Panarion, Haeresis 51 (Against the Alogi)
c. 374–377
Panarion / Adversus Haereses 51
Epiphanius against the Alogi, who rejected John’s Gospel and Apocalypse. Includes his Gospel chronology and the report of the Alexandria Koreion rite in which Kore (the Virgin) gives birth to the Aeon (Αἰών) on the night linked to Epiphany (January 6).
Translated by Claude Opus 5.5 (study translation from Greek)
Greek: Karl Holl, Epiphanius (Ancoratus und Panarion), Band 2: Panarion haer. 34–64 (GCS 31; Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1922). Digital Greek via Open Greek and Latin / First1KGreek (CC BY-SA 4.0). English: study translation by Claude Opus 5.5 for BWAB Library—not the copyrighted Frank Williams (Brill) or Amidon (OUP) translations. Technical terms and contested passages may be revised.
Contents
- 1. A weak serpent among the heresies
- 2. Asphalt, incense, and the true teaching
- 3. The Alogi named and their rejection of John
- 4. Cerinthus cannot be the author of John
- 5. Why Matthew begins the Gospel
- 6. The four Evangelists and complementary witness
- 7. Luke fills what the others left
- 8. Pagan and Jewish attacks on Gospel chronology
- 9. Two years between birth and the magi
- 10. Herod's years and "as was supposed"
- 11. Betrothal, Luke's genealogy, and Gaul
- 12. John's Gospel and the eternal Word
- 13. Bethabara and the days after the temptation
- 14. Andrew, Peter, Philip, and the unnamed disciple
- 15. From Cana to the full calling by the lake
- 16. Chronology from baptism to the first sign
- 17. One Gospel truth and Peter's primacy
- 18. John's Gospel omits what Matthew covered
- 19. John’s place among the four evangelists
- 20. The first sign at Cana after the temptation
- 21. Harmony of the Gospels after baptism and the first signs
- 22. Three Passovers; Epiphany; the Alexandria Kore and Aeon rite
- 23. Thirty years confirmed by the consular succession
- 24. Calendar equivalences for birth and baptism
- 25. The acceptable year and the year of the passion
- 26. Chronology of the passion and lunar reckoning
- 27. Jewish calendar error and the true span to the passion
- 28. Refutation of Valentinus and of those who reject John
- 29. Conception date and the birth on Tybi the eleventh
- 30. Water-to-wine memorials and the typology of Cana
- 31. The second-first sabbath and Passover typology
- 32. Defense of Revelation’s angels and trumpets
- 33. Thyatira, Jezebel, and the Phrygian heresy
- 34. The four angels at the Euphrates
- 35. Closing refutation of those who reject the Spirit’s words