ANALYTICAL INDEX
In the genuine writings of St. Epiphanius, which this volume comprises from column 9 to column 392.A Abraham, the Son of God appeared to, 44. Absalom, how many ounces his hair weighed, 183. Accents, which are found in the sacred scriptures, 158. Achates, a gem not unlike the hyacinth, where it is found, to what it provides a cure, 229. Adamas (diamond), which the high priest wore three times a year when entering the Holy of Holies, 230. Where he wore it, at what time, and on which feast days, 230. How many times he changed its colors and what that indicated; it reflects a bronze color, 231. Adam. Adam’s origin, the status of his nature and birth, 61. It establishes the stock of his successors, 61. Adam and Eve in paradise, what kind of knowledge of themselves they had before the fall, 25. When they began to know each other by action, 25. Adrianus, having tried physicians in vain, mocks them, 170. The same man restores Jerusalem and calls it Aelia after his own name, 170. Egyptians, their superstition is greater than all others, 106. Era, invented by the Egyptians, and of what weight they were, 183. Aggaeus the prophet, his life and the location of his sepulcher, 248. Alabastrum, what kind of measure it is, 182. Amethyst, a gem, whence named, where it is born, 229. Ancoratus. Whence this book received its name, 1. What it contains, to whom it was written, under which emperors, and at what time, 1. Angels who were sent by God to overthrow Sodom, [and] Mamre, 34. Angels are ignorant of the day of judgment, being destitute of both kinds of knowledge: of intellect and action, 27. Why the angel appeared to Christ while He was laboring, 42. Things said or done by Christ in a human manner are explained, 43. Soul is taken for the whole man, 83. Souls, when counting persons, are understood to be joined to bodies as well, 61. Antinous, buried by Hadrian in the city named after him and declared a god, 109. Apis, the Egyptian calf, wounded by Cambyses in mockery, 107. Apollinarists, who believe there is a mind [in Him], 82. Aporrima, what kind of measure [it is] among the Thebans, 182. Apostles' calling, and that of the seventy-two disciples, likewise the institution of the seven deacons and the whole economy of the Gospel, 138. Apostles and prophets are to be preferred over all heretics, 66. Aquila, interpreter of the Scriptures, is appointed by Hadrian to repair Jerusalem, 170. Converted by the miracles of the Christians, he becomes a Christian from a Jew, 171. Again, he professes Judaism, an apostate from the Christian faith, 171. Arians, blasphemers against the Son, are convicted by the Son's own testimony as if He were unequal to the Father, 120. Arians' objection and craftiness against the Son of God, 53. The solution to their quibbling, 55. Ariomanites, whose error surpasses all others, 120. Aristaeus, composed a work concerning the seventy-two interpreters, 166. Artaba, a word of the Egyptians, is the name of a measure, 181. It is the same as the metreta, 182. Asterisk, and its power among the Hebrews, 159. Audiani, heretics of Mesopotamia, why they separate themselves from other believers, 19.
B Babylonian children, delivered from the burning furnace, 28. The canticle of those three children, 29. They worshiped one God and the only divinity in the Trinity, 29. Those three children acknowledged the Trinity, 30. Bacchi, many [individuals] distinguished by this name, 109. Baptism is more excellent than circumcision, 120. Barjonas, whence Peter was so called, and what Bar and Jonas signify in Hebrew, 7. Beryl, of what color it is, where it is born, its species, 230. Bibliorum (Bibles), the fifth and sixth editions have uncertain authors, 174. Library of Ptolemy Philadelphus, King of Egypt, 166. Library, the minor one of Ptolemy, which was called the daughter of the former, in which the versions of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion were stored, 168. Bith, or bathos, what measure of the Hebrews it is, 178. Good, the adjunct [of goodness] is attributed to many others besides God, 23.
