Synopsis
EPIPHANIUS, Bishop of Constantia (the
old Salamis of Cyprus), was b. in the beginning of the fourth century, at
Besandirke, a village of Palestine, in the vicinity of Eleutheropolis, and
educated among monks. He afterwards lived for some time in Egypt, also among
monks, and founded, after his return to Palestine, a monastery in his native
town, of which lie became abbot. His fame for holiness brought him to the
metropolitan chair of Constantia (367), and from that time he took an active
part in the theological controversies of his age. He was present at a synod in
Antioch (376), and at another in Rome (382), where the trinitarian questions
were debated. lie went to Palestine in 394 to crush the influence of the famous
Origen, and to Constantinople in 403 for the same purpose. He died on board the
ship on which he was returning from Constantinople to Constantia (spring
403).
The life of Epiphanius fell in a period when
monasticism - sprung from the martyr-inspiration of the primitive Church, and
hailed by the age as a higher standard of virtue - spread rapidly in the East,
but at the same time assumed a character of narrow hostility to all free
theological investigation, always preferring a system of stiff dogmatical
definitions to the life’ of a vigorous personal conviction. But the
man’s character [744] was well suited to the demands of the time; and he,
as well as his friends, considered it a great merit to spend a whole life in
bitter opposition to the greatest genius the Eastern Church ever produced,
without understanding him. He seems, however, to have discovered during his
stay in Constantinople, - whither he went at the instance of Theophilus of
Alexandria, and for the purpose of opposing Chrysostom, and through him Origen,
- that he had in most cases been a tool only in other men’s hands. He left
the city abruptly and in a rage.
His principal works are,
[Panarion]… (" the drug-chest"), a description and refutation
of eighty different heresies, confused and trivial, but of historical value,
and … ("the anchor of faith"), a dogmatical work, much read in
its time. A life of him by a friend was edited, together with his works, by
Petan, Paris, 1822. 2 vols. fol.
Semisch, "EPIPHANIUS," Philip Schaff, ed.,
A Religious Encyclopaedia or Dictionary of Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal,
and Practical Theology, 3rd edn., Vol. 2. Toronto, New York & London:
Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1894. pp.743-744.
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J.E. Dean, Epiphanius' Treatise on
Weights and Measures: The Syraic Version. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1935. |
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Epiphanius
of Salamis, Weights and Measures (1935) (Tertullian Home
Page) |
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Frank
Williams, Translator, "The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis," Nag Hammadi
and Manichaean Studies, Vol. 35. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994. ISBN's:
9004079262. {Amazon.com} |
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Frank
Williams, Translator, "The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis," Nag Hammadi
and Manichaean Studies, Vol. 36. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994.
ISBN:9004098984. {Amazon.com} |
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M. Bregman, "(Lk 14:13s) The Parable of
the Lame and the Blind; (Panarion 64m70.5-17) Epiphanius' Quotation From an
Apocryphon of Ezekiel," Journal of Theological Studies 42 (1991):
125-38. |
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V. Burrus, "The Heretical Woman as
Symbol in (bishop) Alexander, Athanasius, Epiphanius, and Jerome," Harvard
Theological Review 84 (1991): 229-48. |
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Jon
Dechow, Dogma and Mysticism in Early Christianity: Epiphanius of Cyprus and
the Legacy of Origen. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1988. Hbk. ISBN:
0865543119. {Amazon.com} |
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Carroll D. Osburn, The Text of the
Apostolos in Epiphanius of Salamis. Leiden: Brill, 2005. ISBN: 9004130586.
pp.284. |
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James R. Edwards, "The Gospel of the
Ebionites and the Gospel of Luke," New Testament Studies 48.4 (2002):
568-586. |
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 Carroll D. Osburn, The Text of the
Apostolos in Epiphanius of Salamis. Society of Biblical Literature - The
New Testement in the Greek Fathers Series. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Hbk. ISBN:
9004130586. pp.298. {Amazon.com} |
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M.E. Stone, "Concerning the Seventy-Two
Translators: Armenian Fragments of Epiphanius, On Weights and Measures,"
Harvard Theological Review 73 (1980): 331-76. |
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Gerard
Valée, A Study in Anti-Gnostic Polemics: Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and
Epiphanius. Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 1. Waterloo: Wilfred
Laurier University Press, 1981. Pbk. ISBN: 0919812147. pp.114. {Amazon.com} |
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Francis Young, "Did Epiphanius Know
What He Meant by 'Heresy'?" Studia Patrsitica, Vol. 17, No.1. (1982):
199-205. |
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