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Stray mark splitting the word.): γὰ; ρ → γὰρ.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.19.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-19-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.19.4Holl GCS 25/31:35
τὸ μὲν γὰρ βάπτισμα τοῦ φαινομένου Ἰησοῦ ἀφέσεως <εἶναι> ἁμαρτιῶν, τὴν δὲ ἀπολύτρωσιν τοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ Χριστοῦ εἰς τελείωσιν, καὶ τὸ μὲν ψυχικόν, τὴν δὲ πνευματικὴν εἶναι ὑφίστανται, καὶ τὸ μὲν βάπτισμα ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου κατηγγέλθαι εἰς μετάνοιαν, τὴν δὲ ἀπολύτρωσιν υπὸ Χριστοῦ κεκομίσθαι εἰς τελείωσιν.
to men gar baptisma tou phainomenou Iēsou apheseōs <einai> hamartiōn, tēn de apolytrōsin tou en autǭ Christou eis teleiōsin, kai to men psychikon, tēn de pneumatikēn einai hyphistantai, kai to men baptisma hypo Iōannou katēngelthai eis metanoian, tēn de apolytrōsin ypo Christou kekomisthai eis teleiōsin.
"For they maintain that the baptism of the visible Jesus is for the forgiveness of sins, but the redemption of the Christ who descended into him is for perfection; that the one is psychic and the other spiritual; and that baptism was proclaimed by John for repentance, but redemption was brought by Christ for perfection."
Mark 1:4 (echo, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: They rank their redemption above baptism.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.2.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy, Baptism, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.19.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-19-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.19.5Holl GCS 25/31:35
καὶ τοῦτʼ εἶναι περὶ οὗ λέγει »καὶ ἄλλο βάπτισμα ἔχω βαπτισθῆναι, καὶ πάνυ ἐπείγομαι εἰς αὐτό«. ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς Ζεβεδαίου, τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῶν αἰτουμένης τὸ καθίσαι αὐτοὺς ἐκ δεξιῶν καὶ ἐξ ἀριστερῶν μετʼ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν, ταύτην προσθεῖναι τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν τὸν κύριον λέγουσιν, εἰπόντα »δύνασθε τὸ βάπτισμα βαπτισθῆναι, ὃ ἐγὼ μέλλω βαπτίζεσθαι;«
kai toutʼ einai peri hou legei »kai allo baptisma echō baptisthēnai, kai pany epeigomai eis auto«. alla kai tois huiois Zebedaiou, tēs mētros autōn aitoumenēs to kathisai autous ek dexiōn kai ex aristerōn metʼ autou eis tēn basileian, tautēn prostheinai tēn apolytrōsin ton kyrion legousin, eiponta »dynasthe to baptisma baptisthēnai, ho egō mellō baptizesthai?«
"And this, they say, is what he speaks of: 'And I have another baptism to be baptized with, and I am very eager for it.' And they say that the Lord added this redemption for the sons of Zebedee, when their mother asked that they might sit at his right and left with him in the kingdom, saying, 'Can you be baptized with the baptism with which I am about to be baptized?'"
Luke 12:50 (quotation, high confidence) · Mark 10:38 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 20:20 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Gospel sayings about another baptism are applied to their rite.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.2, quoting Luke 12:50 and Mark 10:38 (cf. Matt 20:20–22).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR capitalization slip.; OCR slip.): τῆν μητρὸς → τῆς μητρὸς; βάΠτισμα → βάπτισμα.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.19.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-19-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.19.6Holl GCS 25/31:35–36
καὶ τὸν Παῦλον ῥητῶς φάσκουσι τὴν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἀπολύτρωσιν πολλάκις μεμηνυκέναι, καὶ εἶναι ταύτην τὴν ὑπʼ αὐτῶν ποικίλως καὶ ἀσυμφώνως παραδιδομένην.
kai ton Paulon rhētōs phaskousi tēn en Christǭ Iēsou apolytrōsin pollakis memēnykenai, kai einai tautēn tēn hypʼ autōn poikilōs kai asymphōnōs paradidomenēn.
"And they say that Paul expressly and often indicated the redemption in Christ Jesus, and that this is the redemption which they hand down in varied and discordant ways."
Rom 3:24 (allusion, medium confidence) · Eph 1:7 (allusion, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: They claim Paul's 'redemption' for their rite.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.2. Cf. Rom 3:24; Eph 1:7.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.2 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.19.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:35–36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-19-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 34, chapter 20
34.20.1Holl GCS 25/31:36
20. Οἱ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν νυμφῶνα κατασκευάζουσι καὶ μυσταγωγίαν ἐπιτελοῦσι μετʼ ἐπιρρήσεών τινων τοῖς τελουμένοις καὶ πνευματικὸν γάμον φάσκουσιν εἶναι τὸ ὑπʼ αὐτῶν γινόμενον κατὰ τὴν ὁμοιότητα τῶν ἄνω συζυγιῶν·
20. Hoi men gar autōn nymphōna kataskeuazousi kai mystagōgian epitelousi metʼ epirrēseōn tinōn tois teloumenois kai pneumatikon gamon phaskousin einai to hypʼ autōn ginomenon kata tēn homoiotēta tōn anō syzygiōn;
"For some of them prepare a bridal chamber and perform a mystic rite with certain invocations for those being initiated, and they say that what they perform is a spiritual marriage after the likeness of the pairs above;"
Notes and citation
Summary: Some perform a bridal-chamber rite.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.3.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.20.2Holl GCS 25/31:36
οἱ δὲ ἄγουσιν ἐφʼ ὕδωρ καὶ βαπτίζοντες οὕτως ἐπιλέγουσιν »εἰς ὄνομα ἀγνώστου πατρὸς τῶν ὅλων, εἰς Ἀλήθειαν μητέρα > πάντων, εἰς τὸν κατελθόντα εἰς Ἰησοῦν εἰς ἕνωσιν καὶ ἀπολύτρωσιν καὶ κοινωνίαν τῶν δυνάμεων«.
hoi de agousin ephʼ hydōr kai baptizontes houtōs epilegousin »eis onoma agnōstou patros tōn holōn, eis Alētheian mētera > pantōn, eis ton katelthonta eis Iēsoun eis henōsin kai apolytrōsin kai koinōnian tōn dynameōn«.
"others bring them to water and, baptizing, say over them: 'Into the name of the unknown Father of all, into Truth the mother of all, into him who descended upon Jesus, into union and redemption and fellowship of the powers.'"
Notes and citation
Summary: Others baptize with a Gnostic formula.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.3.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.20.3Holl GCS 25/31:36
ἄλλοι δὲ Ἑβραϊκά τινα ὀνόματα ἐπιλέγουσι πρὸς τὸ μᾶλλον καταπλήξασθαι τοὺς τελουμένους, οὕτως· βασεμὰ χαμοσσὴ βααιανοορὰ μισταδία ῥουαδὰ κουστὰ βαβοφὸρ καλαχθεῖ. τούτων δʼ ἡ ἑρμηνεία ἐστὶ τοιαύτη· ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν δύναμιν τοῦ Πατρὸς ἐπικαλοῦμαι * φῶς ὀνομαζόμενον καὶ πνεῦμα ἀγαθὸν καὶ ζωή, ὅτι ἐν σώματι ἐβασίλευσας.
alloi de Hebraïka tina onomata epilegousi pros to mallon kataplēxasthai tous teloumenous, houtōs; basema chamossē baaianoora mistadia rhouada kousta babophor kalachthei. toutōn dʼ hē hermēneia esti toiautē; hyper pasan dynamin tou Patros epikaloumai * phōs onomazomenon kai pneuma agathon kai zōē, hoti en sōmati ebasileusas.
"Others say certain Hebrew names over them, to astound those being initiated still more, thus: basema chamosse baaianoora mistadia rouada kousta babophor kalachthei. And their interpretation is this: 'I invoke … above every power of the Father, called light and good spirit and life, because you reigned in a body.'"
Notes and citation
Summary: Others use a formula in pseudo-Hebrew words.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.3. The 'Hebrew' words are a garbled Aramaic formula; they are transliterated as printed. A word is missing after 'I invoke'.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): οὕτς· → οὕτως·.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.20.4Holl GCS 25/31:36
ἄλλοι δὲ πάλιν τὴν λύτρωσιν * ἐπιλέγουσιν οὕτως· τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἀποκεκρυμμένον ἀπὸ πάσης θεότητος καὶ κυριότητος καὶ ἀληθείας, ὃ ἐνεδύσατο Ἰησοῦς ὁ Ναζαρηνὸς ἐν ταῖς ζώναις τοῦ φωτὸς τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Χριστοῦ ζῶντος διὰ πνεύματος ἁγίου, εἰς λύτρωσιν ἀγγελικήν, ὄνομα τὸ τῆς ἀποκαταστάσεως·
alloi de palin tēn lytrōsin * epilegousin houtōs; to onoma to apokekrymmenon apo pasēs theotētos kai kyriotētos kai alētheias, ho enedysato Iēsous ho Nazarēnos en tais zōnais tou phōtos tou Christou, Christou zōntos dia pneumatos hagiou, eis lytrōsin angelikēn, onoma to tēs apokatastaseōs;
"Others again say the redemption … thus: 'The name hidden from every deity and lordship and truth, which Jesus the Nazarene put on in the zones of the light of Christ, of Christ who lives through the Holy Spirit, for angelic redemption, the name of restoration:'"
Notes and citation
Summary: Another formula invokes a hidden name.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.3. A word is missing after 'redemption'.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.20.5Holl GCS 25/31:36
Μεσσία οὐφαρέγνα μεμψαι μὲν χαλ δαίαν μοσομὴ δαέα ἀκφαρ νεψευ ουα Ἰησοῦ Ναζαρία. καὶ τούτων δὲ ἡ ἑρμηνεία ἐστὶν τοιαύτη· οὐ διαιρῶ τὸ πνεῦμα, τὴν καρδίαν καὶ τὴν ὑπερουράνιον δύναμιν τὴν οἰκτίρμονα· ὀναίμην τοῦ ὀνόματός σου, σωτὴρ ἀληθείας.
Messia oupharegna mempsai men chal daian mosomē daea akphar nepseu oua Iēsou Nazaria. kai toutōn de hē hermēneia estin toiautē; ou diairō to pneuma, tēn kardian kai tēn hyperouranion dynamin tēn oiktirmona; onaimēn tou onomatos sou, sōtēr alētheias.
"'Messia oupharegna mempsai men chal daian mosome daea akphar nepseu oua Iesou Nazaria.' And their interpretation is this: 'I do not divide the spirit, the heart, and the supercelestial power, the merciful one; may I have joy of your name, Savior of truth.'"
Notes and citation
Summary: The formula and its supposed meaning.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.3. The formula is garbled Aramaic; transliterated as printed.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.20.6Holl GCS 25/31:36–37
καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἐπιλέγουσιν αὐτοὶ οἱ τελοῦντες, ὁ δὲ τετελεσμένος ἀποκρίνεται· ἐστήριγμαι καὶ λελύτρωμαι καὶ λυτροῦμαι τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου καὶ πάντων τῶν παρʼ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ Ἰαώ, ὃς ἐλυτρώσατο τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ εἰς ἀπολύτρωσιν ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ τῷ ζῶντι.
kai tauta men epilegousin autoi hoi telountes, ho de tetelesmenos apokrinetai; estērigmai kai lelytrōmai kai lytroumai tēn psychēn mou apo tou aiōnos toutou kai pantōn tōn parʼ autou en tǭ onomati tou Iaō, hos elytrōsato tēn psychēn autou eis apolytrōsin en tǭ Christǭ tǭ zōnti.
"These words the initiators themselves say; and the initiate answers: 'I am established and redeemed, and I redeem my soul from this age and from all that comes from it, in the name of Iao, who redeemed his soul for redemption in the living Christ.'"
Notes and citation
Summary: The initiate's response.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.3. Iao is a form of the divine name.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slips.): ἐλυτρώσατα τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦς εἰς, → ἐλυτρώσατο τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ εἰς.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:36–37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.20.7Holl GCS 25/31:37
εἶτʼ ἐπιλέγουσιν οἱ παρόντες· εἰρήνη πᾶσιν, ἐφʼ οὓς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦτο ἐπαναπέπαυται. ἔπειτα μυρίζουσι τὸν τετελεσμένον τῷ ὀπῷ τῷ ἀπὸ βαλσάμου. τὸ γὰρ μύρον τοῦτο τύπον τῆς ὑπὲρ τὰ ὅλα εὐωδίας εἶναι λέγουσιν.
eitʼ epilegousin hoi parontes; eirēnē pasin, ephʼ hous to onoma touto epanapepautai. epeita myrizousi ton tetelesmenon tǭ opǭ tǭ apo balsamou. to gar myron touto typon tēs hyper ta hola euōdias einai legousin.
"Then those present say: 'Peace to all on whom this name rests.' Then they anoint the initiate with the juice of balsam, for they say that this ointment is a type of the fragrance that is above all things."
Notes and citation
Summary: The rite ends with anointing with balsam.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.3.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ἐπαναπέπαυτι → ἐπαναπέπαυται; τόΠοι → τύπον.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.20.8Holl GCS 25/31:37
Ἔνιοι δʼ αὐτῶν τὸ μὲν ἄγειν ἐπὶ τὸ ὕδωρ περισσὸν εἶναι φάσκουσι, μίξαντες δὲ ἔλαιον καὶ ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ μετʼ ἐπιρρήσεών <τινων> αἷς προειρήκαμεν ἐπιβάλλουσι τῇ κεφαλῇ τῶν τελουμένων, καὶ τοῦτʼ εἶναι τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν θέλουσι. μυρίζουσι δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ τῷ βαλσάμῳ.
Enioi dʼ autōn to men agein epi to hydōr perisson einai phaskousi, mixantes de elaion kai hydōr epi to auto metʼ epirrēseōn <tinōn> hais proeirēkamen epiballousi tę̄ kephalę̄ tōn teloumenōn, kai toutʼ einai tēn apolytrōsin thelousi. myrizousi de kai autoi tǭ balsamǭ.
"Some of them say that bringing people to the water is superfluous; but mixing oil and water together, with invocations like those we mentioned, they pour it on the head of those being initiated, and they want this to be the redemption. These too anoint with balsam."
Notes and citation
Summary: Some replace water baptism with pouring oil and water.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.4.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ἐπὸ τὸ αὐτὸ → ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.20.9Holl GCS 25/31:37
ἄλλοι δὲ ταῦτα πάντα παραιτησάμενοι φάσκουσι μὴ δεῖν τὸ τῆς ἀρρήτου καὶ ἀοράτου δυνάμεως μυστήριον διʼ ὁρατῶν καὶ φθαρτῶν ἐπιτελεῖσθαι κτισμάτων, καὶ τῶν ἀνεννοήτων καὶ ἀσωμάτων διʼ αἰσθητῶν καὶ σωματικῶν.
alloi de tauta panta paraitēsamenoi phaskousi mē dein to tēs arrētou kai aoratou dynameōs mystērion diʼ horatōn kai phthartōn epiteleisthai ktismatōn, kai tōn anennoētōn kai asōmatōn diʼ aisthētōn kai sōmatikōn.
"Others reject all these things and say that the mystery of the ineffable and invisible power ought not to be performed through visible and corruptible creatures, nor that of things inconceivable and bodiless through things perceptible and bodily."
