Panarion (Medicine Chest Against Heresies), Haer. 1-64 64.58.1–64.65.28
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 58
64.58.1Holl GCS 25/31:491–492
58. Εἰ δέ τις όμόσε τῷ λόγῳ ἱέναι τολμῶν ἀπορίνοιτο ὡς ἄρα διδάσκει ό ἀπόστολος ὡς οὐ μόνον ἐν τῷ λογίζεσθαι τὸ κακὸν ὃ μισοῦμεν καὶ ὅ οὐ θέλομεν πράσσομεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν τῷ ποιεῖν αὐτὸ καὶ κατεργάζεσθαι, διὰ τό »οὐ γὰρ ὃ θέλω ποιῶ« λελέχθαι »ἀγαθόν,
58. Ei de tis omose tǭ logǭ hienai tolmōn aporinoito hōs ara didaskei o apostolos hōs ou monon en tǭ logizesthai to kakon ho misoumen kai ho ou thelomen prassomen, alla kai en tǭ poiein auto kai katergazesthai, dia to »ou gar ho thelō poiō« lelechthai »agathon,
But if anyone, daring to come to grips with the argument, should answer that the apostle teaches that we do the evil we hate and do not wish not only in thinking but also in doing and performing it, because it is said, “For I do not do the good I wish,
Rom 7:19 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: An objection: Paul means evil deeds too.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:19.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.58.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:491–492; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-58-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.58.2Holl GCS 25/31:492
ἀλλʼ ὃ οὐ θέλω κακόν, τοῦτο πράσσω«, ἀξιώσομέν που, εἰ ἀληθῆ λέγει ὁ ταῦτα λέγων, διασαφῆσαι τί ἦν τὸ κακόν, ὃ ἐμίσει ὁ ἀπόστολος καὶ ὂ οὺκ ἐβούλετο μὲν ποιεῖν. ἐποίει δέ, καὶ #x003E; ἀγαθόν, ὃ ἐβούλετο μὲν ποιεῖν, οὐκ ἐποίει γε, ἀλλὰ ἀντιστρόφως όσάκις μὲν ἤθελε ποιῆσαι τὸ ἀγαθόν, τοσαυτάκις οὐ τὸ ἀγαθὸν ὂ ἤθελεν, Μὰ τὸ πονηρὸν ὃ μὴ ἤθελεν ἐποίει.
allʼ ho ou thelō kakon, touto prassō«, axiōsomen pou, ei alēthē legei ho tauta legōn, diasaphēsai ti ēn to kakon, ho emisei ho apostolos kai o ouk ebouleto men poiein. epoiei de, kai #x003E? agathon, ho ebouleto men poiein, ouk epoiei ge, alla antistrophōs osakis men ēthele poiēsai to agathon, tosautakis ou to agathon o ēthelen, Ma to ponēron ho mē ēthelen epoiei.
but the evil I do not wish, that I do,” we will ask, if the one who says this speaks truly, that he explain what the evil was that the apostle hated and did not wish to do, yet did, and the good that he wished to do, yet did not do; but conversely, as often as he wished to do the good, so often he did not the good he wished but the wicked thing he did not wish.
Rom 7:19 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Methodius asks what evil deeds Paul did.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:19. The digital text has a stray character code (#x003E;).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.58.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:492; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-58-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.58.3Holl GCS 25/31:492
ἄρα γὰρ οὐ θέλεων εἰδωλολατρεῖν ἀλλὰ θεολαττεῖν, ὃ μὲν ἤθελε θεολατρεῖν οὖκ ἠδύνατο, ὂ δὲ μὴ ἤθελεν εἰδωλολατρεῖν ἠδύνατο, ἢ σωφρονεῖν μὲν ὂ ἤθελεν οὐκ ἐποίει, ἀκολασταίνειν δὲ ὃ ἤχθετο ἐποίει;
ara gar ou theleōn eidōlolatrein alla theolattein, ho men ēthele theolatrein ouk ēdynato, o de mē ēthelen eidōlolatrein ēdynato, ē sōphronein men o ēthelen ouk epoiei, akolastainein de ho ēchtheto epoiei?
Was it that, not wishing to worship idols but to worship God, he could not worship God as he wished, but could worship idols, which he did not wish? Or that he did not practise self-control, which he wished, but did practise licentiousness, which he loathed?
Notes and citation
Summary: Did Paul commit idolatry or licentiousness?
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.58.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:492; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-58-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.58.4Holl GCS 25/31:492
καὶ συλλάηδην κραιπαλᾶν, ἀλλὰ ἀσωτεύεσθαι καὶ θυμοῦσθαι, ἀδικεῖν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ὅσα πονηρίας ἔργα, ἂ μὴ ἤθελε μὲν ἐπο΄λιει, ὂ δὲ ἤθελε, δικαιοσύνην καὶ οσιότητα, οὐκ ἐποίει;
kai syllaēdēn kraipalan, alla asōteuesthai kai thymousthai, adikein kai ta alla hosa ponērias erga, a mē ēthele men epo΄liei, o de ēthele, dikaiosynēn kai osiotēta, ouk epoiei?
And, in short, that he got drunk, lived dissolutely, raged, did wrong, and all the other works of wickedness that he did not wish, but did not do what he wished, righteousness and holiness?
Notes and citation
Summary: The absurdity of making Paul a doer of evil.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. A clause seems to be missing before κραιπαλᾶν (“not wishing to”); translated by sense.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.58.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:492; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-58-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.58.5Holl GCS 25/31:492
καὶ μὴν αὐτὸς ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις προτροπάδην ἐξεγείρων πάντας τας τὸ μὴ ἀνομεῖν οὐ μόνον τοῦς ποιοπυντας καὶ ἐπιτηδεύοντας τὰ ἄτοπα ὀλέθρῳ τηρεῖσθαι καὶ ὀργῇ παρεγγυᾷ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦς συνευδοκοῦντας αὐτοῖς εἰς ταῦτα, ἀμιγὲς άμαρτίας ἐν ήμῖν τὸ δίκαιον ἀσκεῖσθαι διαμιλλώμμενος. πᾶν γὰρ ἁμάρτημα καὶ ἐπιτήδευμα τὸ συμπέρασμα κτᾶται διὰ τῆς σαρκός.
kai mēn autos en tais ekklēsiais protropadēn exegeirōn pantas tas to mē anomein ou monon tous poiopyntas kai epitēdeuontas ta atopa olethrǭ tēreisthai kai orgę̄ parengyą, alla kai tous syneudokountas autois eis tauta, amiges amartias en ēmin to dikaion askeisthai diamillōmmenos. pan gar hamartēma kai epitēdeuma to symperasma ktatai dia tēs sarkos.
Yet he himself, rousing all in the churches not to act lawlessly, warns that not only those who do and practise wrong things are kept for destruction and wrath, but also those who approve of them in these things, striving that righteousness be practised in us unmixed with sin. For every sin and practice gains its completion through the flesh.
Rom 1:32 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 2:8 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Paul warns against sin and approving of sin.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 1:32; Rom 2:8.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.58.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:492; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-58-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.58.6Holl GCS 25/31:492–493
πολλάκις τοῦν ἐν ταῖς ἐπιστολαῖς ἀναφανδὸν αὐτὰ δὴ ταῦτα διδάσκων ἠμᾶς ὑπεκτρέπεσθαι καὶ μισῖν φησί »μὴ πλανᾶσθε· οὔτε πόρνοι οὔτε εἰδωλολάτραι ο//υτε μοιχοὶ μαλακοὶ οὔτε ἀρσενοκοῖται οὔτε κλέπται οὔτε πλεονέκται οὔτε μέθυσοι οὐ λοίδοροι οὐχ ἅρπαγες βασιλείαν θεοῦ κληρονομήσουσι«·
pollakis toun en tais epistolais anaphandon auta dē tauta didaskōn ēmas hypektrepesthai kai misin phēsi »mē planasthe; oute pornoi oute eidōlolatrai o//yte moichoi malakoi oute arsenokoitai oute kleptai oute pleonektai oute methysoi ou loidoroi ouch harpages basileian theou klēronomēsousi«;
At any rate, often in his letters, openly teaching us to turn away from and hate these very things, he says, “Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immorally nor idolaters nor adulterers nor the effeminate nor men who lie with males nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor revilers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.”
1 Cor 6:9 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:10 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul’s warning against the sins excluding from the kingdom.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 6:9–10.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.58.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:492–493; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-58-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.58.7Holl GCS 25/31:493
καὶ τὸ κορυφαιότατον, εἰς τὸ πανταπασιν ἡμᾶς ἐκ παντὸς ἀποδρᾶναι καὶ ἀποτινάξασθαι τὸ ἁμαρτάνειν προοὕτως οὐ τὸ ποιεῖν ἂ μὴ ἤθελε καὶ πράττειν ὑπέθετο τὰ προειρημένα,
kai to koryphaiotaton, eis to pantapasin hēmas ek pantos apodranai kai apotinaxasthai to hamartanein prooutōs ou to poiein a mē ēthele kai prattein hypetheto ta proeirēmena,
And, most important of all, so that we might altogether and completely flee and shake off sinning, he did not mean by “doing what he did not wish” the practice of the things mentioned above,
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul did not mean committing such sins.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. προοὕτως is garbled; translated by sense.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.58.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:493; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-58-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.58.8Holl GCS 25/31:493
ἀλλὰ τὸ μόνον λογίζεσθαι· ἐπεὶ πῶς ἄν ἦν μιμητὴς ἀκριβὴς τοῦ Χριστοῦ; νυνὶ δὲ ἐπειδήπερ ἐμπίπτουςι θηριώδεις πολλάκις λογισμοί, ἐπιθυμίας ἡμᾶς ἄλλοτε ἄλλως ἐμπιπλάντες καὶ πρτιρτηίσε ἀλόγου, ἠΰτε μυιάων ἀδινάων ἔθνεα πολλά, ἔφη »τὸ γὰρ ὅ οὐ θέλω, τοῦτο ποιῶ«· ἃ χρὴ τῆς ψυχῆς εὐθαρσπως ἀποσοβεῖν, σοβεῖν, μηδὲν ὅλως εἰς τὸ ποιῆσαι τὰ ὑπʼ αὐτῶν ὑπηχούμενα νεύοντας.
alla to monon logizesthai; epei pōs an ēn mimētēs akribēs tou Christou? nyni de epeidēper empiptousi thēriōdeis pollakis logismoi, epithymias hēmas allote allōs empiplantes kai prtirtēise alogou, ēÿte muiaōn adinaōn ethnea polla, ephē »to gar ho ou thelō, touto poiō«; ha chrē tēs psychēs eutharspōs aposobein, sobein, mēden holōs eis to poiēsai ta hypʼ autōn hypēchoumena neuontas.
but only thinking them; for how else would he have been an exact imitator of Christ? But now, since beastly thoughts often fall upon us, filling us with desires and irrational … now one way and now another, “like the many tribes of thronging flies,” he said, “for what I do not wish, that I do”; these we must boldly drive away from the soul, not inclining at all to do what they whisper to us.
1 Cor 11:1 (allusion, medium confidence) · Rom 7:19 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Unwanted thoughts swarm like flies and must be driven off.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; 1 Cor 11:1; Homer, Il. 2.469; Rom 7:19. πρτιρτηίσε is garbled; σοβεῖν is repeated in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Il. 2.469 (Homer, Iliad; quotation); Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.58.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:493; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-58-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.58.9Holl GCS 25/31:493
ἵνα γὰρ εγκριθῶμεν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἐν πάσαις ἡδοναῖς καὶ λύπαις δοκιμασθέντες, εἰ μὴ μεταβαλλοίμεθα ἀλλὰ πανταχοῦ καθάπερ ἀκήρατος χρθσὸς διὰ πυρὸς βασανιζόμενος οὐκ ἐξιστάμεθα τῆς οἰκείας ἀρετῆς, συμβαίνει <τὸ> διοχλεῖσθαι τὸν νοῦν ὑπὸ πολλῶν.
hina gar enkrithōmen eis tēn basileian tōn ouranōn, en pasais hēdonais kai lypais dokimasthentes, ei mē metaballoimetha alla pantachou kathaper akēratos chrthsos dia pyros basanizomenos ouk existametha tēs oikeias aretēs, symbainei <to> diochleisthai ton noun hypo pollōn.
For so that we may be approved for the kingdom of heaven, having been tested in all pleasures and pains to see whether we change or whether everywhere, like pure gold tried by fire, we do not depart from our own virtue, it happens that the mind is troubled by many things.
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Summary: Troubling thoughts test us for the kingdom.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.58.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:493; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-58-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.58.10Holl GCS 25/31:493
ὅθεν δὴ γενναίως ὥσπερ στρατιώτας ἀρίστους ἀντιπαρατάσσεσθαι δεῖ, οἳ ἐπειδὰν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν αἴσθωνται πολιορκούμενοι, τοξείας οὐδὲν φροντίσαντες καὶ τῶν ἄλλων αὐτῶν ἀκοντισμάτων, ὑπὲρ τοῦ σῶσαι τὴν προθύμως ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἵενται, μηδὲν ἐλλείποντες σπουδῆς, ἔστʼ ἄν τὸ στιφος αὐτῶν εἰς φυγὴν ἀνατρέψαντες ἀπώσωνται τῶν ὅρων ἔξω.
hothen dē gennaiōs hōsper stratiōtas aristous antiparatassesthai dei, hoi epeidan hypo tōn echthrōn aisthōntai poliorkoumenoi, toxeias ouden phrontisantes kai tōn allōn autōn akontismatōn, hyper tou sōsai tēn prothymōs epʼ autous hientai, mēden elleipontes spoudēs, estʼ an to stiphos autōn eis phygēn anatrepsantes apōsōntai tōn horōn exō.
Hence we must stand against them nobly, like the best soldiers, who, when they perceive that they are besieged by the enemy, caring nothing for arrows and their other missiles, charge eagerly at them to save the city, sparing no effort, until they turn their close ranks to flight and drive them beyond the borders.
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Summary: Resist evil thoughts like brave soldiers.
- Methodius, On the Resurrection, quoted by Epiphanius. A noun (probably “city”) is missing after τήν; supplied by sense.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.58.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:493; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-58-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.58.11Holl GCS 25/31:493–494
ὁρᾷς γὰρ ὡς οἱ λογισμοὶ διὰ τὴν ἐνοικοῦσαν ἁμαρτίαν ἐν ἡμῖν ἔξωθεν ἐπισυνίστανται, καθαπερεὶ κύνες λυσσῶντες ἢ ἄγριοι καὶ θρασεῖς λῃσταὶ καθʼ ἡμῶν ἀεὶ παρορμώμενοι ύπὸ τοῦ τυράννου καὶ ἄρχοντος τῆς ἀδικίας, δοκιμάζοντος ἦμᾶς εἶ ἀνθίστασθαι αὐτοῖς ἀρκοῦμεν καὶ ἀντιπαρατάσσεσθαι.
horąs gar hōs hoi logismoi dia tēn enoikousan hamartian en hēmin exōthen episynistantai, kathaperei kynes lyssōntes ē agrioi kai thraseis lę̄stai kathʼ hēmōn aei parormōmenoi ypo tou tyrannou kai archontos tēs adikias, dokimazontos ēmas ei anthistasthai autois arkoumen kai antiparatassesthai.
For you see how thoughts, because of the sin dwelling in us, gather from outside like mad dogs or savage, bold robbers, ever urged on against us by the tyrant and ruler of injustice, who tests us to see whether we are able to resist them and stand against them.
