ANALYTICAL INDEX TO THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES
The pages are noted according to the edition of Dionysius Petavius, which we have reproduced here in larger type.
A Abraham, what sort of person he was, 409. Abraham equal to Ninus and Semiramis, 8. Abraham’s calling, 9. Abraham the father of the Jews, 17. Abraham’s eight children, 9. Abraham circumcised at ninety years of age, Isaac his son on the eighth day of his birth, 17. Abrahamites, so called from the patriarch Abraham, being circumcised, 9. Abrahamites and Isacites, called worshippers of the true God, 9. Abratonum puts to flight the venom of serpents, 423. Acacius and Paulus, colleagues of Epiphanius in the priestly office, 3. The feigned profession of faith of Acacius and his followers, 872. In which the word *homoousios*, that is, consubstantial, was removed, 873. How many and which bishops subscribed to this council, 874. The cunning rationale of that exposition and profession, 875. The threefold division of the Arian sect, 875. Adam, how many children he had, 787. Adam, what number of years his age was, 4. Adam’s children and descendants from Seth, 4. Adam designated by the man descending from Jerusalem to Jericho, 394. Adam’s creation from the earth, 4. The ancient opinion of some concerning Adam’s creation refuted, 4. The name Adam signifies a man, 4. Adam’s wife, created from his own body and from the same breath, similar to him, 4. Adam, why he was cast out of paradise by God, 516. Adam’s procreation, children, age, and death, 640. Adam was neither a Jew nor an idolater, but, as a prophet, was imbued with the catholic faith, 6. Adam’s children had contracted marriages with their sisters, 287. Adamian heresy, the thirty-second after Christianity, or fifty-second in order, 458. Compared to moles, 458. Their ridiculous heresy, 458. What their rites are like, 459. Where they have their conventicles, 459. They perform their ceremonies and mysteries naked, both men and women, 459. They call their church paradise, 459. What the terrestrial paradise was like, and the diet of Adam and Eve, 459. Egyptian origins, 8. How ridiculous the Egyptian rites are, 1092. What sacred mysteries of Harpocrates are among them, 1092. The equinox is the beginning of the year, 814. Aerius’ heresy, the fifty-seventh or seventy-seventh in order, 904. Whence heresies arose, 905. Aerius’ history, 905. He was a monk with Eustathius, 905. Made a presbyter by Eustathius and curator of the poorhouse in Pontus, 905. He departs from Eustathius and pursues him with hostility, 906. He made presbyters equal to bishops, 906. He thought wrongly concerning the Passover, 908. He condemns the memory of the dead and the good works undertaken for them, 907. He condemned established fasts, 907. During the Easter season, he turned fasts customary for the Church to be observed into drunkenness and laughter, 907. Otherwise in life he was a wine-bibber and most indulgent to his throat and belly, 907. His refutation, 908. His objection concerning the equality of bishops and presbyters and its solution, 908. The first age of the world, how many years it lasted, 5. Aetians rebaptized, 991. The cavil of the Aetians against the catholics, 990. They reject the apostles and prophets, 991. Their arrogance, 989. Aetius the Anomoean’s little work, 924-931. Three hundred chapters written by him, 931. His refutation, 931-993. Why Aetius calls the catholics "temporaries," 932. Aetius’ absurdity concerning a created and uncreated God, 951. Aetius’ successor, Eunomius, 991. Aetius recalled from exile and created bishop, 991. Aetius calls his companions/associates "athletes" (male and female), 987. His salutation, placed at the end of his doctrine, dissents from the beginning, 987. It savors partly of the errors of the Sadducees, partly of the pagans, 988. Aetius’ impious and proud opinion, 989. See Anomoean heresy. Agabus’ prophetic spirit concerning Paul’s girdle, 409. The immolation of the lamb celebrated by the Egyptians, 39. Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, his death, and he mandates the substitution of Athanasius, 722. After the death of Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, Achilles succeeded, against whom the Meletians had opposed Theonas, 735. The custom of the Alexandrian Church in ordaining a bishop, 735. The Alexandrian bishop’s diocese and its province, 717. Alogi heretics, why they were so called, 450. How the Alogi criticize the Apocalypse, 454. The Alogian heresy is the thirty-first after Christianity, fifty-first in order, 422. Whence they are so called, 423. They reject the Apocalypse and the Gospel of John, 423. They attribute the writings of John to Cerinthus, 424. They criticize John himself, 424. The altar of the Lord should never be idle, 704. The *Amen* of God, by which Christ the Lord ratified all the promises of God, and confirmed them, 366. Angels, as rulers of nations, why they are said to have breastplates of brimstone and hyacinth, 457. Why angels were created countless by God, 295. The Angelic heresy, XL, 457. Angels created with the heaven and the earth, 611. Angelina, a place inside Mesopotamia whence the Angelici were left behind/hereticized, 505. Soul (*Anima*). That the soul is immortal is proved by express words of Scripture, 559. The soul cannot sin outside the body, 565. But that is refuted, 566. The soul enclosed in the body as if in a place of punishment, 564. Anna and Joachim, parents of the blessed Mary, 1049. Anomoean heresy, 912. The leader, Aetius, ordained by Georgius, 912. In adult age, he learned foreign disciplines, excommunicated by the Arians, 916. The pride of the Aetians, 916. Aetius’ perfidy is demonstrated by a comparison, 916. The Aetians neglect the commandments of God, 916. That the Anomoeans are idolaters and adore the sun and other creatures, 985. The origin of the Anomoeans and from whom they flowed, 886. Anomoeans compared with the Jews, 1036. Antidicomarianite heresy, the fifty-eighth or seventy-sixth in order, 1033. What kind it was, 1033. Apelleian heresy, the twenty-fourth after the rise of Christianity, 380. Whence so named, 380. Apelles’ dogmas, 380. He opposes the opinion of his master, Marcion, 380. He destroys his three principles and establishes one entirely, 381. To neglect the world, 381. But that another god produced this one, the creator of the world, but an evil one, 381. The refutation of his dogmas, 381. He asserts that Christ, the Son of the good God, came in the last times, 381. He says the same was born from the Virgin Mary, but that he assumed flesh from elsewhere, 381. Namely from the four elements, 582. How he laid it aside, Apelleians, 383. They deny the resurrection of bodies, 383. They argue foolishly about the soul of Christ, 585. Also about his body, 386. For Stephen saw his body as spiritual in heaven, 386. The resurrection of bodies proved against Lucianus and the Lucianists, 386. They are compared with the ember which they call *zopyron*, 387. Some mysteries of the Apocalypse explained, 454. Apollinaris’ dogma concerning the flesh being consubstantial to the divinity of the Word is refuted, 1000. And the true humanity of Christ is proved, 1001. The Word attributes to himself those things which the body suffered, 1002. Commendation of Apollinaris due to his singular doctrine, 1016. His heresy is refuted, 1018. The Apollinarist objection, 1020. Christ had human affections, 1020. The dignity of human nature in Christ, 1022. Apollinarist blasphemy concerning an imaginary body of Christ, 998. They assert a quaternity, not a trinity, 998. The saying of the Apostles, "What I do I do not know," how it is to be interpreted, 583. The function of the Jewish apostles, and of the ministers who are called Azanitae, 155. The constitution of the apostles by which the catholic Church is said to be proved, 390. Apostles of the Jews and patriarchs, 506. The election and enumeration of the apostles, 50. Apostolic heresy, XLI after Christianity, 506. They are also called Apotactici, "renouncers," and why, 506.
A From whom they arose, 506. They adhere to the Acts of Andrew and Thomas, 506. They disapprove of marriage, 506. Where they dwell, 507. The power of blessed water and of that signed with the cross, 137. Freedom of choice is granted to everyone, 573. Relics of Noah’s ark preserved among the Cardycaei, 39. The Archontic heresy, the twentieth after the rise of Christianity, 291. Where it was sown, 291. And propagated by a certain anchorite Enctatus, or rather Atactus, 291. Archontics use apocryphal books, 292. Their dogmas, 292. Which prophets they profess, 297. The Archontic heresy conflated from a manifold collection of snakes, 299. The Arian heresy, the forty-ninth or sixty-ninth, 717. The Nicene synod against the Arians, 735. By which places of Scripture they confirm their error, 736. Why the Arian heresy was tolerated by God, 737. Their principal supporters, 737. Arian fraud, 738. Their foundation, 738. They strip Christ of his human nature, 743. Arians persecute Catholics both with words and arms, 885. Various Arian objections: the first is concerning the one and only God, 731. Concerning the created Son, 758. From the first chapter of John, 662. And its solution, 776. From the twentieth chapter of John, in which Christ says "my God," 777. The Arian sect divided into three factions, 870. Of those among them who were hidden, pretending to be orthodox, 871. Arians rejected the Epistle to the Hebrews, 760. Concerning the resurrection, 798. Its solution, 799, 800, 801. Its refutation, 803. Arians ignorant of the Hebrew language, the force of whose words must be weighed, 749. Arians refuted concerning the objection about the consubstantial Word, 796. The term consubstantial is necessary, 797. How much cunning the Arians possess in circumventing simpler minds, 757. Conclusion of the refutation of the Arian heresy from the illumination by spittle from the Gospel of John, 806. Arians deny that a soul was assumed by Christ, 771. But the Arian seems to have hallucinated in citing the passage from Isaiah, 772. And why things said of the Father tropically should not similarly be usurped for the Son, 772. The Arian perverse dogma concerning the Holy Spirit refuted, 777. That He is not created, 778. From the nineteenth chapter of Matthew, an objection concerning the only good God, 780. Since many good things are called so in the Scriptures, 781. Another objection from Matthew xx and Mark x concerning the sons of Zebedee, 781. Which passage is explained, 782. Objection about Christ being raised from the dead by God, 782. Another from the twentieth chapter of Luke about Christ praying to the Father, 784. Another about the aid of angels, 785. Why Christ assumed human sufferings as he did other things, 785. How an angel is said to have comforted Christ, 786. Another objection concerning Christ weeping because he was forsaken by God, 787. But human affections in Christ are proven to have existed, 788. And his soul descended to the underworld, 789. And he entered with the doors locked, 791. And why he spoke partly in Hebrew, partly in Syriac while on the cross, 793. His refutation, 793. And the Church is closest to Christ, 793. In what sense Christ is said to be one with God and with the disciples, 794. Arian arguments concluded with captious syllogisms, and their refutation, 794. The Arians are Aristotelians, and their quibbling, 795. Its solution, 795. The impiety of the Arians, who posit some "like" idol concerning Christ, 755. The Arians are refuted, and it is shown that Christ is not called a creature, 758. Arius. Where he came from and how he strayed from the faith, 717. Expelled from the Church, he retreated to Palestine, 720. His manners and habits, 729. Detected by Melitius, bishop of the Thebaid, 729. Ordered to leave Alexandria, 729. He leads many into error, 730. He flees to Palestine, 730. Alexander the bishop sent encyclical letters to the bishops, 730. How many they were in number, 730. The supporters of Arius, the leader of whom was Eusebius, bishop of Nicomedia, 730. The letter of Arius in which he explains his dogma, 731. Another letter of his to Alexander, 732. But Constantine wrote an encyclical letter against Arius, 734. The death of Arius, similar to a prodigy and sent by God in retribution, 722, 735. Artotyritae, so called from bread and cheese, which they used in their mysteries, 418. Aspids devour themselves, and the stronger of them is called the aspidogorgon, 1105. B Aspidogorgon, one of the aspids, stronger than the others, consuming them, 61. Aspid, from the asp, drinks poison mutually (Proverb.), 68. Assur is believed by the Greeks to be the same as Zoroaster, 7. Assur, son of Nimrod, which cities he founded, 7. The origins of the Assyrians, 8. Asterius the sophist abjured the faith during the persecution of Maximian, 815. Athanasius is created bishop of Alexandria, and his zeal for the Church, 736. Suffered many things for the faith, 736. The epistle of Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, to Epictetus, bishop of the Corinthians, 997. Athanasius ordained bishop of Alexandria, 722. Athanasius urges the Meletians to communion, 722. Accused of the same, 723. For this