Panarion (Medicine Chest Against Heresies), Haer. 1-64 64.27.1–64.38.6
Greek text: Holl, GCS 25/31 (Greek text: Karl Holl, ed., Epiphanius, Bände 1-2 (GCS 25, 1915, and GCS 31, 1922, Leipzig: Hinrichs), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0. The digitized file's own metadata describes it as spanning Holl's volumes 1-3 (1915-1933), but its text in fact ends at Haer. 64 (confirmed: the last division is Haer. 64, on Origen, matching the end of GCS 31); Holl's third volume (GCS 37, 1933) is not present in this digital text.).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Haer. 64, chapter 27
64.27.1Holl GCS 25/31:443
27. Καὶ ἵνα δὴ μᾶλλον καὶ ὑμεῖς τὴν διαφορὰν αἴσθησθε, ὡς <ἐν> ὅλῳ καὶ παντὶ τῶν ἄλλων διαρέρων καὶ ἐν δευτέρᾳ τιμῇ τῶν ἀγγέλων ἐγκαταλεχθεὶς ὁ ἄνθρωπος εὐρίσκεται ἀθάνατος ὤν, φέρε κατὰ τὸν ἀληθῆ πάλιν καὶ ὀρθόδοφον καὶ τοῦτο διαλάβωμεν λογισμόν.
27. Kai hina dē mallon kai hymeis tēn diaphoran aisthēsthe, hōs <en> holǭ kai panti tōn allōn diarerōn kai en deuterą timę̄ tōn angelōn enkatalechtheis ho anthrōpos eurisketai athanatos ōn, phere kata ton alēthē palin kai orthodophon kai touto dialabōmen logismon.
And so that you too may perceive the difference more, how man is found differing wholly and entirely from the others, and enrolled in the second rank after the angels, being immortal, come, let us consider this too by true and orthodox reasoning.
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Summary: Man differs from the animals and is immortal.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.27.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:443; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-27-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.27.2Holl GCS 25/31:443
τοῖς μέν γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς εἰσπνοῆς τοῦ κατὰ ἀέρα ἀέρα πνεύματος <τὸ> ἐμψυχῶσθαι καὶ ζῆν, τῷ δὲ ἐξ αὐτ τῆς ἀθανάτου καὶ διαφερουσης οὐσίας. »ἐνεφύσησε γὰρ ὁ θεὸς εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ πνοὴν ζωῆς καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ἄνθρωπος θρωπος εἰς ψυχὴν ζῶσαν«.
tois men gar apo tēs eispnoēs tou kata aera aera pneumatos <to> empsychōsthai kai zēn, tǭ de ex aut tēs athanatou kai diapherousēs ousias. »enephysēse gar ho theos eis to prosōpon autou pnoēn zōēs kai egeneto ho anthrōpos thrōpos eis psychēn zōsan«.
For to them animation and life come from breathing in the air’s breath, but to him from the immortal and distinctive substance itself. “For God breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.”
Gen 2:7 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Man’s life comes from God’s breath.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.27.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:443; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-27-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.27.3Holl GCS 25/31:443–444
καὶ τοῖς μὲν καὶ δουλεύειν καὶἄρχεσθαι προσε- τάγη, τῷ δὲ ἄρχειν δεστπόζειν. καὶ τοῖς μὲν μὲν διάφορα σχήματα φύσεως δίδονται καὶ μορφαί, ὀπόσας ἡ στερέμνιος καὶ ὁρατὴ φύσις κελεύσντος O-eoO ἐγέννηδε·
kai tois men kai douleuein kaiarchesthai prose- tagē, tǭ de archein destpozein. kai tois men men diaphora schēmata physeōs didontai kai morphai, oposas hē steremnios kai horatē physis keleusntos O-eoO egennēde;
And they were commanded to serve and be ruled, but he to rule and be master. And to them are given different shapes of nature and forms, as many as the solid and visible nature brought forth at God’s command;
Gen 1:28 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Animals serve; man rules.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.27.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:443–444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-27-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.27.4Holl GCS 25/31:444
τῷ 03 τὸ Θεοειδὲς καὶ θεοείκελον καὶ πάντα πρὸς ἐκείνην ἀπη- κριβωμένον τὴν πρωτότθπον τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ μονογενοῦς εἰκόνα. ἐποίησε γὰρ ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, κατʼ εἰκόνα θεοῦ ἐποίησεν αὐτόν«·
tǭ 03 to Theoeides kai theoeikelon kai panta pros ekeinēn apē- kribōmenon tēn prōtotthpon tou patros kai monogenous eikona. epoiēse gar ho theos ton anthrōpon, katʼ eikona theou epoiēsen auton«;
but to him the godlike form, like to God and in all things made exactly after that prototype image of the Father, the Only-begotten. “For God made man; in the image of God he made him”;
Gen 1:27 (quotation, high confidence) · Col 1:15 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Man bears the image of the Only-begotten.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.27.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-27-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.27.5Holl GCS 25/31:444
διὸ καὶ ἐμέλησεν αὐτῷ τῆς τοῦ σφετρου ἀγάλματος διαμονῆς, ἕνα μὴ εὐάλωτον ᾖ πρὸς διαφθοράν, καθάπερ καὶ τῶν ἀνδριάντων τοῖς δησμιουργοῖς.
dio kai emelēsen autǭ tēs tou sphetrou agalmatos diamonēs, hena mē eualōton ę̄ pros diaphthoran, kathaper kai tōn andriantōn tois dēsmiourgois.
therefore he took care for the permanence of his own statue, so that it might not be easily subject to corruption, as sculptors do for their statues.
Notes and citation
Summary: God cares for his image’s permanence.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.27.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-27-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.27.6Holl GCS 25/31:444
οὐ γὰρ μόνον <τοῦ> τῶν ἀγαλμάτων αὐτοῖς καὶ τῆς εὐπρεπείας πεφρόντισται, ὄπως ὦσι περικαλλῆ μεγαλοπρεπῶς, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς εἰς τὸ δυνατὸν σφίσιν ἀθανασίας τῶν δημιουργημάτων πρόνοιαν ποιοῦνται, εἰς τὸ #x003E; μακραίωνα χρόνον διασᾴςεσθαι μὴ λυόμενα, καθάπερ καὶ Φειδίας.
ou gar monon <tou> tōn agalmatōn autois kai tēs euprepeias pephrontistai, opōs ōsi perikallē megaloprepōs, alla kai tēs eis to dynaton sphisin athanasias tōn dēmiourgēmatōn pronoian poiountai, eis to #x003E? makraiōna chronon diasąsesthai mē lyomena, kathaper kai Pheidias.
For they take thought not only for their statues’ beauty, that they may be magnificently fine, but also make provision for their works’ immortality as far as they can, so that they may be preserved for a long time without dissolving, as Phidias did.
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Summary: Sculptors try to make their works last.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.27.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-27-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.27.7Holl GCS 25/31:444
οὖτος γὰρ μετὰ τὸ κατασκευάσαι τὸ Πισαῖον εἴσωλον ἐξ ἐλέ φαντος δὲ τοῦτο ἦν) ἔλαιον ἐκχεῖσθαι προσέταξεν ἀμφὶ τοὺς πόδας ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ ἀγάλματος, ἀθάνατον εἰς δύναμιν φυλάσσων αὐτό.
outos gar meta to kataskeuasai to Pisaion eisōlon ex ele phantos de touto ēn) elaion ekcheisthai prosetaxen amphi tous podas emprosthen tou agalmatos, athanaton eis dynamin phylassōn auto.
For after making the statue at Pisa (it was of ivory), he ordered oil to be poured around the feet in front of the statue, keeping it immortal as far as possible.
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Summary: Phidias preserved his Zeus at Olympia with oil.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. Pisa means Olympia.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.27.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:444; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-27-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.27.8Holl GCS 25/31:444–445
κα τοίνυν εἰ τῶν χειροκμήτων οὕτως οἱ δημιουργοί, θεὸς ὁ ἀριστοτέχνας, ὃς πάντα δύναται καὶ ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων ποιεῖν, οὐ μᾶλλον τὸ ἄγαλμα τὸ λογικὸν ἑαυτοῦ, τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἀνώλεθρον καὶ ἀθάνατον εἶναι τὸ παράπαν ἐξ ἁπάσης ἀνάγκης ἐμηχανήσατο, ἀλλʼ εἰασεν οὔτως ἀτιμότατα ἀτιμότατα λυόμενον ὁλέθρῳ ποραδίδοσθαι καὶ Ι φθορᾷ, ὃ διαφερόντως ἠξίωσε ταῖς ἑαυτοῦ D620 ποιῆσαι χερσίν, κατʼ εἰκόνα μορφοποιήσας αὐτὸ αὐτὸ καθʼ ὁμοίωσιν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ, τὸν κόσμον τοῦ κόσμου, διʼ ὃ καἰ ὁ κόσμος ἐγένετο; ὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν. ἀπῄει γὰρ εἰς ἀφροσύνην ἐπαρφέντα φρονῆσαι τοῦτο.
ka toinyn ei tōn cheirokmētōn houtōs hoi dēmiourgoi, theos ho aristotechnas, hos panta dynatai kai ex ouk ontōn poiein, ou mallon to agalma to logikon heautou, ton anthrōpon, anōlethron kai athanaton einai to parapan ex hapasēs anankēs emēchanēsato, allʼ eiasen outōs atimotata atimotata lyomenon holethrǭ poradidosthai kai I phthorą, ho diapherontōs ēxiōse tais heautou D620 poiēsai chersin, katʼ eikona morphopoiēsas auto auto kathʼ homoiōsin tēn heautou, ton kosmon tou kosmou, diʼ ho kai ho kosmos egeneto? yk estin eipein. apę̄ei gar eis aphrosynēn eparphenta phronēsai touto.
If then the makers of handmade things do so, did not God, the best of craftsmen, who can do all things and make from what does not exist, much more contrive with every necessity that his own rational statue, man, be altogether indestructible and immortal? Or did he let it be dissolved so dishonorably and handed over to destruction and corruption, which he specially deemed worthy to make with his own hands, forming it after his own image and likeness, the ornament of the world, for whose sake the world too came to be? It cannot be said. For it would be folly to be carried away into thinking this.
Gen 1:26 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God surely made his own image immortal.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. A stray page reference in the digital text is ignored.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.27.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:444–445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-27-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 28
64.28.1Holl GCS 25/31:445
28. Ἀλλʼ ἴσως μὴ ἐπιστήσαντες ἑαυτοὺς πρὸς τὰ λεχθέντα νῦν ὦ ’Αγλαοφῶν, λέξετε· καὶ πῶς, εἰ ἀθάνατον ἦν ἐκ γενέσεως καθʼ ὁμᾶς τὸ ζῷον, γεγένηται θνητόν, ὁπότε τὸ ἀθάνατον ἀμεταστρόφως τοῦτο ὅ ἐστιν εἶναι χρή, μὴ νεταπῖπτον ἢ ἐξιστανόμενον εἰς τὴν αἰσχίονα κα θνητὴν φύσιν; ἀμήχανον γάρ, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἔστιν * ἀθάνατον.
28. Allʼ isōs mē epistēsantes heautous pros ta lechthenta nyn ō ’Aglaophōn, lexete; kai pōs, ei athanaton ēn ek geneseōs kathʼ homas to zǭon, gegenētai thnēton, hopote to athanaton ametastrophōs touto ho estin einai chrē, mē netapipton ē existanomenon eis tēn aischiona ka thnētēn physin? amēchanon gar, epei ouk estin * athanaton.
But perhaps, not attending to what has now been said, Aglaophon, you will say: “And how, if the living being was immortal from its creation according to you, did it become mortal, since the immortal must be unchangeably what it is, not falling or departing into the baser and mortal nature? For that is impossible, since it is not … immortal.”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: An objection: how could an immortal become mortal?
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The edition marks a gap (*).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.28.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-28-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.28.2Holl GCS 25/31:445
ἐπειδή, λέξω, γενό- μενον αὐτεξούσιον πρὸς τὴν αἵρεσιν τοῦ καλοῦ καὶ τοῦτον τὸν θεσμὸν εἰληφὸς ὁ μισόκαλος ἐπιστὰς ἐβάσκανε φθονῶν.
epeidē, lexō, geno- menon autexousion pros tēn hairesin tou kalou kai touton ton thesmon eilēphos ho misokalos epistas ebaskane phthonōn.
I will say: because it was made with free will for the choice of the good, and had received this ordinance, the hater of good came upon it and bewitched it out of envy.
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Summary: The devil envied free man.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.28.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-28-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.28.3Holl GCS 25/31:445
»ὁ γὰρ θεὸς ἔκτισε τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐπὶ ἀφθαρσίᾳ καὶ εἰκόνα τῆς ἰδίας ἀιδιότητος ἐποίησεν αὐτό«. καὶ γὰρ »ὁ θεὸς θάνατον οὑκ ἐποίησεν οὐδὲ τέρπεται ἐπʼ ἀπωλείᾳ ζώντων«· »φθόνῳ δὲ διαβόλου θάνατος εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν λ; πσμον«, καθάπερ καὶ ἡ σοφία διὰ Σολομῶνος μαρτυρεῖ. πόθεν οὖν ὁ θάνατος;
»ho gar theos ektise ton anthrōpon epi aphtharsią kai eikona tēs idias aidiotētos epoiēsen auto«. kai gar »ho theos thanaton houk epoiēsen oude terpetai epʼ apōleią zōntōn«; »phthonǭ de diabolou thanatos eisēlthen eis ton l? psmon«, kathaper kai hē sophia dia Solomōnos martyrei. pothen oun ho thanatos?
“For God created man for incorruption and made him an image of his own eternity.” And indeed “God did not make death, nor does he delight in the destruction of the living”; “but through the devil’s envy death entered into the world,” as Wisdom too testifies through Solomon. Whence then is death?
