Table Of ContentThe Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis
Books II and III. De Fide
Nag Hammadi and
Manichaean Studies
Editors
Johannes van Oort & Einar Thomassen
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J.D. BeDuhn, A.D. DeConick, W.-P. Funk
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The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis
Books II and III. De Fide
Second, revised edition
Translated by
Frank Williams
LEIDEN • BoSToN
2013
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Epiphanius, Saint, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, approximately 310-403.
[De fide. English]
The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis. Books II and III, De fide / translated by
Frank Williams. — Second, revised edition.
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CoNTENTS
(Most sections of the work are titled as in the manuscripts. Modern titles are indicated
with an asterisk.)
Acknowledgments .......................................................................................... vii
Translator’s Introduction .............................................................................. ix
Abbreviations ................................................................................................... xiii
Works Cited ...................................................................................................... xvii
*Anacephalaeosis Iv ...................................................................................... 1
47. Against Encratites ................................................................................... 3
48. Against those who are called Phrygians or Montanists .............. 6
49. Against Quintillianists or Pepuzians ................................................ 22
50. Against Quartodecimans ...................................................................... 24
51. Against the sect which does not accept the Gospel according
to John, or his Revelation ..................................................................... 26
52. Against Adamians ................................................................................... 68
53. Against Sampsaeans ............................................................................... 71
54. Against Theodotians .............................................................................. 73
55. Against Melchizidekians ....................................................................... 78
56. Against Bardesianists ............................................................................. 88
57. Against Noetians ..................................................................................... 91
58. Against valesians .................................................................................... 100
59. Against the impure “Purists” (Cathari) ............................................ 104
60. Against Angelics ...................................................................................... 115
61. Against Apostolics .................................................................................. 116
62. Against Sabellians ................................................................................... 123
63. Against the first type of origenist, who are shameful
as well ......................................................................................................... 130
64. Against origen, also called Adamantius .......................................... 134
vi contents
*Anacephalaeosis v ........................................................................................ 215
65. Against Paul the Samosatian ............................................................... 216
66. Against Manichaeans ............................................................................ 226
67. Against Hieracites ................................................................................... 316
68. Against the schism of Melitius the Egyptian ................................. 324
69. Against the Arian Nuts .......................................................................... 333
*Anacephalaeosis vI ...................................................................................... 411
70. on the schism of the Audians ............................................................ 412
71. Against Photinians ................................................................................. 428
72. Against Marcellians ................................................................................ 433
73. Against Semi-Arians ............................................................................... 443
74. Against Pneumatomachi ...................................................................... 483
75. Against Aerius .......................................................................................... 504
76. Against Anomoeans ............................................................................... 511
*Anacephalaeosis vII ..................................................................................... 581
77. Against Dimoerites, called Apollinarians by some ...................... 582
78. Against Antidicomarians ...................................................................... 616
79. Against Collyridians ............................................................................... 637
80. Against Massalians ................................................................................. 646
*De Fide .............................................................................................................. 655
Index ................................................................................................................... 683
ACKNoWLEDGMENTS
I need to thank my daughter Marge, who scanned the book from which
I worked; Mattie Kuiper, Tessel Jonquière, Wilma de Weert and Rizalyn
Rafael of Brill for their patience and help; Dr. Hans van oort for his valuable
suggestions; my indexer Dan Connolly and especially my wife Charlotte,
for her considerable technical help and for the constant encouragement
which is much needed in a work of this sort.
TRANSLAToR’S INTRoDuCTIoN
Here, in response to numerous requests, is our revised version of Books
II and III of the Panarion along with De Fide, Epiphanius’ summary of the
catholic faith as he understood it.
A great deal need not be said by way of introduction. The text from
which this is made is again Holl’s, with notes completed after his death
by his grateful pupil Hans Lietzmann. We have used Dummer’s reedition,
which includes various suggestions for the improvement of Holl’s text. For
Epiphanius’ life and work and our defense of him, the reader is referred to
the introduction to our Book I, the second edition, Brill, 2007. The style of
Books II and III is perhaps marginally better than that of Book I; Epipha-
nius quotes a number of better educated authors, some of his own writing
is formal, and he is discussing contemporary controversies with which he
was involved. However, the same criticisms which apply to the rest of the
Panarion, apply here.
The content is of particular interest to the patrologist, church historian,
theologian, student of Gnosticism or Manichaeism, and the Christian with
theological interests, because it represents the Christian fourth century
as described by an active participant. Politically the church was trium-
phant and exercised considerable control over the lives of its people. The
monastic movement was new, on the rise and very important. Internally,
however, the church seethed with controversy, deathly serious, with all
parties convinced that the right answer was available in an infallible, self-
interpreting scripture, and that one’s eternal salvation depended upon
understanding it.
Because Epiphanius was on the winning side we have the Panarion
entire. Its comprehensiveness undoubtedly made it an important weapon
for the group which gained control of the church.
As the years between 325 and 381 were crucial to the Arian problem
which the Council of Nicaea had failed to settle, this is given significant
space in the Panarion’s Books II and III. Five long Sects—or eight if
we count the brief notices of Theodotianists, Sabellians and Noetians—
deal with some aspect of it, a total of 122 pages out of 682. Three Sects
deal with the date of Easter—again, this was dealt with at Nicaea1 but the
1 See Eusebius’ fragmentary De Pascha, PG 24, 643ff., translated in Strobel pp. 24–25.