Notes and citation
Summary: Others reject all outward rites.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.4.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): φθρτῶν → φθαρτῶν.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.20.10Holl GCS 25/31:37
εἶναι δὲ τὴν τελείαν ἀπολύτρωσιν αὐτὴν τὴν ἐπίγνωσιν τοῦ ἀρρήτου Μεγέθους· ὑπʼ ἀγνοίας γὰρ Ὑστερήματος καὶ πάθους γεγονότων διὰ γνώσεως καταλύεσθαι πᾶσαν τὴν ἐκ τῆς ἀγνοίας σύστασιν, ὥστʼ εἲναι τὴν γνῶσιν ἀπολύτρωσιν τοῦ ἔνδον ἀνθρώπου.
einai de tēn teleian apolytrōsin autēn tēn epignōsin tou arrētou Megethous; hypʼ agnoias gar Hysterēmatos kai pathous gegonotōn dia gnōseōs katalyesthai pasan tēn ek tēs agnoias systasin, hōstʼ einai tēn gnōsin apolytrōsin tou endon anthrōpou.
"The perfect redemption, they say, is the very knowledge of the ineffable Greatness. For since Deficiency and passion came about through ignorance, the whole structure that arose from ignorance is dissolved through knowledge; so knowledge is the redemption of the inner man."
Notes and citation
Summary: For them knowledge itself is redemption.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.4.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.20.11Holl GCS 25/31:37
καὶ μήτε σωματικὴν ὑπάρχειν αὐτὴν φθαρτὸν γὰρ τὸ σῶμα) μήτε ψυχικήν, ἐπὶ καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ ἐξ Ὑστερήματός > καὶ ἔστι τοῦ πνεύματος ὥσπερ οἰκητήριον· πνευματικὴν οὖν δεῖν καὶ τὴν λύτρωσιν ὑπάρχειν.
kai mēte sōmatikēn hyparchein autēn phtharton gar to sōma) mēte psychikēn, epi kai hē psychē ex Hysterēmatos > kai esti tou pneumatos hōsper oikētērion; pneumatikēn oun dein kai tēn lytrōsin hyparchein.
"And it is neither bodily (for the body is corruptible) nor psychic, since the soul too comes from Deficiency and is a kind of dwelling of the spirit; so the redemption too must be spiritual."
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Summary: Redemption is neither bodily nor psychic.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.4.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.20.12Holl GCS 25/31:37
λυτροῦσθαι γὰρ διὰ γνώσεως τὸ ἔσω ἄνθρωπον τὸν πνευματικὸν καὶ ἀρκεῖσθαι αὐτοὺς τῇ τῶν ὅλων ἐπιγνώσει. καὶ ταύτην εἲναι λύτρωσιν ἀληθῆ. ἕως ὧδε τὰ ἀπὸ Εἰρηναίου.
lytrousthai gar dia gnōseōs to esō anthrōpon ton pneumatikon kai arkeisthai autous tę̄ tōn holōn epignōsei. kai tautēn einai lytrōsin alēthē. heōs hōde ta apo Eirēnaiou.
"For the inner, spiritual man is redeemed through knowledge, and they are content with the knowledge of all things; and this is the true redemption." Thus far the material from Irenaeus.
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Summary: Knowledge redeems the inner man; the Irenaeus excerpt ends.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.4. The closing words, Epiphanius's own, are in Latin transliteration in the digital text.
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- Digital text corrected (Greek words left in Latin transliteration (Beta Code) in the digital text.; OCR slip.): τῇ τῶι ὅλωι ἐπιγνώσει → τῇ τῶν ὅλων ἐπιγνώσει; ews wde ta apo eiphnaiou → ἕως ὧδε τὰ ἀπὸ Εἰρηναίου.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.20.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-20-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 34, chapter 21
34.21.1Holl GCS 25/31:37–38
21. Ταύτην τὴν πᾶσαν ἀκριβῆ ἔρευναν ὁ μακάριος πρεσβύτης Εἰρηναῖος ἐποιήσατο, καθʼ εἱρμὸν πάντα ἐκθέμενος τῆς αὐτῶν πάσης παραπεποιημένης διδασκαλίας. διόπερ δή, ὡς καὶ ἤδη μοι προδεδήλωται, ὅτι] τοῖς ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ ἐσπουδασμένοις ἀρκεσθέντες πάντα πρὸς ἔπος, ὡς παρʼ αὐτῷ ἐμφέρεται, παρεθήκαμεν.
21. Tautēn tēn pasan akribē ereunan ho makarios presbytēs Eirēnaios epoiēsato, kathʼ heirmon panta ekthemenos tēs autōn pasēs parapepoiēmenēs didaskalias. dioper dē, hōs kai ēdē moi prodedēlōtai, hoti] tois hypʼ autou espoudasmenois arkesthentes panta pros epos, hōs parʼ autǭ empheretai, parethēkamen.
The blessed elder Irenaeus made this whole precise investigation, setting out in order everything of their whole counterfeit teaching. Therefore, as I have already indicated, content with what he labored on, we have set it all down word for word as it appears in him.
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Summary: Epiphanius explains why he copied Irenaeus word for word.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): προδεδή- λωται → προδεδήλωται.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.21.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:37–38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-21-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.21.2Holl GCS 25/31:38
ἀνατραπήσονται δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν παρὰ τοῦ αγίου ἀνδρὸς εἰς ἀντίθεσιν τῆς αὐτῶν μοχθηρίας εἰρημένων. ἡμεῖς γὰρ πιστεύομεν, ὡς πάντῃ ἡ ἀλήθεια ὑποφαίνει καὶ ὁ εὔλογος λογισμὸς ὑποτίθεται καὶ τῷ τῆς εὐσεβείας κανόνι συμπεφώνηται τῷ τε νόμῳ καὶ τοῖς προφήταις καὶ τοῖς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνέκαθεν πατριάρχαις κατὰ ἀκολουθίαν τῇ τε αὐτοῦ τοῦ σωτῆρος διδαχῇ,
anatrapēsontai de ex autōn tōn para tou agiou andros eis antithesin tēs autōn mochthērias eirēmenōn. hēmeis gar pisteuomen, hōs pantę̄ hē alētheia hypophainei kai ho eulogos logismos hypotithetai kai tǭ tēs eusebeias kanoni sympephōnētai tǭ te nomǭ kai tois prophētais kai tois apo tōn anekathen patriarchais kata akolouthian tę̄ te autou tou sōtēros didachę̄,
They will be overturned by the very things the holy man said in opposition to their wickedness. For we believe, as the truth everywhere shows, as sound reasoning suggests, and as agrees with the rule of godliness, in harmony with the law and the prophets and the patriarchs from of old in succession, and with the teaching of the Savior himself,
Notes and citation
Summary: Epiphanius begins his own statement of the church's faith against Marcus.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.21.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-21-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.21.3Holl GCS 25/31:38
τοῦ > καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ ἀποστόλων σαφῶς ἡμᾶς διδασκόντων ἕνα ὁμολογεῖν θεὸν πατέρα, παντοκράτορα τῶν ὅλων, καὶ τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν καὶ τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ πνεῦμα, μίαν ἁγίαν τριάδα ἄκτιστον, τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων γενομένων μετὰ πατέρα καὶ υἱὸν καὶ ἅγιον πνεῦμα.
tou > kai tōn autou apostolōn saphōs hēmas didaskontōn hena homologein theon patera, pantokratora tōn holōn, kai ton kyrion hēmōn Iēsoun Christon kai to hagion autou pneuma, mian hagian triada aktiston, tōn allōn hapantōn ex ouk ontōn genomenōn meta patera kai huion kai hagion pneuma.
and of his apostles, who clearly teach us to confess one God the Father, Almighty over all, and our Lord Jesus Christ, and his Holy Spirit, one holy uncreated Trinity, while all other things came into being from nothing after the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Summary: The church confesses one uncreated Trinity and a creation from nothing.
- Epiphanius's own confession of faith, in the language of the fourth-century creeds.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.21.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-21-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.21.4Holl GCS 25/31:38
τούτων δὲ Παρὰ πάντων τῶν προειρημένων ἁγίων προφητῶν τε καὶ εὐαγγελιστῶν καὶ ἀποστόλων σαφῶς ὡμολογημένων καὶ πεπιστευμένων, οὐκ ἂν δυνηθείη κυβευτική τις ἐπίνοια ἀντισχεῖν πρὸς τὴν ἀκτῖνα τῆς ἀληθείας, ὥς γε ἡμῖν πολλάκις κατὰ πλάτος εἴρηται ἐν τῇ πρὸς ἑκάστην αἵρεσιν ἀντιθέσει·
toutōn de Para pantōn tōn proeirēmenōn hagiōn prophētōn te kai euangelistōn kai apostolōn saphōs hōmologēmenōn kai pepisteumenōn, ouk an dynētheiē kybeutikē tis epinoia antischein pros tēn aktina tēs alētheias, hōs ge hēmin pollakis kata platos eirētai en tę̄ pros hekastēn hairesin antithesei;
Since these things have been clearly confessed and believed by all the holy prophets, evangelists, and apostles mentioned before, no gambler's contrivance could withstand the ray of the truth, as we have often said at length in our refutation of each heresy;
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Summary: No trickery can stand against the truth confessed by prophets and apostles.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.21.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-21-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.21.5Holl GCS 25/31:38
ὡς ἐξ ἅπαντος φωρᾶσθαι καὶ τοῦτον τὸν ἀγύρτην καὶ θανατοποιὸν ἰσοτύπως ταῖς προειρημέναις ἐπιδείξεως χάριν καὶ περιεργίας τὰ μεγάλα ταῦτα καττύσαντά τε καὶ μηχανησάμενον.
hōs ex hapantos phōrasthai kai touton ton agyrtēn kai thanatopoion isotypōs tais proeirēmenais epideixeōs charin kai periergias ta megala tauta kattysanta te kai mēchanēsamenon.
so that this charlatan and death-dealer too is caught out entirely, having cobbled together and contrived these grand things, like those mentioned before, for the sake of display and curiosity.
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Summary: Marcus is exposed as a charlatan.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR capitalization slip.): θανατοΠοιὸν → θανατοποιὸν.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.21.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-21-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 34, chapter 22
34.22.1Holl GCS 25/31:38
22. Παρελθόντες δὲ καὶ τούτου τὴν μοχθηρίαν καὶ τῶν ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ Μαρκωσίων λεγομένων ἐπὶ τὰς ἑξῆς σπεύσωμεν, ὠ ἐπιπόθητοι, τὰς αὐτῶν ῥίζας πάλιν ἀνερευνῶντες καὶ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν τὴν πικρίαν ἀφανίζοντες, τήν τε ἀνατροπὴν καὶ τὰ κατʼ αὐτοὺς πάντα ἐπιδεικνύντες, οὐχὶ εἰς βλάβην τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων, ἀλλὰ εἰς ἀποτροπήν,
22. Parelthontes de kai toutou tēn mochthērian kai tōn apʼ autou Markōsiōn legomenōn epi tas hexēs speusōmen, ō epipothētoi, tas autōn rhizas palin anereunōntes kai tōn karpōn autōn tēn pikrian aphanizontes, tēn te anatropēn kai ta katʼ autous panta epideiknyntes, ouchi eis blabēn tōn entynchanontōn, alla eis apotropēn,
Having passed by the wickedness of this man and of the Marcosians named after him, let us hurry on to the next, beloved, again searching out their roots and destroying the bitterness of their fruits, showing their refutation and everything about them, not to harm those who read, but to turn them away,
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Summary: Epiphanius moves on, writing to warn readers.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.22.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-22-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.22.2Holl GCS 25/31:38
πρὸς τὸ μὴ πλησιάσαι μιᾷ τῶν προειρημένων αἱρέσεων ἢ τῶν μετέπειτα, ἀλλὰ ἀναγνόντας τὰ γεγραμμένα παρʼ αὐτοῖς καὶ γνόντας τὰ ᾀδόμενα καὶ καταγνόντας τῆς ἑκάστης αὐτῶν πλάνης τε καὶ ἑρπετώδους μοχθηρίας ἀποφεύγειν τε καὶ ὡς εἶπον μὴ πλησιάζειν.
pros to mē plēsiasai mią tōn proeirēmenōn haireseōn ē tōn metepeita, alla anagnontas ta gegrammena parʼ autois kai gnontas ta ądomena kai katagnontas tēs hekastēs autōn planēs te kai herpetōdous mochthērias apopheugein te kai hōs eipon mē plēsiazein.
so that they do not approach any of the heresies mentioned before or those that follow, but, having read what is written about them, known what they sing, and condemned the error and serpent-like wickedness of each, may flee them and, as I said, not approach them.
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Summary: Readers should learn of the heresies in order to avoid them.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.22.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-22-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.22.3Holl GCS 25/31:38–39
διψάδα γάρ τινα ἔχιδνάν φασιν οἱ ἱστορήσαντες, ἣ οὕτως ἔοικεν λύμην τοιάνδε ἐμποιεῖν· ἐν τόποις γάρ τισιν, ὅπου πύελοι ἐν ταῖς πέτραις ἢ λιβάδες εἰσὶ μικραὶ ἀπὸ πετρῶν χεόμεναι εἰς ὑποδοχήν τινα, ἡ αὐτὴ διψὰς ὕδωρ εὑρίσκουσα καὶ πιοῦσα τὸν ἰὸν ἐμβάλλει μετὰ τὸ πιεῖν εἰς τὰς προειρημένας στάσεις τῶν ὑδάτων, ὥστε πᾶν ζῷον πλησιάσαν καὶ ποτοῦ κορεσθὲν δοκεῖν μὲν ὠφελεῖσθαι ἐκ τοῦ μεταλαβεῖν, εὐθὺς δὲ παρὰ τὸν ὑποδόχον τῶν ὑδάτων ἐκ τοῦ ἰοῦ τῆς διψάδος ὑποδεξάμενον καταπίπτειν καὶ θνῄσκειν.
dipsada gar tina echidnan phasin hoi historēsantes, hē houtōs eoiken lymēn toiande empoiein; en topois gar tisin, hopou pyeloi en tais petrais ē libades eisi mikrai apo petrōn cheomenai eis hypodochēn tina, hē autē dipsas hydōr heuriskousa kai piousa ton ion emballei meta to piein eis tas proeirēmenas staseis tōn hydatōn, hōste pan zǭon plēsiasan kai potou koresthen dokein men ōpheleisthai ek tou metalabein, euthys de para ton hypodochon tōn hydatōn ek tou iou tēs dipsados hypodexamenon katapiptein kai thnę̄skein.
For those who have written natural histories say that there is a viper called the dipsas which is thought to cause harm in this way. In certain places, where there are hollows in the rocks or small springs flowing from rocks into some basin, this dipsas finds water, drinks, and after drinking casts its venom into these standing pools of water; so that any animal that comes near and has its fill of drink seems to be refreshed by partaking, but at once, beside the basin of the waters, having taken in the venom of the dipsas, falls down and dies.
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Summary: The dipsas snake poisons water that seems to refresh.
- The dipsas ('thirst-snake') of ancient natural history; the source of the lore is not named.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Repeated word.): στάσεις στάσεις → στάσεις.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.22.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:38–39; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-22-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.22.4Holl GCS 25/31:39
ἀλλὰ καὶ εἴ τινα πλήξειεν ἡ αὐτὴ διψάς, ἀπὸ τοῦ περισσοτέρως ἐν αὐτῇ καυστικοῦ ἰοῦ ἐπὶ ὄρεξιν δίψης καὶ πόματος προτρέπει τὸ πάθος τῆς ἀλγηδόνος προσφέρεσθαί τε ἀεὶ καὶ πίνειν ἐρεθίζει.
alla kai ei tina plēxeien hē autē dipsas, apo tou perissoterōs en autę̄ kaustikou iou epi orexin dipsēs kai pomatos protrepei to pathos tēs algēdonos prospheresthai te aei kai pinein erethizei.
Moreover, if this dipsas bites someone, from the burning venom that is so abundant in it, the pain of the wound drives the victim to crave drink and constantly provokes him to take it and drink.