C Sandals, which Moses was commanded to remove, what kind they were, 104. Campsaces, a measure of water, how many sextarii it contains, 182. Camus, a measure of the Hebrews, and what kind, 181. Baskets, three of the Chondritae, what measure [they are], 182. Head, the ornament of the body, and the assumption [of it] is the glory of the feasts, 283. Carbuncle, where it is born, how it is found; similar to this are the Ceraunias and the Carchedonius, 227. Catinus, what kind of vessel [it is] and how much it contains, 182. Cham’s posterity was divided into thirty-two nations and as many languages, 117. Canaan, why it was granted by God to the Israelites, 118. Chanix and Ephi, one and the same measure, and what kind, 181. Cherubim and Seraphim, the thrice-repeated "Holy," etc., designates the Trinity, 15. Christ’s struggle with the devil, B is explained by an elegant comparison to a most powerful king warring against a lesser one, 59. Where His death was received, 40. In what way, from the fact that it is said the Word was made flesh, soul and body are also understood, 40. That His body suffered and not His divinity, 41. That it is demonstrated by an elegant similitude from stained garments, 42. Christ is compared to emptied ointment, 45. A brief commemoration of His acts in the flesh, 45. He is said to be like a great mountain in the book of Daniel, 45. How God made Him high priest, 47. Christ introduced the law of justice, faith, and the spirit, 68. The similitude by which His nativity is explained, 69. He is called bread, vine, oil, living water, etc., 70. How Christ is called C mediator, 49. By what reasoning He is said to have emptied Himself and to have taken the form of a servant, 50. Things explained concerning Christi-
s body, how it is to be adored, illustrated by a clear comparison, 54. How Christ could have been immune from sin, 65. How Christ in various places asks questions as if He were ignorant, which are explained by Epiphanius, 111. What attributes are said to be proper to Christ, the Son of God, in the sacred Scriptures, 24. Why Christ retained scars in His body, 95. He entered with doors closed, 95. Why Christ is called the firstfruits of those who have died, 96. How Christ as man bore our infirmities and suffered all human things in His body, 36. The birth of Christ from the Virgin Mary without male seed, by the Holy Spirit, 62. In what year of the reign of Augustus He was brought into the light, 63. In what sense Christ is to be understood as perfect man, 81. Against the Apollinarians concerning the mind and soul of Christ, 81. A Chronology of Israelite times, 114. Chrysolite; what gem it is, of what color, where it is found, and what remedy it confers, 229. How circumcision was performed again, and the prepuce was again drawn forward, 172. "Knowledge" in Scripture is taken for mutual union, 25. Knowledge in Scripture is twofold, one of action, the other of science, 25. *Collathum* among the Syrians is a measure of liquids, 181. *Congiarium* is a measure of liquids among the Hebrews, 184. How many *sextarii* a *congius* holds, and it is called *sacer*, 182. The force of the word "consubstantial," by which the error of Sabellius is refuted, 11. The heart of man is the seat of the mind and of discretion, 82. Whether corruption that happens by persuasion is worse than that which happens by force, 223. What a *corus* is and what its measure was among the Hebrews, 177. What measure a *cotyla* is and whence it is so called, 182. What portion of a *sextarius* a *cyathus* is, 182. What kind of measure a *cyprus* is among the Pontics, 181.
B D. God. It is one thing to investigate the deep things of God, and another to attain them, 2. The image of God, in what it consists, 58. Whether it is to be restricted to baptism, 59. Nothing of those things which have been created can be compared to God, 16. The difference between God and the creature, 17. No one knows God except the Spirit, and the place of St. Paul is explained, 17. What befits God the Father is attributed to the Son and the Holy Spirit, 21. Only those who live under the Law acknowledge God, 15. By conceiving God, the whole Trinity is conceived, 15. God moved toward the generation of the Son by no affection, 52. Many are sons of God by grace, but one is Son by nature, 53. From whom God is said to turn away His face and whom He is said to regard, 221. How God is said to be seen by the prophets, although He cannot be seen, 56. There is one God from whom Jesus Christ was sent, 7, 6. Fornication brought forth a multitude of gods and idolatry, 7. God and Christ ask what they know, and for what reason, 41. "My God" is never said by the Son according to His divinity, 54. God of the ancient Law is defended against the objection of heretics, 114. God sometimes asks questions as if ignorant, 110. Diagoras the Atheist, and his jesting remark about the wooden image of Hercules, 106. Many Dianas are called by this name, 109. What kind of silver coin the *dichryson* is, 181. In the Divinity there are three hypostases in one substance, 87. C Division of the world, why it contains the same places attributed to different regions, 117.