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Summary: The devil sends thoughts to test us.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.58.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:493–494; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-58-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 59
64.59.1Holl GCS 25/31:494
59. Ἄγε οὖν, μή ποτε ύπενδοῦσα ἁρπασθῇς, ὦ ψυχή, πρὸς αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐχ ἔξομεν ύπὲρ σοῦ δοῦναι λύτρα. »τί γὰρ ἀντικατάλλαγμα δώσει, φησίν, ἄνθρωπος τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦς«;
59. Age oun, mē pote ypendousa harpasthę̄s, ō psychē, pros autōn, kai ouch exomen yper sou dounai lytra. »ti gar antikatallagma dōsei, phēsin, anthrōpos tēs psychēs autous«?
Come then, O soul, lest you give way and be seized by them, and we have no ransom to give for you. “For what,” he says, “will a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Matt 16:26 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The soul must not yield, for it has no ransom.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Matt 16:26.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.59.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:494; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-59-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.59.2Holl GCS 25/31:494
καλὸν μὲν οὖν, εἰ μὴ εἴχομεν, ἦν ἄν καὶ χαρμιώτατον, τοὺς ἀντιπράσσοντας ήμῖν καὶ μαχομένους· ἐπεὶ δὲ τοῦτο ἀδύνατον, καὶ ὃ θέλομεν οὐ δυνάμεθα θέλομεν δὲ μὴ ἔχειν τους ἐξέλκοντας ήμᾶς εἰς πάθη) — ἦν γὰρ ἀνιδρωτὶ σωθῆναι — καὶ 8 θέλομεν τοῦτο οὐ γιγνεται, ἀλλʼ ὂ οὒ θέλομεν δεὶ γὰρ ημᾶς δοκιμάζεσθαι, ὡς ἔφην), μὴ ἐνδιδῶμεν, ὦ ψυχή, μὴ ἐνδιδῶμεν τῷ πονηρῷ,
kalon men oun, ei mē eichomen, ēn an kai charmiōtaton, tous antiprassontas ēmin kai machomenous; epei de touto adynaton, kai ho thelomen ou dynametha thelomen de mē echein tous exelkontas ēmas eis pathē) — ēn gar anidrōti sōthēnai — kai 8 thelomen touto ou gignetai, allʼ o ou thelomen dei gar ēmas dokimazesthai, hōs ephēn), mē endidōmen, ō psychē, mē endidōmen tǭ ponērǭ,
It would indeed be good and most delightful if we did not have those who oppose and fight us; but since this is impossible, and what we wish we cannot do (we wish not to have those who drag us into passions, for then we could be saved without sweat), and what we wish does not happen but what we do not wish (for we must be tested, as I said), let us not give way, O soul, let us not give way to the evil one,
Rom 7:19 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Since temptation is unavoidable, we must not yield.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The opening brackets of the parentheses are missing in the printed text; the numeral 8 is a stray mark for ὅ.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.59.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:494; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-59-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.59.3Holl GCS 25/31:494
»ἀλλὰ ἀναλαβόντες τὴν πανοπλίαν τοῦ θεοῦ« ὑπερασπίζουσαν καὶ προαγωνιζομένην ἡμῶν »ἐνδυδώμεθα τὸν θώρακα τῆς δικαιοσύνης καὶ ὑποδησώμεθα πόδας ἐν ἑτοιμασίᾳ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, ἐν πᾶσί τε ἀναλάβωμεν τὸν θυρεὸν τῆς πίστεως, ἐν ᾦ δυνησόμεθα πάντα τὰ βέλη τοῦ πονηροῦ τὰ πεπυρωμένα σβέσαι καὶ τὴν περικεφαλαίαν τοῦ σωτηρίου καὶ τὴν μάχαιραν τοῦ πνεύματος, ὅ ἐστι ῥῆμα θεοῦ, πρὸς τὸ δύνασθαι στῆναι πρὸς τὴν τοῦ διαβόλου«, »λογισμούς τε καθαιρεῖν καὶ πᾶν ὔψωμα ἐπαιρόμενον κατὰ τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ θεοῦ«· »ὅτι μὴ εστιν ήμῖν ή πάλη πρὸς κἶμα καὶ σάρκα«.
»alla analabontes tēn panoplian tou theou« hyperaspizousan kai proagōnizomenēn hēmōn »endydōmetha ton thōraka tēs dikaiosynēs kai hypodēsōmetha podas en hetoimasią tou euangeliou, en pasi te analabōmen ton thyreon tēs pisteōs, en ǭ dynēsometha panta ta belē tou ponērou ta pepyrōmena sbesai kai tēn perikephalaian tou sōtēriou kai tēn machairan tou pneumatos, ho esti rhēma theou, pros to dynasthai stēnai pros tēn tou diabolou«, »logismous te kathairein kai pan ypsōma epairomenon kata tēs gnōseōs tou theou«; »hoti mē estin ēmin ē palē pros kima kai sarka«.
“but taking up the whole armour of God,” which shields us and fights in front of us, “let us put on the breastplate of righteousness and shoe our feet with the readiness of the gospel, and in all things take up the shield of faith, with which we shall be able to quench all the flaming darts of the evil one, and the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, so as to be able to stand against the [schemes] of the devil,” and “to destroy reasonings and every height raised up against the knowledge of God”; “for our struggle is not against blood and flesh.”
Eph 6:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 6:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 6:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 6:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 6:17 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 6:11 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 10:5 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 6:12 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The armour of God against the evil one.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Eph 6:13–17, 11; 2 Cor 10:5; Eph 6:12. The noun “schemes” (μεθοδείας) is missing in the printed text after τήν.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.59.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:494; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-59-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.59.4Holl GCS 25/31:494–495
τούτου δὲ ἔνεκα τοῦτα λέγω, ὄτι οὖτος ὁ τρόπος τοῦ ἀποστόλου τῶν συνταγμάτων. πολλὰ μὲν γὰρ ἔστι καὶ περὶ ἐκάστου τῶι ἐν τῇ ἐπιστολῇ ταύτῃ εἰρημένων ἀποδεὶξαι, ὡς ὀρθοδόξωςσ καὶ μεμε- λετημένως ἔχει· μακρὸν ἄν εἴη ἕκαστον αὐτῶν οὔτως διελθειν.
toutou de eneka touta legō, oti outos ho tropos tou apostolou tōn syntagmatōn. polla men gar esti kai peri ekastou tōi en tę̄ epistolę̄ tautę̄ eirēmenōn apodeixai, hōs orthodoxōss kai meme- letēmenōs echei; makron an eiē hekaston autōn outōs dielthein.
I say these things for this reason, that this is the apostle’s manner of composition. For there is much to show about each of the things said in this letter, how orthodox and carefully considered it is; but it would be long to go through each of them in this way.
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul’s letter is orthodox throughout.
- 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. 64.59.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:494–495; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-59-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.59.5Holl GCS 25/31:495
γὰρ τύπον αὐτοῦ δειξαι μόνον καἲ τὴν βούλησιν προηργμαι νῦν »οὐ γὰρ ὃ θέλω, τοῦτο πράσσω, ἀλλʼ ὃ μισῶ, τοῦτο ποιῶ. <εἰ δὲ ὃ οὐ θέλω > σ΄λυμφημι τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ ὅτι καλός· νυνὶ δὲ οὐκέτι γὰγὼ κατεργάζομαι αὐτό, ἀλλʼ ή οἰκοῦσα ἐν ἐμοὶ άμαρτία. οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι οὐκ οἰκεῖ ἐν ἐμοῖ, τουτέστιν ἐν τῇ σαρκί μου, τὸ ἀγαθόν«, ὀρθῶς λέγων.
gar typon autou deixai monon kai tēn boulēsin proērgmai nyn »ou gar ho thelō, touto prassō, allʼ ho misō, touto poiō. <ei de ho ou thelō > s΄lymphēmi tǭ nomǭ tou theou hoti kalos; nyni de ouketi gagō katergazomai auto, allʼ ē oikousa en emoi amartia. oida gar hoti ouk oikei en emoi, toutestin en tę̄ sarki mou, to agathon«, orthōs legōn.
For I have now undertaken only to show its outline and intention: “For what I wish, that I do not do, but what I hate, that I do. But if I do what I do not wish, I agree with the law of God that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells in me. For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh,” he rightly says.
Rom 7:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:17 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:18 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul on the sin dwelling in the flesh.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:15–18, freely quoted.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.59.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:495; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-59-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.59.6Holl GCS 25/31:495
μέμνησθε γὰρ ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν ὡς ὡριζόμεθα· εἰ καὶ σπεύδων ἐγὼ ταχὺ πάντα διεξελθεῖν μᾶλλον βραδύνων, μακροτέρας μοι τῶν λόγων τῆς περιόδου ἢ προσεδ΄λοκησα γεγενημένης, ἢν προθυμητίον δὴ διανῦσαι. ἄλλως γὰρ τοῦ προκειμένου οὔποτε ἤξομεν ἐπὶ τέλος.
memnēsthe gar en tois emprosthen hōs hōrizometha; ei kai speudōn egō tachy panta diexelthein mallon bradynōn, makroteras moi tōn logōn tēs periodou ē prosed΄lokēsa gegenēmenēs, ēn prothymētion dē dianysai. allōs gar tou prokeimenou oupote ēxomen epi telos.
For remember how we defined it earlier; even if, in my haste to go through everything quickly, I have rather been slow, since the course of the discussion has become longer than I expected, we must be eager to complete it. Otherwise we shall never reach the end of what lies before us.
Notes and citation
Summary: Methodius apologizes for the length of his discussion.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.59.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:495; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-59-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 60
64.60.1Holl GCS 25/31:495
60. Οὐκοῦν ἐλέγομεν· ἀφʼ οὖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, εἶ μνημονεύετε, πλανηθέντα τὴν ἐντολὴν ἀθετῆσαι συνέβη, ἐντεῦθεν ἐκ τῆς παρακοῆς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν λαβοῦσαν γένεσιν εἰς αὐτὸν εἰσῳκηκέναι.
60. Oukoun elegomen; aphʼ ou ton anthrōpon, ei mnēmoneuete, planēthenta tēn entolēn athetēsai synebē, enteuthen ek tēs parakoēs tēn hamartian labousan genesin eis auton eisǭkēkenai.
So we were saying: from the time it happened, if you remember, that man was led astray and set aside the commandment, from then sin, taking its origin from the disobedience, came to dwell in him.
Notes and citation
Summary: Sin entered man through disobedience.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.60.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:495; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-60-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.60.2Holl GCS 25/31:495
οὕτως γὰρ πρῶτον στάσις ἐνέπεσε σφαδᾳσμῶν τε καὶ λογισμῶν ἀνοικείων ἐπληρώθημεν, κενωθέντες με) τοῦ ἐμφυσήματος τοῦ θεοῦ, πληρωθέντες δὲ ἐπιθυμίς ὑλικῆς, ἥν ὁ πολύπλοκος ἐνέπνευσεν εἰς ήμᾶς ὄφις, βραχυπορησάντων ήμῶν τῆς παραγγελίας τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν κύκλον.
houtōs gar prōton stasis enepese sphadąsmōn te kai logismōn anoikeiōn eplērōthēmen, kenōthentes me) tou emphysēmatos tou theou, plērōthentes de epithymis hylikēs, hēn ho polyplokos enepneusen eis ēmas ophis, brachyporēsantōn ēmōn tēs parangelias tou theou ton kyklon.
For thus first an uprising of convulsive impulses fell upon us and we were filled with unfitting thoughts, emptied of the breath of God and filled with material desire, which the crafty serpent breathed into us, when we fell short of the circle of God’s precept.
Gen 2:7 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 3:1 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: At the fall, God’s breath was exchanged for desire.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Gen 2:7; Gen 3.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.60.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:495; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-60-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.60.3Holl GCS 25/31:495
διὸ καὶ τὸν θάνατον ὁ θεὸς πρὸς ἀναίρεσιν τῆς ἀμαρτίας ύπὲρ ήμῶν ἀνεύρατο, ἴνα μὴ ἐν ἀθανάτοις ήμῖν ἀνατείλασα, ὡς ἔφην, ἀθανατος ᾖ.
dio kai ton thanaton ho theos pros anairesin tēs amartias yper ēmōn aneurato, ina mē en athanatois ēmin anateilasa, hōs ephēn, athanatos ę̄.
That is why God devised death for us for the destruction of sin, so that sin, having arisen in us while we were immortal, might not, as I said, be immortal.
Notes and citation
Summary: Death was given to destroy 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. 64.60.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:495; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-60-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.60.4Holl GCS 25/31:495–496
ὄθεν ὁ ἀπόστολος »οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι οὐκ οἰκεῖ ἐν ἐμοί, τουτέστιν ἐν τῇ σαρκί μου, τὸ ἀγαθόν« λέγων τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς παραβάσεως διὰ τῆς ἔπιθυμίας εἰσοικισθεῖσαν εἰς ἠμᾶς άμαρτίαν βούλεται μηνύειν, ἧς δὴ καθάπερ βλαστήματα νέα νέα καὶ κλῶνες οί φιλήδονοι περὶ ήμᾶς ἀεὶ λογισμοὶ στανται. δισσὰ γὰρ ἐν ήμῖν λογισμῶν γένη, τὸ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ἐνθωπευούσης ἐν τῷ σώματι συνιστάμενον, ἥτις ἐξ ἐπιπνοίας, ὡς ἔφην, ἐγενήθη τοῦ ὑλικοῦ πνεύματος, τὸ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ κατὰ τὴν ἐντολήν, ὃν ἔμφυτον ἐλάβομεν ἔχειν καὶ φυσικὸν νόμον, πρὸς τὸ καλὸν ἡμῶν ἐξεγείροντα καὶ ἐπανορθούμενον τὸν λογισμόν.
othen ho apostolos »oida gar hoti ouk oikei en emoi, toutestin en tę̄ sarki mou, to agathon« legōn tēn apo tēs parabaseōs dia tēs epithymias eisoikistheisan eis ēmas amartian bouletai mēnyein, hēs dē kathaper blastēmata nea nea kai klōnes oi philēdonoi peri ēmas aei logismoi stantai. dissa gar en ēmin logismōn genē, to men apo tēs epithymias tēs enthōpeuousēs en tǭ sōmati synistamenon, hētis ex epipnoias, hōs ephēn, egenēthē tou hylikou pneumatos, to de apo tou kata tēn entolēn, hon emphyton elabomen echein kai physikon nomon, pros to kalon hēmōn exegeironta kai epanorthoumenon ton logismon.
Hence the apostle, when he says, “For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh,” means to indicate the sin that came to dwell in us from the transgression through desire, of which pleasure-loving thoughts are like new shoots and branches that always spring up around us. For there are two kinds of thoughts in us: one arising from the desire that lurks in the body, which, as I said, came into being from the inspiration of the material spirit; and the other from the law according to the commandment, which we received as innate and natural, rousing and correcting our thinking toward the good.
