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of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." From the third discourse

10.38 Therefore it must be inquired why God made the moon full. Pay attention, for the thought is deep; for having been made on the fourth day, it ought to have appeared as a four-day-old moon; but again, if it were a four-day-old moon, it would not have occupied the extremity of the west; therefore it was found to have a surplus of eleven days; for as a four-day-old moon it appeared as a fifteen-day-old moon. Therefore, the moon has a surplus of eleven days over the sun, not in its creation, but in its appearance; for this reason, what it then gained in excess, it gives back to the sun. For the lunar number, being twenty-nine and a half days for each month, makes the year three hundred and fifty-four days in the twelve months; for if you thus calculate the month from twenty-nine and a half days, the days of the year become three hundred and fifty-four, so that the days which the moon then had in surplus, it gives back to the sun annually. Let the calculator calculate.

10.39 What would the friends of contention say about this too, hearing from him such great agreement with us, concerning the shape of the heaven, both the first and the second, and of the two spaces, which the firmament, being in the middle, created, and that the first heaven is not a sphere, but a vault according to the divine Scripture, and this second, visible heaven was solidified from waters and holds up the waters so that they are not dissolved by the heat of the stars, but are preserved by the coolness of the waters, and that the dew is from the firmament, and concerning the course of the stars, as they run through the northern regions by night, and concerning the angels, as having been created with the heaven and being spectators of the six-day creation of God, and being taught and amazed, and philosophizing about souls as being enclosed in bodies and operating in bodies.

10.40 How will not every mouth speaking unjust things against God and against us who study the divine Scripture according to the ecclesiastical tradition and discourse from it be stopped? For behold, it has been shown that both the prophets and the apostles and evangelists and the Lord Himself and all the divine Scripture, and furthermore also those renowned fathers and teachers among them, whether in truth or in pretense, not disagreeing with ours, but all bear witness to our account, that we have not walked a strange or unknown way of the church, but have said and written all things according to the meaning of the divine Scripture.

10.41 Not only this, but we have also set forth testimonies of the ancients from outside agreeing with our account as a product of tradition. God is witness, then apostles, prophets, the many-named choir of holy fathers, some of the schismatics and not insignificant ancient men from outside, the very nature of things clearly proclaiming the truth. But enough of these things. Therefore, O most beloved, having securely demonstrated all the aforementioned witnesses of our writing, let us send up thanksgiving to God the Savior of all, glory and honor and power to the Father and to his only-begotten Son and to the Holy Spirit unto the all-encompassing and endless ages of ages. Amen.

10.42 ...so that from all things it might have certainty, and every mouth speaking unjust things may be stopped. But passing this one by, let us move on to his fifth fellow minister, Epiphanius the bishop, showing that he too testifies and agrees with our account. Of Epiphanius, bishop of Cyprus, from the discourse On Weights and Measures

10.43 For God made twenty-two works, O lover of beauty, from the beginning until the seventh day, which are these: on the first day the higher heaven, the earth, the waters, from which are snow, crystal and hail, ice and dew, the spirits who minister before him, which are these: angels of the presence and angels of glory, and angels of clouds and darkness and snow and hail and ice, angels of voices, of thunders

