He is clearly quoting a writer who was at Rome in the time of Anicetus and made a list of popes A list which has some curious agreements with Epiphanius in that it extends only to Anicetus, is found in the poem of Pseudo-Tertullian against Marcion ; apparently Epiphanius has mistaken Marcion for " Marcellina ".

In Epiphanius, they are clearly distinguished from the Ebionites, and from the Docetists.

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.

A " Joses " appears in the bishop lists of Epiphanius (" Josis ") and Eusebius (" Joseph ") of the early bishops of Jerusalem.

The Greek term Aeiparthenos ( i. e. " Ever Virgin ") is attested to by Epiphanius of Salamis from the early 4th century.

( c. 4 ), who likewise follows Hippolytus's Compendium, adds some further particulars ; that ' Abraxas ' gave birth to Mind ( nous ), the first in the series of primary powers enumerated likewise by Irenaeus and Epiphanius ; that the world, as well as the 365 heavens, was created in honour of ' Abraxas ;' and that Christ was sent not by the Maker of the world but by ' Abraxas.

According to Epiphanius Scholasticus, he was born in Athens, but there is also a tradition of an Alexandrian birth.

Theodoret, who here copies Irenaeus, turns this into the plural number “ powers ,” and so Epiphanius represents Cerinthus as agreeing with Carpocrates in the doctrine that the world was made by angels.

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.

In later centuries it was ascribed to various celebrated Fathers, especially Epiphanius, Basil, and St. Peter of Alexandria.

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.

The town was rebuilt under the name of Constantia by Constantius II ( 337 – 361 CE ) and became an Episcopal seat, the most famous occupant of which was Saint Epiphanius.

Epiphanius ( died June 5, 535 ) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from February 25, 520 to June 5, 535, succeeding John II Cappadocia.

At Constantinople the zeal of Justinian I for a church policy was shown during the patriarchate of Epiphanius by laws ( e. g. in 528 and 529 ) regulating episcopal elections and duties.

The first conspicuous office of Epiphanius was the charge of the catechumens at Constantinople.

In 531 the dispute between Rome and Constantinople was revived by the appeal of Stephen, metropolitan of Larissa, to Pope Boniface II, against the sentence of Epiphanius.

It was well known to Early Christians, as evidenced by the writings of Epiphanius, Justin Martyr, Origen, Diodorus of Tarsus, Isidore of Alexandria, Isidore of Seville, Eutychius of Alexandria, John Malalas, George Syncellus, and George Kedrenos.

In 394, Epiphanius claimed that after beginnings as an ascetic, Marcion seduced a virgin and was accordingly excommunicated by his father, prompting him to leave his home town.

According to an old tradition, supported by evidence drawn from Epiphanius of Cyprus and John Chrysostom, this was due to a sermon preached before the emperor Constantius, in which he revealed Homousian views.

He was highly praised by Gregory Nazianzus and Epiphanius of Cyprus.

He even wrote to the emperor's secretary Aristolaus the tribune, who was greatly interested in the question of peace, almost complaining that he did not press Cyril enough on the point, and to his archdeacon Epiphanius.

Once Theodoric had killed Odoacar and was securely in control of Italy, he sent bishop Epiphanius of Pavia on a mission to ransom as many of these captives as possible.

Shanzer and Wood believe Epiphanius was possibly also entrusted with a mission in connection with the marriage of Gundobad's son Sigismund to Theodoric's daughter Ostrogotho.

Epiphanius of Salamis ( inter 310 – 320 – 403 ) was bishop of Salamis at the end of the 4th century.

Epiphanius was born into a Christian family in the small settlement of Besanduk, which is near Eleutheropolis, Palestine, and lived as a monk in Egypt, where he was educated and came into contact with Valentinian groups.

Four letters remain of Epiphanius to Hormisdas, telling him of his election, sending him his creed, and declaring that he condemned all those whose name the pope had forbidden to be recited in the diptychs.

Most churches using the name " Nazarene " use it in relation to Jesus, and not in connection to the 4th Century sect described by Epiphanius.