Rom 7:18 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Two kinds of thoughts: from desire and from the natural law.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:18. The edition has no section 60.5. ἐνθωπευούσης is read as ἐμφωλευούσης, “lurking”.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.60.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:495–496; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-60-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.60.6Holl GCS 25/31:496
ὅθεν τῇ μὲν νομοθεσίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ τὸν νοῦν »συνηδόμεθα« (τοῦτο γὰρ ὁ ἔσω ἄνθρωπος), τῇ δὲ νομοθεσίᾳ τοῦ διαβόλου κατὰ τὴν ἐνοικοῦσαν ἐπιθυμίαν ἐν τῇ σαρκί· ὁ γὰρ νόμος »ἀντιστρατευόμενος καὶ ἀντιπράσσων τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ«, οἷον τῇ πρὸς τὸ ἀγαθὸν ὁρμῇ, τῇ ἐπιθυμίᾳ τοῦ νοός, οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τοὺς ἐμπαθεῖς ἀναφύων ἀεὶ καὶ ὑλικοὺς πρὸς ἀνομίαν περισπασμούς, παντάπασι πρὸς ἡδονὰς ὢν ἑλκτικός.
hothen tę̄ men nomothesią tou theou kata ton noun »synēdometha« (touto gar ho esō anthrōpos), tę̄ de nomothesią tou diabolou kata tēn enoikousan epithymian en tę̄ sarki; ho gar nomos »antistrateuomenos kai antiprassōn tǭ nomǭ tou theou«, hoion tę̄ pros to agathon hormę̄, tę̄ epithymią tou noos, houtos estin ho tous empatheis anaphyōn aei kai hylikous pros anomian perispasmous, pantapasi pros hēdonas ōn helktikos.
Hence with our mind we “delight in” God’s legislation (this is the inner man), but in the devil’s legislation according to the desire dwelling in the flesh; for the law “warring and working against the law of God,” that is, against the impulse toward the good, the desire of the mind, is the one that always sprouts passionate and material distractions toward lawlessness, being altogether a drag toward pleasures.
Rom 7:22 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 7:23 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The inner man delights in God’s law; another law wars in the flesh.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:22–23, freely quoted.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.60.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:496; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-60-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 61
64.61.1Holl GCS 25/31:496
61. Τρεῖς τὰρ νόμους ὑποτιθέμενος ἀναφανδὸν ὁ Παῦλος ἐνταῦθά μοι καταφαίνεται· ἕνα μὲν τὸν κατὰ τὸ ἔμφυτον ἐν ἡμῖν ἀγαθόν, ὅν καὶ νόμον σαφῶς νοὸς ἐκάλεσεν, ἕνα δὲ τὸν ἐκ προσβολῆς συνιστάμενον τοῦ πονηροῦ καὶ εἰς τὰς ἐμπαθεῖς ἐξέλκοντα πολλάκις φαντασίας τὴν ψυχήν, ὃν ἀντιστρατεύεσθαι τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ νοὸς ἔφη,
61. Treis tar nomous hypotithemenos anaphandon ho Paulos entautha moi kataphainetai; hena men ton kata to emphyton en hēmin agathon, hon kai nomon saphōs noos ekalesen, hena de ton ek prosbolēs synistamenon tou ponērou kai eis tas empatheis exelkonta pollakis phantasias tēn psychēn, hon antistrateuesthai tǭ nomǭ tou noos ephē,
For here Paul appears to me plainly to posit three laws: one according to the good innate in us, which he clearly called the law of the mind; one arising from the assault of the evil one and often dragging the soul into passionate imaginings, which he said wars against the law of the mind;
Rom 7:23 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul posits three laws: first the law of the mind, second the evil one’s assault.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:23.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.61.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:496; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-61-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.61.2Holl GCS 25/31:496
καὶ ἕτερον τὸν κατὰ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἐκ τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἐνσκιρρώσαντα ἐν τῇ σαρκί, ὃν ἁμαρτίας νόμον οἰκοῦντα ἐν τοῖς λέλεσιν ἐκάλεσεν· ᾧ ἐπιβαίνων ὁ πονηρὸς καὶ ἐποχούμενος πολλάκις καθʼ ἡμῶν ἐγκελεύεται, πρὸς ἀδικίαν ἡμᾶς καὶ πράξεις συνελαύνων κακάς.
kai heteron ton kata tēn hamartian ek tēs epithymias enskirrōsanta en tę̄ sarki, hon hamartias nomon oikounta en tois lelesin ekalesen; hǭ epibainōn ho ponēros kai epochoumenos pollakis kathʼ hēmōn enkeleuetai, pros adikian hēmas kai praxeis synelaunōn kakas.
and another, according to sin, hardened in the flesh from desire, which he called the law of sin dwelling in the members; mounting and riding on it, the evil one often urges us on, driving us together into injustice and evil deeds.
Rom 7:23 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The third law is the law of sin in the members.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:23.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.61.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:496; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-61-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.61.3Holl GCS 25/31:496–497
ὁ γὰρ ἔξωθεν εἰσπνεόμενος ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ νόμος καὶ διὰ τῶν αἰσθήσεων καθάπερ ἀσφαλτῶδες ῥεῦμα ἔνδον εἰς αὐτὴν ἐκχεό- μενος τὴν ψυχὴν ύπὸ τοῦ ἐν τῇ σαρκαὶ κατὰ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ὑπάρχοντος κραταιοῦται νόμου.
ho gar exōthen eispneomenos apo tou ponērou nomos kai dia tōn aisthēseōn kathaper asphaltōdes rheuma endon eis autēn ekcheo- menos tēn psychēn ypo tou en tę̄ sarkai kata tēn epithymian hyparchontos krataioutai nomou.
For the law breathed in from outside by the evil one, pouring through the senses like a stream of pitch into the soul itself, is strengthened by the law that exists in the flesh according to desire.
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Summary: The evil one’s law is strengthened by the law of desire.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.61.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:496–497; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-61-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.61.4Holl GCS 25/31:497
φαίνεται γὰρ ὡς ἐν αὐτοῖς ἡμῖν τὸ με) βέλτιον τὸ δὲ χεῖρον ὄν, καὶ ὄταν μὲν τὸ βέλτιον φύσει τοῦ χείρονος ἐγκρατέστερον γενηθῇ, φέρεται ὅλος πρὸς τὸ ἀγαθὸν ὁ νοῦς· ὅταν δὲ τὸ χεῖρον ἐπιβρίσῃ πλεονάσαν, ὃ ἀντιστρατεύεσθαι τῷ ἐν ήμῖν λέγεται ἀγαθῷ, ἄγεται πάλιν ἀθτιστρόφως πρὸς φαντασίας παντοδαπὰς ὁ ἄνθρωπος καὶ λογισμοὺς χείρονας.
phainetai gar hōs en autois hēmin to me) beltion to de cheiron on, kai otan men to beltion physei tou cheironos enkratesteron genēthę̄, pheretai holos pros to agathon ho nous; hotan de to cheiron epibrisę̄ pleonasan, ho antistrateuesthai tǭ en ēmin legetai agathǭ, agetai palin athtistrophōs pros phantasias pantodapas ho anthrōpos kai logismous cheironas.
For it appears that within us there is the better and the worse; and when the better becomes by nature stronger than the worse, the mind is wholly borne toward the good; but when the worse, which is said to war against the good in us, prevails by increasing, man is led conversely toward all kinds of imaginings and worse thoughts.
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Summary: The better and the worse contend within us.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.61.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:497; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-61-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 62
64.62.1Holl GCS 25/31:497
62. Οὖ δὴ καὶ κάριν ὁ ἀπόστολος εὔχεται ῥυθῆναι, θάνατον αὐτὸ καὶ ὄλεθρον εἶναι ήγούμενος, ὥσπερ δὴ καὶ ὁ προφήτης »ἀπὸ τῶν κρυφίων μου« λέγων »καθάρισόν με«.
62. Ou dē kai karin ho apostolos euchetai rhythēnai, thanaton auto kai olethron einai ēgoumenos, hōsper dē kai ho prophētēs »apo tōn kryphiōn mou« legōn »katharison me«.
It is for this reason that the apostle prays to be delivered, considering it death and destruction, just as the prophet too says, “From my hidden faults cleanse me.”
Ps 19:12 (18:13 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul, like David, prays for deliverance from inner sin.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Ps 19:12 (18:13 LXX).
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:497; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.2Holl GCS 25/31:497
αὐτὰ γοῦν τὰ ῥήματα τοῦτο παρίστησιν »συνήδομαι γὰρ τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ τὸν ἔσω« λέγοντος »ἄνθρωπον, βλέπω Τε ἒτερον νόμον ἐν τοῖς μέλεσί μου ἀντιστρατευόμενον τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ νοός μου καὶ αἰχμαλωτίζοντά με τῷ νόμῳ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, τῷ ὄντι ἐν τοῖς μέλεσί μου. ταλαίπωρος ἐγὼ ἄνθρωπος, τίς με ῥύσεται ἐκ τοῦ σώματος τοῦ θανάτου τούτου«;
auta goun ta rhēmata touto paristēsin »synēdomai gar tǭ nomǭ tou theou kata ton esō« legontos »anthrōpon, blepō Te eteron nomon en tois melesi mou antistrateuomenon tǭ nomǭ tou noos mou kai aichmalōtizonta me tǭ nomǭ tēs hamartias, tǭ onti en tois melesi mou. talaipōros egō anthrōpos, tis me rhysetai ek tou sōmatos tou thanatou toutou«?
At any rate, the words themselves show this, when he says, “For 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 that is in my members. Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death?”
Rom 7:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:23 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 7:24 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Paul’s cry for deliverance.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:22–24.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:497; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.3Holl GCS 25/31:497
οὐ τὸ σῶμα θάνατον ἀποφηνάμενος, ἀλλὰ τὸν νόμμον τῆς ἁμαρτίας τὸν ἐν τοῖς μέλεοι <τοῦ σώματος> διὰ τῆς παραβάσεως ἐν ήμῖν ἐμφωλεύοντα καὶ πρὸς θάνατον ἀεὶ ἀεὶ τῆς ἀδικίας τὴν ψυχὴν ἐμφαντάζοντα.
ou to sōma thanaton apophēnamenos, alla ton nommon tēs hamartias ton en tois meleoi <tou sōmatos> dia tēs parabaseōs en ēmin emphōleuonta kai pros thanaton aei aei tēs adikias tēn psychēn emphantazonta.
He does not declare the body to be death, but the law of sin that lurks in us in the members of the body through the transgression and always deludes the soul toward the death of unrighteousness.
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Summary: “Death” is the law of sin, not the body.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. ἀεί is doubled in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:497; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.4Holl GCS 25/31:497–498
ἐπιφέρει γοῦν εὐθέως, ἀμέλει διαλυόμενος ἀπὸ κποίου θανάτου ἐγλίχετο ῥυσθῆναι καὶ τίς αὐτὸν ό ῥυόμενος ἦι· »χάρις τῷ θεῷ διὰ Ἱησοῦ Χριστοῦ«. προσεκτέον γὰρ ὅτι, εἰ τὸ σῶμα θάνατον τοῦτο, ὦ Ἀγλαοφῶν, ὡς ὑπειλήφατε, ἔλεγεν, οὐκ ἂν τὸν Χριστὸν ὡς ῥυόμενον αὐτὸν ὕστερον ἐκ τοῦ τοιούτου κακοῦ παρελάμβανεν· ἐπεὶ τί παραδοξότερον ἢ πλέον ἀπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τῆς παρουσίας ἐσχήκαμεν;
epipherei goun eutheōs, amelei dialyomenos apo kpoiou thanatou eglicheto rhysthēnai kai tis auton o rhyomenos ēi; »charis tǭ theǭ dia Hiēsou Christou«. prosekteon gar hoti, ei to sōma thanaton touto, ō Aglaophōn, hōs hypeilēphate, elegen, ouk an ton Christon hōs rhyomenon auton hysteron ek tou toioutou kakou parelambanen; epei ti paradoxoteron ē pleon apo tou Christou tēs parousias eschēkamen?
At any rate, he at once adds, plainly explaining from what kind of death he longed to be delivered and who his deliverer was: “Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ.” For we must note that if he called this body death, Aglaophon, as you have supposed, he would not have brought in Christ as later delivering him from such an evil; for what more remarkable or greater thing would we have gained from the coming of Christ?
Rom 7:25 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Christ does not deliver from the body, which death already does.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 7:25.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:497–498; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.5Holl GCS 25/31:498
τί δὲ καὶ ὁ ἀπόστολος ὅλως, ὠς διὰ τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ Χριστοῦ δυνάμενος ἐκ τοῦ θανάτου ὑπὸ θεοῦ ἐλευθερωθῆναι τούτου ἐφθέγγετο, ὁπότε πᾶσι καὶ πρὸ τοῦ τὸν Χριστὸν ἐλθεῖν εἰς τὸν κόσμον συνέβαινε θνῄσκειν;
ti de kai ho apostolos holōs, ōs dia tēs parousias tou Christou dynamenos ek tou thanatou hypo theou eleutherōthēnai toutou ephthengeto, hopote pasi kai pro tou ton Christon elthein eis ton kosmon synebaine thnę̄skein?
And why did the apostle speak at all as if through the coming of Christ he could be freed by God from this death, when all men, even before Christ came into the world, happened to die?
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Summary: Death came to all even before Christ.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:498; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.6Holl GCS 25/31:498
ἐρρύοντο γὰρ χωριζόμενοι πάντες τῶν σωμάτων κατὰ τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ βίου τούτου ἐξοδον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡσαύτως δὲ πᾶσαι αἱ ψυχαί, [καὶ] αἱ τῶν ἀπίστων καὶ πιστῶν καὶ τῶν ἀδίκων καὶ δικαίων, ἐχωριζοντο τῶν σωμάτων κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς τελευτῆς.
erryonto gar chōrizomenoi pantes tōn sōmatōn kata tēn apo tou biou toutou exodon, alla kai hōsautōs de pasai hai psychai, [kai] hai tōn apistōn kai pistōn kai tōn adikōn kai dikaiōn, echōrizonto tōn sōmatōn kata tēn hēmeran tēs teleutēs.
For all were delivered, being separated from their bodies at their departure from this life; and likewise all souls, of unbelievers and believers, of the unjust and the just, were separated from their bodies on the day of their death.
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Summary: All souls leave the body at death.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius. The editor deletes καί before αἱ τῶν ἀπίστων.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:498; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.7Holl GCS 25/31:498
τί οὖν ὁ ἀπόστολος πλέον παρὰ τοὺς ἄλλους λαβεῖν τοὺς ἐν ἀπιστίᾳ διατρίψαντας ἐσπούδαζεν; ἢ διὰ τί ῥυσθῆναι ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος ηὔχετο, ὃ καὶ εἰ μὴ ἤθελε, πάντως ἂν συνέβαινεν αὐτῷ, καθάπερ δὴ καὶ πᾶσι κεῖται τὸ τελευτῆσαι καὶ χωρισθῆναι τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῶν σωμάτων, εἴ γε θάνατον τὸ σῶμα τῆς ψυχῆς ὑπετίθετο;
ti oun ho apostolos pleon para tous allous labein tous en apistią diatripsantas espoudazen? ē dia ti rhysthēnai apo tou sōmatos ēucheto, ho kai ei mē ēthele, pantōs an synebainen autǭ, kathaper dē kai pasi keitai to teleutēsai kai chōristhēnai tas psychas autōn apo tōn sōmatōn, ei ge thanaton to sōma tēs psychēs hypetitheto?
What more, then, was the apostle eager to receive than the others who lived in unbelief? Or why did he pray to be delivered from the body, which would certainly have happened to him even if he did not wish it, just as it is appointed to all to die and for their souls to be separated from their bodies, if indeed he supposed the body to be the soul’s death?
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Summary: Paul would not pray for what befalls everyone.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:498; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.8Holl GCS 25/31:498
ὥστε οὐ τὸ σῶμα τοῦτο, ὦ Ἀγλαοφῶν, θάνατον, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τὴν κατοικήσασαν <ἔνδον> διὰ τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἐν τῷ σώματι λέγει, ἧς ὁ θεὸς αὐτὸν διὰ τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐρρύσατο.
hōste ou to sōma touto, ō Aglaophōn, thanaton, alla tēn hamartian tēn katoikēsasan <endon> dia tēs epithymias en tǭ sōmati legei, hēs ho theos auton dia tēs parousias tou Christou errysato.