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Summary: Wisdom says death came through the devil’s envy.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 2:23 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation); Wis 1:13 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation); Wis 2:24 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.28.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-28-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.28.4Holl GCS 25/31:445
πάλιν δὴ λέγεσθαι ἀνάγκη, εἰ μὴ θάνατον ἐποίησεν ὁ θεός. εἰ ἀπὸ τοῦ φθόνου, καὶ πῶς ὁ φθόνος τῆς βουλήσεως μᾶλλον ἴσχυσε τοῦ θεοῦ; ἀλλὰ τοῦτο λέξομεν. πόθεν πόθεν οὖν ὁ φθόνος; 6 ἀντιλέγων ἐρεῖ.
palin dē legesthai anankē, ei mē thanaton epoiēsen ho theos. ei apo tou phthonou, kai pōs ho phthonos tēs boulēseōs mallon ischyse tou theou? alla touto lexomen. pothen pothen oun ho phthonos? 6 antilegōn erei.
It must be asked again, if God did not make death. If from envy, how did envy prevail over God’s will? But this we shall say. Whence then is envy? the objector will say.
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Summary: The objector asks where envy came from.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.28.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-28-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.28.5Holl GCS 25/31:445
εἰ γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου, καὶ διὰ τί διάβολος ἐγένετο; εἰ ἐγένετο, καὶ ὁ ποιήσας αὐτόν ἐστιν αἴτιος τοῦ εἶναι κακόν;
ei gar apo tou diabolou, kai dia ti diabolos egeneto? ei egeneto, kai ho poiēsas auton estin aitios tou einai kakon?
For if from the devil, why did the devil come to be? If he came to be, is his maker also the cause of his being evil?
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Summary: Is God responsible for the devil?
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.28.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:445; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-28-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.28.6Holl GCS 25/31:445–446
ἀλλὰ ἀναίτιος παντάπασι κακῶν πᾶσιν ὁ θεός· ἀγένητος ἄρα ὁ διάβολος, καὶ εἰ ἀγένητος, καὶ ἀπαθὴς καὶ ἀνώ- λεθρος καὶ ἀνενδεής τῷ γὰρ ἀγενήτῳ ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἅπαντα ταῦτα ὑπάρχειν δεῖ, ὁ δὲ διάβολος καταργείται καὶ κολάζεται. τὸ δὲ κολαξόμενον ἀλλοι ὁ διάβολος.
alla anaitios pantapasi kakōn pasin ho theos; agenētos ara ho diabolos, kai ei agenētos, kai apathēs kai anō- lethros kai anendeēs tǭ gar agenētǭ ex anankēs hapanta tauta hyparchein dei, ho de diabolos katargeitai kai kolazetai. to de kolaxomenon alloi ho diabolos.
But God is wholly guiltless of all evils for all; then the devil is ungenerated; and if ungenerated, also impassible, indestructible and without need — for all these must necessarily belong to the ungenerated — but the devil is brought to nothing and punished. What is punished …
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: The devil cannot be ungenerated, since he is punished.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The last clause is corrupt in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.28.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:445–446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-28-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.28.7Holl GCS 25/31:446
εἰ δὲ γενητὸς καὶ πᾶι τὸ γεγενημένον ἀπό τινος ἀρχῆς ἐγένετο καὶ ἔστιν αὐτοῦ δημιουργός, ἔστιν ἄρα τις δημιουργὸς τοῦ διαβόλου. καὶ πότερον κἀκεῖνος ἀγένητός ἐστιν ἢ γενητός; Μὰ τὸ ἀγένητον ἓν εῖναι μόνον νοείσθσαι χρὴ τὸν θεόν· οὐδὲ γὰρ εἶναι τὸ σύνολον ὅλως ἐκ παντὸς τὸ παράπαν ἔτερος δημιουργὸς δύναται πλὴν αὐτοῦ· »ἐγώ«, γάρ φησιν, »πρῶτος καὶ ἐγὼ μετὰ ταῦτα, καὶ πλὴν ἐμοῦ ἄλλος θεὸς οὐκ ἔστιν«.
ei de genētos kai pai to gegenēmenon apo tinos archēs egeneto kai estin autou dēmiourgos, estin ara tis dēmiourgos tou diabolou. kai poteron kakeinos agenētos estin ē genētos? Ma to agenēton hen einai monon noeisthsai chrē ton theon; oude gar einai to synolon holōs ek pantos to parapan eteros dēmiourgos dynatai plēn autou; »egō«, gar phēsin, »prōtos kai egō meta tauta, kai plēn emou allos theos ouk estin«.
And if he is generated, and everything generated came to be from some beginning and has a maker, then the devil has a maker. And is that one ungenerated or generated? Surely one must think God alone to be the one ungenerated; for there can be no other maker whatsoever besides him: “For I,” he says, “am first and I am after these things, and besides me there is no other God.”
Isa 44:6 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: God alone is ungenerated and the only maker.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.28.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-28-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.28.8Holl GCS 25/31:446
οὐδὲ μετασκευάζεσθαί τι ἢ κτίζεσθαι παρὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ δύναται βουλήν. καὶ γὰρ ὁ υἰὸς »οὐδὲν ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ δύναδθαι ποιεῖν« ὁμολογεῖ, »ἐὰν μή τι βλέπῃ τὸν πατέρα ποιοῦντα«· »ἅ γὰρ ἄν«, φησίν, »ὁ πατὴρ ποιῇ, ταῦτα καὶ ὁ υἱὸς ὁμοίως ποιεῖ«.
oude metaskeuazesthai ti ē ktizesthai para tēn autou dynatai boulēn. kai gar ho uios »ouden aphʼ heautou dynadthai poiein« homologei, »ean mē ti blepę̄ ton patera poiounta«; »ha gar an«, phēsin, »ho patēr poię̄, tauta kai ho huios homoiōs poiei«.
Nor can anything be changed or created contrary to his will. For the Son too confesses that he “can do nothing of himself, unless he sees the Father doing it”; “for whatever the Father does,” he says, “that the Son also does likewise.”
John 5:19 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Nothing happens against God’s will.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.28.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-28-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.28.9Holl GCS 25/31:446
οὐδὲ μὴν πολέμεόν τι ἢ ἀντίξουν ἀὐτῷ ἢ ἀν- τίθεόν ἐστιν· ἐπεὶ κἂν εἰ ἀντέπρασσέν τι τῷ θεῷ, ἐπαύσατο ἂν τοῦ εἶναι, λυθείσης αὐτοῦ τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ δυνάμει κα καὶ ἰσχύï συστάσεως. τῷ γὰρ ποιήσαντι λῦσαι μόνῳ καὶ τὰ ἀθάνατα δυνατόν.
oude mēn polemeon ti ē antixoun autǭ ē an- titheon estin; epei kan ei anteprassen ti tǭ theǭ, epausato an tou einai, lytheisēs autou tę̄ tou theou dynamei ka kai ischyi systaseōs. tǭ gar poiēsanti lysai monǭ kai ta athanata dynaton.
Nor is anything hostile or opposed to him or against God; for if anything acted against God, it would cease to exist, its constitution being dissolved by God’s power and strength. For only the one who made them can dissolve even immortal things.
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Summary: Nothing can exist against God.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.28.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-28-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 29
64.29.1Holl GCS 25/31:446
29. Τί οὖν ὁ διάβολος, λέφετε. πνεῦμα περὶ τὴν ὔλην ἔχον καφάπερ ἐλέχθη καὶ ’Αθηνγόρᾳ, γεόμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ, ὥσπερ δὴ καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ γεγόνασιν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ ἄγγελοι, καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ τῇ ὕλῆ καὶ τοῖς τῆς ὕλης εἴδεσι πεπιστευμένον διοίκησιν.
29. Ti oun ho diabolos, lephete. pneuma peri tēn ylēn echon kaphaper elechthē kai ’Athēngorą, geomenon hypo tou theou, hōsper dē kai hoi loipoi gegonasin hypʼ autou angeloi, kai tēn epi tę̄ hylē kai tois tēs hylēs eidesi pepisteumenon dioikēsin.
What then is the devil, you will say? A spirit concerned with matter, as Athenagoras too said, made by God, as the other angels were made by him, and entrusted with the administration of matter and the forms of matter.
Notes and citation
Summary: The devil is an angel set over matter.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. Cf. Athenagoras, Plea 24.
Extrabiblical texts: Athenagoras, Leg. 24 (A Plea for the Christians; allusion); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.29.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:446; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-29-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.29.2Holl GCS 25/31:446–447
τοῦτο γὰρ ἦν ἡ τῶν ἀγγέλων σύστασις, τῷ θεῷ ἐπὶ προνίᾳ γεγονέναι τοῖς ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ διακεκοσμημένοις, ἵνα τὴν μέν παν τελικὴν καὶ γενικὴν ὁ θεὸς ἔχων τῶι ὄλων πρόνοιαν ᾖ, τὸ κῦρος καὶ τὸ κράτος ἁπάντων αὐτὸς ἀνηρτημένος, καὶ ὥσπερ σκάφος τῷ τῆς σοφίας οἴακι διευθύνων ἀκλινῶς τὸ πᾶν, τὴν δὲ διὰ μέρους οἱ ἐΠὶ τούτῳ ταχθέντες ἄγγελοι.
touto gar ēn hē tōn angelōn systasis, tǭ theǭ epi pronią gegonenai tois hypʼ autou diakekosmēmenois, hina tēn men pan telikēn kai genikēn ho theos echōn tōi olōn pronoian ę̄, to kyros kai to kratos hapantōn autos anērtēmenos, kai hōsper skaphos tǭ tēs sophias oiaki dieuthynōn aklinōs to pan, tēn de dia merous hoi ePi toutǭ tachthentes angeloi.
For this was the constitution of the angels: to exist for God’s providence over the things he had ordered, so that God might have the complete and general providence over the whole, himself holding the authority and power over all, and steering the universe unswervingly like a ship with the tiller of wisdom, while the angels appointed to it had the particular providence.
Notes and citation
Summary: Angels exercise particular providence under God.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.29.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:446–447; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-29-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.29.3Holl GCS 25/31:447
ἀλλʼ οἱ μὲν λοιποὶ ἐφʼ οἶς αὐτοὺς ἐποίησε καὶ διέταξεν ὁ θεὸς ἔμειναν, ὁ δὲ ἐνύβρισε καὶ πονηρὸς περὶ τὴν τῶν πεπιστευμένων ἐγένετο διοίκησιν, φθόνου ἐγκισσήσας καθʼ ἡμῶν, ὤσπερ καὶ οἱ μετὰ ταῦτα σαρ- κῶν ἐρασθέντες καὶ τῶν τῶι ἀνθρώπων εἰς φιληδονίαν ἐνομιλήσαντες θυγατράσιν.
allʼ hoi men loipoi ephʼ ois autous epoiēse kai dietaxen ho theos emeinan, ho de enybrise kai ponēros peri tēn tōn pepisteumenōn egeneto dioikēsin, phthonou enkissēsas kathʼ hēmōn, ōsper kai hoi meta tauta sar- kōn erasthentes kai tōn tōi anthrōpōn eis philēdonian enomilēsantes thygatrasin.
But the others remained in the tasks for which God made and appointed them, while he grew insolent and became wicked in the administration of what was entrusted to him, conceiving envy against us, as did those who afterwards fell in love with flesh and had intercourse with the daughters of men in lust.
Gen 6:2 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The devil fell through envy, like the angels of Genesis 6.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.29.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:447; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-29-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.29.4Holl GCS 25/31:447
αὐθαίρετον γὰρ καὶ αὐτοῖς ἔχειν πρὸς ἑκάτερα διετάξατο βούλησιν ὁ θεός, οἶα καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἵνʼ ἢ πειθόμενοι τῷ λόγῳ συγῶσιν αὐτῷ κα ἀπολαύωσι μακαριότητος ἢ μὴ πειθόμενοι κρίνωνται.
authaireton gar kai autois echein pros hekatera dietaxato boulēsin ho theos, oia kai epi tōn anthrōpōn, hinʼ ē peithomenoi tǭ logǭ sygōsin autǭ ka apolauōsi makariotētos ē mē peithomenoi krinōntai.
For God ordained that they too should have a free will toward either, as with men, so that either obeying the Word they might be with him and enjoy blessedness, or not obeying they might be judged.
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Summary: Angels too have free will.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.29.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:447; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-29-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.29.5Holl GCS 25/31:447
ἦι δὲ καὶ ὁ διάβολος ἀστὴρ ἑωσφόρος »πῶς ἐξέπεσεν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ὁ ἑωσφόρος, ὁ πρωὶ ἀνατέλλων«), ἦν μετὰ τῶν ἀγγέλων ἀνατέλλων τοῦ φωτός, ἦι ἄστρο πρωïνόν, ἀλλʼ ἐξέπεσε κα εἰς εἰς τὴν συνετρίβη, ἐπι τροπεύσας τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ τἀναντία. τὸ γὰρ θεῖον νεμεσᾷ τοῖς ὐπερηφάνοις καὶ τὰ αὐθάδη φρονήματα κολούει.
ēi de kai ho diabolos astēr heōsphoros »pōs exepesen ek tou ouranou ho heōsphoros, ho prōi anatellōn«), ēn meta tōn angelōn anatellōn tou phōtos, ēi astro prōinon, allʼ exepese ka eis eis tēn synetribē, epi tropeusas tǭ anthrōpǭ tanantia. to gar theion nemesą tois yperēphanois kai ta authadē phronēmata kolouei.
And the devil was the morning star (“How has the morning star fallen from heaven, who rose early!”); he rose with the angels of light, he was an early star, but he fell and was crushed to the earth, having schemed the opposite for man. For the divine resents the proud and cuts short their arrogant thoughts.