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Summary: The dipsas's bite causes burning thirst.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.22.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:39; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-22-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.22.5Holl GCS 25/31:39
νομίζει δέ τι ὠφελεῖσθαι πρὸς τὴν λύμην ὁ πληγείς, ὁσάκις τῆς τοιαύτης θανατηφόρου ἀλγηδόνος * λαμβάνει, ἀλλὰ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ πότῳ πληρωθείσης τῆς γαστρὸς καὶ μηκέτι > ὑποδεχομένης ὕστερον σὺν τῷ πόματι τὸ πνεῦμα ἀφίησιν.
nomizei de ti ōpheleisthai pros tēn lymēn ho plēgeis, hosakis tēs toiautēs thanatēphorou algēdonos * lambanei, alla en autǭ tǭ potǭ plērōtheisēs tēs gastros kai mēketi > hypodechomenēs hysteron syn tǭ pomati to pneuma aphiēsin.
The bitten man thinks he gains some relief from the harm whenever he takes … of this deadly pain; but when his stomach is filled with the drink itself and can hold no more, he finally gives up his breath with the drink.
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Summary: The victim drinks himself to death.
- A word is missing in the digital text (probably 'relief').
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.22.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:39; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-22-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.22.6Holl GCS 25/31:39
οὕτως καὶ οὗτος ἀπὸ πόματος τὸν θάνατον τοῖς παρʼ αὐτοῦ ἠπατημένοις ἐξεργάζεται, οὗπερ ἰοῦ ἐν δυνάμει θεοῦ ῥυσθέντες ἐπὶ τὰς ἑξῆς ἴωμεν.
houtōs kai houtos apo pomatos ton thanaton tois parʼ autou ēpatēmenois exergazetai, houper iou en dynamei theou rhysthentes epi tas hexēs iōmen.
So too this man works death through drink for those deceived by him. Rescued from his venom by the power of God, let us go on to the next.
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Summary: Marcus's teaching is a deadly drink; Epiphanius moves on.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 34.22.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:39; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-34-22-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 35, chapter 1
35.1.1Holl GCS 25/31:39
Κολόρβασος τούτοις ἕπεται ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ προειρημένου Μάρκου γοητείας τὸν ἔρανον ποιησάμενος, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ Πτολεμαίου ῥίζης σκολόπων δίκην ἀναφύσας· ἕτερα <δὲ> πάλιν τούτους ἐνοχλεῖν τῷ κόσμῳ κέντρων δίκην ἐπενόησε, δῆθεν μείζονα ἐμπειρίαν, ὡς ἄνωθεν ἥκων, μηχανώμενος.
Kolorbasos toutois hepetai apo tēs tou proeirēmenou Markou goēteias ton eranon poiēsamenos, alla kai apo tēs tou Ptolemaiou rhizēs skolopōn dikēn anaphysas; hetera <de> palin toutous enochlein tǭ kosmǭ kentrōn dikēn epenoēse, dēthen meizona empeirian, hōs anōthen hēkōn, mēchanōmenos.
Colorbasus follows these, having made his contribution from the sorcery of Marcus mentioned before, but also springing up like thorns from the root of Ptolemy. He in turn devised other things, like goads, to trouble the world, contriving, supposedly, greater expertise, as one come from above.
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Summary: Colorbasus follows Marcus and Ptolemy.
- Heresy 35, the Colorbasians. Colorbasus is known only from the heresiologists; his existence as a person has been doubted.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.1.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:39; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.1.2Holl GCS 25/31:39–40
καὶ τὰ μὲν πρῶτα σὺν τῷ Μάρκῳ ὑπάρχων ὁμοιογνώμονι αὐτῷ, δίκην δικεφάλου ὄφεως ὑπαρχούσης τῆς αὐτῶν αἱρέσεως, ὕστερον δὲ ὡς κεφαλὴ ἀπὸ σώματος ἑρπετοῦ τμηθεῖσα καὶ ἔτι ἐμπνέουσα πολλοὺς ἀφανίσας ἠδίκησεν, ὡς δῆθεν μεῖζόν τι καὶ ἐμπειρότερον παρὰ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ τοὺς πρώτους δεικνύς.
kai ta men prōta syn tǭ Markǭ hyparchōn homoiognōmoni autǭ, dikēn dikephalou opheōs hyparchousēs tēs autōn haireseōs, hysteron de hōs kephalē apo sōmatos herpetou tmētheisa kai eti empneousa pollous aphanisas ēdikēsen, hōs dēthen meizon ti kai empeiroteron para tous syn autǭ kai tous prōtous deiknys.
At first he was with Marcus and of one mind with him, their heresy being like a two-headed snake; but later, like a head cut off from a reptile's body and still breathing, he destroyed and harmed many, supposedly showing something greater and more expert than his associates and his predecessors.
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Summary: Colorbasus split off from Marcus.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.1.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:39–40; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.1.3Holl GCS 25/31:40
λέγει γὰρ τὴν πρώτην ὀγδοάδα οὐ καθʼ ὑπόβασιν ἄλλον ὑπὸ ἄλλου Αἰῶνα προβεβλῆσθαι, ἀλλʼ ὁμοῦ καὶ εἰς ἅπαξ τὴν τῶν ἓξ Αἰώνων προβολὴν ὑπὸ τοῦ Προπάτορος καὶ τῆς Ἐννοίας αὐτοῦ τετέχθαι, ὡς αὐτὸς μαιωσάμενος, διαβεβαιοῦται. καὶ οὐκέτι ἐκ Λόγου καὶ Ζωῆς Ἄνθρωπον καὶ Ἐκκλησίαν, ὡς οἱ ἄλλοι, ἀλλʼ ἐξ Ἀνθρώπου καὶ Ἐκκλησίας Λόγον καὶ Ζωήν φασι τετέχθαι αὐτὸς καὶ οἱ αὐτοῦ.
legei gar tēn prōtēn ogdoada ou kathʼ hypobasin allon hypo allou Aiōna probeblēsthai, allʼ homou kai eis hapax tēn tōn hex Aiōnōn probolēn hypo tou Propatoros kai tēs Ennoias autou tetechthai, hōs autos maiōsamenos, diabebaioutai. kai ouketi ek Logou kai Zōēs Anthrōpon kai Ekklēsian, hōs hoi alloi, allʼ ex Anthrōpou kai Ekklēsias Logon kai Zōēn phasi tetechthai autos kai hoi autou.
For he says that the first Ogdoad was not emitted one Aeon after another by descent, but that the emission of the six Aeons was brought forth together and all at once by the Forefather and his Thought, as he confidently asserts, as though he had been the midwife. And he and his followers say that it was no longer Man and Church from Word and Life, as the others hold, but Word and Life from Man and Church.
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Summary: Colorbasus has the Aeons emitted all at once and reverses their order.
- From Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.12.3–4, where these views are ascribed to 'others' among the Valentinians.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.12.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.1.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:40; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-1-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.1.4Holl GCS 25/31:40
ἀλλὰ καὶ ἑτέρῳ τρόπῳ τοῦτο λέγουσιν, ὅτι ὅτε ἐνενοήθη προβαλεῖν ὁ Προπάτωρ, τοῦτο Πατὴρ ἐκλήθη· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ὃ προεβάλετο ἀλήθεια ἦι, τοῦτο Ἀλήθεια ὠνομάσθη. ὅτε δὲ ἠθέλησεν ἑαυτὸν επιδεῖξαι, τοῦτο Ἄνθρωπος ἐλέχθη. οὓς δὲ προελογίσατο ὅτε προέβαλεν, τοῦτο Ἐκκλησία ὠνομάσθη· † καὶ ὁ Ἄνθρωπος τὸν Λόγον· οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ πρωτότοκος υἱός. ἐπακολουθεῖ δὲ τῷ Λόγῳ καὶ ἡ Ζωή. καὶ οὕτως πρώτη ὀγδοὰς συνετελέσθη.
alla kai heterǭ tropǭ touto legousin, hoti hote enenoēthē probalein ho Propatōr, touto Patēr eklēthē; epeidē de ho proebaleto alētheia ēi, touto Alētheia ōnomasthē. hote de ēthelēsen heauton epideixai, touto Anthrōpos elechthē. hous de proelogisato hote proebalen, touto Ekklēsia ōnomasthē; † kai ho Anthrōpos ton Logon; houtos estin ho prōtotokos huios. epakolouthei de tǭ Logǭ kai hē Zōē. kai houtōs prōtē ogdoas synetelesthē.
They also say this in another way: when the Forefather conceived the thought of emitting, this was called Father; and since what he emitted was true, this was named Truth. When he wished to display himself, this was called Man; and those whom he had thought of beforehand when he emitted, this was named Church. … And Man emitted the Word; he is the firstborn Son. And Life follows the Word. And so the first Ogdoad was completed.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: Another account of the first Ogdoad.
- From Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.12.3. The edition marks the text before 'and Man' as corrupt (Irenaeus reads 'Man uttered the Word').
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.12.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.1.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:40; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-1-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.1.5Holl GCS 25/31:40
πολλὴ δὲ μάχη παρʼ αὐτοῖς καὶ περὶ τοῦ Σωτῆρος. οἱ μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐκ πάντων γεγονέναι λέγουσι, διὸ καὶ εὐδοκητὸν καλεῖσθαι, ὅτι πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα ηὐδόκησεν διʼ αὐτοῦ δοξάσαι τὸν Πατέρα· οἱ δὲ ἐκ μόνων τῶν δέκα αἰώνων τῶν ἀπὸ Λόγου καὶ Ζωῆς προβεβλημένων αὐτὸν λέγουσι], καὶ διὰ τοῦτο Λόγον καὶ Ζωὴν αὐτὸν, τὰ προγονικὰ ὀνόματα τὰ] διασῴζοντα·
pollē de machē parʼ autois kai peri tou Sōtēros. hoi men gar auton ek pantōn gegonenai legousi, dio kai eudokēton kaleisthai, hoti pan to plērōma ēudokēsen diʼ autou doxasai ton Patera; hoi de ek monōn tōn deka aiōnōn tōn apo Logou kai Zōēs probeblēmenōn auton legousi], kai dia touto Logon kai Zōēn auton, ta progonika onomata ta] diasǭzonta;
There is also great strife among them about the Savior. Some say that he came into being from all the Aeons, and that he is therefore called 'well-pleasing', because the whole Pleroma was well pleased to glorify the Father through him. Others say he was emitted from the ten Aeons alone that came from Word and Life, and that for this reason they call him Word and Life, as preserving the names of his ancestors;
Col 1:19 (echo, medium confidence)
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Summary: They disagree about the Savior's origin.
- From Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.12.4. Cf. Col 1:19.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Leaked character code.; OCR slip in the breathing.): οἶ δὲ → οἱ δὲ; αὐτὸν x003E;, → αὐτὸν,.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.12.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.1.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:40; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-1-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.1.6Holl GCS 25/31:40–41
οἱ δὲ ἐκ τῶν δώδεκα Αἰώνων τῶν ἐκ τοῦ Ἀνθρώπου καὶ Ἐκκλησίας γενομένων, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου > ὁμολογεῖν, ὡσανεἰ ἀπόγονον Ἀνθρώπου· οἱ δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος > εἰς στήριγμα τοῦ πληρώματος > γεγονέναι λέγουσιν αὐτόν, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο Χριστὸν λέγεσθαι αὐτόν, τὴν τοῦ Πατρὸς ἀφʼ οὗ προεβλήθη διασῴζοντα προσηγορίαν.
hoi de ek tōn dōdeka Aiōnōn tōn ek tou Anthrōpou kai Ekklēsias genomenōn, kai dia touto huion anthrōpou > homologein, hōsanei apogonon Anthrōpou; hoi de hypo tou Christou kai tou hagiou pneumatos > eis stērigma tou plērōmatos > gegonenai legousin auton, kai dia touto Christon legesthai auton, tēn tou Patros aphʼ hou proeblēthē diasǭzonta prosēgorian.
others, from the twelve Aeons that came from Man and Church, and that for this reason he confesses himself Son of Man, as a descendant of Man; and others say that he came into being from Christ and the Holy Spirit for the establishment of the Pleroma, and that for this reason he is called Christ, preserving the name of the Father from whom he was emitted.
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Summary: Further views of the Savior's origin.
- From Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.12.4.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.12.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.1.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:40–41; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-1-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.1.7Holl GCS 25/31:41
ἄλλοι δέ, ὡς εἰπεῖν, τινὲς ἐξ αὐτῶν ῥαψῳδοί, τὸν Προπάτορα τῶν ὅλων καὶ Προαρχὴν καὶ Προανεννόητον Ἄνθρωπον λέγουσι καλεῖσθαι. καὶ τοῦτʼ εἶναι τὸ μέγα καὶ ἀπόκρυφον μυστήριον, ὅτι ἡ ὕπὲρ τὰ ὅλα δύναμις καὶ ἐμπεριεκτικὴ τῶν πάντων Ἄνθρωπος καλεῖται· καὶ διὰ τοῦτο υἱὸν Ἀνθρώπου ἑαυτὸν λέγειν τὸν σωτῆρα.
alloi de, hōs eipein, tines ex autōn rhapsǭdoi, ton Propatora tōn holōn kai Proarchēn kai Proanennoēton Anthrōpon legousi kaleisthai. kai toutʼ einai to mega kai apokryphon mystērion, hoti hē hyper ta hola dynamis kai emperiektikē tōn pantōn Anthrōpos kaleitai; kai dia touto huion Anthrōpou heauton legein ton sōtēra.
Others, some rhapsodists among them, so to speak, say that the Forefather of all, the First Principle and the First Inconceivable, is called Man. And this is the great and hidden mystery: that the power above all things, which encompasses all things, is called Man; and for this reason the Savior calls himself Son of Man.
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Summary: Some call the supreme God 'Man', hence 'Son of Man'.
- From Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.12.4.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): τονὲς → τινὲς; μοστήριον → μυστήριον; πάωτων → πάντων.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.12.4 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.1.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:41; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-1-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 35, chapter 2
35.2.1Holl GCS 25/31:41
2. Αὕτη καὶ ἡ τοῦ Κολορβάσου μάταιος τῷ βίῳ καὶ φαντασιώδης διὰ ψοφημάτων κενοφωνία· ἣν ἐὰν καταμάθοι τις, εἴσεται ἐκ τῶν πρὸ αὐτοῦ ὡς φιλοτιμία ἐστὶ τῆς ἑκάστου τούτων ὑπονοίας <αἰτία>.
2. Hautē kai hē tou Kolorbasou mataios tǭ biǭ kai phantasiōdēs dia psophēmatōn kenophōnia; hēn ean katamathoi tis, eisetai ek tōn pro autou hōs philotimia esti tēs hekastou toutōn hyponoias <aitia>.
This is the empty babble of Colorbasus, vain for life and fanciful, made of mere noises. Whoever learns it will know from those before him that ambition is the cause of each of these men's notions.
Notes and citation
Summary: Ambition drives each of these teachers.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:41; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2.2Holl GCS 25/31:41
κενοδοξῶν γὰρ ἕκαστος καὶ βουλόμενος ἑαυτῷ συνάγειν ἄθροισμα ὥστε αὐτῷ ἕπεσθαι, ἃ ὑπεισῆλθεν τὴν αὐτοῦ ἔννοιαν ἐψευδολόγησεν, οὔτε κατὰ προφητείαν φθεγγόμενος οὐ γὰρ πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἐλάλησεν ἐν αὐτοῖς) οὔτε ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν προφητῶν καὶ εὐαγγελίων ἀληθείας κἂν μίαν πρόφασιν ἐσχηκώς.
kenodoxōn gar hekastos kai boulomenos heautǭ synagein athroisma hōste autǭ hepesthai, ha hypeisēlthen tēn autou ennoian epseudologēsen, oute kata prophēteian phthengomenos ou gar pneuma hagion elalēsen en autois) oute apo tēs tōn prophētōn kai euangeliōn alētheias kan mian prophasin eschēkōs.