So it is not this body, Aglaophon, that he calls death, but the sin that has come to dwell within the body through desire, from which God delivered him through the coming of Christ.
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Summary: “Death” is indwelling sin, from which Christ delivers.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:498; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.9Holl GCS 25/31:498
»ὁ γὰρ νόμος τοῦ πνεύματος τῆς ζωῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἠλευθέρωσεν ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τοῦ θανάτου«, ὅπως »ὁ ἐγείρας Ἰησοῦν ἐκ νεκρῶν διὰ τὸ ἐνοικοῦν αὐτοῦ πνεῦμα ἐν ἡμῖν ζωοποιήσῃ καὶ τὰ θνητὰ σώματα ἡμῶν«,
»ho gar nomos tou pneumatos tēs zōēs en Christǭ Iēsou ēleutherōsen hēmas apo tou nomou tēs hamartias kai tou thanatou«, hopōs »ho egeiras Iēsoun ek nekrōn dia to enoikoun autou pneuma en hēmin zōopoiēsę̄ kai ta thnēta sōmata hēmōn«,
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set us free from the law of sin and death,” so that “he who raised Jesus from the dead, through his Spirit who dwells in us, may give life also to our mortal bodies,”
Rom 8:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:11 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The Spirit frees from sin and will give life to mortal bodies.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 8:2; Rom 8:11.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:498; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.10Holl GCS 25/31:498–499
»τῆς ἁμαρτίας τῆς ἐν τῷ σώματι κατακριθείσης« πρὸς ἀναίρεσιν, »ἵνα τὸ δικαίωμα τοῦ« κατὰ τὴν ἐντολὴν πρὸς τὸ ἀγαθὸν ήμᾶς ἐφελκομένου φυσικοῦ »νόμου« φανερωθῇ ἐξαφθέν, ὅ ἀσθενῆσαν, τῆς σαρκὸς κακρατημένης τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, πρὸ τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ χριστοῦ ταῖς ὑλικαῖς φροντισιν τὸ γὰρ ἀδύνατον τοῦ ἐν ἡμῖν φυσικοῦ νόμου,
»tēs hamartias tēs en tǭ sōmati katakritheisēs« pros anairesin, »hina to dikaiōma tou« kata tēn entolēn pros to agathon ēmas ephelkomenou physikou »nomou« phanerōthę̄ exaphthen, ho asthenēsan, tēs sarkos kakratēmenēs tę̄ hamartią, pro tēs parousias tou christou tais hylikais phrontisin to gar adynaton tou en hēmin physikou nomou,
“sin in the body having been condemned” to destruction, “so that the just requirement of the” natural “law,” which according to the commandment draws us toward the good, might be made manifest, kindled anew, which had been weakened, since the flesh was mastered by sin, before the coming of Christ, by material cares. For “what was impossible” for the natural law in us,
Rom 8:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:4 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Sin condemned in the flesh so that the natural law might be fulfilled.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 8:3–4, woven into Methodius’s own sentence. The syntax is loose; translated by sense.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:498–499; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.11Holl GCS 25/31:499
ἐν ᾦ ἠσθένει« ύπὸ τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ήττώμενον τῆς ἐγκειμένης ἐν τῷ σώματι, ὁ θεὸς ἀνερρώσατο, πέμψας τὸν υίὸν ἑαυτοῦ, τὴν όμοίαν τῇ σαρκὶ τῆς άμαρτίας ἀνειληφότα ἀληθείᾳ γὰρ καὶ οὐ δοκήσει ἦν ὃ ἐφάνη),
en ǭ ēsthenei« ypo tēs epithymias ēttōmenon tēs enkeimenēs en tǭ sōmati, ho theos anerrōsato, pempsas ton uion heautou, tēn omoian tę̄ sarki tēs amartias aneilēphota alētheią gar kai ou dokēsei ēn ho ephanē),
“in that it was weak,” being overcome by the desire lying in the body, God strengthened, “sending his own Son,” who had taken on what was like the flesh of sin (for what appeared was in truth and not in seeming),
Rom 8:3 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: God sent his Son in real flesh to strengthen the natural law.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 8:3. The parenthesis rejects docetism.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:499; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.12Holl GCS 25/31:499
ἵνα τῆς άμαρτίας κατακεκριμένης πρὸς ἀναίρεσιν »εἰς τὶ« μηκέτι »καρποφορησαι« ἐν τῇ σαρκὶ τὸ ζικαίμα τοῦ φυσικοῦ νόμου πληρωθῇ, πλεονασαν τῇ ὑπακοῇ τοῖς μὴ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν τῆς σαρκὸς περιπατοοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν τοῦ πνεύματος καὶ τὴν ύφήγησιν.
hina tēs amartias katakekrimenēs pros anairesin »eis ti« mēketi »karpophorēsai« en tę̄ sarki to zikaima tou physikou nomou plērōthę̄, pleonasan tę̄ hypakoę̄ tois mē tēn epithymian tēs sarkos peripatoousin, alla kata tēn epithymian tou pneumatos kai tēn yphēgēsin.
so that, sin having been condemned to destruction so that it no longer “bears fruit for” anything in the flesh, the just requirement of the natural law might be fulfilled, abounding in obedience, in those who walk not according to the desire of the flesh but according to the desire and guidance of the Spirit.
Rom 8:4 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 7:5 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: The natural law is fulfilled in those who walk by the Spirit.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 8:4; Rom 7:5.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:499; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.13Holl GCS 25/31:499
»ό γὰρ νόμος τοῦ πνεύματος τῆς ζωῆς«, ὃ δή ἐστι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, ἔτερος ὤν τῶν προειρημένων νόμων, διὰ τοῦ κηρύγματος πρὸς ύπακοὴν τεθεὶς καὶ αφεσιν άμαρτημάτων, »ἠλευθέρωσεν ήμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τῆς ἀμαρτίας καὶ τοῦ θανάτου«, νικήσας ἐκ παντὸς τὴν άμαρτίαν βασιλεύουσαν τῆς σαρκός.
»o gar nomos tou pneumatos tēs zōēs«, ho dē esti to euangelion, eteros ōn tōn proeirēmenōn nomōn, dia tou kērygmatos pros ypakoēn tetheis kai aphesin amartēmatōn, »ēleutherōsen ēmas apo tou nomou tēs amartias kai tou thanatou«, nikēsas ek pantos tēn amartian basileuousan tēs sarkos.
“For the law of the Spirit of life,” which is the gospel, being different from the laws mentioned before, laid down through the preaching for obedience and forgiveness of sins, “set us free from the law of sin and death,” completely conquering the sin that reigned over the flesh.
Rom 8:2 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The gospel, the law of the Spirit, frees from sin and death.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; Rom 8:2.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.13 (Holl GCS 25/31:499; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.14Holl GCS 25/31:499
Ἅ μὲν οὖν δὴ προβάλλονται καὶ ἐκ τῶν τοῦ ἀποστόλου ῥητῶν, οὐκ ὀρθῶς αὐτὰ ἐξηγούμενοι, σαφηνίσας ἔφην, ὦ θεόφιλε· τρέψομαι δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὰ ἕτερα, ἐάνπερ τὸν βοηθήσοντα ήμῖν πρὸς τὴν διέζοδον εὕρωμεν τοῦ λόγου.
Ha men oun dē proballontai kai ek tōn tou apostolou rhētōn, ouk orthōs auta exēgoumenoi, saphēnisas ephēn, ō theophile; trepsomai de kai pros ta hetera, eanper ton boēthēsonta ēmin pros tēn diezodon heurōmen tou logou.
What they put forward from the apostle’s sayings, then, interpreting them wrongly, I have explained and spoken of, dear friend of God; and I shall turn to the other points too, if we find someone to help us through the discussion.
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Summary: Methodius finishes with Paul and turns to other points.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.14 (Holl GCS 25/31:499; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.62.15Holl GCS 25/31:499–500
ἄπορα γὰρ καὶ οὐ πάνυ ῥᾀδια πρὸς καθαίρεσιν τὰ τὰ διὸ καὶ ὀκνηρότερον αὐτῶν ἅπτομαι, μακρὰν καὶ χαλεπὴν αὐτῶν όρῶν τὴν ἀπόδειξιν ἐσομένην, ἐὰν μή τις ἡμᾶς αὔρα συνέσεως ἄφνω ἐξ οὐρανονοῦ καταπνεύσασα καθάπερ ἐν μέσῳ νηχομένους πελάγει εἰς ὅρμον τινὰ ἀκύμονα καὶ ἀπόδειξιν ἀποκαταστήσῃ ἀσφαλεστέραν. [ewd wde to meros twn meqodiou.]
apora gar kai ou pany rhądia pros kathairesin ta ta dio kai oknēroteron autōn haptomai, makran kai chalepēn autōn orōn tēn apodeixin esomenēn, ean mē tis hēmas aura syneseōs aphnō ex ouranonou katapneusasa kathaper en mesǭ nēchomenous pelagei eis hormon tina akymona kai apodeixin apokatastēsę̄ asphalesteran. [ewd wde to meros twn meqodiou.]
For they are difficult and not at all easy to refute; that is why I touch them rather hesitantly, seeing that their refutation will be long and hard, unless some breeze of understanding suddenly blows down on us from heaven and brings us, as though swimming in mid-ocean, to some waveless harbour and a surer proof.
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Summary: The remaining arguments are hard to refute.
- Methodius quoted by Epiphanius; the long extract from Methodius ends here. The edition adds in square brackets, in undecoded Beta Code, a note meaning “Thus far the part from Methodius”; as a bracketed insertion it is left out of the translation. τά is doubled in the digital text.
Extrabiblical texts: Methodius of Olympus, Res. (Methodius of Olympus, Methodius, On the Resurrection; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.62.15 (Holl GCS 25/31:499–500; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-62-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 63
64.63.1Holl GCS 25/31:500
63. Ταῦτα μέν ἐστιν ἅ ἀπὸ μέρους καθʼ εἱρμὸν <ἐκ> τῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ μακαρίτου Μεθοδίου, τοῦ καὶ Εύβουλίου, περὶ τοῦ προειρημένου Ωριγένους καὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ διὰ σοφιστικῆς πλάνης κακοπιστίας ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ περὶ ἀναστάσεως λόγῳ *, ἃ ἐνταῦθα παραθέμενοι ἱκανῶς ἔχειν ἐνομίσαμεν πρὸς τὰς ἐκείνου φλυαρίας καὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ ἀνατροπὴν τῆς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ζωῆς διʼ ἐπιπλάστου ἐξ Ἑλληνικῆς δεισιδαιμονίας κακοηθείας.
63. Tauta men estin ha apo merous kathʼ heirmon <ek> tōn hypo tou makaritou Methodiou, tou kai Eubouliou, peri tou proeirēmenou Ōrigenous kai tēs autou dia sophistikēs planēs kakopistias en tǭ autǭ peri anastaseōs logǭ *, ha entautha parathemenoi hikanōs echein enomisamen pros tas ekeinou phlyarias kai tēn autou anatropēn tēs tōn anthrōpōn zōēs diʼ epiplastou ex Hellēnikēs deisidaimonias kakoētheias.
These, then, are selections, in order, from what the blessed Methodius, also called Eubulius, wrote about the aforementioned Origen and his false belief through sophistical error, in his same discourse On the Resurrection …; having set them out here, we thought them sufficient against Origen’s nonsense and his overturning of human life through a malice fabricated from Greek superstition.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Epiphanius concludes his extracts from Methodius.
- Epiphanius resumes in his own voice. The work quoted is Methodius’s On the Resurrection (Aglaophon); no id exists for it. The asterisk marks a gap.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:500; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.2Holl GCS 25/31:500
πολλὰ γὰρ καὶ ἕτερα ἐν τῇ περὶ τῆς ὑποθέσεως άκολουθίᾳ τῷ προειρημένῳ Μεθοδίῳ, ἀνδρὶ λογίῳ ὄντι καὶ σφόδρα περὶ τῆς άληθείας άγωνισαμένῳ, εἴρηται, πάντως που καὶ ἐπὶ τοσαῦτα ἓτερα.
polla gar kai hetera en tę̄ peri tēs hypotheseōs akolouthią tǭ proeirēmenǭ Methodiǭ, andri logiǭ onti kai sphodra peri tēs alētheias agōnisamenǭ, eirētai, pantōs pou kai epi tosauta hetera.
For the aforementioned Methodius, a learned man who contended vigorously for the truth, said many other things in the course of his treatment of the subject, quite as many again, I suppose.
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Summary: Methodius wrote much more on the subject.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:500; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.3Holl GCS 25/31:500
ἀλλʼ ἐπειδὴ ἐπηγγειλάμεθα καθʼ ἑκάστην αἳρεσιν ὀλίγα πρὸς τὴν αὐτῆς ἀνατροπὴν λέγειν οὐ γάρ εἰσιν ὀλίγαι), ἓως ὡδε ἐκ τῆς αὐτοῦ πραγματείας παραθέμενοι ἠρκέσθημεν.
allʼ epeidē epēngeilametha kathʼ hekastēn hairesin oliga pros tēn autēs anatropēn legein ou gar eisin oligai), heōs hōde ek tēs autou pragmateias parathemenoi ērkesthēmen.
But since we promised to say a little against each heresy to refute it (for they are not few), we have been content to set out this much from his treatise.
Notes and citation
Summary: Epiphanius limits his extract.
- The opening bracket of the parenthesis is missing in the printed text.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:500; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.4Holl GCS 25/31:500
όλίγα δὲ καὶ καὶ ἐκ τῆς ἡμῶν πτωχείας εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς φλυαρίαν ἔτι προσθέμενοι καταπαύσομεν τὸν κατʼ αὐτοῦ ἀγῶνα, τῷ θεῷ ἀποδεδωκότες τὸ βραβεῖον τῷ νικοοποιῷ καὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ ἐκκλητῆ ἰδία αὐτοῦ αὐτοῦ φιλανθρωπία πάντοτε στέμμασιν ἀμαραντίνοις κατακοσμοῦντι τοῖς τῆς ἀληθείας κηρύγμασιν. λέξομεν τοίνυν καὶ αὐτοὶ πρὸς αὐτὸν κατὰ δύναμιν.
oliga de kai kai ek tēs hēmōn ptōcheias eis tēn autēn tou andros phlyarian eti prosthemenoi katapausomen ton katʼ autou agōna, tǭ theǭ apodedōkotes to brabeion tǭ nikoopoiǭ kai tēn autou ekklētē idia autou autou philanthrōpia pantote stemmasin amarantinois katakosmounti tois tēs alētheias kērygmasin. lexomen toinyn kai autoi pros auton kata dynamin.
And adding a little more from our own poverty against the same man’s nonsense, we will end the contest against him, giving the prize to God who grants victory and who, by his own love for mankind, always adorns his church with the unfading crowns of the proclamations of truth. Let us too, then, speak against him as far as we can.
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Summary: Epiphanius adds his own refutation.
- The digital text repeats καί and αὐτοῦ; ἐκκλητῆ is read as ἐκκλησίαν, “church”.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:500; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.5Holl GCS 25/31:500–501
Φάσκεις, ὠ οὗτος, ὡς καὶ ἄνω μοι προδεδήλωται ἐπισκώπτων· μὴ ἄρα βυρσοδέψης ἠν ὁ θεός. ἳνα χιτῶνας δερματίνους τοῖς περὶ τὸν Αδὰμ ποιήσῃ, μηδέπω ζῴων τεθυμένων; εἰ εἰ καὶ ἐτύθη ζῷα, * οὐκ ἦσαν, φησί, χιτῶνες δερμάτινοι, ἀλλὰ τὸ γήϊνον ὃ περικείμεθα σῶμα.