Isa 14:12 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The devil was the fallen morning star.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.29.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:447; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-29-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.29.6Holl GCS 25/31:447–448
ἐπέρχεται δέ μοι καὶ ἐμμέτρως εἰπεῖν· ὦ πάσιν ἀρχὴ καὶ πέφας κακῶν, ὄξις, σὺ τʼ ὦ βαρὺν τίκτκουσα θησαυπὸν κακῶν πλάνη τυφλοῦ ποδηγὲ ἀγνοίας βέου, χαίρουσα θρήνοις καὶ στενάγμασι βροτῶν, ὑμεῖς ὑμεῖς εἰς ὔβρεις ὁμοσπόφων τὰς μισαδέλφους ὁπλίσαντες ἀλένας Κάïν μολῆναι φοινίῳ πρῶτον λύθρῳ ἐπείσατον γῆν καὶ τὸν ἐξ ἀκηράτων πεσεῖν αἰώνων πρωτόπλαστον εἰς χθόνα ὑμεῖς ἐτεκτήνασθε.
eperchetai de moi kai emmetrōs eipein; ō pasin archē kai pephas kakōn, oxis, sy tʼ ō baryn tiktkousa thēsaupon kakōn planē typhlou podēge agnoias beou, chairousa thrēnois kai stenagmasi brotōn, hymeis hymeis eis ybreis homospophōn tas misadelphous hoplisantes alenas Kain molēnai phoiniǭ prōton lythrǭ epeisaton gēn kai ton ex akēratōn pesein aiōnōn prōtoplaston eis chthona hymeis etektēnasthe.
It occurs to me to speak in verse as well: “O serpent, beginning and end of all evils, and you, Error, bearing a heavy treasury of evils, guide of blind ignorance’s life, rejoicing in the laments and groans of mortals: you, arming the brother-hating arms of Cain to outrage his kin, persuaded him first to stain the earth with bloody gore, and you contrived that the first-formed should fall from the undefiled ages to the ground.”
Gen 4:8 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 3:1 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Verses against the serpent and Error.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The iambic verses are unidentified, perhaps Methodius’s own.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.29.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:447–448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-29-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 30
64.30.1Holl GCS 25/31:448
Καὶ ὁ μὲv διάβολος οὕτως· ὁ δὲ θάναταος πρὸς ἐπισπροξὴν ηὑπέθη, καθάπερ καὶ τοῖς ἀρτιμαθέδι γραμμάτων παιδίοις πρὸς ἐπανόρωσιν αἱ πληγαί. οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄλλο ὁ θάνατος ἢ διάκρισις κα διαχωρισμὸς ψυχῆς ἀπὸ σώματος. τί οὖν; παραίτιος ὁ θεὸς θανάτου; λέξετε.
Kai ho mev diabolos houtōs; ho de thanataos pros episproxēn hēupethē, kathaper kai tois artimathedi grammatōn paidiois pros epanorōsin hai plēgai. ouden gar allo ho thanatos ē diakrisis ka diachōrismos psychēs apo sōmatos. ti oun? paraitios ho theos thanatou? lexete.
So much for the devil. But death was invented for our turning back, as blows are for the correction of children just learning letters. For death is nothing other than the separation and parting of soul from body. What then? Is God the cause of death? you will say.
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Summary: Death is a corrective, the separation of soul and body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.30.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-30-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.30.2Holl GCS 25/31:448
πάλιν γὰρ ὁ αὐτὸς ἡμῖν ἥκει λόγος. μὴ γένοιτο, ἐπεὶ μηδὲ οἱ διδάσκαλοι προκαθηγουμένως τοῦ ἀλγύνεσθαι ταὶς πληγαῖς τοὺς παῖδας αἴτιοι.
palin gar ho autos hēmin hēkei logos. mē genoito, epei mēde hoi didaskaloi prokathēgoumenōs tou algynesthai tais plēgais tous paidas aitioi.
For the same argument comes to us again. God forbid, since teachers are not the primary cause of children being pained by blows either.
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Summary: God is not the cause of death.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.30.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-30-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.30.3Holl GCS 25/31:448
καλὸν οὖν ὁ θάνατος, εἰ καθάπερ παισὶ πρὸς ἐπιστροφὴν δίκην πληγῶν ηὑρέθη, οὐχ ὁ τῆς ἀμαρτίας, ὦ σοφώτατοι, ἀλλʼ ὁ τῆς διαζεύξεως τῆς σαρκὸς κα1 τοῦ χωρισμοῦ.
kalon oun ho thanatos, ei kathaper paisi pros epistrophēn dikēn plēgōn hēurethē, ouch ho tēs amartias, ō sophōtatoi, allʼ ho tēs diazeuxeōs tēs sarkos ka1 tou chōrismou.
Death then is good, if it was invented like blows for children to turn them back — not the death of sin, most wise men, but that of the separation and parting from the flesh.
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Summary: Bodily death is a good correction.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.30.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-30-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.30.4Holl GCS 25/31:448
αὐτεξούσιος γὰρ ὢν καὶ αὐτοκράτωρ ὁ ἄνθρωπος καὶ αὐτοδέσπο- τοι βούλησιν καὶ αὐτοπροαίρετον πρὸς τὴν αἴρεσιν, ὡςἔφην, τοῦ καλοῦ λαβών, ἀκούσας τε »ἀπὸ παντὸς ξύλου τοῦ ἐν ῷ παραδεῳ φάγεσθε, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ ξύλου τοῦ γινώσκειν καλὸν καὶ πονηρὸν οὐ φάγεσθε ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ· ᾗ δʼ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ φάγητε ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, θανάτῳ ἀποθανεῖσθε»,
autexousios gar ōn kai autokratōr ho anthrōpos kai autodespo- toi boulēsin kai autoproaireton pros tēn airesin, hōsephēn, tou kalou labōn, akousas te »apo pantos xylou tou en ǭ paradeǭ phagesthe, apo de tou xylou tou ginōskein kalon kai ponēron ou phagesthe apʼ autou; hę̄ dʼ an hēmerą phagēte apʼ autou, thanatǭ apothaneisthe»,
For man, being free and sovereign, having received a will of his own and self-determined choice of the good, as I said, and having heard, “From every tree in paradise you shall eat, but from the tree of knowing good and evil you shall not eat of it; in the day you eat of it, you shall surely die,”
Gen 2:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 2:17 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Man, free, received the commandment.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.30.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-30-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.30.5Holl GCS 25/31:448
ἐνδοὺς εἰς τὸ φαγεῖν ἀέ aOxGU τῷ διαβόλῳ δεδελεασμένῃ σοφίᾳ ποικίλως πρὸς παρακοὴν πείθοντι, ἠθέτησε τησε τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ καὶ ἐγένετο τοῦτο αὐτῷ εἰς σκάνδαλον καὶ παγίδα καὶ σκῶλον.
endous eis to phagein ae aOxGU tǭ diabolǭ dedeleasmenę̄ sophią poikilōs pros parakoēn peithonti, ēthetēse tēse tēn entolēn tou kai egeneto touto autǭ eis skandalon kai pagida kai skōlon.
gave way and ate, lured by the devil, who persuaded him to disobedience with varied cunning, and set aside the commandment of God, and this became for him an offense, a snare and a stumbling block.
Gen 3:6 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Man disobeyed, lured by the devil.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. Some letters in the digital text are garbled.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.30.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:448; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-30-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.30.6Holl GCS 25/31:448–449
οὐ γὰρ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς κακὸς οὐδʼ ἔστι τὸ σύνολον ὄλως ἐκ παντὸς τὸ παράπαν αοτιος κακοῦ· ἀλλὰ πᾶν ὄπερ ἂν αὐτεξούσιον οὕτως ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ γεγονὸς ᾖ πρὸς τὸ φυλάξασθαι καὶ τηρῆσαι νόμον, ὃν αὐτὸς δικαίως διεστείλατο, μὴ τηρῆσαν λέγεται κακόν. βαρυτάτη δὲ βλάβη τὸ παρακοῦσαι θεοῦ τοὺς ὅρους τῆς κατὰ τὸ αὐτεξούσιον ὑπερβάντα δικαιοσύνης.
ou gar epoiēsen ho theos kakos oudʼ esti to synolon olōs ek pantos to parapan aotios kakou; alla pan oper an autexousion houtōs hypʼ autou gegonos ę̄ pros to phylaxasthai kai tērēsai nomon, hon autos dikaiōs diesteilato, mē tērēsan legetai kakon. barytatē de blabē to parakousai theou tous horous tēs kata to autexousion hyperbanta dikaiosynēs.
For God did not make evil, nor is he in any way at all the cause of evil; but whatever was made by him with free will to guard and keep the law he justly laid down, and does not keep it, is called evil. And the heaviest harm is to disobey God, overstepping the bounds of the righteousness of free will.
Notes and citation
Summary: Evil is the misuse of free will, not God’s work.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.30.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:448–449; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-30-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.30.7Holl GCS 25/31:449
ὅθεν ἐπειδὴ κατερρυπώθη καὶ κατεμιάνθη τῆς ἀποφάσεως ἀποστατήσας ὁ ἄνθρωπος τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ κηλῖδας ἐναπεμάξατο κακίας πολλῆς, ἃς ὁ ἄρχων τοῦ σκότους ἀπεκύησε καὶ πατὴρ τῆς πλάνης, πόνον κατὰ τὴν γραφὴν συλλαβών, ἵνα τὸν ἄνθρωπον φαντάζειν ἀεὶ πρὸς ἀδικίαν ἔχῃ καὶ κινεῖν, ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ ἀθάνατον κακὸν ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆς τοῦ διαβόλου ἰδὼν αὐτὸν γεγενημένον, καθάπερ καὶ ὁ διάβολος πλάνος ἦν,
hothen epeidē katerrypōthē kai katemianthē tēs apophaseōs apostatēsas ho anthrōpos tou theou kai kēlidas enapemaxato kakias pollēs, has ho archōn tou skotous apekyēse kai patēr tēs planēs, ponon kata tēn graphēn syllabōn, hina ton anthrōpon phantazein aei pros adikian echę̄ kai kinein, ho theos ho pantokratōr athanaton kakon ex epiboulēs tou diabolou idōn auton gegenēmenon, kathaper kai ho diabolos planos ēn,
Hence, since man was defiled and polluted by departing from God’s decree, and took on stains of much wickedness, which the ruler of darkness and father of error brought forth, having conceived toil according to Scripture, so that he might always be able to stir man’s imagination toward injustice, God the Almighty, seeing him become an immortal evil through the devil’s plot, as the devil too was a deceiver,
Ps 7:14 (7:15 LXX) (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: God saw that sin might become immortal in man.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. “Conceived toil” echoes Ps 7:14.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.30.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:449; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-30-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.30.8Holl GCS 25/31:449
τοὺς δερματίνους χιτῶνας διὰ τοῦτο κατεσκεύασεν, οἱονεὶ νεκρότητι περιβαλὼν αὐτόν ὅπως διὰ τῆς λύσεως τοῦ σώματος πᾶν τὸ ἐν αὐτῷ γενηθὲν κακὸν ἀποθάνῃ.
tous dermatinous chitōnas dia touto kateskeuasen, hoionei nekrotēti peribalōn auton hopōs dia tēs lyseōs tou sōmatos pan to en autǭ genēthen kakon apothanę̄.
for this reason made the coats of skin, clothing him as it were with mortality, so that through the dissolution of the body all the evil begotten in him might die.
Gen 3:21 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The coats of skin are mortality, to let sin die.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.30.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:449; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-30-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 31
64.31.1Holl GCS 25/31:449
31. Προηπόρηται δὲ ἤδη καὶ ἀπεδείχθη τοὺς δερματίνους χιτῶνας μὴ εἶναι τὰ σώματα. ὅμως δὲ καὶ πάλιν (οὐ γὰρ ἅπαξ ῥητέον) φράζωμεν.
31. Proēporētai de ēdē kai apedeichthē tous dermatinous chitōnas mē einai ta sōmata. homōs de kai palin (ou gar hapax rhēteon) phrazōmen.
It has already been discussed and shown that the coats of skin are not the bodies. Still, let us say it again, for it must not be said only once.
Notes and citation
Summary: The coats are not the bodies.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.31.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:449; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-31-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.31.2Holl GCS 25/31:449–450
αὐτὸς πρὸ τῆς κατασκευῆς αὐτῶν ὁ πρωτόπλαστος ὁμολογεῖ καὶ ὀστᾶ ἔχειν καὶ σάρκας, ὁπότε δὴ τὴν γυναῖκα προσενεχθεῖσαν αὐτῷ θεασάμενος »τοῦτο νῦν ὀστοῦν« ἐφώνησεν »ἐκ τῶν ὀστῶν μου καὶ σὰρξ ἐκ τῆς σαρκός μου· αὕτη κληθήσεται γυνή, ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς ἐλήφθη. ἕνεκεν τούτου καταλείψε ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα, καὶ προσκολληθήσεται τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσονται οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν«.
autos pro tēs kataskeuēs autōn ho prōtoplastos homologei kai osta echein kai sarkas, hopote dē tēn gynaika prosenechtheisan autǭ theasamenos »touto nyn ostoun« ephōnēsen »ek tōn ostōn mou kai sarx ek tēs sarkos mou; hautē klēthēsetai gynē, hoti ek tou andros autēs elēphthē. heneken toutou kataleipse anthrōpos ton patera autou kai tēn mētera, kai proskollēthēsetai tę̄ gynaiki autou, kai esontai hoi dyo eis sarka mian«.