For each, being vainglorious and wishing to gather a following for himself, told as lies whatever entered his mind, neither speaking by prophecy (for the Holy Spirit did not speak in them) nor having even one pretext from the truth of the prophets and the Gospels.
Notes and citation
Summary: Their teachings have no basis in prophecy or Gospel.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:41; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2.3Holl GCS 25/31:41
ἀνατροπὴ δὲ τούτων πάντων τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως ὁ αὐτὸς τῆς ἀληθείας κατὰ τῶν πρώτων ῥηθεὶς λόγος. τῆς γὰρ Οὐαλεντίνου σχολῆς καὶ τῶν πρὸ αὐτοῦ οὑτοι πάντες ὑπάρχοντες καὶ τὸν νοῦν ἐκείνου ἄλλως ἄλλος ἐξηγησάμενοι, τὴν ἴσην αὐτοῖς ὀφλήσουσιν αἰσχύνην.
anatropē de toutōn pantōn tēs pseudōnymou gnōseōs ho autos tēs alētheias kata tōn prōtōn rhētheis logos. tēs gar Oualentinou scholēs kai tōn pro autou houtoi pantes hyparchontes kai ton noun ekeinou allōs allos exēgēsamenoi, tēn isēn autois ophlēsousin aischynēn.
The refutation of all this 'knowledge falsely so called' is the same word of truth that was spoken against the first ones. For since all these belong to the school of Valentinus and of those before him, and each has explained his mind differently, they will incur the same shame.
1 Tim 6:20 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The refutation of Valentinus applies to them all.
- 'Knowledge falsely so called': 1 Tim 6:20.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:41; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2.4Holl GCS 25/31:41–42
μεγάλην γὰρ ἡμῖν ἀπάτην κενοφωνίας καὶ οὑτος ὁ Κολόρβασος ἡκεν φέρων. ἐπέθετο γὰρ ἡμῖν ποιητευσάμενος τῷ ἀκαταλήπτῳ καὶ ἀοράτῳ καὶ ἁγίῳ θεῷ τῷ πατρὶ τῶν ὅλων ὄνομα Ἄνθρωπος, ἵνα συζεύξῃ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ πλάνῃ τὸν τοῦ σωτῆρος λόγον φάσκοντος ἑαυτὸν υἱὸν Ἀνθρώπου καὶ μεταγάγῃ τὴν διάνοιαν τῶν αὐτῷ χρησαμένων ἀπὸ τῆς ἀληθινῆς καὶ ἐναργεστάτης τοῦ Χριστοῦ περὶ αὑτοῦ ὁμολογίας εἰς ἀμηχανίαν καὶ εἰς κενοφωνίαν † τοῦ ζητεῖν, ὑπολαμβάνοντας ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις εἶναι ὃ μὴ ἔστι.
megalēn gar hēmin apatēn kenophōnias kai houtos ho Kolorbasos hēken pherōn. epetheto gar hēmin poiēteusamenos tǭ akatalēptǭ kai aoratǭ kai hagiǭ theǭ tǭ patri tōn holōn onoma Anthrōpos, hina syzeuxę̄ tę̄ heautou planę̄ ton tou sōtēros logon phaskontos heauton huion Anthrōpou kai metagagę̄ tēn dianoian tōn autǭ chrēsamenōn apo tēs alēthinēs kai enargestatēs tou Christou peri hautou homologias eis amēchanian kai eis kenophōnian † tou zētein, hypolambanontas en tois epouraniois einai ho mē esti.
For this Colorbasus too has come bringing us a great deception of empty babble. He has imposed on us, inventing it, the name Man for the incomprehensible, invisible, and holy God, the Father of all, so as to attach to his own error the saying of the Savior who calls himself Son of Man, and to lead the minds of those who follow him away from Christ's true and most evident confession about himself into perplexity and the empty babble of … searching, supposing that there is in the heavens what does not exist.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Colorbasus calls the Father 'Man' to twist 'Son of Man'.
- The edition marks a corrupt word before 'searching'.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ἐπουρα- νίοις → ἐπουρανίοις.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:41–42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2.5Holl GCS 25/31:42
δῶμεν γὰρ αὐτὸν διὰ τὸ τὸν ἄνω που αὐτοῦ πατέρα Ἄνθρωπον καλεῖσθαι υἱὸν Ἀνθρώπου ἑαυτὸν ὀνομάζειν καὶ οὐκ ἀπὸ τῆς σαρκὸς ἡς ἔλαβεν ἀπὸ παρθενικῆς μήτρας τουτέστιν ἀπὸ Μαρίας τῆς ἁγίας γεννηθεὶς διὰ πνεύματος ἁγίου) κατὰ τὸν τοῦ ἐλεεινοῦ Κολορβάσου τούτου λόγον, —
dōmen gar auton dia to ton anō pou autou patera Anthrōpon kaleisthai huion Anthrōpou heauton onomazein kai ouk apo tēs sarkos hēs elaben apo parthenikēs mētras toutestin apo Marias tēs hagias gennētheis dia pneumatos hagiou) kata ton tou eleeinou Kolorbasou toutou logon, —
For let us grant, according to the argument of this wretched Colorbasus, that he calls himself Son of Man because his Father somewhere above is called Man, and not from the flesh which he took from a virgin womb (that is, being born of holy Mary through the Holy Spirit):
Luke 1:35 (echo, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Epiphanius grants the premise for the sake of argument.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2.6Holl GCS 25/31:42
τί ἂν εἴποι περὶ οὗ ὁ αὐτὸς κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός φησιν, ὡς τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις ἔλεγεν νῦν δέ με ζητεῖτε ἀποκτεῖναι ἄνθρωπον, ὃς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ὑμῖν λελάληκα, ἣν ἤκουσα παρὰ τοῦ πατρός μου«·
ti an eipoi peri hou ho autos kyrios hēmōn Iēsous Christos phēsin, hōs tois Ioudaiois elegen nyn de me zēteite apokteinai anthrōpon, hos tēn alētheian hymin lelalēka, hēn ēkousa para tou patros mou«;
what would he say about what our Lord Jesus Christ himself says, when he told the Jews, 'But now you seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I heard from my Father'?
John 8:40 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Jesus calls himself a man, distinct from his Father.
- John 8:40.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2.7Holl GCS 25/31:42
καὶ οὐκέτι ἐνταῦθα εἶπεν, τοῦ ἀνθρώπου πατρός μου, ἀλλὰ περὶ μὲν πατρὸς ὁμολογῶν θεὸν τὸν τῶν ὅλων ἐσήμανεν, περὶ δὲ ἑαυτοῦ, ὅτι ἐνηνθρώπησεν ἐν ἀληθείᾳ, ἄνθρωπον ἑαυτὸν ἔφασκεν·
kai ouketi entautha eipen, tou anthrōpou patros mou, alla peri men patros homologōn theon ton tōn holōn esēmanen, peri de heautou, hoti enēnthrōpēsen en alētheią, anthrōpon heauton ephasken;
Here he did not say 'of the man my Father'; but confessing the Father, he indicated the God of all, while of himself, because he truly became man, he said that he was a man;
John 8:40 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ's humanity, not the Father's, explains the word 'man'.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2.8Holl GCS 25/31:42
ὡς καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοί φασιν, ἴνα ἡ ἀλήθεια πανταχόθεν συσταθῇ καὶ γνωσθῇ πόθεν ἐστὶν τὰ τῷ κυρίῳ ὀνόματα συναφθέντα »Ἰησοῦν ἄνδρα ἀποδεδειγμένον εἰς ἡμᾶς σημείοις καὶ τέρασι« καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς.
hōs kai hoi apostoloi phasin, ina hē alētheia pantachothen systathę̄ kai gnōsthę̄ pothen estin ta tǭ kyriǭ onomata synaphthenta »Iēsoun andra apodedeigmenon eis hēmas sēmeiois kai terasi« kai ta hexēs.
as the apostles also say, so that the truth might be established on all sides and it might be known where the names applied to the Lord come from: 'Jesus, a man attested to us by signs and wonders,' and so on.
Acts 2:22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Acts 2:22 calls Jesus a man.
- Acts 2:22.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2.9Holl GCS 25/31:42
τί τοίνυν πρὸς ταῦτα φαίης ἄν, ὦ πάντων ἀνθρώπων ἐλεεινότατε, ἐπειδὴ ἄνωθεν ἥκεις φέρων ἡμῖν καινὰς ὀνομασίας καὶ σεμνύνῃ ἐφʼ οἷς τὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ὄνομα αὐτῷ τῷ πάντων δεσπότῃ καὶ πατρὶ τῶν ὅλων προσάψαι ἐτόλμησας, ὡς ἐκ τούτου καλεῖσθαι τὸν κύριον υἱὸν Ἀνθρώπου διὰ τὸ τὸν πατέρα Ἄνθρωπον καλεῖσθαι.
ti toinyn pros tauta phaiēs an, ō pantōn anthrōpōn eleeinotate, epeidē anōthen hēkeis pherōn hēmin kainas onomasias kai semnynę̄ ephʼ hois to tou anthrōpou onoma autǭ tǭ pantōn despotę̄ kai patri tōn holōn prosapsai etolmēsas, hōs ek toutou kaleisthai ton kyrion huion Anthrōpou dia to ton patera Anthrōpon kaleisthai.
What then would you say to this, most wretched of all men, since you come from above bringing us new names, and pride yourself that you dared to attach the name of man to the Master of all and Father of all things, as though the Lord were called Son of Man from this, because the Father is called Man?
Notes and citation
Summary: Epiphanius challenges Colorbasus directly.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2.10Holl GCS 25/31:42
εὑρὲ ἡμῖν καί τινα ἄλλην προσηγορίαν τῷ πατρὶ ἁρμόζουσαν 〈κατὰ〉 τό »ἄνδρα ἀποδεδειγμένον«· ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἂν εὕροις ποτέ. εἰ γὰρ καὶ ἀνὴρ ἄνθρωπός ἐστι καὶ πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν τῆς γυναικὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἄνδρα καλοῦμεν, ὅμως οὐκ ἂν καὶ ἐν τούτω μηχανήσασθαί τι δυνηθείης.
heure hēmin kai tina allēn prosēgorian tǭ patri harmozousan 〈kata〉 to »andra apodedeigmenon«; allʼ ouk an heurois pote. ei gar kai anēr anthrōpos esti kai pros antidiastolēn tēs gynaikos ton anthrōpon andra kaloumen, homōs ouk an kai en toutō mēchanēsasthai ti dynētheiēs.
Find us some other title for the Father that fits the words 'a man attested'; but you could never find one. For even if a male is a human being, and we call a human being a male to distinguish him from a woman, still you could not contrive anything by this.
Acts 2:22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The word 'man' (male) cannot apply to the Father.
- Epiphanius plays on ἀνήρ ('man, male') in Acts 2:22 and ἄνθρωπος ('human being').
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2.11Holl GCS 25/31:42
ἄνευ γὰρ σχημάτων καὶ μελῶν κρυφίων τε καὶ ὁρατῶν ἀνὴρ οὐ δυνήσεται καλεῖσθαι. λέγομεν γὰρ καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἀνδρα. διὸ καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος λέγομεν καὶ ἡ ἄνθρωπος.
aneu gar schēmatōn kai melōn kryphiōn te kai horatōn anēr ou dynēsetai kaleisthai. legomen gar kai tēn gynaika anthrōpon, allʼ ouk andra. dio kai ho anthrōpos legomen kai hē anthrōpos.
For without shapes and members, both hidden and visible, one cannot be called a male. We call a woman too a human being, but not a male. That is why we say both 'the human being' (masculine) and 'the human being' (feminine).
Notes and citation
Summary: 'Human being' covers both sexes; 'male' does not.
- Greek ἄνθρωπος can take a masculine or feminine article.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2.12Holl GCS 25/31:42
διαιροῦντες δὲ τὸ γένος ἰδιαζόντως τὴν μὲν θήλειαν γυναῖκα καλοῦμεν, τὸν δὲ ἄρρενα ἄνδρα. αὕτη γὰρ διάκρισίς ἐστι τοῦ γένους ἄρρενος καὶ θηλείας, τὸ ἀνὴρ καὶ γυνή, διαιρουμένης τῆς τῶν γενῶν σχέσεως. ὁμωνυμικῶς δὲ ἄνθρωπος καὶ ὁ ἀνὴρ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ καλεῖται.
diairountes de to genos idiazontōs tēn men thēleian gynaika kaloumen, ton de arrena andra. hautē gar diakrisis esti tou genous arrenos kai thēleias, to anēr kai gynē, diairoumenēs tēs tōn genōn scheseōs. homōnymikōs de anthrōpos kai ho anēr kai hē gynē kaleitai.
When we divide the sex specifically, we call the female 'woman' and the male 'man'. For this is the distinction of the male and female sex, 'man' and 'woman', dividing the relation of the sexes; but both man and woman are called by the same name 'human being'.
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Summary: Epiphanius explains the difference between 'man' and 'human being'.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.2.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-2-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 35, chapter 3
35.3.1Holl GCS 25/31:42–43
3. Τούτων τοίνυν οὕτως ἐχόντων ἥκετέ μοι πάντες θεοῦ δοῦλοι, οἱ τῆς ἀληθείας ἐρασταί, καὶ γελάσατε τὸν ἀπατεῶνα καὶ ἀγύρτην Κολόρβασον, μᾶλλον δὲ πενθήσατε τοὺς ἀπατηθέντας καὶ ἑαυτοὺς καὶ πολλοὺς ἀπολέσαντας.
3. Toutōn toinyn houtōs echontōn hēkete moi pantes theou douloi, hoi tēs alētheias erastai, kai gelasate ton apateōna kai agyrtēn Kolorbason, mallon de penthēsate tous apatēthentas kai heautous kai pollous apolesantas.
Since this is so, come to me, all you servants of God, lovers of the truth, and laugh at the deceiver and charlatan Colorbasus; or rather, mourn those who were deceived and have destroyed both themselves and many others.
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Summary: Readers should laugh at Colorbasus and mourn his followers.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ἀγύρ- την → ἀγύρτην.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.3.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:42–43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-3-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.3.2Holl GCS 25/31:43
αὐτοὶ δὲ θεῷ εὐχαριστήσωμεν, ὡς διὰ μικρῶν καὶ ἁπλῶν λόγων ἡ ἀλήθεια τοὺς αὐτῆς υἱοὺς εἰς ὁδον εὐθεῖαν ὁδηγεῖν εἴωθεν καὶ τὰ σχέτλια καὶ πολύκομπα, διὰ πολλῆς μηχανῆς καλλωπισθέντα, διασκεδάννυσιν ἀνατρέπει τε καὶ ἀφανίζει, ἡσυχῆ βαίνουσα, ὡς σαφῶς ἔστιν ἰδεῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ προφητικοῦ λόγου.
autoi de theǭ eucharistēsōmen, hōs dia mikrōn kai haplōn logōn hē alētheia tous autēs huious eis hodon eutheian hodēgein eiōthen kai ta schetlia kai polykompa, dia pollēs mēchanēs kallōpisthenta, diaskedannysin anatrepei te kai aphanizei, hēsychē bainousa, hōs saphōs estin idein apo tou prophētikou logou.
But let us give thanks to God, that through small and simple words the truth is wont to guide its sons into the straight way, and to scatter, overturn, and destroy wretched and boastful things adorned with much contrivance, going quietly, as one can clearly see from the prophetic word.