Phaskeis, ō houtos, hōs kai anō moi prodedēlōtai episkōptōn; mē ara byrsodepsēs ēn ho theos. hina chitōnas dermatinous tois peri ton Adam poiēsę̄, mēdepō zǭōn tethymenōn? ei ei kai etythē zǭa, * ouk ēsan, phēsi, chitōnes dermatinoi, alla to gēïnon ho perikeimetha sōma.
You say, sir, as I have shown above, mockingly: “Was God a tanner, then, to make tunics of skin for Adam and his wife, when no animals had yet been slaughtered? And even if animals were slaughtered, … they were not,” he says, “tunics of skin, but the earthy body we wear.”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Gen 3:21 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Origen’s claim that the “tunics of skin” are bodies.
- Gen 3:21. Origen’s view as Epiphanius reports it, from a work he does not name (perhaps Origen’s lost Commentary on Genesis). The asterisk marks a gap; εἰ is doubled in the digital text.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:500–501; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.6Holl GCS 25/31:501
καὶ πανταχόθεν ἐλέγχῃ τῇ τοῦ διαβόλου ἐπι<π> νοίᾳ καὶ τῇ τοῦ ὄφεως δολιότητι παρακολουθῶν, φθορὰν ἀπιστίας τῇ ἐργαζομένου καὶ τὴν Εὔαν ἐξαπατήσαντος καὶ ἀεὶ τὰς διανοιας τῶν ἀκεραίων ψυχῶν τῇ πανουργίᾳ † ἐν ταῖς αὐτῶν διανοιαις παραφθείροντος.
kai pantachothen elenchę̄ tę̄ tou diabolou epi<p> noią kai tę̄ tou opheōs doliotēti parakolouthōn, phthoran apistias tę̄ ergazomenou kai tēn Euan exapatēsantos kai aei tas dianoias tōn akeraiōn psychōn tę̄ panourgią † en tais autōn dianoiais paraphtheirontos.
And you are refuted on every side, following the devil’s suggestion and the serpent’s cunning, who works the corruption of unbelief, who deceived Eve, and who always corrupts the minds of guileless souls by his craftiness † in their minds.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
2 Cor 11:3 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 3:13 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Origen follows the serpent that deceived Eve.
- 2 Cor 11:3. The dagger marks a corrupt passage.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:501; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.7Holl GCS 25/31:501
ἴδωμεν τοίνυν εἰ δύναται τὰ ὑπὸ σοῦ εἰρημένα ἔχειν στάσιν, ὠ τοσαῦτα μοχθήσας καὶ εἰς μάτην ἐλάσας τὸν περὶ τῆς τοσούτων βίβλων συγγραφῆς ἀγῶνα.
idōmen toinyn ei dynatai ta hypo sou eirēmena echein stasin, ō tosauta mochthēsas kai eis matēn elasas ton peri tēs tosoutōn biblōn syngraphēs agōna.
Let us see, then, whether your statements can stand, you who laboured so much and drove the contest of writing so many books to no purpose.
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Summary: Epiphanius tests Origen’s claims.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:501; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.8Holl GCS 25/31:501–502
εἰ γάρ ἐστιν ἀληθές, ὂ περὶ σοῦ ᾄδεται, ὅτι ἐξακισχιλίους βίβλους συνεγράψω, ὠ ματαιόπονε, καὶ] τὸν πάντα κάματον εἰς ψόγους καὶ δόλους ματαιότητος ἀναλώσας φραούδως καὶ κενὴν τὴν σὴν ἐργασίαν καταστήσας, διὰ τῶν ἀναγ- καίων πταίσας διʼ ὡν παρεχάραξας τὴν ἀνάστασιν, τὴν τῆς ἐμπορίας σου καματουργίαν περιεποιήσω.
ei gar estin alēthes, o peri sou ądetai, hoti exakischilious biblous synegrapsō, ō mataiopone, kai] ton panta kamaton eis psogous kai dolous mataiotētos analōsas phraoudōs kai kenēn tēn sēn ergasian katastēsas, dia tōn anag- kaiōn ptaisas diʼ hōn parecharaxas tēn anastasin, tēn tēs emporias sou kamatourgian periepoiēsō.
For if what is sung about you is true, that you wrote six thousand books, you toiler in vain, you have spent all your labour on reproaches and deceits of vanity, made your work empty and void, and, stumbling in the essentials, by which you falsified the resurrection, you have gained for yourself only the labour of your trade.
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Summary: Origen’s six thousand books were wasted effort.
- The editor’s bracket after ματαιόπονε, without an opening bracket, is ignored. φραούδως is read as φρούδως, “void”.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:501–502; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.9Holl GCS 25/31:502
εἰ γὰρ οὐκ ἀνίσταται τὸ σῶμα, οὐδὲ ἡ ψυχή τι κληρονομήσει. μία γὰρ κοὶ ἡ αὐτὴ κοιονωνία τοῦ τε σώματος καὶ τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ μία ἐργασία. κάμνουσι δὲ πιστοὶ ἐν σώματι καὶ ψυχῇ διὰ τὴν μετὰ ἀνάστασιν τῆς κληρονομίας ἐλπίδα, ἣτις κατὰ σὲ οὐ γενήσεται. ἄρα ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν <κενή>, κενὴ δὲ καὶ ἡ ἐλπὶς ἡμῶν κατὰ τὸν ἐκ πνεύματος ἀποστολικὸν καὶ ἀληθῆ λόγον.
ei gar ouk anistatai to sōma, oude hē psychē ti klēronomēsei. mia gar koi hē autē koionōnia tou te sōmatos kai tēs psychēs kai mia ergasia. kamnousi de pistoi en sōmati kai psychę̄ dia tēn meta anastasin tēs klēronomias elpida, hētis kata se ou genēsetai. ara hē pistis hēmōn <kenē>, kenē de kai hē elpis hēmōn kata ton ek pneumatos apostolikon kai alēthē logon.
For if the body does not rise, neither will the soul inherit anything. For the partnership of body and soul is one and the same, and their work is one. The faithful toil in body and soul because of the hope of the inheritance after the resurrection, which according to you will not happen. Then our faith is empty, and our hope is empty too, according to the true apostolic word spoken by the Spirit.
1 Cor 15:14 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Without bodily resurrection faith and hope are empty.
- 1 Cor 15:14, 17.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:502; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.10Holl GCS 25/31:502
ἀνάστασιν δὲ παλιμβόλως καὶ αὐτὸς ὁμολογῶν, πεφαντασιασμένην δ΄λοκησιν καὶ οὐκ ἀληθινῶς ἔχων ἀναγκάζῃ μόνον τὸ ὄνομα λέγειν. ἀνάστασις γὰρ ποία ψυχῆς δύναται λέγεσθαι τῆς μὴ πιπτούσης μηδὲ θαπτομένης;
anastasin de palimbolōs kai autos homologōn, pephantasiasmenēn d΄lokēsin kai ouk alēthinōs echōn anankazę̄ monon to onoma legein. anastasis gar poia psychēs dynatai legesthai tēs mē piptousēs mēde thaptomenēs?
And though you too confess a resurrection, unsteadily, holding it as an imagined appearance and not truly, you are forced to say only the name. For what kind of resurrection can be spoken of for a soul, which does not fall and is not buried?
Notes and citation
Summary: A soul, which does not fall, cannot “rise again.”
- Epiphanius plays on ἀνάστασις, a “standing up again” of what has fallen.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:502; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.11Holl GCS 25/31:502
ἀλλὰ δήλη ἐστὶν ἐκ τοῦ ὀνόματος ὃτι τοῦ πεσόντος σώματος καὶ ταφέντος ἡ ἀνά- στασις πανταχοῦ τε καὶ ἐν πάσῃ γραφῇ ἐστιν κηρυττομένη ὑπὸ τῶν υἱῶν τῆς ἀληθείας. εἰ δὲ οὐκ ἀνίσταται, οὐκ ἔνι ἡ διὰ πασῶν γραφῶν κηρυττομένη ἀνάστασις.
alla dēlē estin ek tou onomatos hoti tou pesontos sōmatos kai taphentos hē ana- stasis pantachou te kai en pasę̄ graphę̄ estin kēryttomenē hypo tōn huiōn tēs alētheias. ei de ouk anistatai, ouk eni hē dia pasōn graphōn kēryttomenē anastasis.
But it is clear from the name that the resurrection proclaimed everywhere and in all Scripture by the sons of truth is that of the body which fell and was buried. And if the body does not rise, there is no resurrection proclaimed through all the Scriptures.
Notes and citation
Summary: Resurrection means the rising of the buried body.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:502; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.12Holl GCS 25/31:502
εἰ δὲ ἀνάστασις οὐχ ὑπάρχει, ματαία ἡ τῆς τῶν νεκρῶν ἀναστάσεως προσδοκία. οὐ γὰρ ψυχῶν άνάστασις ἐστι τῶν μὴ πεσουσῶν, ἀλλὰ σωμάτων τῶν τεθαμμένων.
ei de anastasis ouch hyparchei, mataia hē tēs tōn nekrōn anastaseōs prosdokia. ou gar psychōn anastasis esti tōn mē pesousōn, alla sōmatōn tōn tethammenōn.
And if there is no resurrection, the expectation of the resurrection of the dead is vain. For there is no resurrection of souls, which have not fallen, but of bodies that have been buried.
Notes and citation
Summary: Resurrection belongs to buried bodies.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:502; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.13Holl GCS 25/31:502
εἰ δὲ καὶ μέρος τοῦ σώματος ἐγείρεται, μέρος δὲ ἀποτίθεται, ἄρα τοῦτο τὸ μέρος πῶς ἔσται; οὐ γὰρ δύναται ἐν σώματι εἶναι μέρη ἐγειρόμενα καὶ μέρη ἀποτιθέμενα καὶ καταλιμπανόμενα.
ei de kai meros tou sōmatos egeiretai, meros de apotithetai, ara touto to meros pōs estai? ou gar dynatai en sōmati einai merē egeiromena kai merē apotithemena kai katalimpanomena.
And if part of the body is raised and part laid aside, how then will this part be? For there cannot be in a body parts that are raised and parts that are laid aside and left behind.
Notes and citation
Summary: The body cannot rise only in part.
- Against Origen’s view that only the “form” of the body rises.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.13 (Holl GCS 25/31:502; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.14Holl GCS 25/31:502
Ὅτι δὲ ἔστι σῶμα ψυχικὸν καὶ ἔστι σῶμα πνευματικόν, οὐκ ἄλλο σῶμα πνευματικὸν καὶ ἄλλο ψυχικόν, ἀλλʼ αὐτὸ ψυχικὸν αὐτὸ πνευ- ματικόν, *.
Hoti de esti sōma psychikon kai esti sōma pneumatikon, ouk allo sōma pneumatikon kai allo psychikon, allʼ auto psychikon auto pneu- matikon, *.
That there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body, not one body spiritual and another natural, but the same body natural and the same spiritual, …
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1 Cor 15:44 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The natural and spiritual body are the same body.
- 1 Cor 15:44. The asterisk marks a gap at the end.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.14 (Holl GCS 25/31:502; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.15Holl GCS 25/31:502
ὃτε μὲν γάρ ἐσμεν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ καὶ τὰ σαρκὸς πράττομεν φθαρτὰ ἔργα, σώματα ἔχομεν φυχικά· δουλεύομεν γὰρ τῇ ψυχῇ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἐν ἀτοπίαις, ὡς καὶ σὺ ἔφης ἀπὸ μέρους.
hote men gar esmen en tǭ kosmǭ kai ta sarkos prattomen phtharta erga, sōmata echomen phychika; douleuomen gar tę̄ psychę̄ en tǭ kosmǭ en atopiais, hōs kai sy ephēs apo merous.
For when we are in the world and do the perishable works of the flesh, we have natural bodies; for we serve the soul in the world in unseemly things, as you too said in part.
Notes and citation
Summary: In this life our bodies are “natural.”
- ψυχικός, “natural”, is formed from ψυχή, “soul”.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.15 (Holl GCS 25/31:502; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.16Holl GCS 25/31:502–503
ὃτε δὲ ἐγειρόμεθα, οὐκέτι τῆς ψυχῆς ὴ δουλεία, ἀλλὰ πνεύματος ἡ ἀκολουθία, άτʼ ἐντεῦθεν ἤδη ἔχουσα τὸν ἀρραβῶνα διὰ τοῦ εἰρημένου »εἰ ζῶμεν πνεύματι, πνεύ- ματι καὶ στοιχῶμεν· εἰ δὲ καὶ πνεύματι στοιχῶμεν, τὰς πράξεις σώματος θανατοῦντες ζήσομεν( οὐκέτι γὰρ γάμοι.
hote de egeirometha, ouketi tēs psychēs ē douleia, alla pneumatos hē akolouthia, atʼ enteuthen ēdē echousa ton arrabōna dia tou eirēmenou »ei zōmen pneumati, pneu- mati kai stoichōmen; ei de kai pneumati stoichōmen, tas praxeis sōmatos thanatountes zēsomen( ouketi gar gamoi.
But when we are raised, there is no longer servitude to the soul but following of the Spirit, which already here has the pledge, through the saying, “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit; and if we walk by the Spirit, putting to death the deeds of the body, we shall live.” For there are no longer marriages,
Gal 5:25 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:13 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 1:22 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: The raised body follows the Spirit.
- Gal 5:25 combined with Rom 8:13; 2 Cor 1:22 (pledge).
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.16 (Holl GCS 25/31:502–503; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.63.17Holl GCS 25/31:503
οὐκέτι ἐπιθυμίαι, οὐκέτι ἀγῶνες τοῖς ἐγκράτειαν ἐπαγγελλομένοις, οὐκέτι παραπτώματα ἁγνείας ἀντίπαλα, οὐκέτι ἐνέργειαι αἱ ἐνταῦθα πραττόμεναι, ἀλλʼ, ὥς φησιν ὁ κύριος, οἱ καταξιωθέντες ἐκείνης τῆς ἀναστάσεως οὔτε γαμοῦσιν οὔτε γαμίσκονται, άλλ΄ ὡς ἄγγελοί εἰσιν.
ouketi epithymiai, ouketi agōnes tois enkrateian epangellomenois, ouketi paraptōmata hagneias antipala, ouketi energeiai hai entautha prattomenai, allʼ, hōs phēsin ho kyrios, hoi kataxiōthentes ekeinēs tēs anastaseōs oute gamousin oute gamiskontai, all΄ hōs angeloi eisin.
no longer desires, no longer struggles for those who profess continence, no longer falls opposed to purity, no longer the activities practised here; but, as the Lord says, those counted worthy of that resurrection neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels.
Luke 20:35 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 20:36 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 22:30 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: In the resurrection there is no marriage.
- Luke 20:35–36; Matt 22:30.
Topics: Eschatology, Marriage
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.63.17 (Holl GCS 25/31:503; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-63-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 64
64.64.1Holl GCS 25/31:503
64. Ὡς καὶ μετετέθη Ἐνὼχ τοῦ μὴ ἰδεῖν θάνατον, καὶ οὐχ ηὑρίσκετο. οὐ μετετέθη δὲ καὶ κατέλιπε τὸ σῶμα ἢ μέρος τοῦ εἰ γὰρ κατέλιπε τὸ σῶμα, εἶδεν ἄρα θάνατον· ὁ δὲ σώματι μετατεθεὶς οὐκ εἶδε θάνατον. ἐν σώματι γὰρ ζῶντι ὑπάρχει, Πνευματικῶς φερόμενος καὶ οὐ ψυχικῶς διὰ τὴν μετάθεσιν, καίτοι γε ἐν σώματι ὤν πνευματικῷ.
