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Epiphanius undertook the translations into Latin of the Greek church histories of Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen and Theodoret, written in the previous century.
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Epiphanius and translations
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 ).
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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 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 relates some details of the life of Nicolas the deacon, and describes him as gradually sinking into the grossest impurity, and becoming the originator of the Nicolaitans and other libertine Gnostic sects:
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.
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.
The possibility should not be ignored that the letter was composed by Epiphanius, in the manner of composed speeches that ancient historians put into the mouths of their protagonists, as a succinct way to sum up.
Craig A. Evans ( 2005 ) considers that it is probably more safe to divide the material into Origen's Gospel, Jerome's Gospel, Epiphanius ' Gospel, etc.
The attack on Ptolemy by Irenaeus does not eliminate the possibility that the present letter ascribed to him was composed by Epiphanius, in the manner of composed speeches that ancient historians put into the mouths of their protagonists, as a succinct way to sum up the Gnostic views he was intent on demolishing.
Epiphanius Scholasticus was a sixth-century translator of Greek works into Latin.
Epiphanius was assigned the translation into Latin of the Greek church histories of Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen and Theodoret, written in the previous century.
Epiphanius is believed to have come into possession of a gospel that he attributed to the Ebionites when he was bishop of Salamis.
It is possible that Epiphanius failed to realise this and only read into the text a simple literal interpretation.
Epiphanius and Latin
In antiquity, Epiphanius also referred to it by this title ( in Greek: Τὸ Αναβατικὸν Ἡσαΐου ), as did Jerome ( in Latin: Ascensio Isaiæ ).
Epiphanius and Greek
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.
" Epiphanius refers to an Acta Pilati ( c. 376 ), but the extant Greek texts show evidence of later editing.
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 ).
The Greek term Aeiparthenos ( i. e. " Ever Virgin ") is attested to by Epiphanius of Salamis from the early 4th century.
It is often thought that Epiphanius ' new style was influenced by the contemporary surge in Russian painting, and it has been noted that Epiphanius was a great admirer of Theophanes the Greek.
Klijn concluded that the Gospel harmony composed in Greek appears to be a distinctive text known only to Epiphanius.
According to Epiphanius, the Borborites identified Norea with Pyrrha, the wife of Deucalion ( a Greek figure similar to Noah ), because nura means " fire " in Syriac.
However the surviving citations from Jewish-Christian Gospels ( namely Gospel of the Nazarenes, Gospel of the Ebionites and Gospel of the Hebrews ) preserved in the writings of Jerome, Epiphanius and others, lead critical scholars to conclude that those Gospels themselves either were Greek or were translated from Greek Matthew.
Epiphanius and church
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.
Several of the early church fathers, including Irenaeus, Epiphanius, and Theodoret mentioned this group.
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.
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.
* The Life of St Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia, the best written and perhaps the most important of all his writings, an interesting picture of the political activity and influence of the church
Regarding their beliefs, Epiphanius asserts that the Alogians denied the continuation of spiritual gifts in the church in opposition to the Montanists.
The only known content from it are a few quotations by Epiphanius ( Panarion, 26 ), a church father who criticised how the Borborites used it to justify free love, by practicing coitus interruptus and eating semen as a religious act.
Epiphanius and Scholasticus
According to Epiphanius Scholasticus, he was born in Athens, but there is also a tradition of an Alexandrian birth.
* Epiphanius Scholasticus ( 6th century ), assistant of Cassiodorus who compiled the Historiae Ecclesiasticae Tripartitae Epitome, ca.
* Henry Wace, editor, A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature, Epiphanius Scholasticus
* Catholic Encyclopedia article on Epiphanius Scholasticus
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The work was compiled, under the direction of Cassiodorus, in about 510 CE, by his assistant Epiphanius Scholasticus.
Epiphanius and Theodoret
Theodoret and Epiphanius of Cyprus reported him as boasting that he had the same knowledge about God as God had about Himself.
; Epiphanius, Panarion, 31 ( including the Letter to Flora ); Theodoret, Haer.
Theodoret ( H. F. f. 13 ) merely paraphrases Irenaeus, with a few words from Epiphanius.
Epiphanius and written
Epiphanius argues that Cerinthus could not have written the Gospel of John because whereas Cerinthus denied the deity of Christ, the Gospel taught Christ ’ s Godhead.
Consensus among academics points to it being based on the Acts of John, and traditionally both works were said to be written by Leucius Charinus, whom Epiphanius identifies as the companion of John.
* Panarion, ( medicine-chest ) written by Epiphanius of Salamis ( 4th century ), for a similar purpose
All that is known of the gospel text consists of seven brief quotations found in Chapter 30 of a heresiology written by Epiphanius known as the Panarion.
The Ebionites known to Irenaeus ( first mentioned in Adversus Haereses 1. 26. 2, written around 185 ) and other Church Fathers prior to Epiphanius were described as a Jewish sect that regarded Jesus as the Messiah but not as divine.
Papias, Irenaeus, Origen, Eusebius, Epiphanius and Jerome all agree that the original Matthew was written in Hebrew.
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.
His work De Fide has been preserved in connection with a refutation written by Epiphanius ( Haer.
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