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Πατρός μου, κληρονομήσατε τὴν ἡτοιμασμένην ὑμῖν βασιλείαν ἀπὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου." Ἐκ τοῦ τρίτου λόγου 10.38 Λοιπὸν ζητητέον διὰ τί πεπληρωμένην ὁ Θεὸς ἐποίησε τὴν σελήνην. Πρόσεχε, τὸ γὰρ νόημα βαθύ· ἐχρῆν γὰρ αὐτὴν τῇ τετάρτῃ ἡμέρᾳ γενομένην ὡς τεταρταίαν φαίνεσθαι· ἀλλὰ πάλιν, εἰ ἦν τεταρταία, τὸ ἄκρον τῆς δύσεως οὐ κατεῖχεν· εὑρέθη οὖν πλεονεκτοῦσα ἕνδεκα ἡμέρας· τεταρταία γὰρ ἐφαίνετο ὡς πεντεκαιδεκαταία. Ἕνδεκα ἡμέρας λοιπὸν πλεονεκτεῖ ἡ σελήνη τὸν ἥλιον, οὐ τῇ ποιήσει, ἀλλὰ τῇ φαύσει· διὰ τοῦτο ἃ τότε ἐπλεονέκτησεν, ἀποδίδωσι τῷ ἡλίῳ. Ὁ γὰρ κατὰ σελήνην ἀριθμὸς καθ' ἕκαστον μῆνα ἀπὸ εἰκοσιεννέα ἥμισυ ἡμερῶν γινόμενος, ὁ ἐνιαυτὸς ποιεῖ ἐν τοῖς δεκαδύο μησὶν ἡμέρας τριακοσίας πεντήκοντα τέσσαρας· ἐὰν γὰρ οὕτω ψηφίσῃς ἀπὸ εἰκοσιεννέα ἥμισυ ἡμερῶν τὸν μῆνα, γίνονται τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ἡμέραι τριακόσιαι πεντήκοντα τέσσαρες, ἵνα ἃς ἐπλεονέκτησε τότε ἡμέρας ἡ σελήνη κατ' ἐνιαυτὸν ἀποδίδωσι τῷ ἡλίῳ. Ὁ ψηφιστὴς ψηφιζέτω. 10.39 Τί ἂν ἐροῦσι καὶ περὶ τούτου οἱ τῆς φιλονεικίας φίλοι ἀκούοντες παρ' αὐτοῦ τὴν τοσαύτην συμφωνίαν τὴν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, περὶ τοῦ σχήματος τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τοῦ τε προτέρου καὶ τοῦ δευτέρου καὶ τῶν δύο χώρων, οὓς τὸ στερέωμα μεσολαβοῦν ἐποίησε, καὶ ὅτι οὐ σφαῖρα, ἀλλὰ καμάρα ἐστὶν ὁ οὐρανὸς ὁ πρῶτος κατὰ τὴν θείαν Γραφήν, καὶ ὁ δεύτερος οὗτος ὁ ὁρώμενος οὐρανὸς ἐξ ὑδάτων ἐπάγη καὶ βαστάζει τὰ ὕδατα διὰ τὸ μὴ διαλύεσθαι τῇ θέρμῃ τῶν ἄστρων, ἀλλὰ συντηρεῖσθαι τῇ ψύξει τῶν ὑδάτων, καὶ ὅτι ἡ δρόσος ἐκ τοῦ στερεώματός ἐστι, καὶ περὶ τοῦ δρόμου δὲ τῶν ἄστρων ὡς διὰ τῶν βορείων μερῶν τὴν νύκτα διατρεχόντων, καὶ περὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων ὡς σὺν τῷ οὐρανῷ γενομένων καὶ θεωρῶν ὄντων τῆς ἑξαημέρου δημιουργίας τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ διδασκομένων καὶ ἐκπληττομένων, καὶ περὶ ψυχῶν δὲ φιλοσοφοῦντα ὡς ἐν τοῖς σώμασι περικλειομένων καὶ ἐν σώμασιν ἐνεργουσῶν. 10.40 Πῶς οὐκ ἐμφραγήσεται πᾶν στόμα λαλοῦν ἄδικα κατὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ καθ' ἡμῶν τῶν τὴν θείαν Γραφὴν κατὰ τὴν ἐκκλησιαστικὴν παράδοσιν μελετώντων καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆς διαλεγομένων; Ἰδοὺ γὰρ ἐδείχθη ὅτι καὶ οἱ προφῆται καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι καὶ εὐαγγελισταὶ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος καὶ πᾶσα ἡ θεία Γραφή, ἔτι δὲ καὶ οἱ παρ' αὐτοῖς, εἴτε ἀληθείᾳ εἴτε προφάσει, θρυλλούμενοι πατέρες τε καὶ διδάσκαλοι μὴ διαφωνοῦντες τοῖς ἡμετέροις, ἀλλὰ πάντες μαρτυροῦσι τῷ ἡμετέρῳ λόγῳ, ὅτι οὐ ξένην οὔτε ἄγνωστον τῆς ἐκκλησίας ὁδὸν ἐβαδίσαμεν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὴν ἔννοιαν τῆς θείας Γραφῆς εἰρήκαμεν πάντα καὶ κατεγράψαμεν. 10.41 Οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἔξωθεν παλαιῶν τεθείκαμεν μαρτυρίας συμφωνούσας τῷ ἡμετέρῳ λόγῳ ὡς παραδόσεως γέννημα. Θεὸς μάρτυς, εἶτα ἀπόστολοι, προφῆται, ἁγίων πατέρων πολυώνυμος χορός, ἀποσχιστῶν ἔνιοι καὶ τῶν ἔξωθεν οὐκ ἄσημοι ἀρχαῖοι ἄνθρωποι, αὐτὴ ἡ φύσις τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν ἀληθείαν προδήλως κηρύττουσα. Ἀλλὰ τούτων ἅλις. Λοιπόν, ὦ προσφιλέστατε, ἀσφαλῶς ἀποδείξας πάντας τοὺς προειρημένους μάρτυρας τῆς ἡμετέρας συγγραφῆς, τῷ πάντων Σωτῆρι Θεῷ τὴν εὐχαριστίαν ἀναπέμψωμεν, δόξαν τε καὶ τιμὴν καὶ κράτος τῷ Πατρὶ καὶ τῷ μονογενεῖ αὐτοῦ Υἱῷ καὶ τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς σύμπαντας καὶ ἀτελευτήτους αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν. 10.42 ...ὅπως ἂν ἐκ πάντων τὸ βέβαιον ἔχοι, καὶ φραγῇ πᾶν στόμα λαλοῦν ἄδικα. Ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτον παρελθόντες ἐπὶ τὸν τούτου συλλειτουργὸν πέμπτον, Ἐπιφάνιον ἐπίσκοπον, μεταβῶμεν, δεικνύοντες καὶ τοῦτον μαρτυροῦντα καὶ συμφωνοῦντα τῷ ἡμετέρῳ λόγῳ. Ἐπιφανίου, ἐπισκόπου Κύπρου, ἐκ τοῦ λόγου τοῦ Περὶ μέτρων καὶ σταθμῶν 10.43 Εἴκοσι γὰρ καὶ δύο ἔργα, ὦ φιλόκαλε, ὁ Θεὸς ἐποίησεν ἀπ' ἀρχῆς ἄχρι τῆς ἑβδόμης ἡμέρας, ἅτινά ἐστι τάδε· τῇ πρώτῃ ἡμέρᾳ τὸν οὐρανὸν τὸν ἀνώτερον, τὴν γῆν, τὰ ὕδατα, ἐξ ὧν ἐστι χιών, κρύσταλλος καὶ χάλαζα, πάγος καὶ δρόσος, τὰ πνεύματα τὰ λειτουργοῦντα ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ, ἅτινά ἐστι τάδε· ἄγγελοι πρὸ προσώπου καὶ ἄγγελοι τῆς δόξης, καὶ ἄγγελοι νεφελῶν καὶ γνόφων καὶ χιόνων καὶ χαλάζης καὶ πάγου, ἄγγελοι φωνῶν, βροντῶν