64. Hōs kai metetethē Enōch tou mē idein thanaton, kai ouch hēurisketo. ou metetethē de kai katelipe to sōma ē meros tou ei gar katelipe to sōma, eiden ara thanaton; ho de sōmati metatetheis ouk eide thanaton. en sōmati gar zōnti hyparchei, Pneumatikōs pheromenos kai ou psychikōs dia tēn metathesin, kaitoi ge en sōmati ōn pneumatikǭ.
So too Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and he was not found. But he was not translated leaving behind his body or part of it; for if he had left the body behind, he would have seen death. But he who was translated with the body did not see death. For he is in a living body, borne spiritually and not naturally because of the translation, though he is in a spiritual body.
Gen 5:24 (allusion, high confidence) · Heb 11:5 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Enoch was taken up bodily without seeing death.
- Gen 5:24; Heb 11:5. A word (probably σώματος) is missing after μέρος τοῦ; the missing opening bracket leaves the syntax loose.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.64.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:503; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-64-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.64.2Holl GCS 25/31:503
ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τοῦ Ηλία ὡσαύτως *, ὅτι ἀνελήφθη ἐν ἅρματι πυρίνῳ, καὶ έ)στιν ἔτι ἐν σαρκί, σαρκί δὲ πνευ- ματικῇ καὶ οὐκ ἐπιδεομένῃ τοῦ ἀεί, ὅτε έν τῷ κόσμῳ τούτῳ ὑπῆρχε, διὰ κοράκων τρέφεσθαι καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Χορρὰτ χειμάρρου πίνειν μηλωτήν τε ἐνδύεδθαι, ἀλλὰ τρέφεται ἑτέρᾳ τινὶ τροφῇ πνευματικῇ, ἡς ἐστι χορηγὸς ό τὰ κρύφια γινώσκων καὶ ἀόρατα κτίσας θεός, ἀμβροσίαν τινὰ καὶ ἀκήρατον ἔχων τὴν ἐδωδήν.
alla kai peri tou Ēlia hōsautōs *, hoti anelēphthē en harmati pyrinǭ, kai e)stin eti en sarki, sarki de pneu- matikę̄ kai ouk epideomenę̄ tou aei, hote en tǭ kosmǭ toutǭ hypērche, dia korakōn trephesthai kai apo tou Chorrat cheimarrou pinein mēlōtēn te endyedthai, alla trephetai heterą tini trophę̄ pneumatikę̄, hēs esti chorēgos o ta kryphia ginōskōn kai aorata ktisas theos, ambrosian tina kai akēraton echōn tēn edōdēn.
And likewise about Elijah …, that he was taken up in a chariot of fire, and is still in the flesh, but in spiritual flesh, which no longer needs, as when he was in this world, to be fed by ravens, to drink from the brook Cherith, and to wear a sheepskin; but he is fed with some other spiritual food, whose supplier is God who knows hidden things and created the invisible, and his food is a kind of pure ambrosia.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
2 Kgs 2:11 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Kgs 17:4 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Kgs 17:6 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 2:13 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Elijah lives in spiritual flesh, fed by God.
- 2 Kgs 2:11; 1 Kgs 17:4–6; 2 Kgs 2:13 (mantle). The asterisk marks a gap. The digital text has a stray character code (#x003E;). Χορράτ is Epiphanius’s form of Cherith.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (leaked character code): #x003E; → .
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.64.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:503; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-64-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.64.3Holl GCS 25/31:503
Καὶ όρᾷς αὐτὸ αὐτὸ τὸ σῶμα τὸ ψυχικὸν αὐτὸ πνευματικόν, ὡς καὶ ό κύριος ήμῶν ἀνέστη ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν, οὐκ ἄλλο σῶμα ἐγείρας, ἀλλʼ αὐτὸ τὸ ὄν, καὶ οὐχ ἕτερον παρὰ τὸ ὄν, αὐτὸ δὲ τὸ ὂν εἰς λεπτότητα μεταβαλὼν πνευματικὴν καὶ πνευματικὸν ὅλον συνενώσας, εἰσερχόμενος θυρῶν κεκλεισμένων,
Kai orąs auto auto to sōma to psychikon auto pneumatikon, hōs kai o kyrios ēmōn anestē ek tōn nekrōn, ouk allo sōma egeiras, allʼ auto to on, kai ouch heteron para to on, auto de to on eis leptotēta metabalōn pneumatikēn kai pneumatikon holon synenōsas, eiserchomenos thyrōn kekleismenōn,
And you see that the very same natural body is itself spiritual, as our Lord too rose from the dead, not raising another body but the very one that was, and not a different one besides it; but changing the very body that was into spiritual fineness and uniting it wholly as spiritual, entering when the doors were shut,
John 20:19 (allusion, high confidence) · John 20:26 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Christ rose in the same body, made spiritual.
- John 20:19, 26. αὐτό is doubled in the digital text.
Topics: Christology, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.64.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:503; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-64-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.64.4Holl GCS 25/31:503
ὃπερ οὐκ ἐνδέχεται κατὰ τὰ ἡμέτερα σώματα ἐνταῦθα ὑπάρχειν τοῦτο] διὰ τὸ παχυμερὲς καὶ οὔπω εἰς λεπτότητα συνενωθὲν πνευματικήν.
hoper ouk endechetai kata ta hēmetera sōmata entautha hyparchein touto] dia to pachymeres kai oupō eis leptotēta synenōthen pneumatikēn.
which is not possible for our bodies here, because of their coarseness, not yet united into spiritual fineness.
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Summary: Our bodies now cannot pass through doors.
- The editor’s bracket after τοῦτο, without an opening bracket, is ignored.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.64.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:503; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-64-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.64.5Holl GCS 25/31:503–504
τί οὖν ἦν τὸ εἰσελθὸν θυρῶν κεκλεισμένων; ἄλλο παρὰ τὸ ἐσταυρωμένον ἢ αὐτὸ τὸ ἀσταυ- ρωμένον; πάντως που οὐ δυνήσῃ, Ὠρίγενες, μὴ ὁμολογπῆσαι αὐτὸ τὸ ἐσταυρωμένον.
ti oun ēn to eiselthon thyrōn kekleismenōn? allo para to estaurōmenon ē auto to astau- rōmenon? pantōs pou ou dynēsę̄, Ōrigenes, mē homologpēsai auto to estaurōmenon.
What, then, was it that entered when the doors were shut? Something other than what was crucified, or the very thing that was crucified? Surely, Origen, you cannot avoid confessing that it was the very thing that was crucified.
John 20:26 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The body that passed through doors was the crucified one.
- John 20:26. The printed ἀσταυρωμένον is a slip for ἐσταυρωμένον; translated by sense.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.64.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:503–504; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-64-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.64.6Holl GCS 25/31:504
ἐλέγχει σε γὰρ διὰ τῆς τοῦ Θωμᾶ ἀκριβολογίας, ἐπειπὼν αὐτῷ μὴ γίνου ἄπιστος, ἀλλὰ πιστός«. ἔδειξε γὰρ ἤλων καὶ τύπον λογχης, καὶ αὐτὰς τὰς οὐλὰς ἀφῆκεν ἐπὶ τοῦ σώματος, καίπερ συνενώσας τὸ σῶμα εἰς μίαν ἑνότητα πνευματικήν.
elenchei se gar dia tēs tou Thōma akribologias, epeipōn autǭ mē ginou apistos, alla pistos«. edeixe gar ēlōn kai typon lonchēs, kai autas tas oulas aphēken epi tou sōmatos, kaiper synenōsas to sōma eis mian henotēta pneumatikēn.
For he refutes you through Thomas’s exactness, saying to him, “Do not be unbelieving, but believing.” For he showed the print of the nails and the spear, and left the scars themselves on the body, although he had united the body into one spiritual unity.
John 20:27 (quotation, high confidence) · John 20:25 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ showed Thomas his wounds.
- John 20:25–27.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.64.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:504; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-64-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.64.7Holl GCS 25/31:504
ἠδυνατο οὖν καὶ τὰς οὐλὰς ἀπαλεῖψαι, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἀπαλείφει, ἵνα ἐλέγξῃ δέ, ὠ θεήλατε. ἄρα οὖν ἠν τὸ σῶμα τὸ ἐν τῷ μνημείῳ ταφὲν τὸ τριή- μερον καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ ἀναστὰν ἐν τῇ ἀναστάδει. ἔδειξε γὰρ καὶ ὀστᾶ καὶ δέρμα καὶ σάρκας, ὡς εἴρηκεν ὅτι »ἴδετε ὃτι πνεῦμα σάρκα καὶ όστᾶ οὐκ ἔχει, ὡς ὸρᾶτέ με ἔχοντα«.
ēdynato oun kai tas oulas apaleipsai, allʼ ouk apaleiphei, hina elenxę̄ de, ō theēlate. ara oun ēn to sōma to en tǭ mnēmeiǭ taphen to triē- meron kai syn autǭ anastan en tę̄ anastadei. edeixe gar kai osta kai derma kai sarkas, hōs eirēken hoti »idete hoti pneuma sarka kai osta ouk echei, hōs orate me echonta«.
He could have erased the scars too, but he does not erase them, so that he might refute you, you god-smitten man. So it was the body buried in the tomb for three days that rose with him in the resurrection. For he showed bones and skin and flesh, as he said: “See, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
Luke 24:39 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The risen body had flesh and bones.
- Luke 24:39.
Topics: Christology, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.64.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:504; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-64-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.64.8Holl GCS 25/31:504
πῶς οὐν εἰσῆλθε θυρῶν κεκλεισμένων; ἀλλʼ ἵνα ἳνα δείξῃ σῶμα μέν ἐστι καὶ οὐ πνεῦμα τὸ ὁρώμενον, ἀλλὰ σῶμα πνευματικὸν καὶ οὐχ ὑλικόν, καίτοι γε σὺν ψυχῇ καὶ θεότητι καὶ ὅλῃ τῇ
pōs oun eisēlthe thyrōn kekleismenōn? allʼ hina hina deixę̄ sōma men esti kai ou pneuma to horōmenon, alla sōma pneumatikon kai ouch hylikon, kaitoi ge syn psychę̄ kai theotēti kai holę̄ tę̄
How then did he enter when the doors were shut? To show that what was seen is a body and not a spirit, but a spiritual body and not a material one, though with soul and Godhead and the whole
John 20:26 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The risen body is spiritual yet truly a body.
- ἵνα is doubled in the digital text.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.64.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:504; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-64-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.64.9Holl GCS 25/31:504
ἐνανθρωπήσει, αὐτὸ ὄν ἀλλὰ πνευματικόν, αὐτὸ τὸ ποτὲ παχυμερὲς λεπτομερές, αὐτὸ τὸ ἐσταυρωμένον * καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ κεκρατημένον ἀκράτητον, συνενωθὲν καὶ συγκραθὲν τῇ θεότητι καὶ μηκέτι λυόμενον, ἀλλʼ εἰς ἀεὶ διαμένον, μηκέτι άποθνῇσκον.
enanthrōpēsei, auto on alla pneumatikon, auto to pote pachymeres leptomeres, auto to estaurōmenon * kai auto to kekratēmenon akratēton, synenōthen kai synkrathen tę̄ theotēti kai mēketi lyomenon, allʼ eis aei diamenon, mēketi apothnę̄skon.
incarnation; the same but spiritual; the very thing once coarse now fine; the very thing that was crucified …; and the very thing that was seized now beyond seizing, united and blended with the Godhead and no longer dissolved, but remaining for ever and no longer dying.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
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Summary: The risen body is united with the Godhead for ever.
- The asterisk marks a gap.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.64.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:504; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-64-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.64.10Holl GCS 25/31:504
ἀνέστη γὰρ Χριστὸς ἐκ νεκρῶν, ἀπαρχὴ τῶν κεκοιμημένων«· <ἀναστὰς δὲ> οὐκέτι ἀποθνῄσκει, θάνατος αὐτοῦ οὐκέτι κυριευει«.
anestē gar Christos ek nekrōn, aparchē tōn kekoimēmenōn«; <anastas de> ouketi apothnę̄skei, thanatos autou ouketi kyrieuei«.
For “Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep”; and having risen “he dies no more; death no longer has dominion over him.”
1 Cor 15:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 6:9 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Christ, the firstfruits, dies no more.
- 1 Cor 15:20; Rom 6:9.
Topics: Christology, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.64.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:504; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-64-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Haer. 64, chapter 65
64.65.1Holl GCS 25/31:504
65. Ἳνα δὲ γνῷς καὶ τοῦτο, διʼ ἣν αἰτίαν »άπαρχὴ τῶν κεκοιμημένων« λέγεται ό Χρωτός — καίτοι γε οὐκ αὐτοῦ ἀρξαμένου άνίστασθαι· πρὸ αὐτοῦ γὰρ ἀνέστησαν διʼ αὐτοῦ Λάζαρος καὶ ὸ υἱὸς τῆς χήρας, καὶ ἄλλοι καὶ διὰ Ηλια καὶ διὰ Ἐλισσαίου.
65. Hina de gnǭs kai touto, diʼ hēn aitian »aparchē tōn kekoimēmenōn« legetai o Chrōtos — kaitoi ge ouk autou arxamenou anistasthai; pro autou gar anestēsan diʼ autou Lazaros kai o huios tēs chēras, kai alloi kai dia Ēlia kai dia Elissaiou.
And that you may know this too, the reason why Christ is called “the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep,” although he was not the first to rise; for before him Lazarus and the widow’s son rose through him, and others through Elijah and through Elisha.
1 Cor 15:20 (quotation, high confidence) · John 11:44 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 7:15 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Kgs 17:22 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 4:35 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Others rose before Christ.
- 1 Cor 15:20; John 11:43–44; Luke 7:14–15; 1 Kgs 17:22; 2 Kgs 4:35.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.1 (Holl GCS 25/31:504; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.2Holl GCS 25/31:504
ἀλλʼ ἐπειδὴ ἐκεῖνοι πάντες άναστάντες πάλιν τεθνήκασιν, οὕτω καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς ἀπαρχὴ τῶν κεκοιμημένων. ἀναστὰς γὰρ οὐκέτι ἀποθνᾐσκει«, ὡς † ἡ ἀνάστασις εἶναι διὰ τῆς αὐτοῦ ζωῆς καὶ φιλανθρωπὶας.
allʼ epeidē ekeinoi pantes anastantes palin tethnēkasin, houtō kai ho Christos aparchē tōn kekoimēmenōn. anastas gar ouketi apothnę̄skei«, hōs † hē anastasis einai dia tēs autou zōēs kai philanthrōpias.
But since all those, after rising, died again, Christ is thus the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For “having risen he dies no more,” so that † the resurrection may be through his life and love for mankind.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Rom 6:9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ is firstfruits because he dies no more.
- Rom 6:9. The dagger marks a corrupt passage.
Topics: Christology, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.2 (Holl GCS 25/31:504; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.3Holl GCS 25/31:504–505
εἰ δέ ἐστιν ἀπαρχὴ τῶν κεκοιμημένων καὶ ἀνέστη ὃλον τὸ αὐτοῦ σῶμα σὺν τῇ θεότητι, φαίνεται > ἡ αὐτοῦ ἐνανθρώπησις ἀναστᾶσα, καὶ] μηδενὸς ἐξ αὐτῆς καταλειφθέντος, οὔτε σώματος οὔτε ἑτέρου τινός· »οὐ γὰρ ἐγκαταλείψεις τὴν ψυχήν μου εἰς Ἃιδην, οὐδὲ δώσεις τὸν ὅσιόν σου ἰδεῖν διαφθοράν«.
ei de estin aparchē tōn kekoimēmenōn kai anestē holon to autou sōma syn tę̄ theotēti, phainetai > hē autou enanthrōpēsis anastasa, kai] mēdenos ex autēs kataleiphthentos, oute sōmatos oute heterou tinos; »ou gar enkataleipseis tēn psychēn mou eis Haidēn, oude dōseis ton hosion sou idein diaphthoran«.
