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of the second book, being the fifth according to the aforementioned numbering, five heresies as follows: of Paul of Samosata, Manichaeans, who are also Acuanites, Hieracites, of the Melitians in Egypt 1.161 a schism, Arians. This is also the summary of the second book of the two tomes. Likewise also in the third book there are two tomes. In the first tome of the third book, being the sixth according to the number we mentioned before, seven heresies as follows: Audians, being a schism, Photinians, Marcellians, Semi-Arians, Pneumatomachi, who blaspheme the Holy Spirit of God, Aerians, of Aetius the Anomoean, to whom was joined Eunomius, who is also called Anomos. And in the second tome of the same third book, being the seventh tome according to the division of the number of tomes we mentioned, which is the seventh tome and the end of the treatise, four heresies as follows: Dimoeritae, who do not confess the perfect incarnation of Christ, who are also Apollinarians, and those who say that the holy Mary the ever-virgin, after she had given birth to the Savior, was joined to Joseph, whom we have called Antidicomarianites, and those who offer a kollyris in the name of the same Mary, who are called Collyridians, Massalians, and the defense concerning the right faith and truth with a summary of the argument, which is the holy catholic and apostolic church. This is the summary and title of the entire treatise against eighty heresies and of the one defense on behalf of truth, that is, of the one catholic and orthodox church, arranged in three underlying books, divided into seven tomes. 1.169 Of Epiphanius the bishop, against heresies, the work called Panarion, or rather

medicine-chest. 1. As I begin to report and speak of both faith and unbelief, both orthodoxy and heterodoxy, I shall recall the beginning of the foundation and sequence of the world, not through my own power nor proceeding from my own reasonings, but as God, the merciful Lord of all, revealed to his own prophets and through them deemed us worthy of the knowledge of the universe, so far as is possible for human nature. And beginning immediately to examine these things, I first find myself in no small contest, but am also exceedingly afraid, undertaking a work that is no ordinary one, and I call upon the holy God himself and his only-begotten son Jesus Christ and his holy Spirit, that he might illuminate the mind of our lowliness for the enlightenment of the knowledge concerning these things. For the Greek writers, both poets and prose-writers, when they undertook some mythical composition, would invoke some Muse, but not God. For among them wisdom is demonic and “earthly and not coming down from above,” as it is written. But we call upon the holy Lord of all to take hold of our poverty and to inspire his holy Spirit, so that we might compose nothing falsified in the writing of what is promised. And having asked this very thing, knowing our own inability, we beseech him to grant it to us “according to the measure of faith and according to proportion.” 1.170 2. But let the scope * be for the one who encounters any question, that the discoveries are of seasons and times, as many as our small mind, having been trained, was able to grasp, and we do not by any means promise all things in the world *; for there are things unspeakable and speakable, countless and not established in number, and as much as has come to men unattainable, but known only to the Lord of all. But the

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δευτέρου βιβλίου, πέμπτῳ δὲ ὄντι κατὰ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τὸν προειρημένον, αἱρέσεις πέντε οὕτως· Παύλου τοῦ Σαμοσατέως Μανιχαῖοι, οἱ καὶ Ἀκουανῖται, Ἱερακῖται Μελιτιανῶν τῶν ἐν τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ 1.161 σχίσμα Ἀρειανοί. αὕτη καὶ ἡ τοῦ δευτέρου βιβλίου τῶν δύο τόμων ἀνακεφαλαίωσις. Ὁμοίως καὶ ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ βιβλίῳ εἰσὶ τόμοι δύο. ἐν τῷ μὲν πρώτῳ τόμῳ τοῦ τρίτου βιβλίου, ἕκτῳ δὲ ὄντι καθ' ὃν ἀριθμὸν προείπαμεν, αἱρέσεις ἑπτὰ οὕτως· Αὐδιανοὶ σχίσμα ὄντες, Φωτεινιανοὶ Μαρκελλιανοὶ Ἡμιάρειοι Πνευματομάχοι, οἱ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ τὸ ἅγιον βλασφημοῦντες, Ἀεριανοὶ Ἀετίου τοῦ Ἀνομοίου, ᾧ συνήφθη Εὐνόμιος ὁ καὶ Ἄνομος. ἐν δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ τόμῳ τοῦ αὐτοῦ τρίτου βιβλίου, ἑβδόμῳ δὲ τόμῳ ὄντι καθ' ἣν εἴπαμεν τῶν τόμων τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ διαίρεσιν, ὅς ἐστι τόμος ἕβδομος καὶ τέλος τῆς πραγματείας, αἱρέσεις τέσσαρες οὕτως· ∆ιμοιρῖται, οἱ μὴ τελείαν τὴν Χριστοῦ ἐνανθρώπησιν ὁμολογοῦντες οἱ καὶ Ἀπολλιναρῖται, καὶ οἱ τὴν ἁγίαν Μαρίαν τὴν ἀειπάρθενον μετὰ τὸ τὸν σωτῆρα γεγεννηκέναι τῷ Ἰωσὴφ συνῆφθαι λέγοντες, οὓς ἐκαλέσαμεν Ἀντιδικομαριαμίτας, καὶ οἱ εἰς ὄνομα τῆς αὐτῆς Μαρίας κολλυρίδα προσφέροντες, οἵτινες καλοῦνται Κολλυριδιανοί, Μασσαλιανοί, καὶ ἡ περὶ τῆς ὀρθῆς πίστεως καὶ ἀληθείας ἀπολογία μετ' ἐπιτομῆς τοῦ λόγου, ἥτις ἐστὶν ἡ ἁγία καθολικὴ καὶ ἀποστολικὴ ἐκκλησία. Αὕτη ἡ ἀνακεφαλαίωσις καὶ ἐπιγραφὴ τῆς πάσης κατὰ αἱρέσεων ὀγδοήκοντα πραγματείας καὶ μιᾶς τῆς ὑπὲρ ἀληθείας ἀπολογίας τῆς μόνης τουτέστι τῆς καθολικῆς καὶ ὀρθοδόξου ἐκκλησίας, ἐν τρισὶ μὲν βιβλίοις ὑποκειμένοις συντεταγμένης, ἐν ἑπτὰ δὲ τόμοις διαιρεθείσης. 1.169 Ἐπιφανίου ἐπισκόπου κατὰ αἱρέσεων τὸ ἐπικληθὲν πανάριον εἴτουν