reason a council was gathered at Tyre by the order of Constantine, 723. Ursacius and Valens, accusers of Athanasius, suborned by Eusebius, 724. Athanasius is relegated, and lives in exile in Italy, 725. Restored, 725. Driven out again and restored anew by the emperor Jovian, 726. The emperor Valens dares not expel him, 726. The sacred rites of the Athenians and the orgies of Dionysus, 1092. The region of Attica, whence so named, 11. The heresy of the Audians, the Lth after Christianity, in the order of the LXX, 811. Who was their author, 811. The schism of the Audians, 811. Opinions about where the image of God in man is situated, 814. The image of God in man did not perish, 814. The places by which the Audians prove that the image of God exists in the body of man, 816. How God was seen by the prophets, 817. The error of the Audians concerning the Pasch, 820. Their calumny concerning this, 821. The most holy life of the Audians, 827. They avoid the communion of others, 827. Audius. The history of Audius, 811. His freedom in rebuking, 812. He separated himself from the Church, 812. Audius created bishop, 812. Audius, an old man, relegated by the emperor to Scythia, 827. He established monasteries in Gothia, 827. Azura, wife of Seth and also his sister, 287. C Babylon founded, and the division and variety of languages, 288. Baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit indicates the true mystery of the Lordly Trinity, 1120. The baptism of Christ, by which he was not so much cleansed from the waters as he cleansed the waters, 1136. In his baptism he heard the voice of the Father and saw the Holy Spirit descended in the form of a dove, 1137. His passion, by which only his human nature, not his divinity, suffered, 1138. Then his resurrection and conversation with the disciples, 1138. Those who baptize heretics again, even Arians, do so wrongly, 1095. The shaving of the beard is prohibited by the apostolic constitutions, 1073. Barbarism, the first heresy, whence so called, 1113. Various sects of the barbarians, and of the Indians, LXXII, 1091. The heresy of the Bardesianists, the XXXVIth after Christianity, or LVIth, 476. Who Bardesianes was, 476. He wrote against astrologers concerning fate, 477. His errors, 477. He denied the resurrection of the dead, 477. His refutation, 477. Barnabas signifies son of consolation: he was previously called Joseph and was a Cypriot, 149. The heresy of the Basilians, the Ist after Christianity, 68. By whom and where it was introduced, 68. By whom Basilides, their author, was instructed, 67. His words and dogmas, 67. He asserts that Christ appeared on earth only under the image of a man, 70. He denies that he suffered on the cross, 70. He permitted promiscuous intercourse of men and women, 71. He condemns martyrdom, 71. He considers himself the only man, others dogs, 72. He wishes his doctrine to be hidden and communicated to a few, 72. Whence his heresy was born, 72. He posits the beginning as Abraxas, whence the fable about the 365 heavens was concocted, 75. From which he gathers 563 members in man, 73. Irenaeus wrote against him, 73. His dogmas are refuted, 74. Bitumen has potency against poisons, 423. Many good things are called so in the Scriptures, 781. Bosphorus, son of Atthides, whence the city in the Euxine, 11. D Dead bodies are by no means to be detested, 26. Clerical celibacy is confirmed, 1104. Ecclesiastical orders, 1104. Jewish ceremonies were referred to Christian rites, 19. The heresy of the Cainites, the XVIth after Christianity, 276. D
from Cain, 276. They venerate Cain as their forefather, and circulate a Gospel in his name, 276. To whom they attribute angels for sins, 277. They fabricate a book of the Apostle, which they call the Anabaticon of Paul, 277. They posit a twofold virtue, 78. They define evil as a nature, 279. Refutation of the Cainites regarding the merit of Judas the traitor, 282. Judas was an imitator of Cain, because he lied to his brother, 280. Cal- vary, why the place is so called, 594. Campsace, commonly among the Jews, a species of copper vessel, 136. Cana, what it signifies, 432. The fable of the dog snatching at a reflection instead of meat, B to which heretics are compared, 299. The vow of hair in men is disapproved, 1073. That the flesh is subjected to the law of God, but not the wisdom of the flesh, 577. Whether there is any difference between flesh and the body, 580. That the eating of flesh is by no means condemned, or prohibited by God, but rather used by Christ, 146. In what sense the flesh is condemned by the Apostle, 1021. The Carpocratians, what images they worship, and they adore them with gentilic rites, 108. They believe that souls only are saved, not bodies, C since after the rise of Christianity, the seventh by the author Carpocrates, 102. Conflated from all others, 102. The pride of the Carpocratians, 103. They practice magic arts, 104. They do everything for the sake of pleasure, 104. They are Christians only in name, 104. They assert that nothing is base or evil by nature, but by the opinion of men, 103. They practice masculine lust, 103. They believe that souls are not freed after death unless they have undergone all pollutions, 106. They brand their followers on the back of the right ear with iron, 106. The error of Carpocrates, 107. The Cataphrygians boast of one Maximilla as the leader D of their heresy and a prophetess, 413. The heresy of the Cathari, the thirty-ninth after Christianity, or the fifty-ninth, 493. From what author they proceeded, 493. The history of Novatus the author of the Cathari, 493. Of the same heresy, 493. He did not admit the twice-married, 493. It is refuted by a threefold likeness, 495. He rejected all penance after baptism if anyone had sinned, 495. But penance can be repeated, baptism cannot, 497. The Cathari call themselves pure, though they are impure, 499. They are compared to the basilisk, 504. The Donatists in Africa are similar to the Cathari or Novatians, 501. The Catholic faith, which is the true and orthodox one, 257. Caulaucauch, what it signifies among the Nicolaitans, 79. The heresy of the Cerdonians, the twenty-first after Christianity, 299. From whom it is so called, 299. Under which pope Cerdo lived, 300. His dogmas, 300. Cerdo was a precursor of Marcion, 300. A brief refutation of him, 301. The conflicting opinion of Cerinthus and John concerning Christ, 421. The heresy of the Cerinthians or Merinthians, which is the eighth after Christianity, 110. Where Cerinthus began to profess his heresy, 110. He separated Jesus from Christ, 110. He opposed himself to Peter, 110, 111. The author of sedition, 110, 111. He was circumcised, 110, 111. The Cerinthians mutilate the Gospel of Matthew, 113. They assert that Christ has not yet been raised from the dead, 113. It is refuted that he was born from the seed of Joseph, 113. The Merinthians are also called Cerinthians, for they are the same, 115, 116. And therefore they are compared to a two-headed serpent, 113, 116. Cham the son of Noah occupied Palestine, whence the region of Canaan, 704. His sons, 704. The error of the Chiliasts is attributed to Apollinaris, 1031. And what sort of heresy that was, 1032. What should be thought concerning the Apocalypse of Saint John, 1031. Christianity first began to be called such at Antioch, 51. After the destruction of Jerusalem, the Christians dwelt at Pella, 123. How great is the perfection of the Christians and of the Christian profession in all life, 499. From whence the Christians were called Jessaeans, 120. Christians called Nazarenes, 117. And first called Christians at Antioch, 117. Also Jessaeans, 117. The priesthood of the Christians, 470. Christians driven from Gothia by a certain Gentile king, 828. The controversy of the Christians concerning those who had offered sacrifices to idols and had afterwards repented, 717. Diverse opinions concerning that doubt among Meletius, Peleus, and others, against the opinion of Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria, 718. Christ redeemed us, but did not buy us, and He is our redeemer not a buyer, 309. How He is said to be less than John, 325. Then from other passages against Marcion, 327. Why Christ employed Elijah and Moses in His glory, 328. Christ rising again took on a subtle body, and entered while the doors were shut, 593. Why He retained the scars of His body, 593. He entered with the doors closed, 1108 against the Calvinists, 593. Why Christ is called the firstfruits of those who sleep, 594. Many rose before Him, 594. When the preaching of Christ had its beginning, 48. At what age He began to preach, 48. When He had detractors, 48. When He accomplished the work of redemption through His passion, 48. He suffered in the flesh, in His divinity He suffered nothing, 49. What kind of body He had in life, and what kind He retained after the resurrection, 49. The same enters with doors closed after the resurrection, 49. He commanded the Apostles to teach and to baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 50. The incarnation of Christ put all heresies to flight, 47. And the same Word is begotten from eternity, 47. How He was begotten from Mary and conceived of the Holy Spirit, 47. The description of His nativity, 48. Why Christ suffered on the fourteenth day of the moon, 421. That Christ is true God, the Son of God, and can by no means be called a creature, 759. Christ is the fulfillment of the law, because Christ and the law fulfill all justice, 369. Christ is priest, and sacrifice, victim, altar, God, man, king, pontiff, sheep, lamb, the names or attributes of Christ which are adapted to them, 758. Christ suffered of His own accord, 74. Christ appears to Joseph [of Arimathea] first, 132. The life of Christ digested and expounded in order, 439. Christ healed men of their infirmities, not brute animals, 650. When Christ came into the world, 445. Why Christ is called the firstborn, 1033. Christ truly took upon Himself all human things, 1029. Why Christ was unwilling to be anointed as king when He Himself was born from the royal lineage of David, 117. And yet the prophets did not err in Him, 118. The advent of Christ was predicted to the Jews by the prophets, 18. Christ appeared to the prophets, and announced His advent, 518. Why He is called A and Ω, 519. Why Christ commended His mother to John, 1042. Christ entered with closed doors, 1025. He had a human mind, 1024. An objection concerning Christ's mind and its refutation, 1025. How Christ suffered, 1026. The communion of the properties of both natures in Christ is declared, 1027. What is meant by Christ's mind, 1028. Why Christ wished to be present at the wedding, 431. At what time and year of His age Christ suffered, 446. That He fulfilled the Passover, 416. His acceptable year, 417. The time of His passion, 448. The infancy of Christ was not passed without certain miracles, 442. The time of His same nativity is weighed more accurately, 444. Christ yielded royal dignity to the pontiffs, 119. In what manner Christ is called pontiff and priest, 762. The divinity of Christ is exempt from passion, 748. Why Christ was circumcised, 133. Christ king and priest, 119. How Christ redeemed and did not buy, and at what price, 699. Christ subsists as much from the Word incarnate as from man affected by divinity, 765. For what cause Christ wished to be judged, 774. By the advent of Christ the law was dissolved, nor could it be fulfilled any longer, 123. That Christ was a true man, and coalesced in the womb of the Virgin, and was afterwards circumcised, etc., 152. That Christ is not ignorant of the day of judgment, 766. And how it is said that He is even ignorant of it, 766. But the angels are utterly ignorant of the day of judgment, 770. Christ explained His parables for the most part, 206. Why Christ Himself prayed to the Father, 753. That Christ was not a mere man, but the Word clothed in humanity, 763. The proper adjuncts of Christ: truth, light, life, and the parent and begetter even of these, 377. Christ crucified on Golgotha above the sepulcher of Adam, 394. Why Christ wished to experience the affections of the body, 770. The history of the nativity of Christ and His birthday according to the times and fasti of the empire, 1118. Christ enters with closed doors after the resurrection, 1120. The summary of Christ’s life and His divine gifts, 1136. Unclean foods were created by no one, by God, but all things are pure with thanksgiving, 147. The circumcised are successors of the true religion, 17. Circumcision confers nothing toward the imitation of Christ, but only good works, 162. Circumcision is not necessary for salvation, 160. Idolaters and Egyptian priests use circumcision, 160. Also very many others, 160. The circumcision of Christ circumcised not a part but the whole man, 161. It is granted to men and women alike, 161. But baptism is superior to circumcision, 161. What the causes of circumcision were, 17. The blood of circumcision stood in the circumcision of Christ, 153. Circumcision having been taken away, regeneration through the washing of baptism succeeded, 153. The reason for the institution of circumcision, 153. Circumcision was a sign of the righteous during the time of the law, 150.