E. The Church is the strong woman of whom the Wise Man speaks in Proverbs; she gives daily, 152. The firmness of the Church is always the same, but heresies overturn and destroy themselves, 88. Four times of the Church are designated: through the synagogue, the prophets, John, and finally through the Savior, 119. And this is shadowed forth by four insignia: the sandals laid down in Moses, the outer tunic in the prophets, the haircloth in John, and the neglect of all worldly culture by Christ and the apostles, 119. A brief compendium of the life of Epiphanius, 1. The modesty of Epiphanius in the extenuation of his own powers, 6. By whose impulse he wrote the *Ancoratus*, 6. A summary of his *Ancoratus*, 6. D An epistle written from the town of Suedra in Pamphylia by the new presbyters to St. Epiphanius, 2. Esau was the inventor of drawing forward the prepuce, 172. Eucharist. That the Lord’s body and His presence are contained in it is proven in a notable place, 63. Eudaemon’s impious opinion about the gods, 106.
F. A comparison of the feasts dedicated to Christ, 286. Profession of the catholic faith from the Nicene synod, 122. Another, fuller profession of faith, 123. The firmament of our faith and salvation is in the Divine Incarnation, 79. An elegant comparison of the faithful who waver in faith with those who are sailing, 3. Perverse faith is worse than infidelity, 13. That golden saying of Epiphanius whence it appears that heretics are worse than any infidels, 13. The Son knows the day of judgment, since He Himself will be the judge, 26. How God is visible and invisible, how He can be known and not be known, 37. The Son is older than time, because through Him it was made, 80. The Son and the Holy Spirit are worthy of equal honor with the Father, 16. The Son knows the day of judgment, against the objection of infidels, 22. That the Son is not greater than the Father, 25. The Son is to be adored because He is in no way created, 54. How the Son is generated from the Father, 51. He is not a creature, but generated spiritually from the Father, 51. And in an incomprehensible manner, 51. The divine generation of the Word is declared by a similitude, 51. That the Son made all things, and nevertheless all things were made through Him, 33. How many silver coins a *follis* or small talent consists of, 181.
G. The twelve gems which the high priest wore on the ephod, or pectoral, or rational, 223. What measure a *gomon* is among the Hebrews, 182. What measure a *gomor* is among the Hebrews and how many are its species, 178. Whence Greeks are called Hellenes, 131. Why they are called Iones, and also Meropes, 131. How many sects or heresies of the Greeks there have been, 131. Greeks and gentiles were accustomed to bring feasts to graves, shadowing forth in a way the resurrection itself, 91. The most empty superstition of the Greeks in worshipping gods, 107.
H. Hellenism is the third heresy; whence it received its name, 131. Heraclitus’s saying about the Egyptian gods, 106. One chief story told of Hercules: that he deflowered one hundred virgins in one night, 109. An enumeration of heresies according to the order of each, 18. A new heresy in Egypt around Thebais, 88. The arguments of heretics objected against Catholics are weighed, 37. History of the distribution of the world by Noah, 116. What kind of weight a *holce* is, and it corresponds to the shekel, 183. Man is defined by his parts, soul, body, and mind, 81. The hyacinth stone: what forms it has, what color, how many of its species, what powers it has, and what remedies, 228 and 220. The form of the *hypolemnisci* and what its power and use was, 167.
I. The origin of idolatry and idols, and whence there are such various idols, 105. The series of Roman emperors up to Valentinian, 169 et seq. up to p. 177. *In*, a kind of measure; what it is like and how many *sextarii* it contains, 182. The commendation of the seventy-two translators, 173. The seventy translators were inspired by the Holy Spirit, 160. Their history, 161. The fidelity of the seventy translators in translating, changing, or correcting the sacred Books, 163.
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Onyx, or Onychium: of what color it is, what use it provides, and why it is called Alabastrites, 230. Isis: the vain worship and baseness of it among the Egyptians, 107. Israelites: why they were permitted by God to plunder the Egyptians, 115.
