In his biography of St. Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia, Ennodius states Glycerius made " many measures for the public good ", but mentions only that he pardoned " the injury done to his mother by certain of his subjects at the petition of bishop Epiphanius.

The answers of Hormisdas are given in the Acts of the Council of Constantinople held under Mennas, in which he states his trust in the prudence and experience of Epiphanius, and recommends lenity towards the returning, severity to the obdurate.

Reading from the same source, Epiphanius states that the Ebionites abstained from " meat with soul in it " ( 15. 3 ), and he attributes this teaching to Ebionite interpolations " they corrupt the contents and leave a few genuine items ".

Epiphanius is of the same opinion ; he states in his Panarion that Matthew alone expounded and declared the gospel in Hebrew among the New Testament writers: " For in truth, Matthew alone of the New Testament writers expounded and declared the Gospel in Hebrew using Hebrew script.

Tertullian, along with Epiphanius of Salamis, also charged that Marcion set aside the gospels of Matthew, Mark and John, and used Luke alone.

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 ".

Referring to a parallel passage in Luke 22: 15, Epiphanius complains that the Ebionites have again falsified the Gospel text " they destroyed the true order and changed the passage ..."

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.

( 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.

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.

Epiphanius (; " clearly manifested ") was the name of several early Christian scholars and ecclesiastics:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

" In all, Epiphanius describes fifty animals, usually one per sect.

Aside from the polemics by which he is known, Epiphanius wrote a work of biblical antiquarianism, called, for one of its sections, On Measures and Weights ( περί μέτρων καί στάθμων ).

According to Epiphanius of Salamis, also of the 4th century, Nicholas, one of the Seven Deacons of, noticed others being admired for their celibacy.

Epiphanius mentions only one Hebrew gospel: " They Ebionites call it the Gospel of the Hebrews for, in truth, Matthew alone in the New Covenant expounded and declared the Gospel in Hebrew using Hebrew script.

-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.

On the Origin of the World refers the reader to an Account of Oraia and the First Book of Noraia, one of which may be the same as the Book of Noria mentioned by Epiphanius.

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 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

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 ).

* Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion 38