And if he is the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep, and his whole body rose with the Godhead, it is plain that his incarnate humanity rose, with nothing of it left behind, neither body nor anything else: “For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let your holy one see corruption.”
Ps 16:10 (15:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 2:27 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ’s whole humanity rose, as the psalm foretold.
- Ps 16:10 (15:10 LXX), cited as in Acts 2:27. Stray bracket marks in the digital text are ignored.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.3 (Holl GCS 25/31:504–505; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.4Holl GCS 25/31:505
καὶ τὸ μὲν περὶ ψυχῆς ἐν τῷ Ἂιδῃ σημαίνει τὸ μὴ καταλελεῖφθαι, τὸ δέ τὸν ὅσιον‘, ἵνα δείξῃ τὸ ὅσιον σῶμα τὸ] μὴ ἑωρακὸς διαφθοράν, άλλὰ ἀναστὰν ἄφθορον τριήμερον καὶ τῇ ἀφθαρσίᾳ συνηνωμένον εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
kai to men peri psychēs en tǭ Aidę̄ sēmainei to mē kataleleiphthai, to de ton hosion‘, hina deixę̄ to hosion sōma to] mē heōrakos diaphthoran, alla anastan aphthoron triēmeron kai tę̄ aphtharsią synēnōmenon eis ton aiōna.
And the words about the soul in Hades signify that it was not left there, while “your holy one” shows that the holy body did not see corruption but rose incorrupt on the third day and was united with incorruption for ever.
Ps 16:10 (15:10 LXX) (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Neither soul nor body of Christ was left to death.
- Ps 16:10.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.4 (Holl GCS 25/31:505; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.5Holl GCS 25/31:505
Σὺ δὲ φάσκεις, ὠ οὑτος, ταῦτα τὰ σώματα εἶναι τοὺς δερματίνους χιτῶνας, οὐδαμοῦ τῆς ἀκολουθίας τοῦτο ἐχούσης, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὰ ἐν σοὶ άπʼ ἀρχῆς σπέρματα καταβληθέντα τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐθνομέθου διδασκαλίας καὶ διὰ τὸν ἐκεῖθεν παροξυνθέ σοὶ κακότροπον λογισμὸν τῆς περὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως ἀπιστίας, φημὶ δὲ τῶν Ἑλλήνων σε εἰς τοῦτο ἀγαγόντον καὶ διδαξάντων.
Sy de phaskeis, ō houtos, tauta ta sōmata einai tous dermatinous chitōnas, oudamou tēs akolouthias touto echousēs, alla dia ta en soi apʼ archēs spermata katablēthenta tēs apo tōn Hellēnōn ethnomethou didaskalias kai dia ton ekeithen paroxynthe soi kakotropon logismon tēs peri tēs anastaseōs apistias, phēmi de tōn Hellēnōn se eis touto agagonton kai didaxantōn.
But you say, sir, that these bodies are the tunics of skin, though the sequence of the text nowhere has this; you say it because of the seeds of the Greeks’ heathen teaching sown in you from the beginning, and because of the perverse reasoning of unbelief about the resurrection provoked in you from there; I mean that the Greeks led you to this and taught it to you.
Gen 3:21 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Origen’s reading of the tunics comes from Greek teaching.
- Gen 3:21. ἐθνομέθου and παροξυνθέ are garbled; translated by sense.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.5 (Holl GCS 25/31:505; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.6Holl GCS 25/31:505
»ὁ γὰρ ψυχικὸς ἄνθρωπος« φησίν »ού δέχεται τὰ τοῦ πνεύματος· μωρία γὰρ αὐτῷ ἐστιν, ὃτι πνευματικῶς ἀνακρίνεται«.
»ho gar psychikos anthrōpos« phēsin »ou dechetai ta tou pneumatos; mōria gar autǭ estin, hoti pneumatikōs anakrinetai«.
“For the natural man,” he says, “does not receive the things of the Spirit; for they are foolishness to him, because they are spiritually discerned.”
1 Cor 2:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The natural man cannot receive spiritual things.
- 1 Cor 2:14.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.6 (Holl GCS 25/31:505; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.7Holl GCS 25/31:505
εἰ μὲν γὰρ πρὸ τῆς παρακοῆς οἱ χιτῶνες τοῖς περὶ τὸν Ἀδὰμ ἐγένοντο, πιθανὸν | ἂν ἦν σου τὸ ψεῦσμα καὶ δυνάμενον ἐξαπατῆσαι· ὃτε δὲ φαίνεται κατὰ τὸ τὴν Εὔαν πλασθῆναι *. πόθεν δὴ ἄρα ἐπλάσσετο; ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ σώματος δῆλον· »ἐπέβαλε« γάρ φησιν »ἔκστασιν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀδάμ, καὶ ἔλαβε μίαν ἐκ τῶν πλευρῶν αὐτοῦ«.
ei men gar pro tēs parakoēs hoi chitōnes tois peri ton Adam egenonto, pithanon | an ēn sou to pseusma kai dynamenon exapatēsai; hote de phainetai kata to tēn Euan plasthēnai *. pothen dē ara eplasseto? alla apo sōmatos dēlon; »epebale« gar phēsin »ekstasin epi ton Adam, kai elabe mian ek tōn pleurōn autou«.
For if the tunics had been made for Adam and his wife before the disobedience, your lie would have been plausible and able to deceive. But since it appears that at the forming of Eve … From what, then, was she formed? Plainly from a body. For “he cast a trance upon Adam,” it says, “and took one of his ribs.”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Gen 2:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Eve was formed from Adam’s body, before any tunics.
- Gen 2:21. The asterisk marks a gap.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.7 (Holl GCS 25/31:505; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.8Holl GCS 25/31:505
πλευρὰ δὲ οὐδὲν ἓτερον τυγχάνει ἀλλὰ ᾠκοδόμησε ᾠκοδόμησε γὰρ σάρκα άντʼ αὐτῆς‘. σαρκὸς δὲ ὀνομαζομενης πῶς ἔτι προσδοκᾶται ἡ ταύτης ποίησις;
pleura de ouden heteron tynchanei alla ǭkodomēse ǭkodomēse gar sarka antʼ autēs‘. sarkos de onomazomenēs pōs eti prosdokatai hē tautēs poiēsis?
And a rib is nothing else [than a bone]; for “he built up flesh in its place.” And since flesh is named, how is the making of it still awaited?
Gen 2:21 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Flesh existed before the tunics of skin.
- Gen 2:21. The text is defective after ἕτερον; ᾠκοδόμησε is doubled in the digital text. Translated by sense.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.8 (Holl GCS 25/31:505; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.9Holl GCS 25/31:505
καὶ ἀνωτέρω φησί ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον κατʼ εἰκόνα ἡμετέραν καὶ καθʼ »καὶ ἔλαβε« φησί »χοῦν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἔπλασε τὸν ἄνθρωπον«.
kai anōterō phēsi poiēsōmen anthrōpon katʼ eikona hēmeteran kai kathʼ »kai elabe« phēsi »choun apo tēs gēs, kai eplase ton anthrōpon«.
And earlier it says, “Let us make man in our image and likeness”; and “he took,” it says, “dust from the earth and formed man.”
Gen 1:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 2:7 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Man was formed from dust.
- Gen 1:26; Gen 2:7. The text is defective after καθʼ.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.9 (Holl GCS 25/31:505; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.10Holl GCS 25/31:505
ὸ δὲ χοῦς καὶ σὰρξ οὐδὲν ἓτερόν ἐστιν ἀλλὰ σῶμα. εἶτα μετέπειτα καὶ ἀναστὰς Αδὰμ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὓπνου εἶπε, τοῦτο ὀστοῦν ἐκ τῶν ὀσ- τῶν μου καὶ σὰρξ ἐκ τῆς σαρκός μου.«
o de chous kai sarx ouden heteron estin alla sōma. eita metepeita kai anastas Adam apo tou hypnou eipe, touto ostoun ek tōn os- tōn mou kai sarx ek tēs sarkos mou.«
And dust and flesh are nothing other than body. Then afterwards Adam, rising from sleep, said, “This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh.”
Gen 2:23 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Adam recognized Eve as bone and flesh.
- Gen 2:23.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.10 (Holl GCS 25/31:505; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.11Holl GCS 25/31:505–506
οὔπω δὲ χιτῶνες δερμάτινοι, οὔπω τὸ παρὰ σοῦ ψεῦσμα ἀλληγορούμενον ὑπῆρχεν. ὀστοῦν τοίνυν ἐκ τῶν ὀστῶν μου καὶ σὰρξ ἐκ τῶν σαρκῶν μου, δῆλον ὅτε σώματα ἦσαν καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἀσώματος ὁ Αδὰμ καὶ ἡ Ευα.
oupō de chitōnes dermatinoi, oupō to para sou pseusma allēgoroumenon hypērchen. ostoun toinyn ek tōn ostōn mou kai sarx ek tōn sarkōn mou, dēlon hote sōmata ēsan kai ouk ēn asōmatos ho Adam kai hē Eua.
There were not yet tunics of skin; your allegorized lie did not yet exist. “Bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh”: it is clear that they were bodies, and that Adam and Eve were not bodiless.
Gen 2:23 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Adam and Eve had bodies before the tunics.
- Gen 2:23; Gen 3:21.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.11 (Holl GCS 25/31:505–506; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.12Holl GCS 25/31:506
καὶ ἔλαβεν ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου καὶ ἔφαγεν«, ὡς ὑπενοθεύθη ὑπὸ τοῦ ὄφεως καὶ γέγονεν ἐν παρακοῇ, »καὶ ἤκουσε τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ θεοῦ περιπατοῦντος ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ τὸ δειλινόν, καὶ ἐκρύβη ὁ Αδὰμ καὶ ἡ Εὔα ἐν τῷ ξύλῳ«. καὶ ὁ θεός φησι τῷ Αδάμ ποῦ εἶ«; ό δὲ ἐλεγχόμενος ἀποκρίνεται τὴν φωνήν σου ἤκουσα καὶ ἐκρύβην, ὃτι γυμνός εἰμι«.
kai elaben apo tou xylou kai ephagen«, hōs hypenotheuthē hypo tou opheōs kai gegonen en parakoę̄, »kai ēkouse tēn phōnēn tou theou peripatountos en tǭ paradeisǭ to deilinon, kai ekrybē ho Adam kai hē Eua en tǭ xylǭ«. kai ho theos phēsi tǭ Adam pou ei«? o de elenchomenos apokrinetai tēn phōnēn sou ēkousa kai ekrybēn, hoti gymnos eimi«.
“And she took from the tree and ate,” when she had been corrupted by the serpent and fell into disobedience; “and he heard the voice of God walking in paradise in the afternoon, and Adam and Eve hid among the trees.” And God says to Adam, “Where are you?” And he, convicted, answers, “I heard your voice and hid, because I am naked.”
Gen 3:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:10 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The fall and Adam’s hiding.
- Gen 3:6, 8–10.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.12 (Holl GCS 25/31:506; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.13Holl GCS 25/31:506
γυμνὸν δὲ ἄρα ποῖον ἔλεγε; τὴν ψυχὴν ἔλεγεν ἢ τὸ σῶμα; τὰ δὲ φύλλα τῆς συκῆς τίνα ἔσκεπε, τὴν ψυχὴν ἤ τὸ σῶμα;
gymnon de ara poion elege? tēn psychēn elegen ē to sōma? ta de phylla tēs sykēs tina eskepe, tēn psychēn ē to sōma?
What, then, did he call naked? Did he mean the soul or the body? And whom did the fig leaves cover, the soul or the body?
Gen 3:7 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Nakedness and fig leaves concern the body.
- Gen 3:7, 10.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.13 (Holl GCS 25/31:506; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.14Holl GCS 25/31:506
καὶ τίς σοι εἶπε« φησίν »ὃτι γυμνὸς εἶ εἰ μὴ ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου οὗ ἐνετειλάμην σοὶ τού- του μόνου μὴ φαγεῖν ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, ἔφαγες«; καί φησιν ἡ γυνὴ ἥν ἔδωκάς μοι δέδωκέν μοι, καὶ «. πόθεν δὲ ἐδόθη ἡ γυνὴ ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ τῆς πλευρᾶς τουτέστιν ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος, πρὶν ἢ τοὺς χιτῶνας αὐτοῖς δοθῆναι; καὶ τῇ γυναικί φησι τί ὃτι τοῦτο ἐποίησας‘;
kai tis soi eipe« phēsin »hoti gymnos ei ei mē apo tou xylou hou eneteilamēn soi tou- tou monou mē phagein apʼ autou, ephages«? kai phēsin hē gynē hēn edōkas moi dedōken moi, kai «. pothen de edothē hē gynē alla apo tēs pleuras toutestin apo tou sōmatos, prin ē tous chitōnas autois dothēnai? kai tę̄ gynaiki phēsi ti hoti touto epoiēsas‘?
“And who told you,” he says, “that you are naked, unless you ate from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, from that one alone?” And the woman says, “The woman you gave me gave to me, and [I ate].” But from where was the woman given, if not from the rib, that is, from the body, before the tunics were given to them? And he says to the woman, “Why have you done this?”
Gen 3:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:13 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Eve came from Adam’s body before the tunics.
- Gen 3:11–13. The words are Adam’s, though the printed text says “the woman”; the quotation is incomplete.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.14 (Holl GCS 25/31:506; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.15Holl GCS 25/31:506
ἡ δὲ εἶπεν ὁ ὄφις ἠπάτησέ με καὶ ἔφαγον καὶ ἔδωκα καὶ τῷ ἀνδρί μου«. ὁ δὲ θεὸς τῷ ὄφει ἐπιφέρει τὴν κατάραν καὶ τῇ γυναικὶ τὴν ὀδύνην καὶ τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ τὸ ἐν ἱδρῶτι φαγεῖν τὸν ἄρτον.
hē de eipen ho ophis ēpatēse me kai ephagon kai edōka kai tǭ andri mou«. ho de theos tǭ ophei epipherei tēn kataran kai tę̄ gynaiki tēn odynēn kai tǭ anthrōpǭ to en hidrōti phagein ton arton.
And she said, “The serpent deceived me and I ate, and I gave to my husband too.” And God lays the curse on the serpent, pain on the woman, and on the man eating bread in sweat.
Gen 3:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:14 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 3:16 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 3:19 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The punishments after the fall.
- Gen 3:13–19.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.15 (Holl GCS 25/31:506; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.16Holl GCS 25/31:506
καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα λέγει »ἰδού, Ἀδὰμ γέγονεν ὡς εἶς ἐξ ἡμῶν· μή ποτε ἐκτείνῃ χεῖρα καὶ ἃψηται τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς καὶ ζήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα«.
kai meta tauta legei »idou, Adam gegonen hōs eis ex hēmōn; mē pote ekteinę̄ cheira kai hapsētai tou xylou tēs zōēs kai zēsetai eis ton aiōna«.
And after this he says, “Behold, Adam has become like one of us; lest he stretch out his hand and touch the tree of life and live for ever.”
Gen 3:22 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: God bars Adam from the tree of life.