The first-formed himself, before they were made, confesses that he has bones and flesh, when, seeing the woman brought to him, he cried, “This now is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of her husband. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
Gen 2:23 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 2:24 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Adam had flesh and bones before the coats.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.31.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:449–450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-31-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.31.3Holl GCS 25/31:450
οὐ γὰρ δὴ ἀνέξομαι φληναφώντων τινῶν καὶ βιαζομένων ἀπηρυ- θριασμένως τὴν γραφήν, ἴνα αὐτοῖς δὴ σαρκὸς μὴ εἶναι προχωρήσῃ ἡ ἀνάστασις, ἀστᾶ νοητὰ καὶ σάρκας νοητὰς ὑποτιθεμένων καὶ ἄλλοτε ἄλλως ἄνω καὶ κάτω μεταβαλλομένων ἀλληγορίαις·
ou gar dē anexomai phlēnaphōntōn tinōn kai biazomenōn apēry- thriasmenōs tēn graphēn, ina autois dē sarkos mē einai prochōrēsę̄ hē anastasis, asta noēta kai sarkas noētas hypotithemenōn kai allote allōs anō kai katō metaballomenōn allēgoriais;
For I will not bear some people talking nonsense and shamelessly forcing Scripture, so that for them the resurrection may not be of the flesh, supposing intelligible bones and intelligible flesh, and shifting up and down in allegories, now one way, now another;
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Summary: Allegorizing Adam’s flesh is rejected.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.31.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-31-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.31.4Holl GCS 25/31:450
καὶ ταῦτα οὔτως ὡς γέγρα- πται παραλαμβάνεσθαι καρτύνοντος τοῦ Χριστοῦ τὴς γραήν, ἔνθα πυνθανομένοις τοῖς Φαρισαίοις περὶ χωρισμοῦ γυναικὸς ἀποκρίνεται »οὐκ ἀνέγνωτε ὅτι ἀπʼ ἀρκῆς ὁ κτίσας ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ ἐποίησε καὶ εἶπεν· ἕνεκεν τούτου καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὴν μητέρα» καὶ τὰ ἐξῆς.
kai tauta outōs hōs gegra- ptai paralambanesthai kartynontos tou Christou tēs graēn, entha pynthanomenois tois Pharisaiois peri chōrismou gynaikos apokrinetai »ouk anegnōte hoti apʼ arkēs ho ktisas arsen kai thēly epoiēse kai eipen; heneken toutou kataleipsei anthrōpos ton patera kai tēn mētera» kai ta exēs.
and this when Christ confirms that these words of Scripture are to be taken as written, where, when the Pharisees asked about separation from a wife, he answers, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female, and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother,” and so on.
Matt 19:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 19:5 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Christ took Genesis 2 literally in the divorce question.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Marriage, Divorce, Divorce and remarriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.31.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-31-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.31.5Holl GCS 25/31:450
πῶς γὰρ ἐπὶ ψυχῶν μόνον τό »αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληρώσατε τὴν γῆν« παραληπτέον· ἢ τό »ἔλαβε χοῦν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ὁ θεὸς καὶ ἔπλασε τὸν ἄνθρωπον«, ὄκυπέως ἐπὶ τοῦ σώματος λελέχθαι φαίνεται· φαίνεται· οὐ γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ χοὸς καὶ τῶν βαρυτέρων τὴν οὐσίαν ἐκτήσατο ἡ ψυχή.
pōs gar epi psychōn monon to »auxanesthe kai plērōsate tēn gēn« paralēpteon; ē to »elabe choun apo tēs gēs ho theos kai eplase ton anthrōpon«, okypeōs epi tou sōmatos lelechthai phainetai; phainetai; ou gar apo tou choos kai tōn baryterōn tēn ousian ektēsato hē psychē.
For how can “Increase and fill the earth” be taken of souls only? Or “God took dust from the earth and formed man,” which plainly seems said of the body; for the soul did not get its substance from dust and heavier things.
Gen 1:28 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 2:7 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: These texts must refer to the body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.31.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-31-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.31.6Holl GCS 25/31:450
ὤστε συν- έστηκεν ἐκ παντὸς ἀληθέστατα πρὸ τῶν δερματένων σεσωματοποιῆσθαι χιτώνων τὸν ἄνθρωπον. ταῦτα γὰρ πρὸ τοῦ ἐκπεσεῖν αὐτὸν ἅπαντα εἴρηται, τὰ δὲ κατὰ τοὺς κιτῶνας μετὰ τὸ ἐκπεσεῖν.
ōste syn- estēken ek pantos alēthestata pro tōn dermatenōn sesōmatopoiēsthai chitōnōn ton anthrōpon. tauta gar pro tou ekpesein auton hapanta eirētai, ta de kata tous kitōnas meta to ekpesein.
So it is established most truly in every way that man was embodied before the coats of skin. For all these were said before his fall, and what concerns the coats after his fall.
Notes and citation
Summary: Man had a body before the coats of skin.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.31.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-31-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.31.7Holl GCS 25/31:450
Ὅθεν ἴωμεν πάλιν ἐπισκεψόμενοι τὰ ἐν χερσίν, ἰκανῶς ἀποδείξαντες μὴ εῖναι τοὺς δερματίνους χιτῶνας τὰ σώματα, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀπὸ τοὺ ἀλόγου τῶν ζῴων ωεκρότητα κατεσκευασμένην· τοῦτο γὰρ λείπεται. ἀμέλει τῶν ὅρων ἔξω τοῦ παραδείσου κατὰ ταύτην ἐξοικίξεται τὴν αἰτίαν. οὐ γὰρ ὅτι μὴ θέλων ὁ θεὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου δρέψασθαι τῆς ζωῆς αὐτὸν καὶ φαγεῖν ἐξέβαλεν (ἐδύνατο γὰρ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ζῆν, αὖθις φαγὼν ἀπὸ ζωῆς) ἀλλʼ μὴ μὴ ἀθάνατον, ὡς ὑπεθέμεθα, γενηθῇ τὸ κακόν.
Hothen iōmen palin episkepsomenoi ta en chersin, ikanōs apodeixantes mē einai tous dermatinous chitōnas ta sōmata, alla tēn apo tou alogou tōn zǭōn ōekrotēta kateskeuasmenēn; touto gar leipetai. amelei tōn horōn exō tou paradeisou kata tautēn exoikixetai tēn aitian. ou gar hoti mē thelōn ho theos apo tou xylou drepsasthai tēs zōēs auton kai phagein exebalen (edynato gar eis ton aiōna zēn, authis phagōn apo zōēs) allʼ mē mē athanaton, hōs hypethemetha, genēthę̄ to kakon.
Hence let us go back and examine the matter in hand, having sufficiently shown that the coats of skin are not the bodies, but the mortality made from that of the irrational animals; for this remains. Indeed, he is banished outside the bounds of paradise for this reason. For it was not because God did not want him to pluck from the tree of life and eat that he cast him out (for he could have lived for ever, eating again from life), but so that evil might not become immortal, as we supposed.
Gen 3:22 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 3:23 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Adam was expelled so that sin might not become immortal.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.31.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-31-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.31.9Holl GCS 25/31:450
ἐπεὶ διὰ τί τὸv Χριστὸν ἀπὸ τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀπέστελλεν εἰς τὴν γῆν, εἰ ὅλως ἤθελε ζωῆς τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἀγευστήσαντα ἀποθανεῖν εἰς τὸ παντελές;
epei dia ti tov Christon apo tōn ouranōn apestellen eis tēn gēn, ei holōs ēthele zōēs ton anthrōpon ageustēsanta apothanein eis to panteles?
Otherwise why did he send Christ from heaven to the earth, if he wanted man, without tasting life, to die utterly?
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ’s coming shows God wills life.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. There is no 64.31.8 in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.31.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:450; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-31-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.31.10Holl GCS 25/31:450–451
εἰ δὲ ἐκ μεταμέλου φαίη τοῦτο πεποιηκέναι τὸν θεὸν ὁ ἀντιλέγων, ἀσθενὴς αὐτῷ ὁ λόγος, μεταγινώσκοντα τὸν θεὸν εἰσάγων. ἀλλʼ οὔτε οὔτε τοῦ μέλλοντος ὁ θεὸς οὔτε κακοποιός, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄκρως ἀγαθὸς καὶ προγινώ σκων τὰ μέλλοντα.
ei de ek metamelou phaiē touto pepoiēkenai ton theon ho antilegōn, asthenēs autǭ ho logos, metaginōskonta ton theon eisagōn. allʼ oute oute tou mellontos ho theos oute kakopoios, alla kai akrōs agathos kai proginō skōn ta mellonta.
And if the objector says God did this out of regret, his argument is weak, introducing a God who changes his mind. But God is neither ignorant of the future nor a doer of evil, but supremely good and foreknowing the future.
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Summary: God does not repent; he foreknows.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The phrase “ignorant of” is supplied where the text is defective.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.31.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:450–451; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-31-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.31.11Holl GCS 25/31:451
ὥστε οὐκ ἄρα διὰ τὸ μὴ σῴζεσθαι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα φαγόντα αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς ἐξέβαλεν, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ νεκρωθῆναι πρῶτον θανάτῳ τὴν ἀμαρτίαν, ἴνʼ οὕτως μετὰ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν ἐκτακείσης τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἐγερθεὶς ὁ ἄνθρωπος καθαρὸς γεύσηται τῆς ζωῆς.
hōste ouk ara dia to mē sǭzesthai eis ton aiōna phagonta auton apo tou xylou tēs zōēs exebalen, alla dia to nekrōthēnai prōton thanatǭ tēn amartian, inʼ houtōs meta to apothanein ektakeisēs tēs hamartias egertheis ho anthrōpos katharos geusētai tēs zōēs.
So he did not cast him out so that he should not be saved for ever by eating from the tree of life, but so that sin might first be put to death by death, so that thus, after dying, sin having melted away, man, raised pure, might taste of life.
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Summary: Death destroys sin so man may rise pure.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.31.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:451; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-31-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 32
64.32.1Holl GCS 25/31:451
32. Μηδεὶς δὲ ἀβέλτερος ὢν παρακινδυνευέτω ὡς τούτων ἐτέρως λεχθέντων. ὁ γὰρ ὅλως ὁριζόμενος τὴν σάρκα μὴ εἶναι ταύτην ἀθανασίας δεκτικὴν ὄντως ἀνοίας ὑπεύθυνος ὢν νόσῳ βλασθημεῖ.
32. Mēdeis de abelteros ōn parakindyneuetō hōs toutōn eterōs lechthentōn. ho gar holōs horizomenos tēn sarka mē einai tautēn athanasias dektikēn ontōs anoias hypeuthynos ōn nosǭ blasthēmei.
Let no fool take the risk of saying these things were meant otherwise. For whoever defines this flesh as not at all receptive of immortality, being truly guilty of folly, blasphemes through a disease.
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Summary: Denying the flesh immortality is foolish.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.32.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:451; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-32-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.32.2Holl GCS 25/31:451
διὰ τί γὰρ μετὰ τῆν τῶν χιτώνων τῶν δερματίνων ὁ Ἀδὰμ κατασκευὴν ἐκβάλλεται, κωλυόμενος μενος φαγεῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς καἰ ζῆσαι, εἰ ὅλως ἀδύνατον ἦι μετὰ σώματος εἰς τὸ τὸν αἰῶνα ζῆσαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον;
dia ti gar meta tēn tōn chitōnōn tōn dermatinōn ho Adam kataskeuēn ekballetai, kōlyomenos menos phagein apo tou xylou tēs zōēs kai zēsai, ei holōs adynaton ēi meta sōmatos eis to ton aiōna zēsai ton anthrōpon?
For why is Adam cast out after the coats of skin were made, being prevented from eating from the tree of life and living, if it were altogether impossible for man to live for ever with a body?
Notes and citation
Summary: The prohibition shows embodied immortality was possible.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.32.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:451; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-32-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.32.3Holl GCS 25/31:451
ὡς δυναμένου γὰρ αὐτοῦ τοῦ μὴ ἀποθανεῖν, ἐὰν ἀπὸ τῆς ζωῆς γεύσηται λαβών, ἡ κώλυσις γίγνεται. φησὶ γάρ »καὶ ἀποίησε κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῷ ’Αδὰμ καὶ τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ χιτῶνας δερματίνους καὶ ἐνέδυσεν αὐτούς· καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεός· ἰδού, γέγονεν Ἀδὰμ ὡς εἶς ἐξ ἡμῶν, τοῦ γινώσκειν καλὸν καὶ πονηρόν· καὶ ταὶ μή ποτε ἐκτείνῃ τὴν χεῖρα καὶ λαβῃ τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς καὶ φάγῃ καὶ ζήδεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. καὶ ἐξαπέστειλεν αὐτὸν κύριος ὁ δεὸς ἐκ τοῦ παραδείσου τῆς τρυφῆς ἀργάξεσθι τῆν γῆν, ἐξ ἧς ἐλήφθη, καὶ ἐξέβαλε τὸν ’Αδάμ«.
hōs dynamenou gar autou tou mē apothanein, ean apo tēs zōēs geusētai labōn, hē kōlysis gignetai. phēsi gar »kai apoiēse kyrios ho theos tǭ ’Adam kai tę̄ gynaiki autou chitōnas dermatinous kai enedysen autous; kai eipen ho theos; idou, gegonen Adam hōs eis ex hēmōn, tou ginōskein kalon kai ponēron; kai tai mē pote ekteinę̄ tēn cheira kai labę̄ tou xylou tēs zōēs kai phagę̄ kai zēdetai eis ton aiōna. kai exapesteilen auton kyrios ho deos ek tou paradeisou tēs tryphēs argaxesthi tēn gēn, ex hēs elēphthē, kai exebale ton ’Adam«.
The prevention takes place as if he could avoid dying if he took and tasted of life. For it says, “And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife coats of skin and clothed them; and God said, Behold, Adam has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch out his hand and take of the tree of life and eat and live for ever. And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of delight to till the ground from which he was taken, and he cast out Adam.”