-Heresy of Theodotus ; and Epiphanius Heresies 30 ) Others claim the name Ebionite means " poor one " and is derived from Matthew 5: 3, for they rejected material wealth.

It was Epiphanius who coined the name " Alogi " as a word play suggesting that they were both illogical ( anti-logikos ) and they were against the Christian doctrine of the Logos.

St. Epiphanius and Augustine of Hippo mention the Adamites by name, and describe their practices.

His literary style was given the name pletenie sloves, or " the weaving of words ", and is marked by an abundance of neologisms, in which Epiphanius liked to form a large number of noun or adjective-noun combinations.

Gospel of the Ebionites is the conventional name given to the description by Epiphanius of Salamis of a gospel used by the Ebionites.

The name is used by modern scholars as a convenient way to distinguish a gospel text that was probably used by the Ebionites from Epiphanius ' mistaken belief that it was a Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew.

After Tertullus the name does not appear again, apart from an unclear reference in Eusebius ' Onomasticon, until a similar name, " Nazoreans ", is distinguished by Epiphanius in his Panarion in the 4th Century.

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.

Supporters of the two parties fought several brawls, but Ricimer and the emperor signed a one-year truce after the mediation of Epiphanius, the Bishop of Pavia.

Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls ( DSS ), the only surviving manuscripts of Jubilees were four complete Ge ' ez texts dating to the 15th and 16th centuries, and several quotations by the Church fathers such as Epiphanius, Justin Martyr, Origen, Diodorus of Tarsus, Isidore of Alexandria, Isidore of Seville, Eutychius of Alexandria, John Malalas, George Syncellus, and George Kedrenos.

The list was drawn up in 458 by the order of Leo I, although Epiphanius made several additions to it.

She is noticed in several neighbouring passages of Epiphanius, who in part must be following the Compendium of Hippolytus, as is shown by comparison with Philaster ( c. 33 ), but also speaks from personal knowledge of the Ophitic sects specially called " Gnostici " ( i. 100 f .).

Several of the early church fathers, including Irenaeus, Epiphanius, and Theodoret mentioned this group.

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.

Epiphanius refers to an Acta Pilati similar to this, as early as 376 AD, but there are indications that the current Greek text, the earliest extant form, is a revision of an earlier one.

He was the son of Epiphanius, governor of Cyprus, and was of noble descent ; in early life he was married and had children, but his wife and children soon died, and he entered the religious life.

By the 3rd century the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary was well established and defended by Hippolytus, Eusebius and Epiphanius, important early Christian theologians.

; Eusebius and Epiphanius held that these men were Joseph's sons from ( an unrecorded ) former marriage Jerome, another important early theologian, also followed the perpetual virginity doctrine, but argued that these adelphoi were sons of Mary's sister, whom Jerome identified as Mary of Cleopas.

They are works by early Christian and Byzantine churchmen that would have been available to Kirill in Slavonic translations: John Chrysostom, Epiphanius of Salamis, Ephrem of Syrus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Eusebius of Caesarea, and the scholia of Nicetas of Heraclea, Titus of Bostra, Theophylact of Ohrid, and the chronicler George the monk ( George Hamartolus ).

In briefly sketching this version of Basilidianism, which most likely rests on later or corrupt accounts, our authorities are fundamentally two, Irenaeus and the lost early treatise of Hippolytus ; both having much in common, and both being interwoven together in the report of Epiphanius.

According to multiple early sources, including Jerome ( Against Pelagius 3 ) and Epiphanius ( Panarion 29-30 ) the Gospel of the Nazarenes was synonymous with the Gospel of the Hebrews and the Gospel of the Ebionites.

Later, that 4th-century collector of heresies, Epiphanius of Salamis, asserts that the Sabellians made use of this gospel ; though it is unlikely that he had any firsthand information about Sabellius, who taught in Rome in the mid-2nd century, his connection of the gospel with Sabellius would confirm a date early in the 2nd century, whereas the euphemism, the Word logos, as an appellation of the Saviour, which appears in the gospel, betokens the influence of the Gospel of John, thus suggesting a date ca 120 – 150.