Clement, whether he was the successor of Peter, 107. Clement of Alexandria, considered by some to be an Athenian, 213. Heaven and earth, why they are said to pass away, 555. The kind of thoughts is twofold, and their effects, 588. Vain thoughts compared by Homer to flies, 586. Evil thoughts, we cannot avoid them, but we can repel them, 584. Colluthus the heresiarch in the time of Arius, from whom the Colluthians are named, as the Arians are from him, 728. History of the Collyridians, 1058. The refutation of this heresy, 1058. The Collyridian heresy, who offer a sacrifice to Mary, which is the fiftieth, or the seventy-ninth, 1057. Whence this heresy arose, 1057. Colorbasus: what they understand by the water of Siloam, 258. And what is its true interpretation according to the Catholics, at the origin of Christianity, 258. Colorbasus, who was its author, 261. His dogmas; they call the Son [by the name of] the Father(?), 260. The nature of the dove, and what it signifies, 275. Cousin marriages were contracted, and no longer marriages between sisters after the multiplication of mankind, 288. Two illustrious decrees of Emperor Constantine, 821. Constantius, son of Constantine, although more an emperor, was a supporter of Arius, 737. Apostolic constitution concerning the Passover, 822. Apostolic Constitutions are not to be rejected, 822. Consubstantial Word, 796. And that the word "consubstantial" is necessary, 797. Which, however, Arius and Sabellius flee from worse than a dog or a snake, 797. Whether it is found in the Scriptures, 797. That it is permitted to use words that are not in Scripture, 797. The word "consubstantial," even if it is not found in the Scriptures, is nevertheless necessary for understanding the sense of Scripture, 798. Consubstantiality in the Trinity is the foundation of the faith, 936. The body of Christ foreshadowed by the grain of wheat, 597. It was exactly the same after the resurrection as it was while He lived, 598. The body of Christ was not imaginary but real, 1003. Against the Manichaeans, 1003. The human body was created by God for every honor, and even the use of the sexual act is referred to the glory of God, 289. It is demonstrated that the body is not the prison of the soul, 569. The laying down of the body is like a field, and why it is so, 602. How the animal and spiritual body is to be understood, 592. The difference between things created and things begotten, clearly and openly explained, 986. All creatures are subject to God, against Arius, 741. Cretans called liars on the authority of Callimachus and Epimenides, who are cited by Paul, 362. The cross is the curse of the law, and why it is so, 700. The sign of the cross—how much power it has against witchcraft and the illusions of demons, 132. By the sign of the cross the demoniac is healed through the sprinkling of water, 134. The calculation of the lunar cycle and the epacts, 825. The island of Cyprus called Citium, and the name of the Cyprians and Rhodians is contained under Citium, 150.
D Demons introduce errors through women, 1058. David was the first king from the tribe of Judah, but Saul was prior to him from the tribe of Benjamin, 15. The royal seat of David was removed from the time when Christ was born in Bethlehem, 118. The royal seat of David was transferred into the Church through the kingdom of Christ, 118. What the raising up of the tabernacle of David means, 559. Tithing, what it foreshadowed among the Jews, 20. The genealogy of the gods from Hesiod, who sprang from Chaos, 166. Also others who are said to have been fabricated by him, 167. The origin of the pagan gods, Saturn, Jupiter, etc., 8. God. The supreme generosity of God toward every kind of creature, 939. In God there is nothing prior or posterior, 963. It is proven against the Manichaeans that God was not overcome by powers and principalities, 641. Nothing is better than God, and therefore that which is like Him is the best of all things, 952. It is impious to say that passions exist in God, 953. God is omnipotent, 953. He is devoid of passion in begetting, 951. That God is not seen by anyone, yet through the flesh Christ’s divinity was proven, 613. How Christ is not in the Father as a word is in the heart of a man, 613. How God was seen by the prophets, 817. How God is said to be able to be seen and not seen, 818. God’s power is immense, and no one can resist His will, 818. It is declared by a likeness how God is seen, 819. God how He begets, and likewise how man begets, 730. God and matter as the two principles of the Manichaeans and their refutation, 630. They called these by different names, 630. God cannot be evil, nor the author of evil, 631. Who is said to be the god of the age in the Gospel, 684. God can admit nothing feminine, against the Manichaeans, 658. The works of God are admirable, which is proven from the creation of the world, 596. God does not admit one person, nor can the consideration of one person exist in Him, 482. And God is the one Creator of all things, not the angels, against the heretic Saturnilus, 65, 66. How God is said to swear, 117. God is one in the Trinity of persons, against the Noetians, 481. God is not to be accused because of death proposed to man, 1410.
Right and left, how they are said [to exist], 209. The devil generally attacks the simpler sort, such as women, 269. How they are called children of the devil, 296. The devil is called sin by the Apostle, and why, 583. From whom the devil was produced, 543. And what he is, 544. What the devil is, when he was, or when he began to be, 632. By what scheme the devil vexes the Church of God, 996. The devil is the enemy of the human race; by what arts he strives to cast man down from heaven, 923. The order and function of deaconesses in the Church, 1060. From what class of women they were chosen, 1060. Presbyterissae, elder women, and priestesses, 1061. Dictamnus, whence so named, and how it can be adapted to the divine word, 422. Digamists are not admitted by the Novatians, 495. They are refuted by a triple similarity, 495. They are barred from sacred orders, 496. The flood, and how many living creatures were saved by it, 5. Before the flood, there were no heresies, 4. The heresy of the Dimoritae, 57 or 77. They deny the perfect incarnation of Christ, 993. Its author and propagator was Apollinaris, 996. His error, 996. And the synod held against the Apollinarists, 997. Dioscorides the herbalist, 3. The poison of the dipsas is most deadly, to which the heresy is compared, 258. The seventy-two disciples of Christ, besides the four evangelists and the seven deacons, 0. How the rich and the poor are said to be blessed in the Gospel, 702. Dogmas that are openly false ought not to be argued in debate, 999. It is forbidden to fast on the Lord's Day, 813. It is not allowed to fast on Sundays and at Pentecost, 1105. The history of Dositheus, 30. The Dosithean heresy, which is the fourth of the Samaritans, 30. The dragon which is called "ostracites," to whom Noetus is compared, 889.
E Ebion lived in the time of John, 149. And the Ebionites curse Paul, 149. The Ebionites use a mutilated Gospel of Matthew, 137. They also use a book that is called the Circuits of Peter, refuted by Clement, 159. They wash daily, 139. They abstain from meats and living creatures, 139. They reject virginity and all the prophets, 139. Why they abhor the eating of meat, 139. Their mysteries, 139. They circulate fictitious Acts of the Apostles, 140. What "Ebion" signifies in Greek, 141. What remedy they use against diseases, 141. They embrace the dreams of Elxai, 141. Whence they derived their errors, 142. How they call their assemblies, 142. They force adolescents who are not yet of age to marry, 142. They permit divorces, 142. Which prophets they acknowledge, 142. What kind of person they confess Christ to be, 142. Books forged by the Ebionites, 147. The heresy of the Ebionites is the tenth after the rise of Christianity, 125. Whence they are named, 125. Their dogmas, 125. They take the Sabbath and circumcision from the Jews, and the name from the Christians, 126. They practice frequent washings after intercourse with women, 126. They forbid virginity, 126. Where they propagated their heresy, 126. What they thought about Christ, 126. They use only the Gospel of Matthew. The inconveniences of drunkenness and gluttony, 401. The Church is spread throughout the whole world and is everywhere, 507. And it is compared to a ship, 508. The Church has various orders, but does not admit everyone indiscriminately, 509. The Church of God is called the royal way and the path of truth, 504. In the Church there is a priestly and royal dignity, 118. The Church consents in one faith throughout the whole world, as if dwelling in one house, 202. It is compared to the sun, because by its example it illuminates the whole world, 202. Infants and the most eloquent alike attain it, 202. A greater abundance of knowledge does not change the faith of the Ch
Church, 202. The rites of the Church in celebrating the Pasch, 421. The Church is compared to the ark and to pitch, 425. The Catholic Church is the most ancient of all, 6. The exercises of the virtues that the Church has, and what vices it flees from and what virtues it embraces, 1107. The dogmas of the Catholic Church concerning virginity and marriage, 410. The individual churches of the diocese of Alexandria, by whom they were accustomed to be ruled and how called, 727. There are many Alexandrian churches, 728. Among which was Caesarea, 728. That there is one Church for its one parent, 1083. The Church is called a dove, 262. Ecclesiastical rites and decrees, 1103. A *Es*, what it signifies, 406. Elias was a virgin; yet he is not to be adored, nor is Mary, nor Thecla, nor any other saint, 1062. The lineage of Elias and the origins of certain other prophets, 170. Elias is fed by God with a certain unknown food, 593. Elxai the pseudo-prophet, 40. And his brother Elxaeus, and what his character was, 40. His oath by salt and earth, etc., 40. He forces those who possess virginity to marriage, 40. Exaus the pseudo-prophet, 197. Elxai the author of four sects, 43. B The heresy of the Encratites, the twenty-seventh after Christianity, or the forty-seventh, 599. Where it was chiefly propagated, 399. Their dogmas, 400. They place the devil among the principles of things, 400. Which books they admit, 400. They attribute marriages to the devil as their author, 400. They abstain from wine, 400. They deny the resurrection of the dead, 400. Their refutation, 400. They simulate chastity, 401. Enoch, pleasing to God, was translated and did not experience death, 4. How Enoch was translated in the body, 593. The heresy of the Epicureans, the sixth, in order the seventh, 14. C Epiphanes and Isidorus embraced the heresy of the Second, 210. He was the son of Carpocrates, 210. Divine honors were consecrated to them in Samos, and a temple was built, 211. The Cephallenians sacrifice to them, 211. The meeting of Epiphanius with Vitalis concerning the human nature in Christ, 1013. The error of Vitalis discovered, 1016. Epiphanius says that the devil hoped for the mercy of God before the advent of Christ, 289. Epiphanius’s slip concerning the wife of Elisabeth, 1016. The age of Epiphanius, and under which emperors he lived, 2. The rationale of the work instituted by Epiphanius, 2. Epiphanius’s epistle against the Antidicomarianites, 1034. The modesty of Epiphanius and his plea for pardon in refuting heresies, 1100. At what time and under which emperors Epiphanius wrote, 401. Epiphanius is uncertain whether the Virgin Mary is dead, 1053. The virginity of Mary, 1056. The modesty of Epiphanius in undertaking a dispute against heresies, 3. D Bishops, presbyters, deacons, subdeacons, lectors, deaconesses, and for what purpose they were instituted, 1104. What sort they ought to be, 1104. Exorcists, interpreters of languages, 1104. Who the 'laborantes' (undertakers) are in the Church, 1104. Janitors, 1104. That a bishop is superior to a presbyter, 908. A bishop cannot be without a deacon, 908. The bishops of Jerusalem who succeeded James the first bishop, A brother of the Lord, son of Joseph, 636. Their number, distinct up to thirty-seven, according to the times of the emperors, 636, 637. The epistle of the pseudo-synod of Ancyra, 846. In which it is disputed concerning the Father and the Son begotten, and concerning the name of the sons, 849, 850, 851. The anathemas of the same pseudo-synod. The epistle to the Laodiceans is apocryphal, 375. What the Trojan horse signified according to the sense of Simon Magus, 57. Esdras instituted the Samaritans in the Mosaic Law, 25. The heresy of the Essenes, which is the first of the Samaritans, 28. Three orders of eunuchs: the first class, 491. The second, 491. The third, 491. Whence eunuchs are called, 491. Eusebius of Vercelli, an exile for the faith, 129. Eusebius, bishop of Nicomedia, the standard-bearer of the Arians, 737. B Eustathius of Sebaste, or bishop of Sebaste, who was also an Arian, 906. Eutactus, the propagator of the heresy of the Archontics, 291. His history, 291, 292. How "Eva" (Eve) differs from "Heva" with the aspiration, 1092. The Gospels have nothing ambiguous or repugnant, 458. The institution of the Evangelists in disclosing the mysteries, 747. The declared consensus of the Evangelists, 430. The institution of the Evangelists in the order of writing, 425. Why the Evangelists did not all narrate the same things, 427. The Evangelists are explained and reconciled, 805. The reconciliation of the Evangelists concerning the number of the demoniacs, 653. And the property of Scripture is explained, 654. The Gospel according to the Egyptians is an apocryphal book, 514. The Gospel contains the truth, the Law C contains the shadow; the interpretation of the Gospel concerning the seed and the human enemy against the Manichaean, 1119 (recte 1112). The corrupted passage of the Gospel restored, 21.