Gen 3:21 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:23 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:24 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Genesis 3:21–24 is quoted.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.32.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:451; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-32-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.32.4Holl GCS 25/31:451
οὐκοῦ ἐδύνατο ζῆν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τὸ σῶμα καὶ ἀθάνατον ἔσεσθαι, εἶ μὴ κεκώλυτο γεύσασθαι τῆς ζωῆς. ἐκωλύθη δέ, ὅπως ἡ μὲν ἀμαρτία συναποκτανθεῖσα τῷ σώματι θάνῃ, τὸ δὲ σῶμα ἀναστῇ τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἀπολουμένης.
oukou edynato zēn eis ton aiōna to sōma kai athanaton esesthai, ei mē kekōlyto geusasthai tēs zōēs. ekōlythē de, hopōs hē men amartia synapoktantheisa tǭ sōmati thanę̄, to de sōma anastę̄ tēs hamartias apoloumenēs.
So the body could have lived for ever and been immortal, had it not been prevented from tasting life. It was prevented so that sin, killed together with the body, might die, and the body rise when sin had perished.
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Summary: The body dies so sin dies with it.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.32.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:451; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-32-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.32.5Holl GCS 25/31:451–452
ἴνα τοίνυν μὴ κακὸν ἀθάνατον ὁ ἀθάνατον ὡς ἄνθρωπος, ᾖ, ἀείξωον ἔχων ἐν ἑαυτῷ τὴν ἀμαρτίαν κρατιστεύουσαν, ἄτε ἐν ἀθανατῳ βλαστήσασαν σώματι καὶ ἀθάνατον ἔχουσαν τροφήν, ὁ δεὸς αὐτὸν διὰ τοῦτο θνητὸν ἀπεφήνατο νεκρότητι πεφιβαλών.
ina toinyn mē kakon athanaton ho athanaton hōs anthrōpos, ę̄, aeixōon echōn en heautǭ tēn amartian kratisteuousan, ate en athanatǭ blastēsasan sōmati kai athanaton echousan trophēn, ho deos auton dia touto thnēton apephēnato nekrotēti pephibalōn.
So then, so that man, being immortal, might not be an immortal evil, having in himself sin ever-living and prevailing, as sprung up in an immortal body and having immortal nourishment, God for this reason declared him mortal, clothing him with mortality.
Notes and citation
Summary: God made man mortal to end sin.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.32.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:451–452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-32-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.32.6Holl GCS 25/31:452
τοῦτο γὰρ οἱ δερμάτινοι χιτῶνες ἐβούλντο, ἴνα δὴ διὰ τῆς λύσεως τοῦ σώματος καὶ τῆς διαιπέσεως ἡ ἀμαρτία κάτωθεν αὐτόπεμνος πᾶσα διαφθαρῇ, ὠς μηδὲ κἂν βραχύτατον ῥίζης ἐαθήναι μέρος, ἀφʼ οὖ νέαι βλάσται πάλιν ἁμαρτημάτων βήσονται.
touto gar hoi dermatinoi chitōnes eboulnto, ina dē dia tēs lyseōs tou sōmatos kai tēs diaipeseōs hē amartia katōthen autopemnos pasa diaphtharę̄, ōs mēde kan brachytaton rhizēs eathēnai meros, aphʼ ou neai blastai palin hamartēmatōn bēsontai.
For this is what the coats of skin meant: that through the dissolution and falling apart of the body all sin might be destroyed, cut off from below, so that not even the smallest part of the root might be left, from which new shoots of sins might spring again.
Notes and citation
Summary: Death uproots sin entirely.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.32.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-32-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 33
64.33.1Holl GCS 25/31:452
33. Καθάπερ γὰρ ὀόταν ἐν οἰκοδομήμασι ναῶν καλοῖς συκῆ > γεν- νηθεῖσα καὶ εἰς ἔκτασιν καὶ μέγεθος εὐτροξήσασα καὶ περὶ πάσας τὰς ἁρμογὰς πολυκλημάτοις ρίζαις τῶν λίθων κεχυμένη, οὐ πρότερον τοῦ φύειν στέλλεται, ἴστʼ ἂν πᾶσα ἀποσπασθῇ, λυθέντων Μʼ καθʼ οὓς τόπους τῶν λίθων
33. Kathaper gar ootan en oikodomēmasi naōn kalois sykē > gen- nētheisa kai eis ektasin kai megethos eutroxēsasa kai peri pasas tas harmogas polyklēmatois rizais tōn lithōn kechymenē, ou proteron tou phyein stelletai, istʼ an pasa apospasthę̄, lythentōn Mʼ kathʼ hous topous tōn lithōn
For just as when a fig tree has grown in the fine buildings of temples, and has flourished in extent and size, and spread with many-branched roots around all the joints of the stones, it does not stop growing until it is all torn out, the stones being loosened in the places where it is,
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Summary: A fig tree in a temple must be uprooted.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.33.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-33-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.33.2Holl GCS 25/31:452
(δυνατὸν γὰρ πάλιν εἰς τοὺς αὐτοὺς αὐτοὺς τόπους τοὺς λίθους, τῆς συκῆς ἀφῃρημένης, ὅπως ὁ μὲν ναὸς σῴζηται, μηδὲν τῶν ἀφανιζόντων αὐτὸν κακῶν ἐν ἑαυτῷ μηκέτι φέρων, ἡ δὲ συκῆ πᾶσα προθέλυμνος ἀποσπασθεῖσα ἀποθάνῃ),
(dynaton gar palin eis tous autous autous topous tous lithous, tēs sykēs aphę̄rēmenēs, hopōs ho men naos sǭzētai, mēden tōn aphanizontōn auton kakōn en heautǭ mēketi pherōn, hē de sykē pasa prothelymnos apospastheisa apothanę̄),
(for it is possible to put the stones back in the same places when the fig tree has been removed, so that the temple is preserved, no longer bearing in itself any of the evils that destroy it, while the fig tree, torn out root and all, dies),
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Summary: The temple is rebuilt without the tree.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.33.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-33-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.33.3Holl GCS 25/31:452
κατὰ ταῦτα καὶ ὁ καὶ ὁ θεὸς τεχνίτης ἐαυτοῦ ναὸν τὸν ἄνθρωπον, δίκην ἀγρίας συκῆς τὴν ἀμαρτίαν βλαστήσαντα, σαντα, διέλυσε θανάτου προσκαίροις προσβολαίς »ἀποκτέννων« κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον »καὶ ζωοποιῶν«, ἵνα πάλιν ἀπὸ τῶν αὐτῶν ἡ σὰρξ μερῶν μετὰ τὸ ξηρανθῆναι καὶ ἀποθανεῖν τὸ ἁμάρτημα δίκην ἀνακαινοποιηθέντος ναοῦ ἀθάνατος καὶ ἀπήμων ἐγερθῇ, τελέως ἐκ βάθρων ἀπο λομένης τῆς ἀμαρτίας.
kata tauta kai ho kai ho theos technitēs eautou naon ton anthrōpon, dikēn agrias sykēs tēn amartian blastēsanta, santa, dielyse thanatou proskairois prosbolais »apoktennōn« kata to gegrammenon »kai zōopoiōn«, hina palin apo tōn autōn hē sarx merōn meta to xēranthēnai kai apothanein to hamartēma dikēn anakainopoiēthentos naou athanatos kai apēmōn egerthę̄, teleōs ek bathrōn apo lomenēs tēs amartias.
In the same way God too, the craftsman, dissolved man, his own temple, when he had sprouted sin like a wild fig tree, by the temporary assaults of death, “killing,” as it is written, “and making alive,” so that the flesh, after sin has withered and died, may be raised again from the same parts, immortal and unharmed, like a renewed temple, sin having been utterly destroyed from its foundations.
Deut 32:39 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Sam 2:6 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: God dissolves the body so it may rise free of sin.
- Methodius, On the Resurrection, quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.33.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:452; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-33-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.33.4Holl GCS 25/31:452–453
ζῶντος γὰρ ἔτι τοῦ σώματος πρὸ τοῦ τεθνήξε- σθαι συζῆν ἀνάγκη καὶ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν, ἔνδον τὰς ῥίζας αὐτῆς ἐν ἡμῖν ἀποκρύπτουσαν, κἂν ἔξωθεν τομαῖς ταῖς ἀπὸ τῶν σωφρονισμῶν καὶ τῶν νουθετήσεων ἀνεστέλλετο, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἂν ἔτι μετὰ τὸ φωτισθῆναι συνέβαινεν ἀδικεῖν, [ἅτε] παντάπασιν εἰλικρινῶς ἀφῃρημένης ἀφʼ ἡμῶν τῆς ἁμαρτίας.
zōntos gar eti tou sōmatos pro tou tethnēxe- sthai syzēn anankē kai tēn hamartian, endon tas rhizas autēs en hēmin apokryptousan, kan exōthen tomais tais apo tōn sōphronismōn kai tōn nouthetēseōn anestelleto, epei ouk an eti meta to phōtisthēnai synebainen adikein, [hate] pantapasin eilikrinōs aphę̄rēmenēs aphʼ hēmōn tēs hamartias.
For while the body is still alive, before it dies, sin too must live with it, hiding its roots within us, even if it is checked outwardly by the prunings of correction and admonition; otherwise it would no longer happen that we do wrong after being enlightened, since sin would have been wholly and purely removed from us.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Sin’s roots remain while the body lives.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The editor deletes ἅτε. “Enlightened” refers to baptism.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Baptism, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.33.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:452–453; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-33-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.33.5Holl GCS 25/31:453
νῦν καὶ μετὰ τὸ πιστεῦσαι καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐλθεῖν τοῦ ἁγνισμοῦ πολλάκις ἐν ἁμαρτίαις ὄντες εὑρισκόμεθα. οὐδεὶς γὰρ οὕτως ἁμαρτίας ἐκτὸς εἶναι ἑαυτὸν καυχήσεται ὡς μηδὲ κἂν ἐνθυμηθῆναι τὸ σύνολον ὅλως τὴν ἀδικίαν.
nyn kai meta to pisteusai kai epi to hydōr elthein tou hagnismou pollakis en hamartiais ontes heuriskometha. oudeis gar houtōs hamartias ektos einai heauton kauchēsetai hōs mēde kan enthymēthēnai to synolon holōs tēn adikian.
But now, even after believing and coming to the water of purification, we are often found in sins. For no one will boast of being so free of sin as not even to think of injustice at all.
Notes and citation
Summary: Even the baptized still sin.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.33.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:453; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-33-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.33.6Holl GCS 25/31:453
ὥστε συμβέβηκε συστέλλεσθαι μὲν καὶ κατευνάζεσθαι τῇ πίστει νῦν τὴν ἁμαρτίαν, εἰς τὸ μὴ οἶσαι καρποὺς βλαβοποιούς, οὐ μὴν ἀνῃρῆσθαι καὶ τῶν ῥιζῶν ἄχρις.
hōste symbebēke systellesthai men kai kateunazesthai tę̄ pistei nyn tēn hamartian, eis to mē oisai karpous blabopoious, ou mēn anę̄rēsthai kai tōn rhizōn achris.
So it has come about that sin is now checked and lulled to sleep by faith, so as not to bear harmful fruits, but not removed down to the roots.
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Summary: Faith restrains sin but does not uproot it.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.33.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:453; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-33-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.33.7Holl GCS 25/31:453
νῦν μὲν γὰρ ἐνταῦθα τὰς βλάστας αὐτῆς, οἷον τὰς ἐνθυμήσεις τὰς πονηράς, συστέλλομεν, »μή τις ῥίζα πικρίας ἄνω φύουσα ἐνοχλήσῃ«, μὴ ἐῶντες ἀναμύειν καὶ διοίγνυσθαι τὰ μεμυκότα στόμια πρὸς τὰς ἐκφύσεις, τοῦ λόγου δίκην ἀξίνης πρὸς τὰς ῥίζας αὐτῆς τὰς κάτω φυομένας τέμνοντος. τότε δὲ καὶ τὸ ὅλως ἐνθυμηθήσεσθαι περὶ κακίας ἀφανισθήσεται.
nyn men gar entautha tas blastas autēs, hoion tas enthymēseis tas ponēras, systellomen, »mē tis rhiza pikrias anō phyousa enochlēsę̄«, mē eōntes anamyein kai dioignysthai ta memykota stomia pros tas ekphyseis, tou logou dikēn axinēs pros tas rhizas autēs tas katō phyomenas temnontos. tote de kai to holōs enthymēthēsesthai peri kakias aphanisthēsetai.
For now here we check its shoots, such as evil thoughts, “lest any root of bitterness spring up and cause trouble,” not allowing the closed mouths to open and gape for sprouting, the Word cutting like an axe at its roots growing below. But then even the very thought of wickedness will be abolished.
