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2 unusual facts about Epiphanius of Salamis


Epiphanius of Salamis

The texts appear not to have been given a polish but consist of rough notes and sketches, as Allen A. Shaw, a modern commentator, concluded; nevertheless Epiphanius' work on metrology was important in the History of measurement.

This event sowed the seeds of conflict which erupted in the dispute between Rufinus and John against Jerome and Epiphanius.


Buddhism and the Roman world

Early 3rd century–4th century Christian writers such as Hippolytus and Epiphanius write about a Scythianus, who visited India around 50 CE from where he brought "the doctrine of the Two Principles".

Chronicon Paschale

The chief authorities used were: Sextus Julius Africanus; the consular Fasti; the Chronicle and Church History of Eusebius; John Malalas; the Acta Martyrum; the treatise of Epiphanius, bishop of Constantia (the old Salamis) in Cyprus (fl. 4th century), on Weights and Measures.

Philastrius

Philastrius's "Catalogue" of heresies would have little value, were it not for the circumstance discovered by Richard Adelbert Lipsius that, for the Christian heresies up to Noetus, the compiler drew from the same source as Epiphanius of Salamis, i.

Pseudo-Tertullian

Recent scholarship, agreeing with a theory of Richard Adelbert Lipsius, suggests that this work Syntagma was the common source for Philastrius and the Panarion of Epiphanius, also.

Tomb of the Virgin Mary

Later, Saints Epiphanius of Salamis, Gregory of Tours, Isidore of Seville, Modest, Sophronius of Jerusalem, German of Constantinople, Andrew of Crete, and John of Damascus talk about the tomb being in Jerusalem, and bear witness that this tradition was accepted by all the Churches of East and West.


see also

Adversus Haereses

Panarion (medicine-chest), also a work in opposition to heresies, written in the 300s by Epiphanius of Salamis.

Cyril of Turaw

They are works by early Christian and Byzantine churchmen that would have been available to Kirill in Slavonic translations: John Chrysostom, Epiphanius of Salamis, Ephrem of Syrus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Eusebius of Caesarea, and the scholia of Nicetas of Heraclea, Titus of Bostra, Theophylact of Ohrid, and the chronicler George the monk (George Hamartolus).