St John Damascene, writing in the 8th century AD, also notes of an earlier sect called the " Cathari ", in his book On Heresies, taken from the epitome provided by Epiphanius of Salamis in his Panarion.

Epiphanius states that Luke was one of the Seventy ( Panarion 51. 11 ), and John Chrysostom indicates at one point that the " brother " Paul mentions in 2 Corinthians 8: 18 is either Luke or Barnabas.

Epiphanius in his Panarion ( c. 375 AD ) numbers Nazareth among the cities devoid of a non-Jewish population.

Epiphanius of Salamis also makes Simon speak in the first person in several places in his Panarion, and the inference is that he is quoting from a version of it, though perhaps not verbatim.

According to the Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis ( ch.

* Epiphanius of Salamis ( ca 310 – 20 – 403 ), bishop of Salamis in Cyprus, author of the Panarion, or Medicine Chest against Heresies

The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Book 1 ( Sects 1-46 ) Frank Williams translator, 1987 ISBN 90-04-07926-2

While Epiphanius often let his zeal come before facts-he admits on one occasion that he writes against the Origenists based only on hearsay ( Panarion, Epiphanius 71 )-the Panarion is a valuable source of information on the Christian church of the fourth century.

One unique feature of the Panarion is in the way that Epiphanius compares the various heretics to different poisonous beasts, going so far as to describe in detail the animal's characteristics, how it produces its poison, and how to protect oneself from the animal's bite or poison.

* The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Book II and III ( Sects 47-80, De Fide ) Frank Williams, translator, 1993 ( E. J.

* The Panarion of St. Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis Philip R. Amidon, translator, 1990 ( Oxford University Press, New York ) ( This translation contains selections rather than the full work.

According to Epiphanius of Salamis in Panarion ( ch.

According to Epiphanius in his Panarion the 4th Century Nazarenes were originally Jewish converts of the Apostles who fled Jerusalem because of Jesus ' prophesy on its coming siege ( during the Great Jewish Revolt in 70 AD ).

* Epiphanius of Salamis ' Panarion

Epiphanius of Salamis documented many heresies and heretics, Cerinthus among them, in his Panarion.

Ptolemy is known only for this letter to a wealthy gnostic lady named Flora, a letter itself only known by its full inclusion in Epiphanius ' Panarion ; it relates the gnostic view of the Law of Moses, and the situation of the Demiurge relative to this law.

; Epiphanius, Panarion, 31 ( including the Letter to Flora ); Theodoret, Haer.

12 ) Epiphanius in the Panarion wrote that, " They Christians too accept Matthew's gospel and like the followers of Cerinthus and Merinthus, they use it alone.

Irenaeus wrote that they used only Matthew's Gospel ( Against Heresies, 1. 26. 2 ) and, Eusebius wrote that the Ebionites used only the Gospel of the Hebrews ( Church History, 3. 27. 4 ) Epiphanius stated that the Ebionites used a Gospel of the Hebrews which he considered was a corrupted version of Greek Matthew ( Panarion, 30 ).

What is curious is that Luke does not here mention the apostle James the Just as taking nazirite vows, although later Christian historians ( e. g. Epiphanius Panarion 29. 4 ) believed he had, and the vow of a nazirite would explain the asceticism Eusebius of Caesarea ascribed to James ( something the Jewish Nazarite Vow was never intended to do ), a claim that gave James the title " James the Just ".

* Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion 38

* The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book II and III, Translated by Frank Williams.

The 4th Century Christian heresiologist Epiphanius of Salamis ( c. 315 – 403 ), bishop of Salamis in Cyprus, author of the Panarion, or Medicine Chest against Heresies, misidentified Philo's Therapeuate as " Jessaens " and considered them a Christian group.

* Panarion, ( medicine-chest ) written by Epiphanius of Salamis ( 4th century ), for a similar purpose

While a priest, he ( with Paul, another priest ) wrote to Epiphanius of Salamis a letter, in consequence of which the latter composed his Panarion ( 374 – 376 AD ).

On the other side Epiphanius of Salamis in his Panarion has preserved a considerable fragment of Acacius ' Aντιλογια against Marcellus of Ancyra.

According to Epiphanius of Salamis ( c. 375 ) Sethians were in his time found only in Egypt and Palestine, although fifty years before they had been found as far away as Greater Armenia ( Panarion 39. 1. 1 2 ; 40. 1 ).

For a long time, Norea was known from a summary of a book called Noria in the Panarion ( Against Heresies ) of Epiphanius of Salamis ( 26. 1. 3-9 ).

The Panarion was only recently ( 1987 and 1990 ) translated into English.

His best-known book is the Panarion which means " medicine-chest " ( also known as Adversus Haereses, " Against Heresies "), presented as a book of antidotes for those bitten by the serpent of heresy.

*( Further excerpts from the Panarion ) – Currently dead.

Similar evidence of the existence in the 4th-century East, as in the West, of a rule or at least an ideal of clerical continence that was considered to be canonical is found in Epiphanius's Panarion, 48, 9 and Expositio Fidei, 21.

Epiphanius of Salamis labelled the party of Basil of Ancyra in 358 " Semi-Arianism ".

Epiphanius of Salamis wrote in the mid-4th century:

Bishop Epiphanius of Salamis, wrote his letter 51 to John, Bishop of Jerusalem ( c. 394 ) in which he recounted how he tore down an image in a church and admonished the other bishop that such images are " opposed.

Epiphanius of Salamis records that this group had amended their Gospel of Matthew, known today as the Gospel of the Ebionites, to change where John eats " locusts " to read " honey cakes " or " manna ".

** Epiphanius of Salamis

* Epiphanius of Salamis, Church Father

* Epiphanius of Salamis attacks Origen's followers and urged John II, Bishop of Jerusalem, to condemn his writings.

Epiphanius of Salamis ( c. 315 – 403 ) writes that in his time a feast was held there on December 25 in honor of the virgin Khaabou ( Chaabou ) and her offspring Dushara ( Haer.

* Epiphanius of Salamis, Church Father ( d. 403 )

* Epiphanius of Salamis becomes bishop of Salamis, Cyprus.

Epiphanius of Salamis ( ca.

However, early accounts of missions to the Jews, such as Epiphanius of Salamis ' record of the conversion of Count Joseph of Tiberias, and Sozomen's accounts of Jewish conversions, do not mention converted Jews playing any leading role in proselytization.

A number of scholars maintain that the story does not refer to masturbation, but to coitus interruptus ,< ref > Church Father Epiphanius of Salamis agrees, according to and that the Bible does not claim that masturbation would be sinful.

( St ) Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia ( Salamis ) ( c. 315-403 ) attacks Antinous in three separate books.

* Epiphanius of Salamis.

* Epiphanius of Salamis.

Epiphanius of Salamis writes that

Although the Assumption ( Latin: assūmptiō, " taken up ") was only relatively recently defined as infallible dogma by the Catholic Church, and in spite of a statement by Saint Epiphanius of Salamis in 377 that no one knew whether Mary had died or not, apocryphal accounts of the assumption of Mary into heaven have circulated since at least the 4th century.