κιβώτιον. 1. Ἀρχόμενος πίστιν τε καὶ ἀπιστίαν, εὐδοξίαν τε καὶ ἑτεροδοξίαν ἀναγγέλλειν τε καὶ λέγειν μνησθήσομαι τῆς ἀρχῆς τῆς τοῦ κόσμου καταβολῆς καὶ ἀκολουθίας, οὐ διὰ τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ δυνάμεως οὐδ' ἀπὸ ἰδίων λογισμῶν ὁρμώμενος, ἀλλ' ὡς ὁ θεὸς ὁ πάντων δεσπότης καὶ ἐλεήμων ἀπεκάλυψε τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ προφήταις καὶ δι' αὐτῶν ἡμᾶς τῆς τοῦ παντὸς γνώσεως κατὰ τὸ ἐγχωροῦν ἀνθρωπείᾳ φύσει κατηξίωσε. καὶ ἀρχόμενος περὶ τούτων εὐθὺς διασκοπεῖν πρῶτον μὲν οὐκ ἐν μικρῷ ἀγῶνι καθίσταμαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ σφόδρα δέδια ἐπιβαλλόμενος ἔργῳ οὐ τῷ τυχόντι καὶ ἐπικαλοῦμαι αὐτὸν τὸν ἅγιον θεὸν καὶ τὸν μονογενῆ αὐτοῦ παῖδα Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν καὶ τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ πνεῦμα, ὅπως καταυγάσῃ τῆς ἡμετέρας εὐτελείας τὸν νοῦν πρὸς φωτισμὸν τῆς περὶ τούτων γνώσεως. οἱ μὲν γὰρ τῶν Ἑλλήνων συγγραφεῖς ποιηταί τε καὶ λογογράφοι ἐπιβαλλόμενοί τινι μυθώδει συγγράμματι Μοῦσάν τινα ἐπεκαλοῦντο. οὐ γὰρ θεόν· δαιμονιώδης γὰρ παρ' αὐτοῖς ἡ σοφία καὶ «ἐπίγειος καὶ οὐκ ἄνωθεν κατερχομένη» κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον. ἡμεῖς δὲ ἐπικαλούμεθα τὸν τῶν ὅλων ἅγιον δεσπότην ἀντιλαβέσθαι τῆς ἡμῶν πτωχείας καὶ ἐμπνεῦσαι τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ πνεῦμα, εἰς τὸ μηδὲν παραπεποιημένον εἰς τὴν τῆς ἐπαγγελίας γραφὴν συντάξαι. καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦτο αἰτησάμενοι, τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἀνικανότητα γινώσκοντες «κατὰ τὸ μέτρον τῆς πίστεως καὶ κατὰ ἀναλογίαν» δωρήσασθαι τὸν αὐτὸν ἡμῖν παρακαλοῦμεν. 1.170 2. Ἔστω δὲ ὁ σκοπὸς * τῷ ἐντυγχάνοντι περὶ παντός του ζητήματος, ὅτι τῶν καιρῶν ἐστι καὶ χρόνων τὰ ἐφευρήματα, ὅσα ἠδυνήθη ὁ σμικρὸς ἡμῶν νοῦς ἐξασκηθεὶς καταλαβέσθαι, καὶ οὐ πάντως που ἐπαγγελλόμεθα πάντων τῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ *· ἄφατα γάρ ἐστι καὶ φατά, ἀμύθητά τε καὶ ἐν ἀριθμῷ μὴ καθιστάμενα καὶ ὅσον μὲν εἰς ἀνθρώπους ἧκεν ἀνέφικτα, μόνῳ δὲ τῷ τῶν ὅλων δεσπότῃ γινωσκόμενα. τὸ δὲ