J Japheth: his posterity divided into fifteen regions and as many languages, 117. Jasper: of what color it is, where it may be found, and why it is called Amathusius; its many kinds, and what powers it has for various remedies, 227-228. Jesus: by whom he is acknowledged, but not as God, 7. John: how the passage, "All things were made by him," is to be understood, 80. Job: the passage concerning the resurrection of the dead is explained, 102. Joseph: he had six children by a previous wife before he espoused the virgin Mary, 62. Jupiter: his shameful deeds and base embraces, 108. His sepulcher on Mount Lasius, 108. Three Jupiters: Saturnius, Latiaris, and Tragoedus, 108. B Jews: how they, as impious men, stumbled at the stone of stumbling, 52. Jews: their sects are shown to be seven in number, 133.
L Lapides (the twelve stones): which the high priest wore on his breastplate, are separately adapted to the twelve tribes, 231, 232. Another interpretation by Turrianus regarding the twelve stones added to the high priest's rational, 233, 234. Lazarus: where he was placed, and why Christ asks about him, 45. Lemniscus: its form and whence it was taken, 164. Lancurius: a stone, 228. Lethec: what this Hebrew measure is, 178. Libri (canonical books) among the Hebrews according to their order, 180. The number of sacred books according to the number of the Hebrew alphabet, 161. Littera (the letter): whom it kills, and whom the Spirit vivifies, 27. Luke: the passage concerning the bloody sweat of Christ is explained, 12.
M Manes: the prince of the Manichaeans and his ridiculous opinion concerning the origin of souls, 52. The history of Manes and the death by which he perished, 176. Manichaeans, Arians, and Lucianists: their error is refuted by the true humanity of Christ, 38. Mares: what measure this is among the Pontians, 184. Maximinus: his most cruel death brought about by God the avenger, 176. Mensurae (Hebrew measures): thirty-one species distinguished by their names, 177. Minerva: there are many, and by what names they are distinguished, 109. Mua: called Mane by the Hebrews, and Mina by the Italians, 183. Mnasis: or Medimnus, what kind of measure it is, 178. Modius: explained by the Hebrews as "confession," and why, 181. Modius: a measure of twenty-two sextarii, according to the number of the twenty-two letters among the Hebrews, 180. The same is called Gnomon, 181. And it is called by the Hebrews the "sanctuary of measure," 181. Modius: what measure this is among the Cyprians, 178. Monachi (monks): they are condemned who rebaptize heretics, even Arians, 151. Monachi: the various institutes of certain monks are disapproved, 151. C Monastica (monastic life): the institute is praised, 110. Moses: his saying concerning Reuben, that he should not die, is explained, 100. Mus Alpinus (marmot): it hides for six months, an example of the resurrection, 89.
N Nebel: of wine, what measure and how many sextarii it holds, 182. Nummus (coin): invented by King Numa of the Romans, and it took its name from him, 183. Nummus: the silver coin called a miliarium by the Romans, and whence, 181.
0 Obelus: what it is, and in what form it is drawn, 160. Obolus: what coin it is, and of what material it was minted, 183. Origen: he is refuted, and his ridiculous opinion about the tunics of skins stitched together by God, 63. Other mad errors of his concerning the Son of God, the Holy Spirit, and the angels, 66. Origen: his institution in placing the obelus, 160. Origen: his error concerning paradise, through an allegory feigned by himself, 57. Origen: his study in comparing the editions, 160. Origen: the Hexapla, or the editions, are explained, 175. Osanna: it signifies nothing else than "Save us, O God," 152.
P Palladius: the magistrate of the Suedrians, his letter to St. Epiphanius, 3. Paradisus (paradise): the description of the four rivers, 60. Petrus (Peter): prince of the apostles, upon whom the Church was founded, 14. His denial, 14. To him was given the custody of the Lord's flock, 15. Phoenicis (of the phoenix): its history, 89. Phison: the river, the same as the Ganges or Indus, named differently by different peoples, 60. Pneumatomachi: the descendants of the Arians, 120. Prophetae (prophets): into how many species of meaning their writings are divided, 158. Proverbia (proverbs) and Parables: how they are to be received, 47. Psalterium (the psalter): or the books of the Psalms, how they were divided by the Hebrews, 162. Ptolemaeus Philadelphus: his care and study in gathering books from everywhere, under the advocacy of Demetrius Phalereus, 166. Ptolemaeus Philadelphus: his letter to the doctors of Jerusalem, 167. Pugillus: a handful of flour, a known measure, 181.