F Fate, whether it exists, and a dispute against fate, 55. The fate of the Stoics briefly refuted, 13. Beloved women and concubines are condemned, 1043. The declaration of the Catholic faith, 1095. It is unique, like the dove, 1095. In the Church the same faith daily bestows the true blood of Christ as it were from the vine, 1097. The sum of the life of Christ, 1097. His baptism, 1097. How in him the human nature suffered, not the divinity, 1099. A brief exposition of the Catholic and Apostolic faith, 1078. The true faith can be conquered by no thing and by no force, 479. Whether there are two Sons of God, an objection and its solution, 896. D How the Son is called the image of the Father, 880. Why the Son is said to be created, 880. Whether the Son was begotten by will, the similarity of the Son and the Father is explained, 865. Also in what way the Son is a man like other men, 865. In what manner the Son of God is the justification, sanctification, and redemption of the faithful, 889. The similarity by which the nativity of Christ is explained, which is explained by manifold similarity, 914, 918. The Son of man was called so by anticipation before he was born, 487. The Son is properly and by nature the Word of God, 741. He who dishonors the Son, like Arius, dishonors also the Father, 756. The brothers and sisters of the Lord, from the first wife of Joseph, 1041.
G Garizim, a mountain beyond the Jordan towards Jericho, 25. Gaza, in Hebrew, signifies treasure, 130. Gebal, a mountain near Jericho, 29. A twofold generation and of what kind each is to be understood, 653. The Little Genesis, a book inscribed in that way, 287. The nations subject to the angels, from Moses and the Apocalypse, 456. Gentiles transported from Babylon into Samaria, 23. Gentiles, translated into Samaria, were torn by wild beasts, 22. The ignominious calumny of George, bishop of Alexandria, whom he had ordained, 913. George, the legate of Constantius, killed by the Alexandrians, cremated, and his ashes scattered, 726. Giants in the time of Nimrod, 7. Gnostics. The heresy of the Gnostics, the sixth after the rise of Christianity, 82. Sprung from Nicolaus, 82. What their "Noria" was, compared in discourses, 84. Certain words from their Gospel, 81. They use promiscuous intercourse and eat human flesh, 84. Called Borborians, that is, filthy; by others Coddiani, and whence, 83. The same called by various names, such as Militaries in Egypt and Phibionites, Zacchaeans and Barbelites, 85. The discipline of the Gnostics, 85. How impious and inept the books of the Gnostics are, 89. How absurdly and lasciviously they interpret the Scriptures, 90. They say that the human soul is common with the beasts, 90. What vain things the Gnostic Phibionites invent about their princes, and what their names are, 91. They deny that Christ was born of Mary, 91. Who is among them and of what sort is Sabaoth, 91. The knowledge of the Gnostics, 91. They fashion the prince of the world in the image of a dragon, 91. Some of them are haters of women, 91. The more lascivious each one is among them, the better he is, 93. The fable of the Gnostics about Zacharias, 94. How they themselves interpreted the bells of the high priest, 94. The base commixture of the Gnostic Levites, 95. They mock monks, 95. They profess a Gospel under the name of Philip, 95. What ridiculous things they say about the prophet Elias, 95. Refutation of the errors of the Gnostics, 97. Defense of chastity against them, 97, 98. Epiphanius tempted by the Gnostics, 99. Gnostics have women in common, 85. Their custom in receiving guests, 86. Filthy and abominable intercourse, 86. They do not raise children, but serve only lust, 87. They retain execrable things in destroying the fetus, by most cruelly killing it, 87. They execrate fasts, 87. They are occupied beyond measure in caring for their skin, 87. They use both Testaments, 87. What they ineptly thought about John the Baptist, 88. Gnostics dissent among themselves, which Irenaeus demonstrates, 204. Gnostics derived their origin from the Simonians, 58. Gnostics ought rather to be called Catagnostics, that is, the damned, 102.
A Gorthenorum heresy, which is the third of the Samaritans, 30. Graces or gifts bestowed freely are not lacking in the Church, 403.
H New heresy against the blessed Mary, 1037. That Mary was a virgin, 1038. Why the blessed Virgin was given to Joseph, 1038. Comparison of the virus of heresy to the venom of serpents, 98. Heresies, whence they were born, and many of their causes, 905. Conclusion of all heresies, and an elegant comparison taken from the Canticle, 1076. Inquiry into all heresies from the foundation of the world, [which is] the subject of the work of Epiphanius, 2. A brief index of the thirteen heresies with their authors and ineptitudes, exposed in summary, 52, 53, 54, throughout. B The confusion of heretics described by a most fitting similitude, 502. And it is shown by another comparison how they themselves deviate and wander from the straight path, 503. The calumny of heretics is uncovered, and their stupidity, as they ineptly criticize the continence and chaste morals of the Church, 507. Heretics' blasphemies against the Holy Spirit, 1037. Heretics are like *buprestae* [blister beetles], which are of the genus of scarabs, 283. The fraud of heretics is declared by a fitting similitude, 193. Heretics are given various names according to the variety of their sects, but by one name, namely Christians, they are called from Christ, 567. Various blasphemies of heretics, 1035. Most heretics were adherents of metempsychosis, 330. The depravity of heretics deters and drives nations from the Christian religion, 861. Heretics, who utilized [names], 861. Certain heretics deny the resurrection of the dead, 114. Heretics who baptize on behalf of the dead, 114. Holy Week, in which *Xerophagia* [dry eating] was celebrated, 824. C Tradition of the Hebrews, 1085. Heresy of the Hemerobaptists, which is the fourth of the Jews, 36, 37. Whence they were so called, 36, 37. Their vanity in the purgation of sins through water, 36, 37. It is not the way for water to purge and wash away sins, but penance, 36, 37. Dogmas of Heracleon, 263. How the Heracleonites sprinkle the dead, and what kind of [thing] the redemption of the Heracleonites is, 263. Their refutation, 264. Heresy of the Heracleonites [deriving] from Heracleon, 262. This is the sixteenth after Christianity, 262. Writers on herbal science, 3. Comparison of herbal science with an established treatise on heresies, 3. Heresy of the Herodians, which is the seventh of the Jews, 43. Whence they were so called, 45. Origin of Herod, 43. And it is proved that he was not the Christ expected by the Gentiles, against the Herodians, 46. D Heresy of the Hieracites, the forty-seventh, in order sixty-seventh, 907. Whence so called, 907. Where its author lived, 907. History of Hieracas, 907. His errors, 907. His life was admirable, 710. He repudiated marriage, 710. By what testimonies he would prove his own error, 710. He denied that boys who died before the use of reason were saved, 711. He thinks Melchizedek is the Holy Spirit, 711. He proves [this] from the book of Isaiah which is called *Anabaticus* [the Ascension], 712. His death and very bitter old age, 712. His refutation, 712. He is compared with those whose senses are corrupted, 713. His opinion concerning innocent children is refuted, and it is proved that they are saved and that that age is pleasing to God, 713. A further refutation concerning the resurrection, 714. Also concerning marriage, 714. The circumference of Jericho, and how its walls collapsed, 702. And the sins of the Amorites brought destruction upon the city, 702. History of the nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary, 1062. Homer's verses which are twisted into other senses are similar to those who abuse the words of Scripture for their own heresy, 200. Homer's fatherland is uncertain, concerning which there has been varied doubt, 326. That men are by no means transformed into angels, 556. How men can be immortal, 558. How men in the resurrection are said to be like angels, 558. Man, as if made from the immortal, 513. All things were created for the sake of man, and the world itself is as a *praetorium* prepared for man, 510. What man is, properly speaking, 541. The dignity of man above the rest, 542. The *hydrops* serpent, a genus emerging from the waters onto the land, and again betaking itself to the same, 81. The term *hypostasis*, and how *hypostases* are used by the Orientals, 863.
I When idolatry began, 7. Origin of idolatry, 1061. The Edomites, descendants of Esau, princes of Edom, 10. Fire and water through which the passage is made, how it can be explained, 570. In what the image of God in man consists, 813. Various opinions about it, 814. The image of God in man has not perished, 814. That the image of God is not situated in the soul, 815. That the body is not in the image of God, 812. That the image of God is not in virtue, 816. That it is not in baptism, 816. The name Inachus given to a river, 11. Inachus [was] at the time of Moses among the Greeks, 11. A brief index of heresies, which are contained in the sixth tome, in which there are seven heresies, 808, 809. Index containing eighteen heresies of the fourth tome, 396, 397, 398. Index containing the sum of the heresies of the third tome, which are thirteen in number, 229. Index of heresies which are contained in the fifth tome, in which five heresies are numbered, 605, 606. Index of heresies which are contained in the seventh tome, and are four in number, 993. The name "Unbegotten" is not read in the Scriptures, 911. Irenaeus living among the Gauls, 174. Irenaeus wrote against Basilides and his heresy, 73. Isaac's two children Esau and Jacob, 9. Isaac, after children were conceived with Rebecca, had no further relations [with her], 105. Isidore's words in his *Ethics* are most full of impurity, 212. The Isis of the Egyptians, 11. The departure of the Israelites into Egypt to Joseph, to the number of seventy heads, 10. Whence the Israelites were so called, 10. The transit of the Israelites through the Red Sea, 11.
J At what age Jacob went into Egypt, 17. Jacob, the parent of the twelve patriarchs, and their enumeration, 10, 11. Jacob's wrestling with the angel, 10. Jacob’s name changed to Israel, 10. Jacob's posterity, 10. James the brother of the Lord, son of Joseph, was the first of all the bishops at Jerusalem, 119. The prerogative and dignity of the sons of Jacob and Joseph, 119. History and martyrdom of Jacob, surnamed the Just, 1016. At what age James the brother of the Lord departed from life, 1045. James also connected with the priestly lineage, 1045. Jaldabaoth, the first-born son of Barbelo, and the book [written] under his name, 78. In the time of Jared, crimes, witchcraft, and wickedness broke forth, 4. Fasts of the Jews, 159. The fast of the fourth and sixth day in the Church, 910. Concerning it, the apostolic constitutions, 910. The name of the pseudo-prophet Jelxei, whence it was derived, 41. Jephthae’s daughter is worshiped at Shechem, whence idolatry is said to have flowed, 1055. At what time Jesus was baptized, 439. What Jesus signifies in Hebrew, 120. Jesus appears to Joseph for the second time, 133. Why John wrote the Gospel, 433. When and at what age he began to write, 344. Under [Cocceius] Nerva he was recalled from exile, 344. He revealed the true time and mystery of the nativity of Christ at the beginning of his Gospel, 314, 433. History of John escaping from the bathhouse to avoid Ebion, lest he bathe with him, 148. When John is said to be the voice, it is explained, [missing text], 747. John the Baptist's testimony concerning Christ, 516. John's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles translated from Greek into the Hebrew language and kept in the treasuries of the Jews, 127. Why John the Baptist was compared to a reed and did not use softer garments, 88. Why the one who is smaller [than him] is greater in the kingdom of heaven, 89. How John wrote the Gospel, 441. Genealogy of Job, 10. Joseph's history according to the opinion of Epiphanius, 1039. James his son from a former wife, who was also called the brother of the Lord, 1039. Joseph marries Mary at eighty years old, 1040. When Joseph died, 1042. Joseph, an old man of eighty years, betrothed to the Virgin Mary, having had six children from a former wife, and he had no relations with Mary, 452. Why nevertheless he was called the husband of Mary, 452, 453. But only in name, 453. Joseph acted in the role of a father to Christ, but in truth was not his father, 155. Joseph had sons from another wife, not from the Virgin Mary, according to Epiphanius, 115. Joseph, a prince of the Jews, is made a count by Constantine the Great, 135. The same [man] obtains from the emperor that churches should be built in the towns of the Jews in honor of Christ, 135. History of Joseph the count, who was called the Tiberian, 128.