Heb 12:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 3:10 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Now we prune sin; then it will vanish.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.33.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:453; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-33-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 34
64.34.1Holl GCS 25/31:453–454
34. Οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀμάρτυρος ὁ λόγος γραφῶν τοῖς βουλομένοις εἰλικρινῶς τὸ ἀληθὲς ἀκούειν, ἐπεὶ οἶδεν ὁ ἀπόστολος μηδέπω τὴν ῥίζαν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων τῆς ἁμαρτίας ὁλοσχερῶς ἀνῃρημένην, ὁτὲ μέν »οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι οὐκ οἰκεῖ ἐν ἐμοὶ τουτέστιν ἐν τῇ σαρκί μου, φράζων, τὸ ἀγαθόν· τὸ γὰρ θέλειν παράκειταί μοι, τὸ δὲ κατεργάζεσθαι τὸ καλὸν οὔ· οὐ γὰρ ὃ θέλω ποιῶ ἀγαθόν, ἀλλʼ ὃ οὐ θέλω κακὸν τοῦτο πράσσω. εἰ δὲ ὃ οὐ θέλω, τοῦτο ποιῶ, οὐκέτι ἐγὼ κατεργάζομαι αὐτό, ἀλλʼ ἡ οἰκοῦσα ἐν ἀμαρτία»·
34. Oude gar amartyros ho logos graphōn tois boulomenois eilikrinōs to alēthes akouein, epei oiden ho apostolos mēdepō tēn rhizan ex anthrōpōn tēs hamartias holoscherōs anę̄rēmenēn, hote men »oida gar hoti ouk oikei en emoi toutestin en tę̄ sarki mou, phrazōn, to agathon; to gar thelein parakeitai moi, to de katergazesthai to kalon ou; ou gar ho thelō poiō agathon, allʼ ho ou thelō kakon touto prassō. ei de ho ou thelō, touto poiō, ouketi egō katergazomai auto, allʼ hē oikousa en amartia»;
The argument is not without the witness of Scripture for those who wish to hear the truth sincerely, since the apostle knows that the root of sin has not yet been wholly removed from men, saying at one time, “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for to will is present with me, but to accomplish the good is not; for I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want, this I do. But if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me”;
Rom 7:18 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:20 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul testifies that sin still dwells in the flesh.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.34.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:453–454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-34-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.34.2Holl GCS 25/31:454
ὁτὲ δέ »συνήδομαι τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ κατὰ τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον· βλέπω δὲ ἔτερον νόμον ἐν τοῖς μέλεσί μου, ἀντιστρατευόμενον τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ νοός μου καὶ αἰχμαλωτίζοντά με τῷ νόμῳ τῆς ἁμαρτέας τῷ ὅντι ἐν τοῖς μέλεσί μου«.
hote de »synēdomai tǭ nomǭ tou theou kata kata ton esō anthrōpon; blepō de eteron nomon en tois melesi mou, antistrateuomenon tǭ nomǭ tou noos mou kai aichmalōtizonta me tǭ nomǭ tēs hamarteas tǭ honti en tois melesi mou«.
and at another, “I delight in the law of God according to the inner man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.”
Rom 7:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:23 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul describes the law of sin in his members.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.34.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-34-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.34.3Holl GCS 25/31:454
οὕτως οὐδέπω τὴν ἀμαρτέαν αὐτόπρεμνον ἐκ ῥιζῶν διακοπήναι συνέβη, ἀλλὰ ζῆν (οὐ γὰρ εἰς τέλος ἀπέθανεν· πῶς γὰρ τοῦ περιβεβλῆσθαι θανάτῳ τὸν ἄνθρωπον;), ἵνα αὐτῷ συμμαρανθεῖσα καὶ συμφθινήσασα αὐτὴ μὲν εἰς ἄρδην ἀπόληται καὶ διαφθαρῇ, καθάπερ καθάπερ φυτόν, λυθέντος <τοῦ λίθου> ἐν ᾦ κρύπτουσα τὰς ῥίζας ὡς ἔφην ἑαυτῆς διεσῴζετο <τόπῳ>, ὁ δὲ ἄνθρωπος αὖθις μηκέτι »ῥίζαν« »πικρίας« ἔχων ἐξεγερθῇ.
houtōs oudepō tēn amartean autopremnon ek rhizōn diakopēnai synebē, alla zēn (ou gar eis telos apethanen; pōs gar tou peribeblēsthai thanatǭ ton anthrōpon?), hina autǭ symmarantheisa kai symphthinēsasa autē men eis ardēn apolētai kai diaphtharę̄, kathaper kathaper phyton, lythentos <tou lithou> en ǭ kryptousa tas rhizas hōs ephēn heautēs diesǭzeto <topǭ>, ho de anthrōpos authis mēketi »rhizan« »pikrias« echōn exegerthę̄.
So sin has not yet been cut off root and branch, but lives (for it did not wholly die — why else would man have been clothed with death?), so that withering and wasting away with him it may itself perish utterly and be destroyed, like a plant when the stone in which it was preserved, hiding its roots as I said, is loosened, and man may rise again, no longer having a “root of bitterness.”
Heb 12:15 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Sin will perish with the body’s death.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The angle-bracketed words are the editor’s supplements.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.34.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-34-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.34.4Holl GCS 25/31:454
ὡσπεροῦν ἀλεξιφαρμάκου γὰρ τρόπον ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀλεξητῆρος ἡμῶν ἀληθῶς καὶ ὶατροῦ θεοῦ πρὸς ἐκρίξωσιν τῆς ἁμαρτίας παρελήφθη ὁ θάνατος καὶ ἀφανισμόν, ἵνα μὴ διαιωνίζον ἐν ἡμῖν εἴη τὸ κακόν, ἀθάνατον ἄτε ἐν ἀθανάτοις ἀνατεῖλαν, αὐτοὶ δὲ λελωβημένοι καὶ ἐκστάντες νοσούντων τρόπον τῆς οἰκείας ἀριτῆς ἐπὶ πολὺ διατίβωμεν, ἅτε ἐν ὐφεστηκόσιν ἀεὶ καὶ ἀθανάτοις σώμασι τὴν κατὰ τὸ ἁμάρτημα μεγάλην τρέοντες νόσον.
hōsperoun alexipharmakou gar tropon hypo tou alexētēros hēmōn alēthōs kai iatrou theou pros ekrixōsin tēs hamartias parelēphthē ho thanatos kai aphanismon, hina mē diaiōnizon en hēmin eiē to kakon, athanaton ate en athanatois anateilan, autoi de lelōbēmenoi kai ekstantes nosountōn tropon tēs oikeias aritēs epi poly diatibōmen, hate en yphestēkosin aei kai athanatois sōmasi tēn kata to hamartēma megalēn treontes noson.
For death was taken up by our true Protector and Physician, God, as a kind of remedy for uprooting and destroying sin, so that evil might not be everlasting in us, having sprung up as immortal in immortals, and we ourselves, maimed and like the sick out of our proper excellence, continue so long, nourishing the great disease of sin in bodies that always endure and are immortal.
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Summary: Death is God’s remedy against everlasting sin.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.34.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-34-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.34.5Holl GCS 25/31:454
διὸ δὴ καλῶς καλῶς ταύτην πρὸς σωτηρίαν καὶ ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος φαρμακευτικῆς | τρόπον καθάρσεως τὸν θάνατον ὁ θεὸς ηὔρατο, ἴνα πανάμωμοι καὶ ἀσινεῖς οὔτως ἐξεργασθῶμεν.
dio dē kalōs kalōs tautēn pros sōtērian kai psychēs kai sōmatos pharmakeutikēs | tropon katharseōs ton thanaton ho theos ēurato, ina panamōmoi kai asineis outōs exergasthōmen.
Therefore God well devised this death for the salvation of both soul and body, as a kind of medicinal purification, so that we might thus be made wholly blameless and unharmed.
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Summary: Death purifies soul and body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.34.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-34-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 35
64.35.1Holl GCS 25/31:454
35. Φέρε γάρ, ἐπειδὴ πολλῶν δεῖ τῶν περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα παραδειγμά- τωι, ἐντεῦθεν αὐτὰ νάλιστα σκετώμεθα, μὴ ἀφιστάμενοι, πρὶν ἄν πρῶτον εἰς εὐδηλοτέραν ἐρμηνείαν ἀποτελευτήσῃ καὶ ἀπόδειξιν ὁ λόγος.
35. Phere gar, epeidē pollōn dei tōn peri ta toiauta paradeigma- tōi, enteuthen auta nalista sketōmetha, mē aphistamenoi, prin an prōton eis eudēloteran ermēneian apoteleutēsę̄ kai apodeixin ho logos.
Come, since many examples on such matters are needed, let us consider them from this point especially, not leaving off until the discussion has ended in a clearer explanation and proof.
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Summary: An illustration is introduced.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.35.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:454; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-35-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.35.2Holl GCS 25/31:454–455
φαίνεται τοίνυν ὡσπερεί τις δημιουργὸς ἄκρος ἄγαλμα καλὸν ἀπὸ χρυσοῦ κατεσκευασμένον ἢ ὕλης ἑτέρας αὐτῷ καὶ πάωτα τὰ μέλη συμμέτρως εἰς κάλλος διακεκοσμημένον πάλιν χωνεύοι, λελωβημένον ἄφνω θεασάμενος 1)710 τινος ἀνθρώπου πονηροτάτου, ὂς οὐκ ἐνεγκὼν ὐτὸ βασκανίας | εὐπρε- P550 Tzkc, εῖναι τὸ ἄγαλμα ἐσίνατο, ματαίαν ἡδονὴν καρπιζόμενος τοῦ φθόνου. πρόσσσχες γάρ, ὦ σοφώτατε ’Αγλαοξῶν, ὅτι, εἰ βούλοιτο μὴ μὴ εῖναι μένον ὅλως ὁ δημιουργὸς καὶ ψεκτὸν τὸ μετὰ τοσαύτης αὐτῷ δπουδῆς τε καὶ φροντίδος πεπονημένον, πάλιν προτραπήσεται συγχωνεήσας αὐτὸ τοιοῦτο ποιεῖν οἶον καὶ πρόσθεν ἦν.
phainetai toinyn hōsperei tis dēmiourgos akros agalma kalon apo chrysou kateskeuasmenon ē hylēs heteras autǭ kai paōta ta melē symmetrōs eis kallos diakekosmēmenon palin chōneuoi, lelōbēmenon aphnō theasamenos 1)710 tinos anthrōpou ponērotatou, os ouk enenkōn yto baskanias | eupre- P550 Tzkc, einai to agalma esinato, mataian hēdonēn karpizomenos tou phthonou. prosssches gar, ō sophōtate ’Aglaoxōn, hoti, ei bouloito mē mē einai menon holōs ho dēmiourgos kai psekton to meta tosautēs autǭ dpoudēs te kai phrontidos peponēmenon, palin protrapēsetai synchōneēsas auto toiouto poiein oion kai prosthen ēn.
It seems, then, as if a master craftsman were to melt down again a beautiful statue he had made of gold or other material, with all its members harmoniously arranged for beauty, on suddenly seeing it maimed by some most wicked man who, out of envy, could not bear the statue to be beautiful and damaged it, reaping the vain pleasure of his envy. For note, most wise Aglaophon, that if the craftsman wishes what he has labored on with such zeal and care not to remain altogether blemished and faulty, he will be moved to melt it down and make it such as it was before.
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Summary: A craftsman recasts a damaged statue.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. Stray page references in the digital text are ignored. There is no 64.35.3 in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.35.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:454–455; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-35-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.35.4Holl GCS 25/31:455
εἰ Τε μὴ ἀναχωνεύοι μηδὲ ἀνασκευάζοι, ἐῴη δὲ οὔτως μένειν, <μόνον> θεραπεύων αὐτὸ καὶ ἐπανοπθούμενος, δὴ πυρακτούμενον καὶ χαλκευόμενον τὸ ἄγαλμα μηκέτι δύνασθαι διατηρη- θῆναι τὸ αὐτὸν, ἀλλὰ διηλλαγμένον ἔσεσθαι καὶ ὑπεσπασμένον.
ei Te mē anachōneuoi mēde anaskeuazoi, eǭē de outōs menein, <monon> therapeuōn auto kai epanopthoumenos, dē pyraktoumenon kai chalkeuomenon to agalma mēketi dynasthai diatērē- thēnai to auton, alla diēllagmenon esesthai kai hypespasmenon.
And if he did not recast or rework it, but let it stay so, only treating and repairing it, the statue, being heated and hammered, could no longer be kept the same, but would be altered and diminished.
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Summary: Mere repair would spoil the statue.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.35.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:455; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-35-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.35.5Holl GCS 25/31:455
διὰ τοῦτο εἰ βούλοιτο ὄλον καλὸν αὐτὸ καὶ ἄμωμον εἶναι τὸ ἔργον, ἀναθλᾶθαι αὐτὸ καὶ ἀναχωνεύεσθαι δεῖ, ὄπως τὰ μὲν αἴσχη καὶ τὰ ἀλλοιώματα πάντα τὰ ἐξ ἐξπιβουλῆς αὐτῷ καὶ φθόνου ὑπάρξαντα αὐτὰ μὲν διὰ τῆς ἀνασκυῆς καὶ ἀναχωνεύσεως ἀπόληται, τὸ δὲ εἰς τὸ ἑαυτοῦ εἶδος ἀσινὲς καὶ ἀκίβδη λον αὖθις ἄγαλμα ὁμοιότατον ἑαυτῷ κατασταθῇ.
dia touto ei bouloito olon kalon auto kai amōmon einai to ergon, anathlathai auto kai anachōneuesthai dei, opōs ta men aischē kai ta alloiōmata panta ta ex expiboulēs autǭ kai phthonou hyparxanta auta men dia tēs anaskyēs kai anachōneuseōs apolētai, to de eis to heautou eidos asines kai akibdē lon authis agalma homoiotaton heautǭ katastathę̄.
Therefore, if he wants his work to be wholly beautiful and flawless, it must be broken up and recast, so that all the disfigurements and alterations that came upon it from plotting and envy may perish through the reworking and recasting, and the statue be restored to its own form, undamaged and genuine, most like itself.
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Summary: Recasting removes all damage.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.35.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:455; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-35-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.35.6Holl GCS 25/31:455–456
τῷ μὲν γὰρ ἁγάλματι ἀπολέσθαι οὐκ ἔστιν ὑπὸ τῷ αὐτῷ τεχνίτῃ ὅντι, κἂν πάλιν εὶς ὕλην λυθῇ, ἀποκατασταθῦναι δὲ ἔστι· τοῖς δὲ αἴσχεσι καὶ λωβήμασιν ἀπολέσθαι μὲ ἔστιν τήκονται γάρ), ἀποκατασταθῦναι δὲ οὐκ ἔστι, διὰ τὸ ἐν πάσῃ τέχνῃ τὸν ἄριστον δημιουργὸν μὴ πρὸς τὸ αἴσχιον ἢ ἐπιτευχθησόμενον ὁρᾶν, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὸ σύμμετρον καὶ εὐρὲς τοῦ δημιουργουμένου.
tǭ men gar hagalmati apolesthai ouk estin hypo tǭ autǭ technitę̄ honti, kan palin eis hylēn lythę̄, apokatastathynai de esti; tois de aischesi kai lōbēmasin apolesthai me estin tēkontai gar), apokatastathynai de ouk esti, dia to en pasę̄ technę̄ ton ariston dēmiourgon mē pros to aischion ē epiteuchthēsomenon horan, alla pros to symmetron kai eures tou dēmiourgoumenou.