R Regum (kings) of the Egyptians: the series up to Cleopatra, 168. Resurrectio (resurrection): strictly proved from the Holy Scriptures, 98. It happens in a moment, unlike the generation of an offspring in the mother's womb, which consumes nine or twelve months, 99. Resurrectio: why the resurrection of the whole man is to be, 92. The power of the resurrection for the raising up of men, 95. That the same body which died will rise again, 93. Resurrectio: the resurrection of the same flesh which had died is asserted against Origen and certain Christians, 92. Resurrectio: it is adumbrated by various examples, 88, 89. That by the resurrection the whole body is raised from the dead, they admit, 99. D Resurrectio: the faith of the resurrection is built up even by the fables of the gentiles, 90.
S Sabellians: they are refuted against the Son by the insulting use of the word "God," 120. Sabitha: what word this is and what kind of measure, 182. Salomon (Solomon): the ambiguous passage, how it is to be understood concerning the incarnation, 48. Sapphirus (sapphire): of what color it is, what remedies it brings, where it originates; in it was the vision made to Moses on the mountain, and the law given, expressed on a sapphire gem, 227. Saree (Sarah): her modesty is praised, keeping herself at home and hidden from the sight of men, 44. Sardius (sardius): the Babylonian stone, what its form is, what its color, what powers it has, 225. There is another which is called Sardonyx, and Molochites, and what that is, 225, 226. Statum (the Hebrew statum): its definition and measure, 178. Statum: how many sextarii it contains, 182. Saturnus (Saturn): the fable concerning his children being devoured by him, 180. Sem, Cham, Japheth: the three sons of Noah, they divided the three parts of the world among them, 116. Semi or Sei: the sons of Noah's children and all their posterity, 116, 117. Servi (servants): called by the Greeks douloi, and are called somata, that is, bodies, 61. Siclus: or the fourth part of an ounce, 183. Smaragdus (emerald): a gem, also called prasinus; how many species it has, and where it is born, 226. Sol (Solomon): "tacens" (the silent one), he instructed everyone everywhere in the world, 110. Spiritus sanctus (the Holy Spirit): arises from the Father and the Son, 75. Spiritus sanctus: is God, 74. Spiritus sanctus: differs from creatures, proceeds from the Father and the Son, 78. Spiritus sanctus: impiously violated by heretics, 3. Spiritus sanctus: equal to Christ, revealing himself equally to all, 31. Stater: how many drachmas it contains, 183.
Symmachus, the third interpreter of the Bibles under Severus, 172. Συνούσιος (Sunousios), how it differs from ὁμοουσίῳ (homoousiō), 10.
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Talents: how great a sum six minae make, 183. Talent: the greatest of all measures, 183. Testimony: consists of two or three witnesses, 15. That this is demonstrated in Peter, Barnabas, and Paul, three united to proclaim the faith, 15. Tetrapla, Hexapla, and Octapla: how they are to be understood, 175. Theodotion: the fourth interpreter of the Bibles under the Emperor Commodus, 172. Topaz: what kind of gem it is, how it differs from the Carbuncle, where it is found, and what diseases it cures, 226. Trinity: consists in unity, and God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one God, 7. But it is not recognized except by those who are partakers of the Holy Spirit, 7, 8. How the Trinity is to be conceived, 7, 8. What things are attributed to one person of the Trinity pertain to the others, 8, 9. In the same, neither the Father can be understood without the Son, nor the Son without the Father, 10. The faith of the Trinity and what attributes belong to it from Sacred Scripture, 71. The Trinity: announced diversely at various times, 78. The truth of the Trinity: cannot be known from any other source than from the prophets and apostles, 67. The various names of the persons of the Trinity, 74.
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Ounce: how many staters it contains, and how many ounces are in a pound, and how many pounds in a talent, 183.
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Divine Word: how those things which befit man are attributed to it, 97. The Word of God: proved to have possessed true human flesh and soul from Sacred Scripture, 39. The Word so assumed flesh that it admitted no sin, 85.
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Zacchaeus: a certain imposter of the monastic profession, 150.
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