A Joseph builds a temple sacred to Christ among the Jews, not without a miracle, 136. Joseph, so that he might not be initiated by the Arians, and to be made a bishop, entered into a second marriage, 129. When Judea became tributary to the Romans, 445; the Jews anticipated the Passover when Christ suffered, 448; their calculation, 448. The vileness of the Jews in Egypt, 18. The division of the Jews into two groups, 21. Why the Jews are reprobate, 20. The blindness and wickedness of the Jews, 1036. Whence the Jews and Samaritans practiced quarrels among themselves, 29. The seven sects of the Jews before the advent of Christ, 31. Whence the Jews are so called, 16. The beginning and origin of Judaism and circumcision later than gentile superstition, 9. A judge behaves toward a defendant just as a physician toward a sick man, 568. Jupiter is said by the poets to swallow his daughter Metis (that is, prudence), 98. Every oath is to be avoided, 44. Justin the Samaritan, philosopher and martyr, when and where he suffered martyrdom, 391. Justice cannot be separated from goodness, 223.
L The prudence of the lizard when it begins to grow dim, 462. The age of Lazarus, and the traditions regarding it, 652. An elegant description of the lioness giving birth, by which Christ is compared to a lion, 1044. The Levitical lineage from which the priests were taken, 17. Law. A triple kind of law is established by Paul, 588. Law and sin follow one another, 582. Why the law is called the ministry of death by the Apostle, 700. What the law of the spirit of life is, and how it differs from other laws, 590. The institutions of the old law were not immediately perfect, and were completed in their own numbers, 909. When the law of Moses was given, 18. The law was like a tutor until Christ, 1032. The law is not the cause of sin, and why it was introduced, 583. How the law is not laid down for the righteous, 693. The law of the Old Testament is like a shadow, of the New like a body, 373. Declaration of the old and new law from the varying discipline of the ages, 226. Libanite incense and storax drive away serpents, 423. When children ceased to be survivors to their parents, 8. Enumeration of the canonical books among the Jews, 19. The number of the authors of languages after the confusion of Babylon, 6. Letters found by Cadmus and Palamedes, 244. Washings of the body contribute nothing to the purification of the soul, 145. Indeed, they are reproved by Christ, 145. Why Luke wrote his Gospel, and from where he began, 428, 429. Luke preached the Gospel in many provinces, but especially in Gaul, 433. Seven lamps daily lit on the candelabra, 704. The dogmas of Lucian, a follower of Marcion, 378. He posits three principles, 378. He condemns marriage, 378. But all his errors are detected by the light of the Gospel, 380. The heresy of the Lucianists, the 21st after Christianity, 578; from whom they are named and how many Lucians there were, 378. Lucius, an Arian bishop, harasses Alexandria, 726. In what sense the light shining in darkness in the Gospel is to be understood, 678. Lybs, molurus, and elops, types of serpents, 520.
M The Magi adore Christ, 154. Magistrates among the Jews are deferred to children by right of succession after the death of parents, and are still reserved while underage, 130. The Magusaeans among the Persians, and their religion and rites, 1091. Whence evil arose, and by what reason it was introduced, 72. Evil is conjoined to nothing so much that it does not also have some good, 633. What evil is, when it existed, and when it will cease, 632. How Mammon or the belly is called God, 683. Mandrae, monasteries of monks, 1073. Manes is compared to the seer Apollo, and for what reason, 698. How badly he thought about those to be saved only from the fifteenth [year] of Tiberius Caesar, 698. Manes falsely boasted that he was the Paraclete, 633. The execrable impiety of the Manichaeans, 639. The Manichaean trifles about the carriers of the world, 639. That Manichaeus concocted more fabulous things about God than Hesiod and the rest of the Greek poets, 665. The Manichaean blasphemy against God, 703. How absurd it is that the prince of the Manichaeans devours his subjects is proven by an apt similitude, 697. The Manichaean heresy is the forty-fifth, in order the sixty-fifth, 617. B They are also called Acuanitae, and whence, 617. Where and by whom this heresy was disseminated, 617. When they began, 617. The history of Manes, 617. Scythianus was also an author of Manichaean dogma, 620. He came to Jerusalem for the sake of conferring with the apostles, 620. His death from a fall from a certain high roof, 620. Terbithus, his disciple, 620. Having changed his name, he wanted to be called Buddas, 620. He fled into Persia, 620. He perished by a fall like his predecessor, 621. Manes, called Cubricus, succeeded him, 621. His history while he was among the Persians, 621. His disciples, 622. Escape from prison, 622. Epistola to Marcellus, 623. The response of Marcellus to the same epistola, 624. Manichaean dogma distinctly explained, 625. The disputation of Archelaus with him and his flight, 627. He provokes Thryphon, 628. Prostrated again by Archelaus, 628. He is recalled by the King of the Persians into Persia, 628. With his skin removed by a reed, he is flayed alive, 629. His skin preserved, 629. The disciples of the Manichaeans dispersed here and there, 629. The refutation of the Manichaeans, 629. His books, 629. Those who wrote against Manichaeus, 638. The Manichaean invention about the moon is refuted, 664. Likewise, the error of the elected Manichaeans is refuted concerning the conflict of evil, 670, 671, 672. The testimonies upon which Manichaeus relies, 673. What the evil tree in the Gospel is against him, 675. That the Jews were not children of the devil against the same Manichaeus, 677. The impious dogmas of the Manichaeans from the report of Tyrbo, his disciple, 642, 643, 644, up to 648. About the transfusion of the soul into five bodies, 641. By what names he designates the soul, 644, 645. His trifles about the transmigration of bodies after death, 644, 645. What he thinks about those who eat bread, and in what words he addresses bread, 645. What kind of paradise he constitutes, 646. Who the elected of the Manichaeans are, 646. What they think about the creation of Adam, 646. Their refutation, 648. The ridiculous trifles of the Manichaeans, 649. Manichaeus accuses God of wickedness, 691. He is compared to a phrenetic, 691. He asserts the testament of the law is a testament of death, and his exposition [of it], 693. And how the law is not laid down for the righteous, 693. He asserts that the Old and New Testaments did not proceed from the same master, 694. To what Manichaeus compared the law and the prophets, 695. And to what Epiphanius compares them, 695, 696. The Manichaean objection against the resurrection of the flesh, 706. Its solution, 706. What the works of the flesh are, 706. Another of his objections concerning the flesh, and the solution, 707. The Manichaean heresy is conflated from the sewage of all sects, 708. It is compared to a cenchritis [adder], 709. The profession of faith of Marcellus, 836. What Athanasius thought of Marcellus, 837. Marcellus's opinion and the refutation of Asterius, 838 [sic]; noted by Acacius, 839. Another exposition of the faith of Marcellus, 842, 843, 844. The epistle of Marcellus, author of the Marcellians, to Julius, bishop of the Romans, 834. What he himself thought about the faith is very hidden, 834. Whence his disciples refused to confess three hypostases in the divinity, 834. The heresy of the Marcellians, the 72nd after Christianity or in order, 833. From whom they are named, 833. Who Marcellus, their author, was and his history, 834. The error of the Marcellians, 834. An example of the epistle of Marcellus, whom the synod deposed because of heresy, 834. Marcellus falls into the error of Sabellius, 834. Marcelliana, a follower of Carpocrates, at what time she came to Rome, 108. The heresy of Marcus, condemned by an ancient poet, 245, 246. It is utterly wretched, which foolishly violates divinity through alpha and beta, 247. Marcion disturbs the order of the Epistles of Paul, 373. Marcion's books and pamphlets, the refutation of which is submitted, 311. He corrupted the Gospel of Luke, 311. Scripture passages depraved by Marcion through the individual chapters of the Gospel of Luke, 312, 313, and following up to p. 317. The refutation of Marcion, 376. And the destruction of his inept fables about the Father God and Christ, 376. The heresy of the Marcionites, the twenty-second, 302. The history of Marcion, 302. He is excommunicated by his father for incest, 302. Whence his heresy was born, 303. The error of Marcion, 303. He uses water and fasts on the Sabbath, 304. He believes in the resurrection of the soul only, not also of the body, 304. He permits women to baptize, 305. He admits metempsychosis, 305. Triple principle of Marcion, 305. Marcion's passages depraved from the Epistles of St. Paul; and first from the Epistle to the Romans, 318. To the Thessalonians I and II and to the Ephesians, 318. To the Colossians, 319. To Philemon, 319. To the Galatians, 319. To the Corinthians, 320, 321. From II to the Corinthians, 320, 321. Marcion's scholia on the Gospel of Luke and their refutation, 322, 323, up to 371.
ANALYTIC INDEX
Meletius of Egypt, his heresy 48, in the order of sixty-eighth, 916. Who he was and where he professed, 716. When he lived, 717. Held in bonds together with the apostles under Diocletian, 717. The Church founded by Meletius and his followers called the [Church] of the Martyrs, 719. Called by Peter the Catholic Church, 719. Meletius reveals Arius, 719. Meletius is cast out by the Arians, and he taught the Antiochenes the true faith, 882. And yet he himself thought erroneously concerning the Holy Spirit, 883. Praise of Meletius, 883. What things in the oration of Meletius are to be censured, 883. Their refutation, 883. Meletius ordained bishop of Antioch by Acacius, 876. An example of a sermon held by Meletius, 876. A sermon should begin with peace and end in it, 877. The true commendation of peace by the same, 877.