- Gen 3:22.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.16 (Holl GCS 25/31:506; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.17Holl GCS 25/31:506
καὶ μὴ ὑπολάβῃς δέ, ἀκροατά, ὅτι ἀποφαντικῶς εἶπεν ὁ κύριος ὃτι »ἰδού, Ἀδὰμ γέγονεν ὡς εἷς ἐξ ἡμῶν«. ἐλεγκτικῶς γάρ, τοῦ Αδὰμ πεισθέντος τῇ πλάνῃ τοῦ ὄφεως μεμφόμενος λέγει· μὴ ὃ ἐνόμισε γενέσθαι ἐγένετο, τουτέστιν μὴ Αδὰμ γέγονεν ὡς εἶς ἐξ ἡμῶν· ἐπιθυμήσας γὰρ Αδὰμ ὑψηλότερος γενέσθαι εἰς τὸ ἧττον ἐξέπεσε.
kai mē hypolabę̄s de, akroata, hoti apophantikōs eipen ho kyrios hoti »idou, Adam gegonen hōs heis ex hēmōn«. elenktikōs gar, tou Adam peisthentos tę̄ planę̄ tou opheōs memphomenos legei; mē ho enomise genesthai egeneto, toutestin mē Adam gegonen hōs eis ex hēmōn; epithymēsas gar Adam hypsēloteros genesthai eis to hētton exepese.
And do not suppose, hearer, that the Lord said as a statement, “Behold, Adam has become like one of us.” He says it by way of reproof, blaming Adam for having been persuaded by the serpent’s deceit: has what he thought would happen happened, that is, has Adam become like one of us? For Adam, desiring to become higher, fell into something lower.
Gen 3:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:5 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: “Like one of us” is ironic reproof.
- Gen 3:22; Gen 3:5.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.17 (Holl GCS 25/31:506; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.18Holl GCS 25/31:506
τὸ δέ »ἐκβάλωμεν αὐτόν, μή ποτε ἐκτείνῃ τὴν χεῖρα εἰς τὸ ξύλον τῆς ζωῆς καὶ φάγῃ καὶ ζήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα« οὐ φθο- νῶν ὁ θεὸς λέγει, ἀλλὰ ἐπεμέλετο τοῦ ἐλαττωθέντος σκεύους δι ἑαυτοῦ, ἴνα μὴ μείνῃ ἠλαττωμένον εἰς τὸ διηνεκές·
to de »ekbalōmen auton, mē pote ekteinę̄ tēn cheira eis to xylon tēs zōēs kai phagę̄ kai zēsetai eis ton aiōna« ou phtho- nōn ho theos legei, alla epemeleto tou elattōthentos skeuous di heautou, ina mē meinę̄ ēlattōmenon eis to diēnekes;
And “let us cast him out, lest he stretch out his hand to the tree of life and eat and live for ever” God says not from envy, but because he cared for the vessel that had been diminished through its own fault, so that it might not remain diminished for ever;
Gen 3:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:23 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Adam was expelled out of care, not envy.
- Gen 3:22–23.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.18 (Holl GCS 25/31:506; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.19Holl GCS 25/31:506–507
ἀλλʼ ὡς ἄριστος κεραμεὺς τὸ βλαβὲν δέ ἑαυτοῦ ἀγγεῖον ἐπιστρέψας εἰς τὸ ἴδιον φύραμα τὴν γὴν, ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει ἀναπλάσῃ ἐν μηδενὶ ἠλαττωμένον τὸν δίκαιον, ἐν δόξῃ ἀθάνατον καὶ δυνάμενον ἀπολαύειν τῆς βασιλείας, καὶ τὸν ἄδικον ἐν τῇ τελείᾳ ἀναστάσει δυνάμενον ὑποφέρειν τῆς κρίσεως τὴν τιμωρίαν.
allʼ hōs aristos kerameus to blaben de heautou angeion epistrepsas eis to idion phyrama tēn gēn, en tę̄ anastasei anaplasę̄ en mēdeni ēlattōmenon ton dikaion, en doxę̄ athanaton kai dynamenon apolauein tēs basileias, kai ton adikon en tę̄ teleią anastasei dynamenon hypopherein tēs kriseōs tēn timōrian.
but that, like the best potter, returning the vessel damaged through its own fault to its own lump, the earth, he might at the resurrection remould the righteous man diminished in nothing, immortal in glory and able to enjoy the kingdom, and the unrighteous man, in the complete resurrection, able to bear the punishment of the judgment.
Jer 18:4 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 9:21 (echo, low confidence)
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Summary: God, like a potter, will remould man at the resurrection.
- Jer 18:4–6; Rom 9:21.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.19 (Holl GCS 25/31:506–507; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.20Holl GCS 25/31:507
οὐ γὰρ πονηρόν τι ἐφύτευσεν ὁ θεός· μὴ γένοιτο, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ ξύλον ἐφύτευσε, καιρῷ δεκτῷ] δέοντι διὰ τοῦ ἰδίου προστάγματος ἐπιτρέπων αὐτῷ λαβεῖν ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ.
ou gar ponēron ti ephyteusen ho theos; mē genoito, alla kai auto to xylon ephyteuse, kairǭ dektǭ] deonti dia tou idiou prostagmatos epitrepōn autǭ labein apʼ autou.
For God planted nothing evil, God forbid; but he planted that tree too, intending to permit him to take of it at the proper time by his own command.
Notes and citation
Summary: The tree of life was meant to be given in due time.
- A stray bracket after δεκτῷ is ignored.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.20 (Holl GCS 25/31:507; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.21Holl GCS 25/31:507
ἀλλʼ ἐρεῖς δέ ἐναντίας· πῶς οὖν πληροῦται τό »ἐν ᾗ δʼ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ φάγησθε ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, θανάτῳ ἀποθανεῖσθε«, εἴπερ εἶχε ἐξ αὐτοῦ; πάντως γὰρ φαγὼν οἵῳ δή ποτε καιρῷ ἐπλήρου τό »θανάτῳ ἀποθανεπισθε«.
allʼ ereis de enantias; pōs oun plēroutai to »en hę̄ dʼ an hēmerą phagēsthe apʼ autou, thanatǭ apothaneisthe«, eiper eiche ex autou? pantōs gar phagōn hoiǭ dē pote kairǭ eplērou to »thanatǭ apothanepisthe«.
But you will say the opposite: how then is “on the day you eat of it you shall surely die” fulfilled, if he could have had it? For in eating at whatever time, he would surely have fulfilled “you shall surely die.”
Gen 2:17 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: An objection from Gen 2:17.
- Gen 2:17. Epiphanius’s argument is compressed here.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.21 (Holl GCS 25/31:507; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.22Holl GCS 25/31:507
πρὸς δὲ τὸν τοῦτο λέγοντα πάλιν φημί »ὁ θεὸς <ὁ> εἰδὼς τὰ μέλλοντα πρὶν γενέσθαι, γινώσκων πρὸ τοῦ προστάγματος ὅτι ἀπατῃθεὶς ἤσθιεν ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, αύτοῦ, τὸν θάνατον διὰ τὴν μέλλουσαν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ παράβασιν γενέσθαι.
pros de ton touto legonta palin phēmi »ho theos <ho> eidōs ta mellonta prin genesthai, ginōskōn pro tou prostagmatos hoti apatę̄theis ēsthien apʼ autou, autou, ton thanaton dia tēn mellousan hypʼ autou parabasin genesthai.
To one who says this I reply again: God, who knows the future before it happens, knowing before the command that Adam would be deceived and eat of it, [said that] death [would] come because of the transgression he was about to commit.
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Summary: God foreknew the transgression and its penalty.
- The sentence is defective (αὐτοῦ doubled; a verb is missing); translated by sense.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.22 (Holl GCS 25/31:507; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.23Holl GCS 25/31:507
έν τούτῳ γὰρ πλανώμεναι αἱ αἱρέσεις βλασφημοῦσι τὸν θεὸν λέγουσαι »καλὸς ὁ θεὸς τοῦ νόμου ὅτι ἐφθόνησε τῷ Ἀδὰμ καὶ ἐξέβαλεν αὐτὸν ἐκβάλωμεν αὐτόν, μή ποτε ἐκτείνῃ τὴν χεῖρα καὶ λάβῃ τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς, καὶ ζήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα«.
en toutǭ gar planōmenai hai haireseis blasphēmousi ton theon legousai »kalos ho theos tou nomou hoti ephthonēse tǭ Adam kai exebalen auton ekbalōmen auton, mē pote ekteinę̄ tēn cheira kai labę̄ tou xylou tēs zōēs, kai zēsetai eis ton aiōna«.
For in this the heresies err and blaspheme God, saying, “A fine God of the law, who envied Adam and cast him out: ‘Let us cast him out, lest he stretch out his hand and take of the tree of life, and live for ever.’”
Gen 3:22 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Heretics accuse the God of the law of envy.
- Gen 3:22–23. The argument is that of Marcionite and gnostic groups.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.23 (Holl GCS 25/31:507; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.24Holl GCS 25/31:507
ἐλέγχεται δὲ αὐτῶν ἡ ἄνοια συκοφαντοῦσα. καὶ γὰρ οὐ μόνον οὐκ ἐκώλυσε φαγεῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ζύλου τῆς ζωῆς ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς, ἀλλὰ καὶ προετρέψατο φήσας »ἀπὸ παντὸς ξύλου τοῦ έν τῷ παραδείσῳ βρώσει φάγῃ«. ἠν δὲκαὶ τῆς ζωῆς ἀπὸ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ξύλων τοῦ παραδείσου > πρὸ ἀφθαλμῶν τοῦ Αδάμ.
elenchetai de autōn hē anoia sykophantousa. kai gar ou monon ouk ekōlyse phagein apo tou zylou tēs zōēs apʼ archēs, alla kai proetrepsato phēsas »apo pantos xylou tou en tǭ paradeisǭ brōsei phagę̄«. ēn dekai tēs zōēs apo apo pantōn tōn xylōn tou paradeisou > pro aphthalmōn tou Adam.
But their slanderous folly is refuted. For not only did he not forbid eating from the tree of life from the beginning, he even encouraged it, saying, “From every tree in paradise you may eat for food.” And the tree of life too, among all the trees of paradise, was before Adam’s eyes.
Gen 2:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 2:9 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God had permitted the tree of life from the start.
- Gen 2:16; Gen 2:9. ἀπό is doubled in the digital text.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.24 (Holl GCS 25/31:507; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.25Holl GCS 25/31:507
μόνου δὲ τοῦ ξύλου τοῦ ειδέναι γνωστὸν ἀγαθοῦ τε καὶ κακοῦ εἶπε μὴ φαγεῖν. ἡ δὲ τοῦ Αδὰμ ἄπληστος διάνοια ἀκέραιος οὐσα καὶ * τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ Εὔας ἀπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου ἀπατηθείσης μᾶλλον ἐναντίον τῆς ἐντολῆς εἰργάσατο.
monou de tou xylou tou eidenai gnōston agathou te kai kakou eipe mē phagein. hē de tou Adam aplēstos dianoia akeraios ousa kai * tēs gynaikos autou Euas apo tou diabolou apatētheisēs mallon enantion tēs entolēs eirgasato.
Only of the tree of knowing good and evil did he say not to eat. But Adam’s insatiable mind, though innocent, and … when his wife Eve had been deceived by the devil, acted rather against the commandment.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Gen 2:17 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Adam broke the one prohibition.
- Gen 2:17; Gen 3:6. The asterisk marks a gap.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.25 (Holl GCS 25/31:507; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.26Holl GCS 25/31:507–508
ἐπειδὴ οὖν ἐν ἐλαττώματι γέγονεν διʼ ἑαυτοῦ ὁ Αδάμ, οὐκ ἠθέλησεν αὐτὸν ὁ θεὸς ζῆν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα έν ἐλαττώματι, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἄριστος κεραμεὺς εἰς τὸ ἔδιον φύραμα τὸ ἀφανισθὲν σκεῦος διʼ ἑαυτοῦ ηἠδόκησε μεταβαλεῖν, ἳνα ἐν τῇ παλιγγενεσίᾳ ἐκ τοῦ ἐδίου φυράματος πάλιν ὡς ἐπὶ τὸν τροχὸν μεταβάλλοι, ἀνασκευάσας καὶ ἀνακαινίσας τὸ σκεῦος ἄνευ ἐλαττώματος εἰς τὸ δύνασθαι διηνεκῶς ζῆν.
epeidē oun en elattōmati gegonen diʼ heautou ho Adam, ouk ēthelēsen auton ho theos zēn eis ton aiōna en elattōmati, allʼ hōs aristos kerameus eis to edion phyrama to aphanisthen skeuos diʼ heautou ēēdokēse metabalein, hina en tę̄ palingenesią ek tou ediou phyramatos palin hōs epi ton trochon metaballoi, anaskeuasas kai anakainisas to skeuos aneu elattōmatos eis to dynasthai diēnekōs zēn.
Since, then, Adam fell into diminishment by his own fault, God did not wish him to live for ever in diminishment; but like the best potter he was pleased to return the vessel spoiled by its own fault to its own lump, so that at the regeneration he might remake it from its own lump as on the wheel, reshaping and renewing the vessel without flaw, so that it could live for ever.
Jer 18:4 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 19:28 (echo, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God returns man to earth to remake him at the regeneration.
- Jer 18:4; Matt 19:28 (regeneration).
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.26 (Holl GCS 25/31:507–508; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.27Holl GCS 25/31:508
ἔνθεν τὸ πρῶτον μὲν ἀπειλεῖ θάνατον, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον οὐκέτι θάνατον λέγει, ἀλλὰ »γῆ καὶ εἰς γῆν ἀπελεύσῃ«, μὴ παραδεδωκὼς θανάτῳ τὸν ἄνθρωπον.
enthen to prōton men apeilei thanaton, to de deuteron ouketi thanaton legei, alla »gē kai eis gēn apeleusę̄«, mē paradedōkōs thanatǭ ton anthrōpon.
Hence at first he threatens death, but the second time he no longer speaks of death but says, “Earth, and to earth you shall go,” not handing man over to death.
Gen 3:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 2:17 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God’s sentence speaks of earth, not death.
- Gen 2:17; Gen 3:19.
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.27 (Holl GCS 25/31:508; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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64.65.28Holl GCS 25/31:508
* * καὶ μεθʼ ἓτερα καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς χιτῶνας δερματίους καὶ ἐνέδυσε τοὺς περὶ τὸν Ἀδὰμ καὶ ἐξέβαλεν αὐτοὺς ἐκ τοῦ παραδείσου«. ὁρᾷς ὃτι μάταιος ἡ σοῦ σοῦ καινοτομουμένη κενοφωνία, Ὠρίγενες. πρὸ πόσου γὰρ χρόνου ᾖσαν σώματα τοῖς περὶ τὸν Ἀδάμ.
* * kai methʼ hetera kai epoiēsen ho theos chitōnas dermatious kai enedyse tous peri ton Adam kai exebalen autous ek tou paradeisou«. horąs hoti mataios hē sou sou kainotomoumenē kenophōnia, Ōrigenes. pro posou gar chronou ę̄san sōmata tois peri ton Adam.
… And after other things: “And God made tunics of skin and clothed Adam and his wife, and cast them out of paradise.” You see that your newfangled empty talk is vain, Origen. For how long before this did Adam and his wife have bodies!
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Gen 3:21 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:23 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The tunics came long after the first bodies.
- Gen 3:21, 23. The asterisks mark a gap; σοῦ is doubled in the digital text.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Epiphanius, Pan. 64.65.28 (Holl GCS 25/31:508; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/epiphanius-panarion/64-58-1/#p-64-65-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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