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

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 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 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.

* 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, 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.

According to the Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis ( ch.

* Epiphanius of Salamis.

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

* Epiphanius of Salamis.

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

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.

( 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.

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

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 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.

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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 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, 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.