Marcosii heresy, the thirteenth after Christianity, A its followers are stupefied by magical illusions, 233. The prestidigitations of the Marcosians, 233. A triple glass vessel with a triple transformation of wine, 233. A locus of Irenaeus against the Marcosians, 233. The Eucharist of the Marcosians described by Irenaeus, 236. Mere trifles, 236. They call the beginning and author of all things by a name composed of four letters which grow up to the number thirty, 237. They compose the whole body from the elements of letters, 238. Jesus, or *Iota*, what kind of name it is among them, 239. What mysteries they ascribe to the number six, 240. Item, to the number seven, 241. What their Tetras is like, 242. From which places of Scripture the Marcosii prove the mysteries of the numbers of the tetrad, ogdoad, decade, dodecade, and the thirty, 249, 250, 251. History [of them], 253. The redemption of the Marcosians, 254. How they consecrate the initiated, 256. Why Mark wrote the Gospel after Matthew, 248. He was a companion of Peter and one of the seventy-two disciples of Christ, 248. Sent into Egypt by the blessed Peter, 248. Whence he took the beginning of the Gospel, 318. Mark provided love-potions to women, 235. The Dead Sea is the same as the Salt Valley, 40. The Red Sea. The various ports of the Red Sea and by what names they are distinguished, 618. B Mary is to be honored indeed, but not adored, 1065. That Mary was a perpetual virgin, 1040. The virginity of Mary and the error of certain heretics concerning it. Whether Mary died or not, Scripture does not mention, 1043. Epiphanius doubts whether she died, 1043. Encomium of the blessed Mary, 1050. An elegant antithesis of Mary and Eve, 1050. Eve had this name after the fall. Mary was our sister, that is, born of Adam, 1003. The integrity of Mary, which was never defiled by any vice, 332. Mary held no ecclesiastical office, nor did she even touch baptizing, 1031. Some believed Mary to be God, 1054. Comparison of the dog of Marinus, calling forth a viper with a hiss, with the heretic Ptolemy seducing Flora, 228. The conjunction or marriage of Marius with women: Paren or Bithus with Ennoea, the Only-Begotten or Nus with Truth, the Word with Life, Man with the Church, according to Valentinus from Irenaeus, 173. Marthus and Marthana, sisters of the stock of Elxai, princes of that sect, 41. A double chorus or class of martyrs, 571. The error of the Massalians is refuted concerning the promiscuous use of women, 1074. The heresy of the Massalians, to which the Martyrians from the number of the Gentiles accede, as also the Euphemites and Sataniani, which is the sixty-eighth or eightieth heresy, 1067. Their dogma, 1067. Whence they were named, 1067. When they appeared, 1067. Their proseuche (houses of prayer), 1068. Concerning those struck from heaven, and where, 1068. Lupicianus vexes the Massalians, 1068. C Hence the "pseudomartyrs" of the heretics, 1068. Who are also called Martyrians, 1068. Matter is taken in several ways, 263. The multiplex acceptance of matter, which is made manifest by examples, 635. Marriage. What things bound the three marriages among themselves, 1045. Matthew, why he wrote the Gospel starting from the generation of Christ, 427. Matthew wrote the Gospel first of all, 423. Why he himself wrote first, 423. He wrote in the Hebrew language and began from the genealogy of Christ, 426. Morning praises and prayers accustomed in the Church, 1106. Maximilla, the prophetess of the Cataphrygians, called herself the last of the prophets, 403. Melchisedec had no successor after him, 475. Why Melchisedec is said to lack parents, 468. Hierax maintained that Melchisedec was the Holy Spirit, 472. Melchisedec is thought by the Samaritans to be Shem, 472. The refutation of this error, 473. Yet the Jews assert Melchisedec to have been the son of a harlot, 473. The opinion of certain Catholics concerning the same Melchisedec is refuted, 474. Heretics make offerings to Melchisedec, 474. The heresy of the Melchisedecians, the thirty-fifth after Christianity, 468. Whence so named; they think Melchisedec greater than Christ, 468. They use apocryphal and forged books, 468. Who the parents of Melchisedec were, 469. That Melchisedec is not the Holy Spirit, against the Hieracites, 715. Parents of Melchisedec, 716. Abraham offered tithes to Melchisedec, 469. The Meletians, expelled by Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, flee D to Constantine, 720. But expelled thence, 721. Reconciled to the emperor by Eusebius of Nicomedia, they communicate with the Arians, 721. They themselves, mixed with the Arians, degenerated from the true faith, 721. Menandrian heresy, the second after the advent of Christ, from whom it was produced, 60. Mercurius, why he was called Argiphontes, 263. Meropes, whence named, 7. The metempsychosis of the Stoics, how absurd it is, 13. Methodius, an erudite man who wrote against Origen, 591. A miracle which happened in the age of Epiphanius, 451. Concerning the waters turned into wine in several places, 451. Mithridates, king, a writer on herbal matters, 3. The class of monks in Mesopotamia not very approved, 1073. Proseuche of the Jews, or places for praying outside the city, 1067. The institution of monks in Egypt, 1070. Various institutions of monks, 1091. Various classes and institutions of monks, 1091. The four ancient monarchies placed by John in the Apocalypse at the Euphrates, 456. The monastic order from the third class of eunuchs, who castrated themselves for the sake of the kingdom of God, 492. Spadones (eunuchs) are chaste not of their own will, but by necessity, 492. The insolent boasting of Montanus in his claiming the office of prophesying and foretelling, 406. What death is, and why it was constituted for man, 845. Why skins of garments were given to man, 845. Why death happens to man is demonstrated by an excellent likeness of an artisan, 530. The memory of the dead, how useful it is in the Church, and laudable, 911. Prayers profit the dead, 911. Commemoration of the dead, of the just and sinners, 911. What it means to close the windows to the dead, 27. What the care for the dead ought to be, and what it was in the Church, 1106. The law of Moses, inspired by God and the Holy Spirit, 1106, 223. The miracles of Moses in Egypt performed by him, 599. His body buried by angels, not by men, 600. The genus of Moses deduced from Abraham, 150. Moses, the pedagogue of the Jews, 18. Moses had no marital relations after he was called by God, 1018. The Arabs worship Moses as God, 469. Moses reviews the people in the desert of Sinai, 11. That Moses should not be idle, but live by his own labor, he was a shepherd, 1071. A woman never functioned in the priesthood since the world was founded, 1059. Why a woman is said to be built (édificata) and not formed, 1031. Evil women are to be avoided/guarded against, 1065. Every heresy is a bad woman, 1063. God did not want women to be priests, 1064. The beginning of the world, 4. Why the world was founded by God, [in the] likeness of the human body, 558. The shrew-mouse (mus araneus), what it is and of what nature, so that heresy may be compared to its bite, 476.
N The time of nature, what it was under the sons of Noah, 5. The Nazarenes, at what time they appeared and spread their heresy, 120. When they professed Jesus, 121. How Nazarenes and Nazarites differ, 121. And they themselves [are] called Christians, just as other heretics, 122. They approve both Testaments, 122. They are most expert in the Hebrew language, 122. In which places this sect flourished, 125. The Nazarenes themselves are most inimical to the Jews, 12. They have with them the Gospel of Matthew written in Hebrew, even most perfect, 124. The heresy of the Nazarenes, which is the fifth of the Jews, 38. They repudiate the Pentateuch, 38. They abhor the sacrifices of the remaining Jews; they abstain from the eating of flesh and living things, 38. The heresy of the Nazarenes, in the order the ninth after Christianity, 116. Whence named, 117. The Nazarenes [are] the same as the Christians, [who are] other than the sect of the Nazarenes, 51. Nimrod is the first to occupy a kingdom, 7. The canons of the Council of Nicaea, and primarily concerning the Pasch, 735. The heresy of the Nicolaitans, the fifth after the birth of the Christian faith, 76. By whom introduced, 76. How foul and defiled by lascivious lusts, 76. The most wicked voice of its author, 76. From him the Gnostics and Phibionites were born, 77. Furthermore, they went forth
A from him as military heretics, Levites, and others, 77. Some revered the Prunicus from the Nicolaitans, 78. From them some worshiped Jaldabaoth as the first-born son of Barbelo, B and they introduce the Aeon, mother, and demons, 80. A refutation of the same, 81. Where Noah established his first dwelling after the flood, and how he, with his three sons and their wives, were saved in the ark, all eight of them, 5. Noah’s age was free from heresies, and at that time everyone lived according to his own will, 5. What "babranism" is, according to the Apostle, 5. The history of Noah C and the division of the whole world, 703. Because Noah was the only just man saved from the entire human race, 288. From the children of Noah, seventy-two princes were born, 6. The migration of Noah’s descendants into various regions of the world, 7. What Noah signifies, 159. Also Sebeth, 159. Christ is the pattern for both, 159. Noah is excused for having been drunk, 523. The heresy of the Noetians, the thirty-seventh after Christianity, or the fifty-seventh, 479. When, where, and from whom they arose, 479. The history of Noetus, 480. Excluded from the Church, 480. Deprived D of the honor of burial, 480. Noetus should rather be called Anoetus (senseless), 481. His refutation, 482. What authorities the Noetians use, 480. What the Egyptian "Nomi" are according to Isaiah and others, 68. Names are imposed on many by antiphrasis, 485. Names which are attributed to God by the Hebrews, and their interpretation, 296. The story of Noria boarding the ark of Noah, 85. Noria, the wife of Noah; whence named according to the Gnostics, and whether she is the same as Pyrrha, 82. The history of Novatus, who was the author of the Cathari, 493. His heresy, 493. Numbers expressed in the Scriptures are worthy of consideration, 1080. Marriage between a Jew and a Christian was forbidden, and there was a certain law of old among the faithful, 510. The defense of marriage against the Hieracites, 714. Second marriages are lawful, yet they prevent one from exercising the priesthood, 410. The defense of marriage against Saturnilus, 66. Also the defense of the prophets against the same, 67. How marriage or matrimony is rejected by the Church, and how chastity is approved by it, 508. The defense of marriage against the Apostolic heretics, 507.
O Odrysus, the most ancient king of the Thracians, 8. The heresy of the Ophites, the seventeenth after the emergence of Christianity, 267. Whence they arose, 268. Whence they were named, 268. Their abominable custom, 268. They worship the serpent, 270. Their fable concerning the creation of man and Jaldabaoth, 271. They gather the likeness of the serpent from human intestines, 271. They nourish the serpent with bread and keep it in a chest, 272. A refutation of the Ophites, 272. Nor does the serpent of Moses excuse them. The discourse of heretics is flattering and very like female deceit, and one must be on guard against it, 584. Origen. Origen's heresy is compared to red poison, 604. He is also called similar to a gadfly, 604. How much he is to be lamented, 607. Origen's error is refuted by Epiphanius, 591. Six thousand books written by him, 591. Origen thinks the Son was created, 531. And confuses the [terms denoting] generation, 532. He discusses the resurrection of the dead in an uncertain and ambiguous way, 533, 534. His epitome from Methodius, 534, 535. That bodies shall rise again in the resurrection in a more perfect manner, and by what reasoning this can be understood, 553. The objection of the Origenians, 553. Origen's opinion adapted to the body by the likeness of a skin, 561. Another of Origen's errors is that he wishes men to be destitute of flesh in the resurrection and to be like angels, 556. Origen's heresy is the forty-fourth, or in order the sixty-fourth, 521. His parents and fatherland and his whole history, 521. His constancy in the faith of Christ, 523. His fall, 525. He prefers to sacrifice to idols rather than suffer sexual defilement, 525. His penance, 525. Encouraged by Ambrose, he writes commentaries on Scripture, 526. His lucubrations and most intense studies for twenty-eight years in Tyre, 526. Editions of the Holy Scripture produced by him, 526. Origen's editions and volumes which are called Hexapla, 526. Due to an excessive abundance of books, he fell into heresy, whence the Origenists, 576. Others from the earlier ones who are called the "foul," 527. He castrated himself to avoid enticements, and stimulated his memory with medicine, 527. The Origenians were mostly monks, 527. From them Arius and the Arians, 527. Errors of Origen, 527. Testimonies of Holy Scripture brought forth by him, 528. Why he thinks the body is from "sarkos" and the soul from "physis" as said by the Greeks, 528. He wrote an almost infinite amount, 529. The source of his errors, 529. The heresy of the Origenians, who are also called the "foul," and it is after the emergence of Christianity the forty-second, and in order the sixty-third, 520. Whence they were named, 520. Their dogmas, 520. Foul and disgusting lust and abominable, 521. Their execrable crime in the pouring out and losing of seed, 522. The letters of Osius, 881. The heresy of the Ossenes, which is the sixth of the Jews, 39. Whence it took its origin, 40. Whence that name was derived, 40. They deny that one should pray toward the East, but toward Jerusalem toward the West, 42. They reject sacrifices, 42. Likewise, they condemn fire, 42. They approve water, 42. Their dreams about Christ, 42. Their prayer, 42. Interpretation of individual words, 43. The sheep, as a victim of the Jews, signified the sheep slaughtered on the cross, 20. The name Obeings, why it was devised in divine matters, 859.
P Palms are carried as a sign of the victory which Christ brought back over the whole world. The earthly Paradise: who it was and where it was, 572. Those are refuted who assert that it was in the third heaven, 572. It is planted in Eden to the East, from whence Adam was cast out, 573. Passover, on what uncertain day it was celebrated by many, 821. The celebration of the Pasch demands three things, 823. It ought to be celebrated after the equinox, which the Jews do not observe, 823. The Pasch is by no means to be celebrated on the 14th moon, 821. Ancient patriarchs foreshadow Christians, 6. The history of the patriarch Judah, and what befell him in the baths, 151. The person of the Father is not sufficiently expressed by the word "Unbegotten," let him be anathema who says the Son is like the Father in will but unlike in substance, 869. But the Son is like in all things to the Father, 869. What the attestations of Valens and Basilius the bishops, and also Marcellus bishop of Ancyra, were concerning this, 870. The dissension among those heretics, 870. The Emperor Constantius favored them, 870. Paul's passage from the Epistle to the Romans explained in the seventh chapter, 576. Paul was a Greek, of Tarsus, then a proselyte, 149. Paul the apostle of the Gentiles and herald took Luke as a companion, 50, 51. Paul was very experienced in languages, 361. Paul pronounced everything obscurely but correctly, 552. The heresy of Paul of Samosata, the forty-fifth in order, the sixty-fifth, 607. When and where he was born, 607. His opinion by which he renewed the heresy of Artemon, 608. From which places of Scripture he confirms his dogma, 608. His refutation, 608. This same Paul with his Samosatenians judaizes, 608. The Catholic faith concerning the whole Trinity thinks otherwise than the Samosatenians, 609. The Word, of what kind Paul of Samosata constitutes it, 609. Paulinus of Antioch professes himself a Catholic, 1015. An example of his profession, 1015. The flight from sin is shown by the apt likeness of the wild fig tree, 548. How sin is said to dwell in us, 548. Sin is not before the body, but born together with the body, 573. Every sin is perfected by the aid of the flesh, and remaining in the body it is called death by Paul, 589. Sins, although they are predicted in Scripture, nevertheless the cause of sins is not for that reason to be attributed to God, 281. What the origin of sin is, and whence it flows into us, 266. How sin arose from the tree, 268. "Pellex" (concubine), by what word it is expressed among the Hebrews, and the etymon of the Hebrew word, 1083. Confirmation of the Pentateuch against the Nazarenes, 58, 59. During the fifty days of Pentecost, neither is fasting observed nor are knees bent, 1105. And daily assemblies are held, 1105. The feast of Pentecost is after the feast of Weeks (Manipulorum), 453. Pepuza, a town of Phrygia, where the Cataphrygians used to assemble for the sake of their mysteries, 416. Person. From various places in Scripture the distinction of persons in God is proven, 416, 483. Petronius Niger, writer on herbs, 3. Peter, the prince of the apostles, upon whom the Church was founded, 500. Peter, the prince of the apostles, chosen by Christ, 440. The phalangium (spider) tetragnaton, why it was so named, 262. The Pharisees borrowed the names of days and months, and also of the signs of the zodiac, from the Greeks, 34, 33. The Pharisees were addicted to astronomy, 34. The institute of the Pharisees was most severe, 34.