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Summary: Simple truth overturns elaborate error.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ἐδεῖν → ἰδεῖν.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.3.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.3.3Holl GCS 25/31:43
ἐγκαλῶν γὰρ ὁ προφήτης τοῖς τὰ δεινὰ περιεργαζομένοις καὶ πολύφημα ἐπινοοῦσιν εἰς ἑαυτῶν ἀπάτην ἔλεγεν »διὰ τὸ μὴ θέλειν ὑμᾶς τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ Σιλωὰμ τὸ πορευόμενον ἡσυχῆ, ἀνάγει ἐφʼ ὑμᾶς κύριος τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ ποταμοῦ, τὸν βασιλέα τῶν Ἀσσυρίων((.
enkalōn gar ho prophētēs tois ta deina periergazomenois kai polyphēma epinoousin eis heautōn apatēn elegen »dia to mē thelein hymas to hydōr tou Silōam to poreuomenon hēsychē, anagei ephʼ hymas kyrios to hydōr tou potamou, ton basilea tōn Assyriōn((.
For the prophet, rebuking those who busy themselves with dreadful things and devise much-talked-of things to their own deception, said, 'Because you do not want the water of Siloam that goes quietly, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, the king of the Assyrians.'
Isa 8:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Isaiah contrasts the quiet water of Siloam with the flood.
- Isa 8:6–7.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.3.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.3.4Holl GCS 25/31:43
ὕδωρ γὰρ Σιλωὰμ ἐστὶν διδασκαλία τοῦ ἀπεσταλμένου. τίς δʼ ἂν εἴη οὑτος ἀλλ ἢ ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς, ὁ ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ἀπεσταλμένος; ἡσυχῃ δὲ διὰ τὸ μηδὲν κενόφωνον μηδὲ ἐπίπλαστον*, ἀλλὰ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ* τὴν ἁγίαν αὐτοῦ νύμφην, τὴν παρʼ αὐτῷ περιστερὰν καλουμένην διὰ τὸ ἄκακον καὶ ἥμερον καὶ καθαρώτατον τοῦ ζῴου ἐν τοῖς ᾄσμασι τοῦ Σολομῶνος.
hydōr gar Silōam estin didaskalia tou apestalmenou. tis dʼ an eiē houtos all ē ho kyrios Iēsous, ho apo tou theou patros autou apestalmenos? hēsychę̄ de dia to mēden kenophōnon mēde epiplaston*, alla en alētheią* tēn hagian autou nymphēn, tēn parʼ autǭ peristeran kaloumenēn dia to akakon kai hēmeron kai katharōtaton tou zǭou en tois ąsmasi tou Solomōnos.
For the water of Siloam is the teaching of the one who was sent. And who would this be but the Lord Jesus, who was sent by God his Father? 'Quietly', because it contains nothing of empty babble or fabrication … but in truth … his holy bride, whom he calls a dove in the Song of Solomon because of the harmless, gentle, and most pure nature of that creature.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
John 9:7 (allusion, high confidence) · Song 6:9 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Siloam ('sent') is Christ; his quiet teaching and his bride, the dove.
- Siloam means 'sent': John 9:7. The dove: Song 6:9. The digital text marks gaps in this sentence.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Repeated word.): Ἰησοῦς, Ἰησοῦς, → Ἰησοῦς,.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.3.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-3-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.3.5Holl GCS 25/31:43
καὶ ἔστι θαυμάσαι <ὠς> τὰς μὲν ἄλλας μὴ οὔσας αὐτοῦ, ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ ἑαυτὰς κεκληκυίας, παλλακίδας ὠνόμασε καὶ βασιλίσσας διὰ τὸ βασιλεῦον ὄνομα, ὃ ἑκάστη Χριστὸν ἐπιγραφομένη ἑαυτῇ σεμνύνεται.
kai esti thaumasai <ōs> tas men allas mē ousas autou, epi de tǭ onomati autou heautas keklēkuias, pallakidas ōnomase kai basilissas dia to basileuon onoma, ho hekastē Christon epigraphomenē heautę̄ semnynetai.
And it is remarkable that the others, which are not his but have called themselves by his name, he named concubines and queens, because of the royal name, Christ, which each one inscribes on herself and prides herself on.
Song 6:8 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The heresies are the concubines and queens of the Song.
- Song 6:8.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Stray mark.): ἐ)στι → ἔστι.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.3.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-3-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.3.6Holl GCS 25/31:43
ἀλλʼ εἰ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντά εἰσι παλλακαί, αἵτινές εἰσιν αἱ αἱρέσεις, ἔπειτα δὲ νεάνιδες ὡν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμός, φησί μία ἐστὶ περιστερά μου, τελεία μου« τουτέστιν αὐτὴ ἡ ἁγία νύμφη καὶ καθολικὴ ἐκκλησία· περιστερὰ μὲν ὡς ἔφην διὰ τὸ ἥμερον καὶ ἄκακον καὶ καθαρὸν τοῦ ζῴου, τελεία δὲ διὰ τὸ τὴν τελείαν ἐκ θεοῦ λαβεῖν χάριν καὶ γνῶσιν παρʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ σωτῆρος διὰ πνεύματος ἁγίου.
allʼ ei kai ogdoēkonta eisi pallakai, haitines eisin hai haireseis, epeita de neanides hōn ouk estin arithmos, phēsi mia esti peristera mou, teleia mou« toutestin autē hē hagia nymphē kai katholikē ekklēsia; peristera men hōs ephēn dia to hēmeron kai akakon kai katharon tou zǭou, teleia de dia to tēn teleian ek theou labein charin kai gnōsin parʼ autou tou sōtēros dia pneumatos hagiou.
But even if there are eighty concubines, which are the heresies, and then young women without number, 'one is my dove, my perfect one,' he says, that is, the holy bride herself and catholic church: a dove, as I said, because of the gentle, harmless, and pure nature of the creature, and perfect because she has received perfect grace from God and knowledge from the Savior himself through the Holy Spirit.
Song 6:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Song 6:9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The one dove of the Song is the catholic church.
- Song 6:8–9. Epiphanius's count of eighty heresies in the Panarion is modeled on the eighty concubines.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.3.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-3-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.3.7Holl GCS 25/31:43
αὐτὸς οὖν ὁ νυμφίος, ὁ ἀπεσταλμένος ἑρμηνευόμενος τουτέστιν Σιλωάμ, ὕδωρ ἔχει πορευόμενον ἡσυχῆ τουτέστιν διδασκαλίαν ἄδουπον καὶ ἐφοφοποιὸν καὶ ἀφαντασίαστον καὶ ἀκόμπαστον.
autos oun ho nymphios, ho apestalmenos hermēneuomenos toutestin Silōam, hydōr echei poreuomenon hēsychē toutestin didaskalian adoupon kai ephophopoion kai aphantasiaston kai akompaston.
So the bridegroom himself, whose name, Siloam, means 'sent', has water that goes quietly, that is, teaching that is noiseless, …, free of fantasy, and free of boasting.
Isa 8:6 (allusion, high confidence) · John 9:7 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Christ's teaching is quiet and plain.
- One adjective is garbled in the digital text (ἐφοφοποιόν) and is left untranslated.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.3.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-3-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.3.8Holl GCS 25/31:43–44
ἡ δὲ αὐτοῦ νύμφη καὶ αὐτὴ ἥσυχος περιστερά, μήτε ἰὸν ἔχουσα μήτε μυλοστομίδας μήτε κέντρα, ὡς οὑτοι πάντες οἱ ἑρπετόμορφοι καὶ ἰὸν ἀναβλυστάνοντες, ἕκαστος φιλοτιμησάμενος δηλητήριόν τι τῷ κόσμῳ κατασκευάσαι καὶ λυμήνασθαι τοὺς αὐτῷ πεισθέντας·
hē de autou nymphē kai autē hēsychos peristera, mēte ion echousa mēte mylostomidas mēte kentra, hōs houtoi pantes hoi herpetomorphoi kai ion anablystanontes, hekastos philotimēsamenos dēlētērion ti tǭ kosmǭ kataskeuasai kai lymēnasthai tous autǭ peisthentas;
And his bride too is a quiet dove, having neither venom nor fangs nor stings, like all these serpent-shaped people who spout venom, each striving to prepare some poison for the world and to ruin those persuaded by him;
Notes and citation
Summary: The church is harmless, unlike the venomous heretics.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ἡ όὲ → ἡ δὲ.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.3.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:43–44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-3-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.3.9Holl GCS 25/31:44
ὧν καὶ οὗτος εἷς ὢν τυγχάνει ὁ ἐνταῦθά μοι σπουδασθεὶς φωραθῆναι διὰ θείου λόγου καὶ βοηθείας τῆς ἄνωθεν καὶ συντριβῆναι δίκην φαλαγγίου τετραγνάθου ἑρπετοῦ καλουμένου ἢ ὡς ἀπὸ ἀμφισβαίνης τῆς δικεφάλου ἐχίδνης τμηθεῖσα κεφαλὴ ἐν συντομίᾳ κατακλασθῆναι.
hōn kai houtos heis ōn tynchanei ho entautha moi spoudastheis phōrathēnai dia theiou logou kai boētheias tēs anōthen kai syntribēnai dikēn phalangiou tetragnathou herpetou kaloumenou ē hōs apo amphisbainēs tēs dikephalou echidnēs tmētheisa kephalē en syntomią kataklasthēnai.
of whom this man, whom I have taken pains here to expose, happens to be one, to be crushed by the divine word and help from above like the spider called the four-jawed reptile, or broken off quickly like a head cut from the two-headed viper, the amphisbaena.
Notes and citation
Summary: Colorbasus is crushed like a spider or a severed snake's head.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.3.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-3-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.3.10Holl GCS 25/31:44
παρελθὼν δὲ τοῦτον πάλιν τὰς ἑξῆς διασκοπήσω καὶ ταύτας διεξιὼν διʼ εὐχῆς αἰτήσω τὰ μὲν κατʼ αὐτὰς κατὰ ἀλήθειαν ἐξειπεῖν, μηδένα δὲ βλάψαι ἢ αὐτὸς βλαβῆναι.
parelthōn de touton palin tas hexēs diaskopēsō kai tautas diexiōn diʼ euchēs aitēsō ta men katʼ autas kata alētheian exeipein, mēdena de blapsai ē autos blabēnai.
Passing him by, I will again examine the next ones, and as I go through them I will ask in prayer to tell the truth about them, and neither to harm anyone nor to be harmed myself.
Notes and citation
Summary: Epiphanius prays for help with the next heresies.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 35.3.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-35-3-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 36, chapter 1
36.1.1Holl GCS 25/31:44
Ἡρακλέων τις τοῦτον τὸν Κολόρβασον διαδέχεται, ἀφʼ οὗπερ οἱ Ἡρακλεωνῖται καλούμενοι, οὐδὲν ἧττον τῆς παρὰ τούτοις κενοφωνίας * ἡσκημένος.
Hērakleōn tis touton ton Kolorbason diadechetai, aphʼ houper hoi Hērakleōnitai kaloumenoi, ouden hētton tēs para toutois kenophōnias * hēskēmenos.
A certain Heracleon succeeds this Colorbasus, from whom come those called Heracleonites, practiced no less … in their empty babble.
Notes and citation
Summary: Heracleon follows Colorbasus.
- Heresy 36, the Heracleonites. Heracleon was a Valentinian teacher of the 2nd century, known for his commentary on John. A word is missing in the digital text.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.1.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.1.2Holl GCS 25/31:44
καὶ ὅσα μὲν ἐκεῖνοι λέγουσι καὶ οὗτος ὁρίζεται κατὰ πάντα τρόπον, οἷα δὴ ἐξ αὐτῶν ὁρμώμενος καὶ παρʼ αὐτῶν τὸν ἰὸν ἀπομαξάμενος· περισσότερον δὲ δῆθεν ὑπὲρ ἐκείνους ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἀνατυπωσάμενός τινα βούλεται ἐκείνους ὑπεραίρειν, ἵνα καὶ ἑαυτῷ συναγωγὴν ποιήσηται τῶν ἠπατημένων.
kai hosa men ekeinoi legousi kai houtos horizetai kata panta tropon, hoia dē ex autōn hormōmenos kai parʼ autōn ton ion apomaxamenos; perissoteron de dēthen hyper ekeinous en heautǭ anatypōsamenos tina bouletai ekeinous hyperairein, hina kai heautǭ synagōgēn poiēsētai tōn ēpatēmenōn.
He holds in every way what they say, as one who started from them and took the imprint of their venom; but, having formed some supposedly further things in himself beyond them, he wants to surpass them, so as to gather a congregation of the deceived for himself too.
Notes and citation
Summary: Heracleon adds to his predecessors to win followers.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.1.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.1.3Holl GCS 25/31:44
οὗτοι γὰρ πάντες εἰς ἑκατοντακέφαλον ἑαυτοὺς ἀνατυπώσαντες σῶμα ἢ ἑκατοντάχειρον, τόν ποτε μυθευόμενον παρὰ τοῖς τῶν Ἑλλήνων ποιηταῖς ἐμιμήσαντο Κόττον ἢ Βριάρεων ὃν καὶ Αἰγαίωνα καλοῦσιν ἢ Γύην ἢ τὸν καλούμενον Ἄργον τὸν πολυόφθαλμον.
houtoi gar pantes eis hekatontakephalon heautous anatypōsantes sōma ē hekatontacheiron, ton pote mytheuomenon para tois tōn Hellēnōn poiētais emimēsanto Kotton ē Briareōn hon kai Aigaiōna kalousin ē Gyēn ē ton kaloumenon Argon ton polyophthalmon.
For all these, having shaped themselves into a hundred-headed or hundred-handed body, imitate the Cottus, or Briareus (whom they also call Aegaeon), or Gyes, once told of in the fables of the Greek poets, or the one called Argus, the many-eyed.
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Summary: The heretics resemble the many-headed giants of myth.
- The hundred-handed giants: Hesiod, Theogony 147–153; Aegaeon, Homer, Iliad 1.403–404. Argus: common myth.
Extrabiblical texts: Hesiod, Theog. 147-153 (Hesiod, Theogony; allusion); Homer, Il. 1.403-404 (Homer, Iliad; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.1.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-1-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.1.4Holl GCS 25/31:44–45
οἵους ἐκεῖνοι ἐν ταῖς ἑαυτῶν ῥαψῳδίαις τερατεύονται, ποιητευόμενοι καὶ λέγοντες ἔχειν τὸν μὲν ἑκατὸν χεῖρας καὶ ποτὲ μὲν πεντήκοντα κεφαλὰς ποτὲ δὲ ἑκατόν. τὸν δὲ ἑκατὸν ὀφθαλμούς — καὶ τούτου ἕνεκα φασὶ τὸν Ἑρμῆν καλεῖσθαι Ἀργειφόντην, ὡς τὸν Ἄργον τὸν πολυόφθαλμον πεφονευκότα —,
hoious ekeinoi en tais heautōn rhapsǭdiais terateuontai, poiēteuomenoi kai legontes echein ton men hekaton cheiras kai pote men pentēkonta kephalas pote de hekaton. ton de hekaton ophthalmous — kai toutou heneka phasi ton Hermēn kaleisthai Argeiphontēn, hōs ton Argon ton polyophthalmon pephoneukota —,
Such monsters those poets fabricate in their rhapsodies, inventing and saying that one had a hundred hands, and sometimes fifty heads, sometimes a hundred, and another a hundred eyes; and on this account, they say, Hermes is called Argeiphontes, as having slain Argus the many-eyed.
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Summary: Epiphanius recounts the myths of the giants and Argus.
- Fifty heads: Hesiod, Theogony 150–152.
