Panarion
Panarion / Adversus Haereses
c. 374–377
Epiphanius’s medicine-chest against heresies. Hosted so far: Haeresis 40 (Archontics), including the Hebrew divine-name list with Ἰαβέ; and Haeresis 51 (Alogi), including Gospel chronology and the Alexandria Koreion report.
Translated by Claude (study translation from Greek)
Greek: Karl Holl, GCS 31 (1922); digital via Open Greek and Latin / First1KGreek (CC BY-SA 4.0). English: study translations for BWAB Library—not the copyrighted Frank Williams (Brill) or Amidon (OUP) translations. Partial: Haer. 40 and 51 only so far.
Contents
Haeresis 40 — Against the Archontics
- Origin of the Archontics (Eutactus and Peter)
- Their books, heavens, and rejection of baptism
- Beetles, bees, and the holy bath
- Authorities are from God, not against him
- Sabaoth and the Hebrew names of God (Ἰαβέ)
- Judas, Cain, and the true sense of “children of the devil”
- Seth the Allogenes and blasphemy against the Creator
- Resurrection of the dead; closing of the heresy
Haeresis 51 — Against the Alogi
- A weak serpent among the heresies
- Asphalt, incense, and the true teaching
- The Alogi named and their rejection of John
- Cerinthus cannot be the author of John
- Why Matthew begins the Gospel
- The four Evangelists and complementary witness
- Luke fills what the others left
- Pagan and Jewish attacks on Gospel chronology
- Two years between birth and the magi
- Herod's years and "as was supposed"
- Betrothal, Luke's genealogy, and Gaul
- John's Gospel and the eternal Word
- Bethabara and the days after the temptation
- Andrew, Peter, Philip, and the unnamed disciple
- From Cana to the full calling by the lake
- Chronology from baptism to the first sign
- One Gospel truth and Peter's primacy
- John's Gospel omits what Matthew covered
- John’s place among the four evangelists
- The first sign at Cana after the temptation
- Harmony of the Gospels after baptism and the first signs
- Three Passovers; Epiphany; the Alexandria Kore and Aeon rite
- Thirty years confirmed by the consular succession
- Calendar equivalences for birth and baptism
- The acceptable year and the year of the passion
- Chronology of the passion and lunar reckoning
- Jewish calendar error and the true span to the passion
- Refutation of Valentinus and of those who reject John
- Conception date and the birth on Tybi the eleventh
- Water-to-wine memorials and the typology of Cana
- The second-first sabbath and Passover typology
- Defense of Revelation’s angels and trumpets
- Thyatira, Jezebel, and the Phrygian heresy
- The four angels at the Euphrates
- Closing refutation of those who reject the Spirit’s words