For the statue cannot perish while under the same craftsman, even if it is dissolved again into matter, but it can be restored; but the disfigurements and damages can perish (for they melt away), but cannot be restored, because in every art the best craftsman looks not to what is uglier or to what will merely succeed, but to the symmetry and fitness of what is made.
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Summary: The statue is restored; the damage is lost.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.35.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:455–456; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-35-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.35.7Holl GCS 25/31:456
ταὐτὸν γὰρ φαίνεται δή μοι καὶ ἐφ· ἡμῶν ὁ θεὸς διῳκονομηκέναι. τὸν γὰρ ἄσνθρωπον, τὸ εὐπρεπέστατον ἑαυτοῦ τέχνημαι, βασκάνοις ἑπιβουλαῖς φθόνου κεκακωμένον ἰδὼν οὐκ ἠνέσχετο τοιοῦτον καταλεῖψαι φιλάνθρωπος ὤν, — ὅπως μὴ διʼ αἰῶνος εἴη μεμωμημένος, ἀθάνατον ἔχων ἐν ἑαυτῷ τὸν ψίγον, ἀλλὰ διέλυσεν εἰς ὔλην πάλιν, ἵνα διὰ τῆς ἀναπλάσεως ἐκτκῶαι καὶ ἐξαρφανισθῶσι πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ μωμήματα.
tauton gar phainetai dē moi kai eph; hēmōn ho theos diǭkonomēkenai. ton gar asnthrōpon, to euprepestaton heautou technēmai, baskanois hepiboulais phthonou kekakōmenon idōn ouk ēnescheto toiouton kataleipsai philanthrōpos ōn, — hopōs mē diʼ aiōnos eiē memōmēmenos, athanaton echōn en heautǭ ton psigon, alla dielysen eis ylēn palin, hina dia tēs anaplaseōs ektkōai kai exarphanisthōsi panta ta en autǭ mōmēmata.
God seems to me to have arranged the same in our case. For seeing man, his most beautiful work, harmed by the envious plots of envy, he could not bear, in his love for mankind, to leave him so — so that he might not be blemished for ever, having the fault immortal in himself — but dissolved him again into matter, so that through the remolding all the blemishes in him might melt away and vanish.
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Summary: God dissolves man to remold him without blemish.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.35.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:456; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-35-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.35.8Holl GCS 25/31:456
τὸ γὰρ ἐκεῖ ἀναχωνευθῆ- ναι τὸν ἀνδριάντα, τοῦτο ἐνταῆθα τὸ ἀποθανεῖν καὶ διαλθῆναι τὸ σῶμα, τὸ δὲ ἐκεῖ ἀναμορφοποιηθῆναι τὴν ὔλην ἢ ἀνακοσμηθῆναι, τοῦτο ἐν- ταῦθα τὸ ἀναστῆναι,
to gar ekei anachōneuthē- nai ton andrianta, touto entaētha to apothanein kai dialthēnai to sōma, to de ekei anamorphopoiēthēnai tēn ylēn ē anakosmēthēnai, touto en- tautha to anastēnai,
For what the recasting of the statue is there, the dying and dissolution of the body is here; and what the reshaping or readorning of the material is there, the rising is here,
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Summary: Death is recasting; resurrection is reshaping.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.35.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:456; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-35-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.35.9Holl GCS 25/31:456
ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ προφήτης ’Ιερεμίας τούτοις γὰρ] ἤδη καὶ αὐτὸς ὦδε τὰ αὐτὰ παρεγγυᾷ »καὶ κατίβην« λέγων· εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ κεραμέως, καὶ ἰδού, αὐτὸς ἐποίει ἔργον ἐπὶ τῶν λίθων· καὶ διέπεσε τὸ ἀγγεῖον ὃ αὐτὸς ἐποίει ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν αὐτοῦ καὶ πάλιν ἐποίησεν αὐτὸ ἀγγεῖον ἕτερον, καθὼς ἤρεσεν ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ποιῆσαι. καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος κυπίου Ι πρός με λέγων· εἰ καθὼς ὁ κεραμεὺς οὖτος οὐ δυνήσομαι P551 τοῦτο ποιῆσαι ὁμᾶς, οῖκος τοῦ ’Ισραήλ; ἰδού, ὡς ὁ πηλὸς τοῦ κεραμέως umeis este en tais xersi mou«.
hōsper kai ho prophētēs ’Ieremias toutois gar] ēdē kai autos ōde ta auta parengyą »kai katibēn« legōn; eis ton oikon tou kerameōs, kai idou, autos epoiei ergon epi tōn lithōn; kai diepese to angeion ho autos epoiei en tais chersin autou kai palin epoiēsen auto angeion heteron, kathōs ēresen enōpion autou poiēsai. kai egeneto logos kypiou I pros me legōn; ei kathōs ho kerameus outos ou dynēsomai P551 touto poiēsai homas, oikos tou ’Israēl? idou, hōs ho pēlos tou kerameōs umeis este en tais xersi mou«.
as the prophet Jeremiah too already urges the same, saying, “And I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making a work on the stones; and the vessel he was making fell in his hands, and he made it again into another vessel, as it pleased him to make it. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Can I not do to you as this potter, house of Israel? Behold, as the clay of the potter, you are in my hands.”
Jer 18:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 18:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 18:5 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 18:6 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Jeremiah’s potter illustrates the resurrection.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The last words are written in Latin letters in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.35.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:456; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-35-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 36
64.36.1Holl GCS 25/31:456–457
36. Πρόσσχες γὰρ ὅπως, ὡς ἔφην, μετὰ τὸ παραβῆναι τὸν ἀνθρωπον ἡ μεγάλη χεὶρ εἰς νῖκος καταλεῖψαι τὸ ἑαυτῆς ἔργον οὑκ ηὐδόκησεν ὡς κίβδηλον τῷ πονηρῷ ἀδίκως αὐτὸ λυμηναμένῳ βασκάνοις αἰτίαις, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὸ ἀφανισθῆναι μὲν διὰ τῆς ἀναπλάσεως πάντα ἐν ἐν αὐτῷ αἴσχη καὶ θλάσματα, γενηθῆναι δὲ τὸ πᾶν ἄνωθεν ἀμέμπτως ἀρεστόν.
36. Prossches gar hopōs, hōs ephēn, meta to parabēnai ton anthrōpon hē megalē cheir eis nikos kataleipsai to heautēs ergon houk ēudokēsen hōs kibdēlon tǭ ponērǭ adikōs auto lymēnamenǭ baskanois aitiais, alla pros to aphanisthēnai men dia tēs anaplaseōs panta en en autǭ aischē kai thlasmata, genēthēnai de to pan anōthen amemptōs areston.
For note how, as I said, after man transgressed, the great Hand was not pleased to leave its own work to be defeated, as a counterfeit, by the evil one who had wrongly damaged it for envious reasons, but so that through the remolding all the disfigurements and bruises in it might be removed, and the whole become blamelessly pleasing afresh.
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Summary: God’s hand remolds its damaged work.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.36.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:456–457; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-36-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.36.2Holl GCS 25/31:457
»ἢ οὐκ ἔχει ἐξουσίαν ὁ κεραμεὺς τοῦ πηλοῦ ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ φυράματος ποιῆσαι σκεῦος, ὃ μὲν εἰς τιμὴν ὂ δὲ εἰς ἀτιμίαν«; 6 δή ἐστι (τοῦτο γὰρ πασιν ὁ ἀπόστολός μοι δηλοῦν φαίνεται)· μή μή τι ἐξουσίαν οὐκ ἔχει ὁ θεὸς ἀπὸ τῆς ὔλης ἑκάστου τῆς αὐτῆς ἀναπλάσας καὶ ἀνακοσμήσας ἰδίως ἔκα στον ἢ εἰς τιμὴν ἡμῶν ἀνκστῆσαι καὶ δόξαν ἢ εἰς ἀτιμίαν καὶ κατάκρισιν; εἰς ἀτιμίαν μὲν τῶν ἐν ἁμαρτίαις φαύλως βιωσάντων, εἰς τιμὴν τιμὴν τῶι ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ.
»ē ouk echei exousian ho kerameus tou pēlou ek tou autou phyramatos poiēsai skeuos, ho men eis timēn o de eis atimian«? 6 dē esti (touto gar pasin ho apostolos moi dēloun phainetai); mē mē ti exousian ouk echei ho theos apo tēs ylēs hekastou tēs autēs anaplasas kai anakosmēsas idiōs eka ston ē eis timēn hēmōn ankstēsai kai doxan ē eis atimian kai katakrisin? eis atimian men tōn en hamartiais phaulōs biōsantōn, eis timēn timēn tōi en dikaiosynę̄.
“Or has the potter no authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?” Which is (for this the apostle seems to me to show plainly): has God not authority, remolding and readorning each from the same matter, to raise us each individually either to honor and glory, or to dishonor and condemnation? To dishonor those who have lived wickedly in sins, to honor those who have lived in righteousness.
Rom 9:21 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Rom 9:21 is read of the resurrection to honor or dishonor.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.36.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:457; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-36-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.36.3Holl GCS 25/31:457
καθάπερ ἐδηλώθη καὶ τῷ Δανιήλ »καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν καθευ- δόντων ἐν γῆς χώματι« λέγοντι »ἐξεγερθήσονται, οὖτοι εἰς ζωὴν αὶώνιον καὶ οὖτοι εἰς ὀνειδισμὸν καὶ αἰσχύνην αἰώνιον, καὶ οἱ συνιέντες εκγάμψουσιν ὡς ἡ λαμπρότης τοῦ στερεώματος«.
kathaper edēlōthē kai tǭ Daniēl »kai polloi tōn katheu- dontōn en gēs chōmati« legonti »exegerthēsontai, outoi eis zōēn aiōnion kai outoi eis oneidismon kai aischynēn aiōnion, kai hoi synientes ekgampsousin hōs hē lamprotēs tou stereōmatos«.
As was revealed to Daniel too, saying, “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, these to eternal life and these to reproach and eternal shame, and those who understand shall shine like the brightness of the firmament.”
Dan 12:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Dan 12:3 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Daniel foretells the resurrection of all.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.36.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:457; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-36-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.36.4Holl GCS 25/31:457
ἐφʼ ἡμῖν γὰρ οὐ τὸ ἀφανέσαι τὴν ῥίζαν τελείως τῆς πονηρίας, ἀλλὰ τὸ μὴ πρὸς ἔκτασιν αὐτὴν ἐᾶσα φῦναι καὶ καρποφορεῖν. ἡ μὲν γὰρ καθόλου καὶ καὶ παντελικὴ αὐταῖς αὐτῆς ἀναίρεσίς τε καὶ ἀπώλεια ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ τὴν τοῦ σώματος ὡς εἴρηται διάλυσιν γίγνεται, ἡ δὲ ἐκ μέρους πρὸς τὸ μὴ οῖσαι βλαστὸν ὑφʼ ἡμῶν.
ephʼ hēmin gar ou to aphanesai tēn rhizan teleiōs tēs ponērias, alla to mē pros ektasin autēn easa phynai kai karpophorein. hē men gar katholou kai kai pantelikē autais autēs anairesis te kai apōleia hypo tou theou kata tēn tou sōmatos hōs eirētai dialysin gignetai, hē de ek merous pros to mē oisai blaston hyphʼ hēmōn.
For it is in our power not to destroy the root of wickedness completely, but not to let it grow to its full extent and bear fruit. For its general and complete removal and destruction is done by God at the dissolution of the body, as was said; the partial, so that it bears no shoot, by us.
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Summary: We restrain sin; God uproots it at death.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology, Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.36.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:457; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-36-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.36.5Holl GCS 25/31:457–458
καὶ διὰ τοῦτο τὸν ἐκθρέψαντα πρὸς αὔξησιν αὐτὴν μᾶλλον καὶ μέγεθος, ἀλλὰ μὴ στειρώσαντα τὸ ὅσον ἐπʼ αὐτῷ καὶ συμπισήσαντα ἀνάγκη διδόναι δίκην, ὄτι δυνάμενος· καὶ ἔχων πρὸς τοῦτο τὴν ἐξουσίαν εἴλατο τὸ βλάπτον πρὸ τοῦ συμφέροντος μᾶλλον τιμῆσαι.
kai dia touto ton ekthrepsanta pros auxēsin autēn mallon kai megethos, alla mē steirōsanta to hoson epʼ autǭ kai sympisēsanta anankē didonai dikēn, oti dynamenos; kai echōn pros touto tēn exousian eilato to blapton pro tou sympherontos mallon timēsai.
And for this reason one who has nurtured it to growth and size, rather than made it barren as far as he could and stunted it, must pay the penalty, because, being able and having the power to do so, he chose to honor the harmful before the beneficial.