Extrabiblical texts: Hesiod, Theog. 150-152 (Hesiod, Theogony; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.1.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:44–45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-1-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.1.5Holl GCS 25/31:45
οὕτω καὶ τούτων ἕκαστος βουλόμενος ἑαυτῷ ἀρχὴν προστήσασθαι κεφαλὴν ἑαυτὸν ὠνόμασεν, ἕτερα ὑπεισφέρων παρὰ τὴν τῶν διδασκάλων αὐτοῦ ματαιοπονίαν καὶ μανιώδη διδασκαλίαν. ἵνα δὲ μὴ εἰς πολὺ μῆκος ἐλάσω τοῦ προοιμίου τὴν σύνταξιν, ἐλεύσομαι εἰς τὸ προκείμενον.
houtō kai toutōn hekastos boulomenos heautǭ archēn prostēsasthai kephalēn heauton ōnomasen, hetera hypeispherōn para tēn tōn didaskalōn autou mataioponian kai maniōdē didaskalian. hina de mē eis poly mēkos elasō tou prooimiou tēn syntaxin, eleusomai eis to prokeimenon.
so too each of these, wishing to set up a following for himself, has named himself a head, introducing other things besides the futile labor and crazed teaching of his teachers. But so as not to draw out the composition of my preface to great length, I will come to the subject.
Notes and citation
Summary: Each heretic makes himself a head of a new sect.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.1.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-1-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 36, chapter 2
36.2.1Holl GCS 25/31:45
2. Ἡρακλέων τοίνυν οὑτος καὶ οἱ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ Ἡρακλεωνῖται ὡς προεῖπον ὁμοίως Μάρκῳ καί τισι τῶν πρὸ αὐτοῦ περὶ τῶν Ὀγδοάδων φάσκει, τῆς ἄνω φημὶ καὶ τῆς κάτω· ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τὰς συζυγίας τῶν τριάκοντα Αἰώνων ἴσως δοξάζει.
2. Hērakleōn toinyn houtos kai hoi apʼ autou Hērakleōnitai hōs proeipon homoiōs Markǭ kai tisi tōn pro autou peri tōn Ogdoadōn phaskei, tēs anō phēmi kai tēs katō; epeita de kai tas syzygias tōn triakonta Aiōnōn isōs doxazei.
This Heracleon, then, and the Heracleonites derived from him, as I said before, speak about the Ogdoads, the upper and the lower, in the same way as Marcus and some of his predecessors; and then he likewise holds the pairs of the thirty Aeons.
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Summary: Heracleon shares the Valentinian system of Ogdoads and Aeons.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slips.): ἔσως δοξάξει → ἴσως δοξάζει.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.2.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.2.2Holl GCS 25/31:45
ἄνθρωπον δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς φάσκει εἶναι τὸν ἄνω τῶν ὅλων Πατέρα, ὃν καὶ Βυθὸν προσηγόρευσεν. βούλεται δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς αὐτὸν λέγειν μήτε ἄρρεν μήτε θῆλυ, ἐξ αὐτοῦ δὲ εἶναι τὴν τῶν ὅλων Μητέρα, ἣν καὶ Σιγὴν ὀνομάζει καὶ Ἀλήθειαν.
anthrōpon de kai autos phaskei einai ton anō tōn holōn Patera, hon kai Bython prosēgoreusen. bouletai de kai autos auton legein mēte arren mēte thēly, ex autou de einai tēn tōn holōn Mētera, hēn kai Sigēn onomazei kai Alētheian.
He too says that the Father of all above is Man, whom he also calls Depth. And he too wants to say that he is neither male nor female, and that from him comes the Mother of all, whom he calls both Silence and Truth.
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Summary: Heracleon's supreme Father and the first Mother.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.2.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.2.3Holl GCS 25/31:45
ἀπʼ αὐτῆς δὲ εἶναι τὴν δευτέραν Μητέρα τὴν ἐν λήθῃ γενομένην, ἣν καὶ Ἀχαμὼθ καὶ αὐτὸς καλεῖ. ἐξ ἡς λοιπὸν τὰ πάντα έν ὑστερήματι κατέστη.
apʼ autēs de einai tēn deuteran Mētera tēn en lēthę̄ genomenēn, hēn kai Achamōth kai autos kalei. ex hēs loipon ta panta en hysterēmati katestē.
From her comes the second Mother, who came to be in forgetfulness, whom he too calls Achamoth; and from her, finally, everything was established in Deficiency.
Notes and citation
Summary: The second Mother, Achamoth, and the world of Deficiency.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.2.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.2.4Holl GCS 25/31:45
βούλεται δὲ πλείονα τῶν πρὸ αὐτοῦ καὶ οὑτος λέγειν, ἅτινά ἐστι τάδε· τοὺς τελευτῶντας ἀπʼ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπὶ αὐτὴν τὴν ἔξοδον φθάνοντας. ἀπὸ τοῦ προειρημένου Μάρκου τὰς προφάσεις εἰληφὼς οὐκέτι κατʼ ἐκεῖνον λυτροῦται, ἀλλὰ ἄλλως οὑτος μεταχειρίζεται, λυτρούμενος δῆθεν πρὸς τῇ τελευτῇ τοὺς ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ ἀπατηθέντας.
bouletai de pleiona tōn pro autou kai houtos legein, hatina esti tade; tous teleutōntas apʼ autōn kai epi autēn tēn exodon phthanontas. apo tou proeirēmenou Markou tas prophaseis eilēphōs ouketi katʼ ekeinon lytroutai, alla allōs houtos metacheirizetai, lytroumenos dēthen pros tę̄ teleutę̄ tous hypʼ autou apatēthentas.
But this man too wants to say more than those before him, namely this, concerning those of them who are dying and reaching the very moment of departure: having taken his pretexts from Marcus, mentioned before, he no longer redeems in Marcus's way, but handles it differently, supposedly redeeming at the point of death those deceived by him.
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Summary: Heracleon's followers perform a 'redemption' for the dying.
- Epiphanius draws on Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.5, where the rite for the dying is ascribed to 'some' of the Marcosians.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.2.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.2.5Holl GCS 25/31:45–46
ποτὲ γάρ τινες ἐξ αὐτῶν ἔλαιον ὕδατι μίξαντες ἐπιβάλλουσι τῇ κεφαλῇ τοῦ ἐξελθόντος, οἱ δὲ μύρον τὸ λεγόμενον ὀποβάλσαμον καὶ ὕδωρ, τὴν μέντοι ἐπίκλησιν κοινὴν ἔχοντες, ὡς δὴ καὶ ὁ πρὸ αὐτοῦ Μάρκος ἐποιεῖτο, μετὰ προσθήκης τινῶν ὀνομάτων. ἡ δὲ ἐπίκλησίς ἐστιν αὕτη·
pote gar tines ex autōn elaion hydati mixantes epiballousi tę̄ kephalę̄ tou exelthontos, hoi de myron to legomenon opobalsamon kai hydōr, tēn mentoi epiklēsin koinēn echontes, hōs dē kai ho pro autou Markos epoieito, meta prosthēkēs tinōn onomatōn. hē de epiklēsis estin hautē;
For some of them mix oil with water and pour it on the head of the one departing, and others use the ointment called balsam and water; but they have a common invocation, as Marcus before him used, with the addition of certain names. The invocation is this:
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Summary: They anoint the dying with oil or balsam and water.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.5.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.2.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:45–46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.2.6Holl GCS 25/31:46
Μεσσία οὐφαρέγνα μεμψαὶ μὲν χαλ δαίαν μοσομὴ δαέα ἀκφαρ νεψευ ουα Ἰησοῦ Ναζαρία.
Messia oupharegna mempsai men chal daian mosomē daea akphar nepseu oua Iēsou Nazaria.
'Messia oupharegna mempsai men chal daian mosome daea akphar nepseu oua Iesou Nazaria.'
Notes and citation
Summary: The garbled formula of invocation.
- The same formula as at 34.20.5, from Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.3; transliterated as printed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Words left in Latin transliteration in the digital text (cf. 34.20.5).): men xal daian → μὲν χαλ δαίαν.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.3 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.2.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.2.7Holl GCS 25/31:46
τοῦτο δὲ ποιοῦσιν, ἴνα δῆθεν οἱ λαμβάνοντες ἐπὶ τῇ ἐξόδῳ ταύτας τὰς ἐπικλήσεις τὰς μετὰ τοῦ ὕδατος καὶ ἐλαίου ἤτοι μύρου ἀναμεμιγμένων ἀκράτητοι γένωνται καὶ ἀόρατοι ταῖς ἄνω ἀρχαῖς καὶ ἐξουσίαις, εἰς τὸ ὑπερβῆναι ἀοράτως τὸν ἔσω αὐτῶν ἄνθρωπον, φασίν, ὡς τῶν σωμάτων τούτων ἐν τῇ
touto de poiousin, ina dēthen hoi lambanontes epi tę̄ exodǭ tautas tas epiklēseis tas meta tou hydatos kai elaiou ētoi myrou anamemigmenōn akratētoi genōntai kai aoratoi tais anō archais kai exousiais, eis to hyperbēnai aoratōs ton esō autōn anthrōpon, phasin, hōs tōn sōmatōn toutōn en tę̄
They do this so that those who receive these invocations at their departure, with the water and oil or ointment mixed together, may become ungraspable and invisible to the principalities and powers above, so that their inner man, they say, may pass over invisibly, while these bodies are left behind in
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Summary: The rite is meant to make the dying invisible to the powers.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.5.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): ἀὁρατοι → ἀόρατοι.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.2.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-2-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.2.8Holl GCS 25/31:46
κτίσει καταλιμπανομένων, τῆς δὲ ψυχῆς αὐτῶν παρισταμένης τῷ Δημιουργῷ ἄνω τῷ ἐν Ὑστερήματι γεγονότι, ὥστε καὶ ἐκεῖσε καταμένειν παρʼ αὐτῷ, ὑπεραναβαίνειν δέ, ὡς ἔφην, τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον, <τὸν> ἐσώτερον καὶ σώματος· ὃν δὴ θέλουσι [λέγειν] ἐκ τοῦ ἄνωθεν κατεληλυθέναι.
ktisei katalimpanomenōn, tēs de psychēs autōn paristamenēs tǭ Dēmiourgǭ anō tǭ en Hysterēmati gegonoti, hōste kai ekeise katamenein parʼ autǭ, hyperanabainein de, hōs ephēn, ton esō anthrōpon, <ton> esōteron kai sōmatos; hon dē thelousi [legein] ek tou anōthen katelēlythenai.
creation, and their soul is presented to the Demiurge above, who came into being in Deficiency, so that it remains there with him; while, as I said, the inner man, the one more inward than the body too, passes beyond; for they want it to have come down from above.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: Body stays, soul goes to the Demiurge, the spirit rises higher.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.5. The editor deletes λέγειν ('to say').
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): τὸν ἴσω ἄνθρωπον → τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.2.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-2-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 36, chapter 3
36.3.1Holl GCS 25/31:46
3. Ἐγκελεύονται δὲ τοῖς οὕτω παρʼ αὐτοῖς ἐμπεπαιγμένοις, ὅτι, φησίν, ἐὰν ἔλθῃς ἐπὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ ἐξουσίας, ἔχε ἐν μνήμῃ τάδε εἰπεῖν μετὰ τὴν ἐντεῦθεν τελευτήν »ἐγὼ υἱὸς ἀπὸ Πατρός, Πατρὸς προόντος,
3. Enkeleuontai de tois houtō parʼ autois empepaigmenois, hoti, phēsin, ean elthę̄s epi tas archas kai exousias, eche en mnēmę̄ tade eipein meta tēn enteuthen teleutēn »egō huios apo Patros, Patros proontos,
They instruct those they have thus made fools of: 'When you come to the principalities and powers,' he says, 'remember to say this after your death here: "I am a son from the Father, the pre-existent Father,
Notes and citation
Summary: The dying are taught a password for the powers.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.5.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.3.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-3-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.3.2Holl GCS 25/31:46
υἱὸς δὲ ἐν τῷ παρόντι· ἦλθον <δὲ> πάντα ἰδεῖν τὰ ἴδια καὶ τὰ καὶ οὐκ ἀλλότρια δὲ παντελῶς, ἀλλὰ τῆς Ἀχαμώθ, ἥτις ἐστὶν θήλεια καὶ ταῦτα ἑαυτῇ ἐποίησεν. κατάγω δὲ τὸ γένος ἐκ τοῦ προόντος καὶ πορεύομαι πάλιν εἰς τὰ ἴδια, ὅθεν ἐλήλυθα«.
huios de en tǭ paronti; ēlthon <de> panta idein ta idia kai ta kai ouk allotria de pantelōs, alla tēs Achamōth, hētis estin thēleia kai tauta heautę̄ epoiēsen. katagō de to genos ek tou proontos kai poreuomai palin eis ta idia, hothen elēlytha«.
and a son in the present. I came to see all things, my own and others', and yet not wholly others', but Achamoth's, who is female and made these things for herself. I trace my race from the Pre-existent, and I am going back to my own, whence I came."'
Notes and citation
Summary: The password claims descent from the Pre-existent.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.5. The digital text has lost the word 'others'' after the first 'and', which is supplied by sense from what follows.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.3.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.3.3Holl GCS 25/31:46
καὶ ταῦτα εἰπόντα διαφεύγειν τὰς ἐξουσίας, ἔρχεσθαι δὲ ἐπὶ τοὺς περὶ τὸν Δημιουργὸν ἄνω περὶ τὴν πρώτην ὀγδοάδα· βούλονται γὰρ καὶ αὐτοὶ μετὰ τὸν Δημιουργὸν κάτω εἶναι ἑβδομάδα, αὐτὸν δὲ εἶναι ἐν τῷ ἑβδόμῳ >
kai tauta eiponta diapheugein tas exousias, erchesthai de epi tous peri ton Dēmiourgon anō peri tēn prōtēn ogdoada; boulontai gar kai autoi meta ton Dēmiourgon katō einai hebdomada, auton de einai en tǭ hebdomǭ >
And having said this, they say, he escapes the powers and comes to those around the Demiurge above, around the first Ogdoad. For they too want there to be a Hebdomad below after the Demiurge, and him to be in the seventh,
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Summary: The soul then reaches the Demiurge's realm.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.5.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.3.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.3.4Holl GCS 25/31:46–47
ὄγδοον, ἐν ὑστερήματι δὲ καὶ ἐν ἀγνωσίᾳ· καὶ λέγειν τὸν ἐκ τοῦ βίου ἐξελθόντα τοῖς περὶ τὸν Δημιουργόν »σκεῦός εἰμι ἔντιμον μᾶλλον παρὰ τὴν θήλειαν τὴν ποιήσασαν ὑμᾶς. εἰ ἡ Μήτηρ ὑμῶν ἀγνοεῖ τὴν ἑαυτῆς ῥίζαν, ἐγὼ οἶδα ἐμαυτὸν καὶ γινώσκω ὅθεν εἰμὶ καὶ ἐπικαλοῦμαι τὴν ἄφθαρτον Σοφίαν, ἥτις ἐστἰν ἐν τῷ Πατρί, μήτηρ δὲ τῆς Μητρὸς ὑμῶν τῆς μὴ ἐχούσης πατέρα, ἀλλʼ οὔτε σύζυγον ἄρρενα·
ogdoon, en hysterēmati de kai en agnōsią; kai legein ton ek tou biou exelthonta tois peri ton Dēmiourgon »skeuos eimi entimon mallon para tēn thēleian tēn poiēsasan hymas. ei hē Mētēr hymōn agnoei tēn heautēs rhizan, egō oida emauton kai ginōskō hothen eimi kai epikaloumai tēn aphtharton Sophian, hētis estin en tǭ Patri, mētēr de tēs Mētros hymōn tēs mē echousēs patera, allʼ oute syzygon arrena;
the eighth, in Deficiency and ignorance. And the one who has departed life says to those around the Demiurge, 'I am a vessel more precious than the female who made you. If your Mother does not know her own root, I know myself and I know where I am from, and I invoke the incorruptible Wisdom, who is in the Father and is the mother of your Mother, who has no father, nor even a male consort;
2 Tim 2:20 (echo, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The dying claims to be a vessel above the Demiurge's mother.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.5. 'Vessel more precious': cf. 2 Tim 2:20–21; Rom 9:21.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.3.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:46–47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-3-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.3.5Holl GCS 25/31:47
θήλεια δὲ ὑπὸ θηλείας γενομένη ἐποίησεν ὑμᾶς, ἀγνοοῦσα καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτῆς καὶ δοκοῦσα ἑαυτὴν εἶναι μόνην. ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπικαλοῦμαι αὐτῆς τὴν μητέρα«.
thēleia de hypo thēleias genomenē epoiēsen hymas, agnoousa kai tēn mētera autēs kai dokousa heautēn einai monēn. egō de epikaloumai autēs tēn mētera«.
but a female born of a female, she made you, not knowing even her own mother and thinking that she alone exists. But I invoke her mother.'
