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The Panarion (Medicine-chest against heresies)

Epiphanius of Salamis · AD 374–377

Patrologia Graeca, vol. 41 (Migne) — manuscript witness to The Panarion (Medicine-chest against heresies)
Patrologia Graeca, vol. 41 (Migne) — 1858Eastern Orthodox St. Fathers and other notable Christian writers · Public domain · Commons
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Patrologia Graeca, vol. 41 (Migne) — manuscript witness to The Panarion (Medicine-chest against heresies)

Patrologia Graeca, vol. 41 (Migne) — 1858Eastern Orthodox St. Fathers and other notable Christian writers · Public domain · Commons

What this text is

Eighty heresies catalogued, dosed, and refuted — clumsy, invaluable, and the sole preserver of documents like Ptolemy's Letter to Flora and much of the Anomoian dossier.

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Public-domain translations

Literal gloss of the Greek (Proem)

I have composed this Medicine-chest against the bites of the wild beasts of heresy — eighty in all, as the concubines of the Song are eighty — that whoever is bitten may find here the antidote.

Manuscript witnesses

Vatican gr. 503 and the Byzantine tradition

9th c. onward

The heresiology whose transcriptions preserve otherwise-lost texts — Ptolemy's Letter to Flora among them.

PRINCIPAL WITNESSES

Patrologia Graeca, vol. 41 (Migne)

1858

Standard pre-critical text of the corpus.

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Provenance

Salamis in Cyprus, AD 374–377 — the 'medicine chest' against eighty heresies

Editions & scholarship

Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.

Figures named in this text (49)