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Summary: Those who nurture sin are justly punished.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.36.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:457–458; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-36-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 37
64.37.1Holl GCS 25/31:458
37. Ὥστε μηδείς, αὐτός αἴτιος ὤν, ἀκολάστῳ γλώσσῃ μεμφέσθω τὴν θείαν φύσιν, ὡς οὐκ ἐν δίκῃ διανέμουσαν ἑκάστῳ κακίας ἢ ἀρετῆς τὰ ἀμοιβαῖα. »τίς γὰρ εἶ, ὦ ἄνθρωπε, ὁ ἀνταποκρινόμενος τῷ θεῷ; μὴ ἐρεῖ τὸ πλάσμα τῷ πλάσαντι, τί με ἐποίησας οὕτως«; πῶς γάρ; γάρ;
37. Hōste mēdeis, autos aitios ōn, akolastǭ glōssę̄ memphesthō tēn theian physin, hōs ouk en dikę̄ dianemousan hekastǭ kakias ē aretēs ta amoibaia. »tis gar ei, ō anthrōpe, ho antapokrinomenos tǭ theǭ? mē erei to plasma tǭ plasanti, ti me epoiēsas houtōs«? pōs gar? gar?
So let no one, being himself the cause, blame the divine nature with unbridled tongue, as not distributing justly to each the rewards of wickedness or virtue. “For who are you, O man, who answer back to God? Will what is molded say to the molder, Why have you made me thus?” How indeed?
Rom 9:20 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: No one may blame God for just judgment.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.37.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:458; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-37-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.37.2Holl GCS 25/31:458
αὐτοδεσπότῳ βουλῇ κακίαν εἵλατο. διὸ καὶ οὐ λέξει <ἐν> δόγμασιν ἀπαραλλάκτοις κρίνοντι τῷ θεῷ, τί με ἐποίησας οὕτως κατα κριθέντα εἰς τὸ ἀλγύνεσθαι;;
autodespotǭ boulę̄ kakian heilato. dio kai ou lexei <en> dogmasin aparallaktois krinonti tǭ theǭ, ti me epoiēsas houtōs kata krithenta eis to algynesthai??
He chose wickedness by his own sovereign will. Therefore he will not say to God, who judges by unchanging decrees, “Why have you made me thus, condemned to suffer pain?”
Notes and citation
Summary: The sinner chose evil freely.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.37.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:458; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-37-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.37.3Holl GCS 25/31:458
πρόσσχες γὰρ ὄπως ὤσπερ ἀκοντιστὴς ὁ ἀπόστολος δεινῶς συνεστραμμένα ῥήματα τῶν λόγων εἰς μέσον ἐμβαλὼν ἀσαφῆ μὲν καὶ ἐπικεκαλυμμένην ποιεῖται εἰς βάθος τῶν ἀναγνωσμάτων τὴν ἐξεργασίαν, ἀληθεστάτην δὲ καὶ ὀρθόδοξον καὶ μηδὲν ἔχουσαν ἀπημελημένον ἢ δύσφημον.
prossches gar opōs ōsper akontistēs ho apostolos deinōs synestrammena rhēmata tōn logōn eis meson embalōn asaphē men kai epikekalymmenēn poieitai eis bathos tōn anagnōsmatōn tēn exergasian, alēthestatēn de kai orthodoxon kai mēden echousan apēmelēmenon ē dysphēmon.
For note how the apostle, like a javelin-thrower, casting into the midst words tightly compressed, makes the working out of the readings obscure and veiled in depth, but most true and orthodox, and having nothing neglected or ill-sounding.
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Summary: Paul’s compressed words are deep but orthodox.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.37.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:458; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-37-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.37.4Holl GCS 25/31:458
τοῖς μὲν γὰρ μὴ μετὰ σπουδῆς, ἀλλὰ ἀγεννῶς ἐγκύπτουσι τοῖς λόγοις ἀσυνάτρητα ἔσθʼ ὅτε καὶ ἀσύμφωνα λέγειν, τοῖς δʼ αὖ σπουδαίνως καὶ λογισμῷ νήφοντι ὁπόσης τάξεως ἔμπλεα καὶ ἀληθείας.
tois men gar mē meta spoudēs, alla agennōs enkyptousi tois logois asynatrēta esthʼ hote kai asymphōna legein, tois dʼ au spoudainōs kai logismǭ nēphonti hoposēs taxeōs emplea kai alētheias.
For to those who pore over the words not with zeal but ignobly, he sometimes seems to say things disconnected and discordant; but to those who do so zealously and with sober reasoning, how full of order and truth they are!
Notes and citation
Summary: Careful readers find Paul consistent.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.37.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:458; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-37-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.37.5Holl GCS 25/31:458
Διʼ ἀκπτβείας μὲν οὖν περὶ τούτων διεξείναι τὰ νῦν ἱκανὸν ἄν γένοιτο αὐτὸ καθʼ ἑαυτὸ μόνον ἔργον. καὶ γὰρ γελοῖον καταλείψαντάς σου τὴν σκέψιν, ἦς ἔνεκα ταύτην ἐστειλάμεθα, εἰς ἄλλα μετιίναι.
Diʼ akptbeias men oun peri toutōn diexeinai ta nyn hikanon an genoito auto kathʼ heauto monon ergon. kai gar geloion kataleipsantas sou tēn skepsin, ēs eneka tautēn esteilametha, eis alla metiinai.
To go through these matters precisely now would be a sufficient task by itself alone. And it would be ridiculous to leave the inquiry concerning you, for which we undertook this, and go on to other things.
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Summary: Methodius returns to the main question.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.37.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:458; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-37-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.37.6Holl GCS 25/31:458–459
ταῦτα γὰρ ἡμῖν εἴρηται διὰ τὴν ἐθελοκακούντων τιμωρὸν τιμωρὸν δίκην. ἀποδειχθέντος τοίνυν ἐνδηλότατα τὸν θάνατον τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ μεμηχανῆσθαι μὴ ἐπὶ κακῷ τινι ἀλλὰ *, χρὴ λοιπὸν τὸν μὴ φαύλως τούτοις ἐγκύπτοντα περὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως νοεῖν τοῦ σώματος.
tauta gar hēmin eirētai dia tēn ethelokakountōn timōron timōron dikēn. apodeichthentos toinyn endēlotata ton thanaton tǭ anthrōpǭ memēchanēsthai mē epi kakǭ tini alla *, chrē loipon ton mē phaulōs toutois enkyptonta peri tēs anastaseōs noein tou sōmatos.
For we have said these things because of the punitive justice on those who do evil willingly. Since, then, it has been shown most clearly that death was devised for man not for any evil but …, one who does not pore over these things carelessly must now think about the resurrection of the body.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: Death serves good; now the resurrection is considered.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The edition marks a gap (*).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.37.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:458–459; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-37-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.37.7Holl GCS 25/31:459
πῶς γὰρ οὐκ ὠφέλιμος ὁ θάνατος, διαφθείρων ἡμῶν τὰ ληΐζοντα τὴν φύσιν; εἰ καὶ παρὰ τὸν καιρὸν ἐπαχθής, καθʼ ὃν προσφέρεται, <εἶναι> δοκεῖ καθάπερ αὐδτηρότατον τοῷ νοσοῦντι φάρμακον.
pōs gar ouk ōphelimos ho thanatos, diaphtheirōn hēmōn ta lēïzonta tēn physin? ei kai para ton kairon epachthēs, kathʼ hon prospheretai, <einai> dokei kathaper audtērotaton toǭ nosounti pharmakon.
For how is death not beneficial, destroying what plunders our nature? Even if at the time it is applied it seems burdensome, like a very harsh medicine to one who is ill.
Notes and citation
Summary: Death is a bitter but helpful medicine.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.37.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:459; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-37-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.37.8Holl GCS 25/31:459
καὶ ἵνα μὴ πολλάκις τὰ αὐτὰ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν διαλεγώμεθα, φέρε καὶ ἀπὸ ἀπὸ τῆς ᾠδῆς ἔτι τοῦ Δευτερονομίου βεβαιώσαντες τὸν λόγον ἴωμεν τὰ ἑξῆς δια ληψόμενοι.
kai hina mē pollakis ta auta peri tōn autōn dialegōmetha, phere kai apo apo tēs ǭdēs eti tou Deuteronomiou bebaiōsantes ton logon iōmen ta hexēs dia lēpsomenoi.
And so that we may not discuss the same things often about the same matters, come, let us confirm the argument from the song in Deuteronomy as well, and go on to treat what follows.
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Summary: The Song of Moses will confirm the argument.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.37.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:459; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-37-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 38
64.38.1Holl GCS 25/31:459
38. Τὸ γάρ »ἐγὼ ἀποκτενῶ καὶ ζῆν ποιήσω, πατάξω κἀγὼ ἰάγὼ ἐάσο- μαι, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς ἐξελεῖται ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν μου« λεγόμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ τί ἄλλο διδάσκειν βούλεται ἢ ὅτι διὰ τοῦτο τὸ σῶμα πρῶτον ἀπο- κτέννυται καὶ θνῄσκει, ἴνα αὖθις ἀνασταθῇ καὶ ζήσῃ;
38. To gar »egō apoktenō kai zēn poiēsō, pataxō kagō iagō easo- mai, kai ouk estin hos exeleitai ek tōn cheirōn mou« legomenon hypo tou theou ti allo didaskein bouletai ē hoti dia touto to sōma prōton apo- ktennytai kai thnę̄skei, ina authis anastathę̄ kai zēsę̄?
For what else does the saying of God, “I will kill and I will make alive; I will strike and I will heal, and there is none who will deliver from my hands,” mean to teach than that the body is first killed and dies for this purpose, that it may be raised again and live?
Deut 32:39 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Deut 32:39 teaches death and resurrection.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.38.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:459; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-38-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.38.2Holl GCS 25/31:459
πατάσσεται πρῶτον καὶ θραύεται, ἴνα σῷον αῦθις πλασθῇ καὶ ὑγιές.
patassetai prōton kai thrauetai, ina sǭon authis plasthę̄ kai hygies.
It is first struck and broken, so that it may be molded again whole and sound.
Notes and citation
Summary: The body is broken to be remade whole.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.38.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:459; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-38-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.38.3Holl GCS 25/31:459
καὶ οὐδὲν ἐξελέσθαι ὅλως τὸ σύνολον τῆς μεγάλης καὶ κραταιᾶς αὐτοῦ κειρὸς πρὸς ἀπώλειαν καὶ ὄλεθρον σθένει, οὐ πῦρ, οὐ δάνατος, οὐ σκότος, οὐ χάος, χάος, οὐ φθορά.
kai ouden exelesthai holōs to synolon tēs megalēs kai krataias autou keiros pros apōleian kai olethron sthenei, ou pyr, ou danatos, ou skotos, ou chaos, chaos, ou phthora.
And nothing at all has strength to deliver from his great and mighty hand to destruction and ruin: not fire, not death, not darkness, not chaos, not corruption.
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Summary: Nothing can snatch us from God’s hand to destruction.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.38.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:459; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-38-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.38.4Holl GCS 25/31:459
»τίς γὰρ ἡμᾶς« φησίν »χωρίσει ἀπὸ τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ Χριστοῦ« Ι (ὃς ἐρμηνεύε- ται χεὶρ τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ λόγος), »θλίψις ἢ στενοχωρία ἢ διωγμὸς ἢ λι μὸς ἢ γυμνότης ἢ κίνδυνος ἢ μάχαιρα; καθὼς γέγραπται· ἕνεκεν σοῦ θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς· ἀλλʼ ἐν τούτοις πᾶσιν ὑπερνικῶμεν διὰ τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς«.
»tis gar hēmas« phēsin »chōrisei apo tēs agapēs tou Christou« I (hos ermēneue- tai cheir tou patros kai logos), »thlipsis ē stenochōria ē diōgmos ē li mos ē gymnotēs ē kindynos ē machaira? kathōs gegraptai; heneken sou thanatoumetha holēn tēn hēmeran, elogisthēmen hōs probata sphagēs; allʼ en toutois pasin hypernikōmen dia tou agapēsantos hēmas«.
“For who,” he says, “will separate us from the love of Christ” (who is interpreted as the hand and Word of the Father), “tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? As it is written: For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we were counted as sheep for slaughter. But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”
Rom 8:35 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:36 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:37 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 44:22 (43:23 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Nothing separates us from Christ’s love.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.38.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:459; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-38-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.38.5Holl GCS 25/31:459
ἀληθέστατα· ἵνα πληρωθῇ, καθὼς ἔφην, τό »ἐγὼ ἀποκτενῶ καὶ ζῆν ποιήσω, πατάξω κἀγὼ ἐάσομαι, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς ἐξελεῖται« »ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ θεοῦ τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ« πρὸς ἀπώλειαν. διὸ καὶ »ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς«, ἵνα »ἀποθανόντες τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ ζήσωμεν τῷ θεῷ«.
alēthestata; hina plērōthę̄, kathōs ephēn, to »egō apoktenō kai zēn poiēsō, pataxō kagō easomai, kai ouk estin hos exeleitai« »hēmas apo tēs agapēs tou theou tēs en Christǭ« pros apōleian. dio kai »elogisthēmen hōs probata sphagēs«, hina »apothanontes tę̄ hamartią zēsōmen tǭ theǭ«.
Most truly; so that, as I said, “I will kill and I will make alive; I will strike and I will heal, and there is none who will deliver” “us from the love of God which is in Christ” to destruction may be fulfilled. Therefore too “we were counted as sheep for slaughter,” so that “having died to sin we may live to God.”
Deut 32:39 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:39 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:36 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 6:11 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Pet 2:24 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: We die to sin to live to God.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.38.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:459; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-38-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.38.6Holl GCS 25/31:459–460
καὶ ταῦτα μὲν μέχρι τοσούτου | διεσκέφθω· τὰ δὲ συνεχῆ τούτοις ὦδε πάλιν προχει- D633 ριστεον.
kai tauta men mechri tosoutou | dieskephthō; ta de synechē toutois ōde palin prochei- D633 risteon.
Let these things be considered thus far; what follows must now be taken in hand.
Notes and citation
Summary: Transition.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. A stray page reference is ignored.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.38.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:459–460; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-27-1/#p-64-38-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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