Whence the Pharisees were so called, 34. The heresy of the Pharisees, which is the third among the Jews, 33. What Phidias did in the image of Jupiter, 542. Philistio the mime, 222. Philo on the Christians, 120. The sects of the philosophers among the Greeks, and their authors, from the time of Thales down to Epicurus, 1086, 1091. The heresy of the Photinians is the fifty-first after the rise of Christianity, and seventy-first in order, 828. Whence they were so called, 828. Whence Photinus originated, 829. His error, 829. His eloquence, 829. Deposed, he petitions for judges from Constantine, 829. He disputes with Basil of Ancyra, 829. The arguments of Photinus, 830. His refutation, 830. An objection of Photinus, and its solution, 830. How wickedly he thought concerning the Holy Spirit, 833. The heresy of the Phrygastae or Montanists or Tascodrugitae is the twenty-sixth after the rise of Christianity, or the forty-eighth, 402. What they think concerning the Church, 402. Phrygia adusta, which is a part of Phrygia, whence it was so called, 399. What are called phylacteries, 32. The Acts of Pilate, 420. Plato acknowledged God as the maker of all things, 14. Plato posited three principles, 14. A passage from Plato's Phaedo concerning the definition of death, 580. The Platonists and their heresy, the fourth of the gentiles, sixth in order, 14. The heresy of the Pneumatomachi is the fifty-fourth, and seventy-fourth in order, 886. They arose from the Arians and Catholics, 887. Some excerpts from Epiphanius' *Ancoratus* on the true faith and the Spirit, 888. Penance is granted to the lapsed, and it is proven by the examples of those who truly repented, 500. In what words it is elegantly depicted in the Canticle, 501. After death there is no place for penance, 502. That penance is not given once against Novatus, but is repeated more often, and is necessary for men, and that it admits penance, 494. Gentile poets invoke the Muses at the beginning of their works; Christians invoke the true God, 2. The knowledge of all things belongs to God alone, 2. Polyandrian sepulchres, what they are and where they are, 132. The succession of Roman pontiffs down to Anicetus, 107. Porphyry and other gentiles reproached the evangelists, 429. The voice of Potamon, full of liberty, against Eusebius, 723. Powers are ordained by God, and are stabilized in the same kingdom, yet they obey one king, 294. The observance of which precepts is necessary, 507. Presbyters cannot be married, and what is to be noted concerning the celibacy of the clergy, 496. Why some presbyters and others established in orders take children from wives, 906. Two principles cannot exist at the same time, 300. There cannot be many principles, lest one destroy the other, 392. To what things privation is properly attributed, 960. Of what nature was the excess of the prophet David, 408. Likewise also of Peter in the Acts, 408. Prophets migrating to Antioch heralded a famine, 409. Prophets were once necessary, but ceased after the advent of Christ, although they are not to be despised, which is declared by a manifold similitude, 696. The consensus of prophets, apostles, and evangelists in the true faith of the Trinity, 486. The discrimination between true and false prophets, 404. Prophets prophesied while in possession of their faculties and understanding what they said, 403. In the Old Testament a prophet is called a seer, 405. Why prophecies speak of the future through the past or present tense, 1063. The prophetesses Priscilla and Maximilla, foretold by John in the Apocalypse, 456. What is to be understood by the name Prunicus, and what the word Prunica of beauty signifies, 78. A passage of Psalm LX is explained, 573. Also an exposition of Psalm CXXIII, 573. The impious error of Ptolemy concerning the author of the law, 221. His refutation, 222. Throughout, what he feigned concerning the tripartite division of the law is refuted, 224. By Ptolemy it is argued concerning the law: Every law is distributed in three ways, which is contained in the five books of Moses, 217. It did not proceed from God alone, but partly from Moses and partly from the elders, 217. The law of marriage to be retained perpetually is from God, while divorce is from Moses, 219. Of what nature is the law of the Decalogue, 219. What Christ fulfilled in the old law, 219. Christ transferred the typical and symbolic part of the law to a spiritual sense, He did not destroy it, 220. The heresy of the Ptolemaitae, which is the thirteenth after Christianity, 214. From the author Ptolemy the learned, 215. He attributes two wives to God, 215. His foolish fables, 215. The same one's Epistle to Flora, 216. The chariot of the Pythagoreans according to the opinion of Valentinus, also the ogdoad, 175. The Pythagoreans and their heresy, the fifth of the gentiles, sixth in order, 14. Where Pythagoras died, 14. What his God is, and what kind of being He is, 14. Q. The observance of Lent and the xerophagy of the six days preceding Easter, 1105. Which is the paschal or passion week, which is wont to be passed with severe diet, 1105. The heresy of the Quartodecimans is the thirtieth after Christianity, and fiftieth in order, 419. Their error, 419. In other things they agree with the Church, except that they superstitiously celebrate the day of Passover, 419. The heresy of the Quintillians or Pepuzians and Priscillianists, to which the Artotyritae are added, is the twenty-ninth after Christianity or the forty-ninth, 417. Their authors and errors, and they ordain the same as presbyters, 418. R. When kings and priests were the same among the Jews, 118. In what way the name of Queen pertains to the Church, 1081. The kingdom of heaven is not placed in arguments or syllogisms, but in truth, 964. The religion of the Greeks translated from the Egyptians, 11. In religion, the novelty of opinions is dangerous, 1018. He abjures faith and religion who dissents from the truth even in the slightest matter, 1018. It is better to be reproved than to reprove, 567. Resurrection is proven by manifold comparison, 560. Epiphanius thinks that men will inhabit the earth by the benefit of the resurrection, 555. The resurrection of the dead is supported, 1139. It is proven against the Samaritans, 25. Resurrection is demonstrated in the Gospel by the similitude of a grain, 599. Resurrection is easily performed by God, and why, 602. It happens to soul and body together, and, 605. Rhinocura, which is also called Neel, and why so called, 703. Thence the lots of the division began among the sons of Noemi, 703. Roboam king of the Jews, Jeroboam of the Israelites, 21. The descendants of Roboam, 21. S. What the word Sabaoth signifies, and how Aquila interprets it, 92. How the Sabbath is to be observed against the Manichaean, and that the Sabbath was made for man, and man is more than the Sabbath, 158. The law of the Sabbath abrogated by Christ, 158. The various kinds of Sabbaths, 158. What is properly called the Sabbath, 158. The Sabbath of Christ is rest from sins, 159. The heresy of the Sabellians is the forty-second after Christianity, or sixty-second in order, 513. By whom and where it was propagated, 513. Their opinion, 513. Passages from Holy Scripture brought by the Sabellians, 513. That priests are to be supported by the people, 1072. Most priests and bishops exercised the work of their hands, 1072. The three most ancient priesthoods in foreskin, 470. With the kingdom translated, the priesthood also was translated, 119. The ceremonies of the sacraments are from apostolic tradition, 1106. Why God Himself instituted sacrifices, 692. The Sadducees denied the resurrection of the flesh, 557. The heresy of the Sadducees is the first of the Jews, 31. Whence the Sadducees were so called, 31. Salem, which is the city of Melchisedech, 469. It is called Jebus and now Jerusalem by some, 469. A passage of Solomon explained concerning the wisdom of God, 745. Solomon is explained in Proverbs against Arius, 747. What the Samaritans are, and whence they are so called, 24. The Samaritans venerate Jephthe, 469. The heresy of the Samaritans, 24. Whence the four sects of the Samaritans flowed, 23. The four sects of the Samaritans, 28. The dogmas of the Samaritans, 24. The Samaritans admit no others besides the five books of Moses, 28. The Samaritans are idolaters, 25. The ancient rites of the Samaritans are dull and foolish, 26. The impiety of the Samosatenians, 614. Against them it is proven that Christ is not a simple man, 614. The Son is consubstantial with the Father, 615. One principle from whom the Son
emanated, contrary to Paul of Samosata and Marcion, 615. The Son is the image of the Father, against the same, 616. The heresy of the Samosatenians is compared to the serpent called the dryina, 616. The heresy of the Sampseans, the 33rd after Christianity, 461. Where it first arose, 461. They are also called Elcesaites, 461. The book of Elxai, 461. They hold two women as goddesses, 461. They reject the prophets and apostles, 461. They venerate water in the place of a deity, 461. The Sampseans are the same as the Solares, 461. The saints dwell in heaven with the angels, 1056. He who honors the saints honors God, 1055. The wisdom of the flesh is not subject to the law of God, 577. The name of Wisdom is proven to be taken in various ways, 743. The origin of the Saracens, who are also the Agarenes, is from Ishmael, 9. The Satanian sect of the Massalians, 1069. Their rites, 1069. The origin of that heresy, 1070. The heresy of the Saturnilians, the 62nd after the coming of Christ, 62. Whence it was named, 62. Where Saturnilus professed his heresy, 62. What his dogmas were, 62. From him the Gnostics arose, 63. He asserts that two men were created in the beginning by God, one good, the other evil, 63. He condemns marriage, 63. He abstains from living creatures, 63. What his opinion is concerning the prophets, 64. Save, the wife of Cain, was also his sister, 287. The greater the knowledge in a man, the more he ought to consider what human fragility is, 88. The scolopendra is a serpent, also called a millepede, to which the Alogi heretics are compared, 457. The likeness of scorpions is applied to heretics, as they hold one another like a chain, 207. The heresy of the Scribes, which is the second of the Jews, 32. The ambition of the Scribes, 32. The traditions of the Scribes and how many kinds of them there are, 33. Holy Scripture contains nothing contrary or repugnant, and it said that they were Pharisees, 530. The custom of Scripture in deducing the order of things, 745. The explanation of the Scriptures was once very brief, afterwards more diffuse through ostentation, 530. The Scythians worshipped a sword as a god, 8. The Scythians were propagated from the sons of Noah, 6. The succession of the Scythian race, 8. The perverse reasoning of the Sebuaeans in celebrating festivals, 29. The four primary sects of men, 16. The seven sects at the time of Christ, 43. The refutation of the four gentile sects, 43. The remnants of sects among the Samaritans and Jews, 46. The heresy of the Secundians, which is the twelfth after Christianity, 208. By whom it was introduced, 208. How many sons Shem begat who received their own region, 704. The Semi-liberi and their descendants, 5. The heresy of the Semi-arians, the 73rd or 74th, 844. Who they were, 845. How they differ from the Arians, 845. What they say concerning the Son of God, and what kind of being they claim He is, 845. They reject the word "consubstantial," 845. Who the authors of this sect were, 845. The nation of the Sempseans, related to the Ossenes, 40. Senaar, situated in the region of the Persians, was once of the Assyrians, 9. The senses of the body are deceptive and scarcely perceive what is true, 568. The sepedon is a two-headed kind of viper, to which the heresy of Cerinthus is compared, 116. The seps is a kind of beast to which the heresy is compared, 267. The modesty of the Seres is ridiculous, so that they may please their wives, 1091. The prudence of the serpent, and why Christ wants us to be like it, 274. Two signs of prudence in the serpent, 274. Why the serpent was lifted up by Moses, 273. Things by which serpents are believed to be driven away, 422. Seruch, son of Ragau, signifies provocation, 7. The heresy of the Sethians, the nineteenth after Christianity, 283. They constitute various races of men, 283. Their fable about Cham, 284. It is believed by them that Seth was the same as Christ; they invent a spouse for him, 286. How many years Seth lived, and when he ceased to live, leaving children, 289. The heresy of the Severians, the 25th after Christianity, or 45th in order, 388. Named from a certain Severus, 388. His dogmas, 388. He asserts that wine and the vine are similar to the serpent and the dragon, 388. He also condemns woman as the work of Satan, 388, 389. That man is partly of God, partly of the devil, 388, 389. They use apocryphal books, 388, 389. That the vine is not produced by the devil from the seed of the serpent, against the Severians, 388, 389. The kingdom of the Sicyonians is most ancient, to which Europs gave a beginning, 9.
