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 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 I ( Sects 1-46 ) Frank Williams, translator, 1987 ( E. J.

* 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

( 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.

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 writes that there were some Simonians still in existence in his day ( c. AD 367 ), but he speaks of them as almost extinct.

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.

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

" Epiphanius refers to an Acta Pilati ( c. 376 ), but the extant Greek texts show evidence of later editing.

After the Jewish – Roman wars ( 66 – 135 ), which Epiphanius believed the Cenacle survived, the significance of Jerusalem to Christians entered a period of decline, Jerusalem having been temporarily converted to the pagan Aelia Capitolina, but interest resumed again with the pilgrimage of Helena ( the mother of Constantine the Great ) to the Holy Land c. 326 – 28.

After the Jewish – Roman wars ( 66 – 135 ), which Epiphanius believed the Cenacle survived, the significance of Jerusalem to Christians entered a period of decline, Jerusalem having been temporarily converted to the pagan Aelia Capitolina, but interest resumed again with the pilgrimage of Helena ( the mother of Constantine the Great ) to the Holy Land c. 326 – 28.

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.

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 .).

* Saint Sabinus, Archbishop of Cyprus ( successor of St. Epiphanius to the Cypriot cathedra ) ( 5th c .)

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 ).

In his work Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke Wenham wrote regarding the book of Matthew the following: " The fathers are almost unanimous in asserting that Matthew the tax-collector was the author, writing first, for Hebrews in the Hebrew language: Papias ( c. 60-130 ), Irenaeus ( c. 130-200 ), Pantaenus ( died c. 190 ), Origen ( c. 185-254 ), Eusebius ( c. 260-340 ), Epiphanius of Salamis ( c. 315-403 ), Cyril of Jerusalem ( c. 315-86 ) and others write in this vein.

In c. 376, Epiphanius wrote there was " no doubt " that a sect in Palestine still used the original Hebrew text " just as it was originally written.

Epiphanius ( Haer.

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.

Later Hippolytus uses " learned " ( gnostikos ) of Cerinthus and the Ebionites, and Epiphanius applied " learned " ( gnostikos ) to specific groups.

* the Vita Hilarionis, of the same date, containing more trustworthy historical matter than the other two, and based partly on the biography of Epiphanius and partly on oral tradition.

Epiphanius and St Jerome mention Justin.

Epiphanius, writing of Joseph of Tiberias, a wealthy Roman Jew who converted to Christianity in the time of Constantine, says he claimed to have received an imperial rescript to build Christian churches in Jewish towns and villages where no gentiles or Samaritans dwell, naming Tiberias, Diocaesarea, Sepphoris, Nazareth and Capernaum.

Surviving traditions about Simon appear in anti-heretical texts, such as those of Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius, where he is often regarded as the source of all heresies.

Epiphanius further charges Simon with having tried to wrest the words of St. Paul about the armour of God ( Ephesians 6: 14-16 ) into agreement with his own identification of the Ennoia with Athena.

Epiphanius ( Haeres 62 ) about 375 notes that the adherents of Sabellius were still to be found in great numbers, both in Mesopotamia and at Rome.

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