Notes and citation
Summary: The password claims knowledge the Demiurge's mother lacks.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.5.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.3.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-3-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.3.6Holl GCS 25/31:47
ταῦτα δὲ τοὺς περὶ τὸν Δημιουργὸν ἀκούσαντας σφόδρα ταραχθῆναι καὶ καταγνῶναι αὐτῶν τῆς ῥίζης καὶ τοῦ γένους τῆς Μητρός, αὐτὸν δὲ πορευθῆναι εἰς τὰ ἴδια ῥίψαντα τὸν δεσμὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν ἄγγελον τουτέστιν > ψυχήν. οἴονται μὲν γὰρ μετὰ σῶμα καὶ ψυχὴν εἶναί τι καὶ ἕτερον ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ. καὶ περὶ μὲν τῆς ἀπολυτρώσεως ταῦτά ἐστιν ὅσα εἰς ἡμᾶς συνελήλυθεν.
tauta de tous peri ton Dēmiourgon akousantas sphodra tarachthēnai kai katagnōnai autōn tēs rhizēs kai tou genous tēs Mētros, auton de poreuthēnai eis ta idia rhipsanta ton desmon autou kai ton angelon toutestin > psychēn. oiontai men gar meta sōma kai psychēn einai ti kai heteron en anthrōpǭ. kai peri men tēs apolytrōseōs tauta estin hosa eis hēmas synelēlythen.
When those around the Demiurge hear this, they are greatly troubled and condemn their own root and the race of the Mother; but he goes to his own, having cast off his bond and his angel, that is, the soul. For they think that besides body and soul there is something else in a human being. This is what has come down to us about their redemption.
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Summary: The spirit casts off the soul and returns to its own.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.21.5. Irenaeus's Latin has only 'his bond, that is, the soul'; 'and his angel' is in the Greek as printed. A word is missing before 'soul' in the digital text.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.; Stray mark.): εῖς τὰ ἴδια → εἰς τὰ ἴδια; συν]ελήλυθεν → συνελήλυθεν.
Extrabiblical texts: Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.21.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies; quotation)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.3.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-3-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 36, chapter 4
36.4.1Holl GCS 25/31:47
4. Οἱ δὲ συνετοὶ κατακούσαντες τῆς περισσοτέρας αὐτῶν χλεύης καταγελάσαιεν τῆς μιμολογίας, ὡς ἕκαστος αὐτῶν ἕτερα παρὰ τὸν ἕτερον νομοθετεῖ ὡς βούλεται καὶ τῆς τόλμης ἑαυτοῦ οὐκ ἀνακόπτεται, ἀλλὰ ὅσαπερ δύναται ἕκαστος ἐπινοεῖ.
4. Hoi de synetoi katakousantes tēs perissoteras autōn chleuēs katagelasaien tēs mimologias, hōs hekastos autōn hetera para ton heteron nomothetei hōs bouletai kai tēs tolmēs heautou ouk anakoptetai, alla hosaper dynatai hekastos epinoei.
The sensible, hearing their further mockery, would laugh at their mime-talk: how each of them legislates things different from the next, as he pleases, and is not checked in his daring, but each invents whatever he can.
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Summary: Each teacher invents new laws of his own.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Word split by a line-end hyphen.): ἀνακόπτε- ται → ἀνακόπτεται.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.4.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-4-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.4.2Holl GCS 25/31:47
καὶ τῶν ἔτι εἰς δεῦρο γεννωμένων παρʼ αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐπιφυομένων, οἳ καθʼ ἡμέραν εὑρίσκουσίν τι καινὸν εἰπεῖν καὶ φαντάσαι τοὺς ἐπαγομένους, χαλεπόν ἐστι πάντα τὰ τούτων * ζητῆσαι ἢ ἐξειπεῖν. ὅθεν ἀρκεσθήσομαι πάλιν τοῖς καὶ περὶ ταύτης τῆς αἱρέσεως εἰρημένοις, ἅτινα καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς ἦλθεν ὑποδείξας.
kai tōn eti eis deuro gennōmenōn parʼ autois kai epiphyomenōn, hoi kathʼ hēmeran heuriskousin ti kainon eipein kai phantasai tous epagomenous, chalepon esti panta ta toutōn * zētēsai ē exeipein. hothen arkesthēsomai palin tois kai peri tautēs tēs haireseōs eirēmenois, hatina kai eis hēmas ēlthen hypodeixas.
And of those still being born and sprouting among them to this day, who every day find something new to say and to dazzle their followers with, it is hard to search out or declare all … Hence I will again be content with what has been said about this heresy too, having pointed out what has come down to us.
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Summary: Their inventions are too many to list.
- A word is missing in the digital text.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.4.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-4-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.4.3Holl GCS 25/31:47
ἡ δὲ τοιαύτη διδασκαλία τίνι οὐκ ἂν σαφὴς εἴη ὡς μῦθός ἐστι καὶ χλεύη τὸ πᾶν; πόθεν γάρ, ὠ οὗτος σὺ ἢ οἱ πρὸ σοῦ, τὸ σῶμα εἰλήφατε; τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν πόθεν; τὸν δὲ ἐσώτατόν σου ἄνθρωπον πόθεν;
hē de toiautē didaskalia tini ouk an saphēs eiē hōs mythos esti kai chleuē to pan? pothen gar, ō houtos sy ē hoi pro sou, to sōma eilēphate? tēn de psychēn pothen? ton de esōtaton sou anthrōpon pothen?
To whom would it not be plain that such teaching is all myth and mockery? For where, you there, or those before you, did you get the body? And where the soul? And where your innermost man?
Notes and citation
Summary: Epiphanius asks where body, soul, and spirit come from.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.4.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-4-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.4.4Holl GCS 25/31:47–48
καὶ εἰ μὲν ἄνωθεν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἄνω πνευματικοῦ, ὡς λέγεις δραματουργῶν καὶ ἐπαγγελίᾳ ἐλπίδος δεπφώσας τοὺς ὑπὸ σοῦ ἠπατημένους, ἵνα σκοπῷ τινι ἐπαρθέντες ὑποσυρῶσι τῇ σῇ γεγοητευμένοι δραματουργίᾳ, λέγε, τίς ἡ κοινωνία τοῦ ἄνω πνευματικοῦ πρὸς τὸ ὑλικόν; τίς δὲ ἡ τοῦ ὑλικοῦ πρὸς τὸ ψυχικόν;
kai ei men anōthen apo tou anō pneumatikou, hōs legeis dramatourgōn kai epangelią elpidos depphōsas tous hypo sou ēpatēmenous, hina skopǭ tini eparthentes hyposyrōsi tę̄ sę̄ gegoēteumenoi dramatourgią, lege, tis hē koinōnia tou anō pneumatikou pros to hylikon? tis de hē tou hylikou pros to psychikon?
And if it is from above, from the spiritual one above, as you say, staging your drama and luring with the promise of hope those you have deceived, so that, lifted up by some aim and bewitched by your stagecraft, they may be dragged along, then tell me: what fellowship has the spiritual above with the material? And what has the material with the psychic?
2 Cor 6:14 (echo, low confidence)
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Summary: Epiphanius asks how spirit, soul, and matter could be joined.
- The participle rendered 'luring' (δεπφώσας) is garbled in the digital text; translated by sense. Cf. 2 Cor 6:14.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): γέγεις → λέγεις; τίς ἴε → τίς δὲ.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.4.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:47–48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-4-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.4.5Holl GCS 25/31:48
πῶς δὲ ὁ Δημιουργὸς τὰ μὴ ἑαυτοῦ ἐδημιούργει; πῶς δὲ ὁ ἄνω <πνευματικὸς> τὴν παρʼ αὐτοῦ δύναμιν πνευματικὴν παρέσχεν τῷ μὴ καλῶς ἐργασαμένῳ Δημιουργῷ; πόθεν δὲ ὁ Δημιουργὸς ἀναμίξας τὸ ἑαυτοῦ ψυχικὸν μετὰ τοῦ ὑλικοῦ τῇ ὕλῃ μᾶλλον ἠθέλησεν ἐγκαταδῆσαι τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δύναμιν;
pōs de ho Dēmiourgos ta mē heautou edēmiourgei? pōs de ho anō <pneumatikos> tēn parʼ autou dynamin pneumatikēn pareschen tǭ mē kalōs ergasamenǭ Dēmiourgǭ? pothen de ho Dēmiourgos anamixas to heautou psychikon meta tou hylikou tę̄ hylę̄ mallon ēthelēsen enkatadēsai tēn heautou dynamin?
How did the Demiurge create what was not his own? How did the spiritual one above give his spiritual power to the Demiurge who did not work well? And why did the Demiurge, mixing his own psychic element with the material, choose rather to bind his own power into matter?
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Summary: The Heracleonite system is incoherent.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.4.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-4-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.4.6Holl GCS 25/31:48
εἰ δὲ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δύναμιν βούλεται ἐγκαταμῖξαι, οὐκ ἄρα ἀλλοτρία ἡ ὕλη. εἰ δὲ καὶ ἔστιν ἀλλοτρία, τίς αὐτῷ τῆς ὕλης παρέσχε τὴν ἐξουσίαν;
ei de tēn heautou dynamin bouletai enkatamixai, ouk ara allotria hē hylē. ei de kai estin allotria, tis autǭ tēs hylēs paresche tēn exousian?
If he wants to mix his own power into it, then matter is not alien. And if it is alien, who gave him authority over matter?
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Summary: Matter is either his own or not his to use.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.4.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-4-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.4.7Holl GCS 25/31:48
καὶ πρῶτον λέγε μοι, ὠ ἀπατεών, πότερον μισῶν τὴν ψυχὴν κατέδησεν αὐτὴν τῇ ὕλῃ ἢ ἀγνοῶν τὸ ἐσόμενον;
kai prōton lege moi, ō apateōn, poteron misōn tēn psychēn katedēsen autēn tę̄ hylę̄ ē agnoōn to esomenon?
And first tell me, deceiver: did he bind the soul to matter because he hated it, or because he did not know what would happen?
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Summary: Hatred or ignorance: both are absurd.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.4.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-4-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.4.8Holl GCS 25/31:48
ἀλλʼ οἶδα ὅτι οὐδέτερον τούτων ἐρεῖς. ὕλην γὰρ οὐ λέγομεν τὸ σῶμα, μὴ γένοιτο, οὐδὲ τὰς τοῦ θεοῦ κτίσεις· ἀλλὰ ὕλην τινὰ οἶδεν ἡ γραφὴ μετὰ ταύτην τὴν φαύλην εἰς δὲ κατασκευὰς ἑκάστῃ τέχνη καὶ ἐργασίᾳ προκειμένην, ἄλλην τινά, λέγω δὲ τὴν ἐκ διανοίας φυομένην ῥυπαρὰν ἐνθύμησιν καὶ <τοὺς> βορβορώδεις λογισμοὺς ἁμαρτίας.
allʼ oida hoti oudeteron toutōn ereis. hylēn gar ou legomen to sōma, mē genoito, oude tas tou theou ktiseis; alla hylēn tina oiden hē graphē meta tautēn tēn phaulēn eis de kataskeuas hekastę̄ technē kai ergasią prokeimenēn, allēn tina, legō de tēn ek dianoias phyomenēn rhyparan enthymēsin kai <tous> borborōdeis logismous hamartias.
But I know that you will say neither. For we do not call the body matter, God forbid, nor God's creatures. Scripture knows a certain 'matter' besides this ordinary kind that lies ready for making things in every craft and work, another kind: I mean the filthy thought that springs from the mind and the muddy reasonings of sin.
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Summary: In Scripture the evil 'matter' is sinful thought, not the body.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): τοῦ Μοῦ → τοῦ θεοῦ.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.4.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-4-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.4.9Holl GCS 25/31:48
φύονται γὰρ ὡς ἀπὸ πηλοῦ δυσοδμία τε καὶ ἀκάθαρτος ἀποφορὰ λοιμώδεις τε καὶ βορβορώδεις *, ὡς ὁ μακάριος Δαυὶδ διωκόμενος καὶ διαβαλλόμενος ὡς] ὑπὸ πονηρῶν ἀνθρώπων ἔλεγεν »ἐνεπάγην εἰς ὕλην βυθοῦ‘ καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς.
phyontai gar hōs apo pēlou dysodmia te kai akathartos apophora loimōdeis te kai borborōdeis *, hōs ho makarios Dauid diōkomenos kai diaballomenos hōs] hypo ponērōn anthrōpōn elegen »enepagēn eis hylēn bythou‘ kai ta hexēs.
For from them spring, as from mud, a foul smell and an unclean, pestilent, muddy exhalation …; as the blessed David, persecuted and slandered by wicked men, said, 'I am stuck in the mire of the deep,' and so on.
Ps 69:2 (68:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 69's 'mire' is the 'matter' of sin.
- Ps 69:2 (LXX 68:3). The Greek ὕλη means both 'matter' and 'mire'. A word is missing in the digital text.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.4.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-4-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 36, chapter 5
36.5.1Holl GCS 25/31:48
5. Ἐπειδὴ δέ σοι δοκεῖ, Ἡρακλέων, τοῦτο λέγεσθαι ὕλην, τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὰ σώματα καὶ τὸν ἐνθάδε κόσμον ἅπαντα, ἐπὶ ποίῳ σκοπῷ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ψυχὴν ὁ Δημιουργὸς τῇ ὕλῃ ἐγκατέμιξεν;
5. Epeidē de soi dokei, Hērakleōn, touto legesthai hylēn, tōn anthrōpōn ta sōmata kai ton enthade kosmon hapanta, epi poiǭ skopǭ tēn heautou psychēn ho Dēmiourgos tę̄ hylę̄ enkatemixen?
But since you think, Heracleon, that 'matter' means human bodies and this whole world here, for what purpose did the Demiurge mix his own soul into matter?
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Summary: Why would the Demiurge mix soul with matter?
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.5.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-5-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.5.2Holl GCS 25/31:48
εἰ μὲν τὸ πονηρὸν ἀγνοῶν, οὐ δύναται δημιουργεῖν ὁ μὴ γινώσκων ὃ βούλεται δημιουργῆσαι. οὔτε γὰρ ἡμεῖς τι πράττομεν καθʼ ἑκάστην τέχνην, ἐργαζόμενοι ὅπερ οὐ νοοῦμεν. καὶ προενθυμούμεθα γὰρ ὃ ἐπιτελεῖν βουλόμεθα καὶ οἴδαμεν πρὶν ποιῆσαι ὃ ἐπιτελέσαι προῃρήμεθα.
ei men to ponēron agnoōn, ou dynatai dēmiourgein ho mē ginōskōn ho bouletai dēmiourgēsai. oute gar hēmeis ti prattomen kathʼ hekastēn technēn, ergazomenoi hoper ou nooumen. kai proenthymoumetha gar ho epitelein boulometha kai oidamen prin poiēsai ho epitelesai proę̄rēmetha.
