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1 The Panarion of Epiphanius of SalamisNag Hammadi andManichaean StudiesEditorsEinar Thomassen & Johannes van OortEditorial Attridge R. Cameron Funk I. Gardner Hedrick Lieu P. Nagel Richter Robinson K. Rudolph M. Scopello W. Sundermann G. WurstVOLUME 63 The Panarion of Epiphanius of SalamisBook I (Sects 1-46) Second Edition, Revised and ExpandedTranslated byFrank WilliamsLEIDEN BOSTON2009 This book is printed on acid-free of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication-DataEpiphanius , Saint, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, ca. 310 403. [ Panarion. Book 1. English] The panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis. Book I (Sects 1-46) / translated by Frank Williams. p. cm. (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; v. 63) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-17017-9 (hardback : alk.)

2 Paper) 1. Heresies, Christian Early works to 1800. 2. Gnosticism Early works to 1800. I. Williams, Frank. II. Title. III. Series. 2008 273 .4 dc222008031553 ISSN 0929-2470 ISBN 978 90 04 17017 9 Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing,IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, are subject to in the netherlandsFor CharlotteCONTENTS(Most sections of the work are titled as in the manuscript.

3 Modern titles are noted with an asterisk.)Acknowledgment .. ixIntroduction .. xiEditions and Works Consulted .. xxxvAbbreviations .. xli*Letter of Acacius and Paul .. 1*Proem I .. 3*Anacephalaeosis I .. 9*Proem II .. 131. Barbarism .. 152. Scythianism .. 163. Hellenism .. 184. Judaism .. 205. Against Stoics .. 226. Platonists .. 247. Pythagoraeans .. 248. Epicureans .. 25*Judaism, continued .. 259. Against Samaritans .. 3210. Against Essenes .. 3711. Against Sebuaeans .. 3812. Against Gorothenes .. 3813. Against Dositheans .. 3814. Against Sadducees .. 4015. Against Scribes .. 4116. Against Pharisees .. 4217. Against Hemerobaptists .. 4518. Against Nasaraeans.

4 4619. Against Ossaeans .. 4820. Against Herodians .. 53*De Incarnatione .. 55*Anacephalaeosis II .. 5921. Against Simonians .. 6122. Against Menander .. 6823. Against Satornilus .. 6924. Against Basilides .. 7525. Against Nicolaitans .. 8326. Against Gnostics .. 9027. Against Carpocratians .. 10928. Against Cerinthians .. 11629. Against Nazoraeans .. 12330. Against Ebionites .. 13131. Against Valentinians .. 16532. Against Secundians .. 20833. Against Ptolemaeans .. 214*Anacephalaeosis III .. 22734. Against Marcosians .. 22935. Against Colorbasians .. 25236. Against Heracleonites .. 25637. Against Ophites .. 26138. Against Cainites .. 26939. Against Sethians.

5 27640. Against Archontics .. 28341. Against Cerdonians .. 29242. Against Marcionites .. 29443. Against Lucianists .. 36444. Against Apelleans .. 36645. Against Severians .. 37346. Against Tatianists .. 376 Corrected Passages .. 381 Indices .. 383viii contentsACKNOWLEDGMENTI need to thank Professor Christoph Markschies for his kindness in furnishing me in advance of publication with a copy of the Wortregister to Holl s Panarion. I must also thank Herr Friedrich-Christian Collatz, our Series editor Stephen Emmel, and Ivo Romein and Ellen Girmscheid of Brill for their understanding and support, and my daughter Marge for her important technical translation of Book I of Epiphanius Panarion was originally published in 1987 and was reprinted with a few changes in 1997.

6 Demand for it has been suffi cient to warrant a second edition, which is offered here. The opportunity has been taken to review and revise the translation, edit and expand the notes and index and add indices of references. Together with its companion volume, The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Books II and III, De Fide (1994) this is the only current version in a modern language of the Panarion in its works of signifi cance have appeared since 1983. Aline Pourkier s important L h resiologie chez piphane de Salamine (1988) carries further the study of the Panarion s sources which was begun in the nineteenth century by Richard Lipsius, and also analyzes Epiphanius ways of dealing with his data. Pourkier tests Lipsius conclusions on ten Sects, seven of them from Book I. In the course of her study she translates extensively from the Panarion and from Epiphanius predecessors Irenaeus and Pseudo-Tertullian and his younger contemporary, Filaster of Amidon s The Panarion of St.

7 Epiphanius of Salamis, Selected Passages (1990) could be termed a modern epitome of the Panarion. It renders those passages which describe sects but omits Epiphanius refutations. Amidon s rendition amounts in all to about two fi fths of the Dechow s Dogma and Mysticism in Early Christianity, Epiphanius of Cyprus and the Legacy of Origen appeared in book form in 1998 although it had previously been available on microfi lm. Dechow translates excerpts from Epiphanius only incidentally but provides a penetrating study of his life, the anti-Origenist aspect of this thought, and the Origenist controversies of his last , of extreme importance to students of Epiphanius is the 2006 publication of Holl s Wortregister to the Panarion through the good offi ces of Friedrich-Christian Collatz, Christoph Markschies and other scholars.

8 Awaited for nearly a century, this invaluable tool also includes grammatical and subject indices, and besides facilitating the study of the Panarion should make practicable the revision of Holl s critical A nineteenth century Russian version exists but is rare, and long out of present work has been compared with all of these and is indebted to them x tWe render Karl Holl s critical text of the Panarion s Book I. The fi rst 33 Sects are from Holl s Ancoratus, Panarion Book I which was issued, with Sachapparat and textual notes, in 1913. The rest are from Holl s second volume, republished in 1980 by J rgen Dummer. The 1980 volume includes an appendix in which Dummer assembled suggestions which various scholars had made for the improvement of Holl s text. We translate these in the body of our work, marking them with an asterisk and providing a short appendix which gives the Greek revision of Holl s text has often been mooted, but the lack of the Wortregister has stood in its way.

9 The enterprise ought now to be practicable. However, to revise this enormous text must be a long drawn out affair requiring the cooperation of many published the principles of his treatment of the Panarion s text in 1910. He concluded that the eleven extant manuscripts, none of them complete, all descend from a single poorly copied archetype, and that the text has been contaminated by atticizing scribes. In the preface to his 1913 edition he complained that modern editors dislike of Epiphanius had infl uenced their view of his text, that on the one hand they had emended without reference to his distinctive style and vocabulary, but on the other had allowed absurdities to stand because Epiphanius was thought to be konfus. In fact, within his parameters Epiphanius is a particularly clear thinker. His Greek has its peculiarities but he sets forth his aims and methods clearly at the outset, carries them through consistently, seldom digresses and returns to his point when he does, and provides the reader with every help he can.

10 The diffi culties of the text are the results either of scribal error or of Epiphanius s is a carefully edited critical text. He sometimes emends, but more often restores a word or phrase, occasionally a longer unit. His restorations clear up many diffi culties and usually appear to be the most logical choice. Now and then the text gives a good sense without restoration and the Panarion, partly written but mostly dictated and that under pressure of time, may not have been as smooth as Holl supposed. Nonetheless there can be little doubt that Holl has given us a fair approximation of what Epiphanius introductionEpiphanius Life and WritingsOur chief sources of information about Epiphanius are his own works and correspondence, references in the writings of his friend Jerome, in Palladius Dialogue on the Life of John Chrysostom, and in Basil of Caesarea, Theophilus of Alexandria, and the histories of Socrates and Sozomen.