Similitudes in the Scriptures, how they are to be accepted, 1027. Whence Simon Magus originated, 55. Among whom he boasted that he was God the Father, and among whom the Son, 55. By whom he was baptized, 55. He did not receive the Holy Spirit, and why he lacked it, 55. Given to avarice, 55. He offered money to Peter that he might confer the Holy Spirit upon him through the laying on of hands, 56. Deceived by demons through magic, and a poisoner, 56. Proclive toward Venus, 56. He had a concubine named Helena, 56. What vain things he absurdly invented about himself and his Helena, 56. This one was called Barbero or Barbelo by the heretics, 56, 57. And was called Minerva by Simon Magus himself; he wished his Helena to be adored by his followers under the guise of Minerva, 58. He instituted certain mysteries of bodily filth and flux, 58. He established various intelligences in the heavens, 58. The Gnostics arose from the Simonians, 58. The same Simon thought that the prophets had received the spirit from various intelligences, 58. He abrogated faith in the Old Testament, 59. The refutation of his absurdities, 59. His death at Rome, 59. The judgment of Peter concerning him, 59. The refutation of his impiety concerning marriage and virginity, 59. Also the confutation of his impious dogmas concerning the creation of the world, 60. That Simon the Cyrenian did not suffer the passion on the cross in place of Christ, 75. The heresy of the Simonians is the first since the rise of the Christian religion; whence named, 55. When images were first crafted, 8. When sleep creeps in, the mind nevertheless remains awake, 407. The effects of sleep or stupor on the bodily senses, 407. The mountain of the Samaritans, Somoron, whence it was so called, 24. It was an abomination for sisters to take husbands when the human race multiplied, 288. That the Holy Spirit is God, because He is one Trinity, 896. The Holy Spirit differs from creatures, 896. Many spirits in the holy letters, 897. The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, 899. His illustrious epithets, 899. The Holy Spirit surpasses all creatures, 900. Testimonies concerning the divinity of the Holy Spirit, 986. By what names the true and holy Spirit is distinguished and known by signs, 414. The Holy Spirit is equal to Christ, and the attributes of the one also belong to the other, 892. The Holy Spirit is God, 891. The Holy Spirit is to be adored, 895. He arises from the Father and the Son, 895. Concerning the Holy Spirit, why nothing was explicitly set forth in the Nicene synod, 904. The Holy Spirit is true God, 741. The Stoics and their heresy, the third of the gentiles, in order the fifth, 12. The refutation of the Stoics, 12. The name of stupor signifies many things, and what are the differences of stupor, 406. What the stupor of Adam was, 406. How the Sirmium synod attempted to remove the word "substance," 861. The origin of the superstitions of the Egyptians, 8. The day and meeting of the Synaxis, how they were instituted by the apostles, 1104. Also the fast on the fourth and sixth days of the week, 1104.
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The tabernacle is accommodated to the Church, whose foundation already consists in virtue, 512. The nature of the mole, a quadruped animal, 458. It lacks sight and hides under the ground, 458. It harms plants and seeds, 458. To it the heresy of the Adamites is compared, 458. From whence the heresy of the Tascodrugites received its name, 416. Called as if Paxillonasones, 416. Their unspeakable sacrifice, 416. They are compared to the haemorrhoid viper, 417. The heresy of the Tatianites, the 26th after Christianity, or 46th, 417. From a certain Tatian, 417. His history, 391. The origin of Tatian, 391. From him the Encratite heretics received their origin, 391. His dogmas, 391. He condemns marriage, 391. He used only water in the mysteries, 392. That Adam is saved, against his opinion, 392. Tautousion is not the same in the divine persons as homoousion, 920. The Old Testament agrees with the New, 705. Which is taught by an elegant comparison, 705. Tharra, son of Nachor, was the finder and the first artificer of idols from clay and earthenware, 8. The history of Thecla, 1048. The history of Theodotus, 463. He denied Christ, 463. He asserted that He was a mere man, 463. It is refuted and proven that the Word was clothed with flesh, 465. The heresy of the Theodotians, the 54th after Christianity, 462. Similar to the heresy of the Alogi, 462. Whence they were called, 463. The baths of Gadara, 131. Why the Egyptians adore Thermutis, the son of Pharaoh, 1055.A The name of the Thracians, from Thiras, B born at the tower of Babel, 8. In Thyatira the Cataphrygian heretics were numerous, 455. The flute of a serpent has an image through which Eve was deceived, 79. The gestures of flute-players when the flute is played are diabolical, 79. How the traditions of the elders are named by the Jews, and the four kinds of them, 224. Traditions are necessary, because not all things can be sought from the Scriptures, 511. Unwritten traditions left by Mother Church, 912. When the traditions of the Jews began, 332. The Trinity and the faith of it which the Church holds, 483. Knowledge of the Trinity from the Creed, 891. The Trinity announced in various ways at various times, 899. The various names of the Trinity and the three Persons, 895. The Trinity always preached, 18. The Trinity is accurately declared by Holy Scripture, which speaks distinctly of the individual Persons, 612. The Trinity represented in the creation of man, 383. What is the logic of the Trinity, and in what way is there one God in the Trinity, 514. How the Father is spoken of, 514. What is the begetting of the Son, 515. What is the procession of the Holy Spirit, 515. He proceeds from the Father and the Son, 515. The Trinity is without passion, 968. But the Word suffered in the flesh without any passion of His divinity, 968. All of which surpasses the grasp of the human mind, 969. How the Son is said to be begotten from the Father, 970. In the Trinity, God alone is to be worshipped, who has need of no addition, 976. Regarding the divinity, the thoughts of men are vain, 979. The Trinity alone knows Itself, 980, 981. It alone is uncreated, 984. What the use of trumpets in the Old Testament signified, 454. The Tower of Babel, 6. Tyrants and kings worshipped as gods. Whence the worship of gods, 8.
U Uranias, a bishop from the sect of the Audians in Mesopotamia, who professed the dogma of Audias, 827. As Sylvanus, a bishop in Cothia, 828.
V Valentinus’s *Enthymesis* or thought, and by what figments it is explained by him, 182, 183. The tears of the *Enthymesis* and other trifles of this kind, 183. An inquiry into his tears and what kind of humor flows from them, 184. Into how many kinds of things he imagined it to be produced from a triple material, 185. The fiction regarding the seven celestial spheres, 186. He makes the devil the governor of the world together with the angels of wickedness, 187. How man is believed to have been created by him, 187. Of what parts and elements he consists, 188. How the animal, spiritual, and carnal man differs according to him, 189. The outrages of the Valentinians, 189. A most vain opinion concerning the love of women, 190. Fire will consume the world, 191. They claim the Savior was composed of four natures, 191. How they divide the prophecies of the prophets, 192. Three kinds of men according to the Valentinians, the dogmas of Valentinus, 193. How Valentinus’s thirty aeons indicate the number of thirty years of Christ’s life according to his mind, 176. Another opinion regarding the trifles of the same man, 177. Horus, or the boundary, and Orothetes, the redeemer and reaper, 178. On which places of Scripture Valentinus builds his dreams, 182. What he thinks concerning those things that are outside the *pleroma*, 182. Valentinus, 164. His homeland is unknown, 164. It is reported, however, that he was an Egyptian, 164. How many gods he invented, 164. Their names, 165. With him, Bythus is the same as Chaos with Hesiod, 164. The figment of the aeons is borrowed from the poets, C hysterema, 166. What the *ogdoad* is among them, 166. Whom they call Achamoth the Savior, etc., 167. The names of those who are contained in the *ogdoad*, 167. An account from the book of Valentinus concerning the aeon, the parent of all, 168. Likewise concerning the remaining crowd of spiritual males and females, 169. Various and ridiculous dogmas of Valentinus, 170, 171. What they think concerning Christ everywhere, D whether they constitute orders, 172. Refutation of the errors of Valentinus from Irenaeus, 173. Valentinus’s dogmas from Irenaeus, 175. By what places of Scripture Valentinus proved his ravings, 194, 195, 596, 197. He confirms the *ogdoad* he invented from the first chapter of the Gospel of John, 198. Refuted by Irenaeus, 198. The heresy of the Valentinians, which is the eleventh after Christianity, 163. They call themselves Gnostics, 163. When their author appeared, 163. The heresy of the Valesians, the thirty-sixth after Christianity, the fifty-eighth overall, 489. Epiphanius thinks that Valens, the author of the Valesians, has an Arabic name, 489. All the Valesians are castrated, 489. Their mutilation, 490. The Word was not changed into flesh, but that which He was, He assumed flesh, 1004. And how much the human body gained from communion with the Word, 1005. The incarnate Word was truly God, 1005. And Christ Himself was the Word, 1006. Whence He was called Emmanuel, 1006. The Word is not separated from the Son, but is the same as the Son, 1007. Concerning the opinion of heretics about Christ’s flesh, 1008. The objection of heretics regarding Christ’s excrements, consisting in the flesh, 1009. And the refutation of the same, 1009. By the example of the sons of Israel for the space of forty years in the desert, 1009. A fable concerning the excrements of the Hebrews, 1010. What kind of clothes Christ wore, 1010. Christ’s true flesh is proven, 1011. Christ took on human infirmities in the flesh, 1012. Christ’s body was similar to ours, 1011. Various opinions of heretics concerning the perfect nature of man in Christ, 1014. How the Word is to be interpreted in the truest sense, 199, 200. What distinction there is between the Word of God and other words of the same, 859. The power of truth against falsehood and a comparison of both, 627. The condemnation of wine from certain testimonies of Scripture, 400. The amphisbaena viper, 262. The offspring of the viper is compared to heresy, 101, 102. Vipers devour themselves, a fact reported in ancient history among the Egyptians, 62. Virgins dedicated to God cannot marry, 511. Who are the virgins whom the Apostle orders to marry, 509. And the decree of the Apostle concerning virgins is explained, 510. The virginity of the Church is the foundation; also [that] of the solitary life and the remaining degrees, 1103. Next to it is continence, and in the third place, widowhood, 1103. Marriage follows, 1105. Digamy is permitted, 1103. The priesthood is above all degrees, 1103. The Virgin Mary compared to a heifer that has not yet borne the yoke, 157. The life that was before the Law was lived in the body, 581. Vitalis the heretic, as he was, is described by Epiphanius, 1014.
X Hospices: for what purpose were they constructed by the bishops, 905.
Z A certain Zacchaeus, an impostor, and his institute, 1094. Zeno, the prince of the Stoics, 12. The dogmas of Zeno, 12. Zopyrus, a kind of hornet which is described very aptly and elegantly and is applied to the heretic Lucian, 387. Zoroaster, the inventor of magic and astrology, 7. The founder of the Bactrians, 7.