If it was in ignorance of evil, one who does not know what he wishes to make cannot make it. Neither do we do anything in any craft by working at what we do not understand. We think ahead about what we want to accomplish, and we know before we act what we have chosen to accomplish.
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Summary: No maker works in ignorance of what he makes.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.5.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-5-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.5.3Holl GCS 25/31:48–49
καίτοι γε ἡμεῖς ἀσθενεῖς ὄντες καὶ πολλὰ ἀποδέοντες τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ δυνάμεως, διὰ δὲ τῆς ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ κεχαρισμένης συνέσεως τοῖς ἀνθρώποις οἴδαμεν καὶ νοοῦμεν. συμβέβηκεν δέ σοι, ὦ Ἡρακλέων, ἡ ἐκ θεοῦ σύνεσις εἰς βλάβην, ὅτι μὴ κατὰ θεὸν αὐτὴν πραγματεύῃ, ἀλλὰ κατὰ πονηρὰν ἐπιτήδευσιν.
kaitoi ge hēmeis astheneis ontes kai polla apodeontes tēs tou theou dynameōs, dia de tēs hypʼ autou kecharismenēs syneseōs tois anthrōpois oidamen kai nooumen. symbebēken de soi, ō Hērakleōn, hē ek theou synesis eis blabēn, hoti mē kata theon autēn pragmateuę̄, alla kata ponēran epitēdeusin.
And yet we are weak and fall far short of the power of God, but we know and understand through the understanding he has graciously given to human beings. But for you, Heracleon, the understanding from God has turned to harm, because you do not use it according to God but according to an evil practice.
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Summary: Heracleon misuses God-given understanding.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.5.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:48–49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-5-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.5.4Holl GCS 25/31:49
ἔτι δὲ πάλιν ἐρῶ, πόθεν ἡ τοῦ πνευματικοῦ μῖξις τῷ ψυχικῷ τε καὶ ὑλικῷ, ὃ δὴ λέγεται παρὰ σοὶ ἔσω ἄνθρωπος τῷ δευτέρῳ καὶ τρίτῳ ἔξω ἀνθρώπῳ συνημμένος, φημὶ δὴ ψυχῇ καὶ σώματι;
eti de palin erō, pothen hē tou pneumatikou mixis tǭ psychikǭ te kai hylikǭ, ho dē legetai para soi esō anthrōpos tǭ deuterǭ kai tritǭ exō anthrōpǭ synēmmenos, phēmi dē psychę̄ kai sōmati?
And again I will ask: where does the mixture of the spiritual with the psychic and material come from, that which you call the inner man joined to the second and third, the outer man, I mean the soul and the body?
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Summary: How is the spiritual joined to soul and body?
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.5.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-5-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.5.5Holl GCS 25/31:49
καὶ εἰ μὲν ἐκ βουλήματος τῆς ἄνω δυνάμεως τοῦ τῶν ὅλων Πατρός, φημὶ δὲ τοῦ κατὰ σὲ Βυθοῦ, ἄρα γε οὐκ ἀκοινώνητος τοῖς ἄνω ὡς ἔφην) ἡ ἐνταῦθα περὶ ἡμᾶς κτίσις συγκαταμιγνυμένη, διὰ τῆς τοῦ Πατρὸς ἄνω εὐδοκίας καὶ] τοῦ ἄνωθεν παρʼ αὐτοῦ καταπεμφθέντος σπινθῆρος, ὅ ἐστιν ὁ πνευματικὸς κατὰ σὲ καὶ ἐσώτατος ἄνθρωπος.
kai ei men ek boulēmatos tēs anō dynameōs tou tōn holōn Patros, phēmi de tou kata se Bythou, ara ge ouk akoinōnētos tois anō hōs ephēn) hē entautha peri hēmas ktisis synkatamignymenē, dia tēs tou Patros anō eudokias kai] tou anōthen parʼ autou katapemphthentos spinthēros, ho estin ho pneumatikos kata se kai esōtatos anthrōpos.
If it was by the will of the power above, the Father of all, I mean your Depth, then the creation here around us, being mixed with it, is not without fellowship with the things above (as I said), through the good pleasure of the Father above and the spark he sent down from above, which by your account is the spiritual and innermost man.
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Summary: If the Father willed it, creation is not alien to him.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.5.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-5-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.5.6Holl GCS 25/31:49
εἰ δὲ λέγεις τὸν Δημιουργὸν τὸν ἐν ἐλαττώματι καὶ ὑστερήματι ἢ τὴν Μητέρα ἣν λέγεις Ἀχαμὼθ εἰληφέναι ἄνωθεν δύναμιν τουτέστιν τὸ πνευματικόν, οὐκέτι ἐν ὑστερήματι καὶ ἀγνοίᾳ ἐστὶν ὁ Δημιουργὸς οὔτε ἡ κατὰ σὲ Μήτηρ καλουμένη. πῶς γὰρ ἄν τις ἐν ἀγνοίᾳ εἴη τούτου οὑ ἐπιθυμεῖ; εἰ γὰρ ὅλως τοῦ κρείττονος ὀρέγεται, οἶδεν τὸ καλὸν καὶ τὸ ἀγαθόν· καὶ ὀ τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἐπιστάμενος καὶ μὴ στυγῶν τοῦτο ἀλλὰ ὀρεγόμενος, οὐκ ἔστιν ἀλλότριος τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ.
ei de legeis ton Dēmiourgon ton en elattōmati kai hysterēmati ē tēn Mētera hēn legeis Achamōth eilēphenai anōthen dynamin toutestin to pneumatikon, ouketi en hysterēmati kai agnoią estin ho Dēmiourgos oute hē kata se Mētēr kaloumenē. pōs gar an tis en agnoią eiē toutou hou epithymei? ei gar holōs tou kreittonos oregetai, oiden to kalon kai to agathon; kai o to agathon epistamenos kai mē stygōn touto alla oregomenos, ouk estin allotrios tou agathou.
But if you say that the Demiurge, who is in inferiority and Deficiency, or the Mother you call Achamoth, received power from above, that is, the spiritual element, then the Demiurge is no longer in Deficiency and ignorance, nor is she whom you call Mother. For how could anyone be ignorant of what he desires? If he longs at all for the better, he knows the beautiful and the good; and one who knows the good and does not hate it but longs for it is not a stranger to the good.
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Summary: Whoever desires the good cannot be ignorant of it.
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- Digital text corrected (Stray mark.): οὐκ έ)στιν → οὐκ ἔστιν.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.5.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-5-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 36, chapter 6
36.6.1Holl GCS 25/31:49
6. Καὶ ἵνα μὴ κατατρίβωμαι περὶ τὰς μηχανὰς τοῦ ἀγύρτου ἀσχολούμενος, τούτοις ἀρκεσθήσομαι. πᾶσα γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἔπεσεν ἡ ληρῳδία ἀπὸ τοῦ τὸν πάντων δεσπότην πᾶσιν σαφῶς ὁμολογηθῆναι ἀγαθὸν ὄντα καὶ προγινώσκοντα καὶ δυνάμενον τὰ πάντα ποιεῖν, καὶ ὡς ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ πᾶσα φύσις ἡ ὑπάρχουσα κτιστὴ καλῶς γεγένηται.
6. Kai hina mē katatribōmai peri tas mēchanas tou agyrtou ascholoumenos, toutois arkesthēsomai. pasa gar autou epesen hē lērǭdia apo tou ton pantōn despotēn pasin saphōs homologēthēnai agathon onta kai proginōskonta kai dynamenon ta panta poiein, kai hōs hypʼ autou pasa physis hē hyparchousa ktistē kalōs gegenētai.
So as not to wear myself out busying myself with the charlatan's contrivances, I will be content with this. For all his nonsense has fallen, since the Master of all is plainly confessed by all to be good, to know beforehand, and to be able to make all things, and all existing created nature has come into being well by him.
Gen 1:31 (echo, medium confidence)
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Summary: God's goodness and power overturn Heracleon.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR capitalization slip.; OCR slip.): τὰ Πάντα → τὰ πάντα; πᾶσα φύοις → πᾶσα φύσις.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.6.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-6-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.6.2Holl GCS 25/31:49
οὔτε γὰρ δυνατὸν ἄνευ τοῦ θεοῦ τι εἶναι, ἀλλʼ ἢ μόνον ἡ ἁμαρτία οὐκ ἔχουσα ἀρχὴν ῥίζης οὐδὲ εἰς τέλος μένουσα, ἐν ἡμῖν δὲ ἐπεισάκτως γινομένη καὶ ἀφʼ ἡμῶν πάλιν παυομένη· ὡς καὶ πανταχοῦ κατὰ πασῶν τῶν αἱρέσεων ποιούμενος τόν λόγον ἀπέδειξα,
oute gar dynaton aneu tou theou ti einai, allʼ ē monon hē hamartia ouk echousa archēn rhizēs oude eis telos menousa, en hēmin de epeisaktōs ginomenē kai aphʼ hēmōn palin pauomenē; hōs kai pantachou kata pasōn tōn haireseōn poioumenos ton logon apedeixa,
For nothing can exist without God, except only sin, which has no root or beginning and does not last to the end, but arises in us as something introduced and ceases again from us; as I have shown everywhere, making my argument against all the heresies,
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Summary: Only sin exists apart from God, and it has no root.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR capitalization slip.; OCR slip.): ἁματρία → ἁμαρτία; Παυομένη → παυομένη.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.6.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-6-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.6.3Holl GCS 25/31:49
ὅτι εἷς ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς ὁ τὰ πάντα ποιήσας καὶ δημιουργήσας, ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ εἷς ὁ μονογενὴς αὐτοῦ [καὶ] παῖς, ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν καὶ σωτὴρ καὶ θεός, καὶ ἓν τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ πνεῦμα,
hoti heis estin ho theos ho ta panta poiēsas kai dēmiourgēsas, ho patēr tou kyriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou, kai heis ho monogenēs autou [kai] pais, ho kyrios hēmōn kai sōtēr kai theos, kai hen to hagion autou pneuma,
that there is one God who made and created all things, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; and one only-begotten Son of his, our Lord and Savior and God; and one Holy Spirit of his,
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: One God the Father, one Son, one Spirit.
- The editor deletes καί ('and') before 'Son'.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.6.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-6-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.6.4Holl GCS 25/31:49
μία τριὰς ἁγία καὶ ὁμοούσιος, ἐξ ἡς τὰ πάντα καλῶς ἐκτισμένα, οὐ πονηρά τινα ἀλλὰ ἀγαθά, κατὰ τὴν οὕτως εὐδοκήσασαν ἀγαθότητα ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων κεκλημένα εἰς τὸ εἶναι.
mia trias hagia kai homoousios, ex hēs ta panta kalōs ektismena, ou ponēra tina alla agatha, kata tēn houtōs eudokēsasan agathotēta ex ouk ontōn keklēmena eis to einai.
one holy and consubstantial Trinity, by whom all things were well created, nothing evil but all good, called from nothing into being by the goodness that was so pleased.
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Summary: The consubstantial Trinity created all things good from nothing.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.6.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-6-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.6.5Holl GCS 25/31:49–50
ᾠ θεῷ δόξα καὶ τιμὴ καὶ κράτος πατρὶ ἐν υἱῷ υἱῷ ἐν πατρὶ σὺν ἁγίῳ πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν.
ǭ theǭ doxa kai timē kai kratos patri en huiǭ huiǭ en patri syn hagiǭ pneumati eis tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn. amēn.
To this God be glory and honor and might, the Father in the Son, the Son in the Father, with the Holy Spirit, to the ages of ages. Amen.
John 14:10 (echo, medium confidence)
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Summary: A Trinitarian doxology.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.6.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:49–50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-6-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.6.6Holl GCS 25/31:50
Ταύτης δὲ πάλιν ποιησάμενος τὴν ἀνατροπὴν διὰ βραχέων, ἐπὶ τὰς ἑξῆς βαδιοῦμαι, τὸν πρὸς ἑκάστην κατὰ δύναμιν ποιούμενος ἔλεγχον καὶ οὕτως ἐπιτελῶν τὴν ἀνατροπὴν τῆς αὐτῶν λυμαντικῆς μοχθηρίας.
Tautēs de palin poiēsamenos tēn anatropēn dia bracheōn, epi tas hexēs badioumai, ton pros hekastēn kata dynamin poioumenos elenchon kai houtōs epitelōn tēn anatropēn tēs autōn lymantikēs mochthērias.
Having again made the refutation of this one briefly, I will go on to the next, making the refutation of each as far as I can, and so completing the overthrow of their destructive wickedness.
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Summary: Epiphanius moves on.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.6.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-6-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.6.7Holl GCS 25/31:50
σὴψ γὰρ οὑτος ἂν λέγοιτο δικαίως, ὃ οὐκ ὄφις, ἀλλʼ ὥς φασι χαλκέα πως ἐστι. τετράπουν ἑρπετόν, ἀσκαλαβώτῃ ἐοικός, οὗ ἡ μὲν τοῦ δήγματος βλάβη εἰς οὐδὲν λογίζεται, τὸ δὲ πτύσμα ἢ ἐν βρώματι ἢ ἐν ποτῷ ἀκοντισθὲν θάνατον εὐθὺς τοῖς μεταλαμβάνουσιν ἐργάζεται· οἵα καὶ ἡ τούτου διδασκαλία.
sēps gar houtos an legoito dikaiōs, ho ouk ophis, allʼ hōs phasi chalkea pōs esti. tetrapoun herpeton, askalabōtę̄ eoikos, hou hē men tou dēgmatos blabē eis ouden logizetai, to de ptysma ē en brōmati ē en potǭ akontisthen thanaton euthys tois metalambanousin ergazetai; hoia kai hē toutou didaskalia.
For this man could justly be called a seps, which is not a snake but, as they say, a kind of bronze-colored four-footed reptile like a gecko. The harm of its bite counts for nothing, but its spittle, shot into food or drink, at once brings death to those who partake; such is this man's teaching.
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Summary: Heracleon is like the seps, whose spittle poisons food.
- The seps of ancient natural history; the source is not named. The phrase rendered 'a kind of bronze-colored' (χαλκέα πως) is uncertain in the digital text.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.6.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-6-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.6.8Holl GCS 25/31:50
ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτου τὸν ἰὸν φωράσαντες καὶ τῇ τοῦ κυρίου δυνάμει ἀπὸ φαρύγγων ἢ χειλέων τῶν μελλόντων βλάπτεσθαι ἀπομάξαντες τὰς ἑξῆς διέλθωμεν, ὡς προεῖπον, τῆς αὐτῶν βλάβης ποιοῦντες τὸν ἔλεγχον.
alla kai toutou ton ion phōrasantes kai tę̄ tou kyriou dynamei apo pharyngōn ē cheileōn tōn mellontōn blaptesthai apomaxantes tas hexēs dielthōmen, hōs proeipon, tēs autōn blabēs poiountes ton elenchon.
But having caught out this man's venom too, and by the power of the Lord wiped it from the throats or lips of those who were about to be harmed, let us go through the next ones, as I said before, making the refutation of the harm they do.
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Summary: Epiphanius moves on to the next heresy.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip.): τὸν ἐὸν → τὸν ἰὸν.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 36.6.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/34-19-1/#p-36-6-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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