( 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.

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.

* 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.

* Epiphanius, On Biblical Weights and Measures English translation of a Syriac text

His first edition of the works of Synesius appeared in 1612, undertaken ten years earlier at the advice of Casaubon ( Synesii episcopi Cyrenensis opera, new ed., 1633 ); in 1613 and 1614 the discourses of Themistius and Julian ( new ed., 1630 ); in 1616 the Breviarium historicum Nicephori ; then, after some poetical and oratorical works, an edition of Epiphanius in two volumes ( 1622 ; new ed., 1632 ), which had been undertaken at the advice of Jacques Gretser, S. J., and was originally intended only as a revised translation of Janus Cornarius.

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:

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 undertook the translations 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.

In antiquity, Epiphanius also referred to it by this title ( in Greek: Τὸ Αναβατικὸν Ἡσαΐου ), as did Jerome ( in Latin: Ascensio Isaiæ ).

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.