to send them from Cyprus. Now, however, I have sent what I could find, and I pray that you order the priest 14 of that same place to receive the veil from the reader, which was sent by us, and subsequently to order that in the Church of Christ such veils, which run counter to our religion, not be hung up. For it befits your honor to have this care all the more, so that it may remove any scruple A that is worthy of the Church of Christ, and of the peoples who are entrusted to you 15. Beware of Palladius the Galatian, who was once dear to us and now needs the mercy of God, because he preaches and teaches the heresy of Origen, lest by chance he lead any of the people entrusted to you into the perversity of his error. I pray that you may fare well in the Lord 16.
THE EPISTLE OF SAINT EPIPHANIUS, BISHOP OF CYPRUS, TO SAINT JEROME.
[He announces that the faction of the Origenists has been condemned through the work of Theophilus 17: and, sending a copy of the synodal epistle to him, he encourages him to publish the books which he had written against that heresy.]
To my most beloved son and brother, Jerome the priest, Epiphanius sends greetings in the Lord.
265 A general epistle 18, which was written to all Catholics, pertains especially to you, who, having a zeal for the faith against all heresies, oppose 19 the disciples of Origen in particular, and of Apollinaris, whose poisonous roots and deeply fixed impiety Almighty God has brought into the light, so that, having been revealed in Alexandria, they might wither throughout the whole world. For know, most dear son, that Amalec B has been destroyed even to the root, and the trophy of the cross has been erected on Mount Raphidim. For just as Israel conquered while the hands of Moses were stretched on high [*], so did the Lord strengthen His servant Theophilus, that he might place a banner against Origen upon the altar of the Alexandrian Church; and that what is said might be fulfilled in him: "Write this for a memorial, for I will utterly blot out the heresy of Origen from the face of the earth, with him [*]" and Amalec. And that I may not seem to repeat the same things again, and to weave a longer epistle, I have sent the epistle itself 20 written to you, so that you might know what he has written to us; and how much good the Lord has granted to my final years, so that what I was always crying out might be proven by the testimony of so great a pontiff. Now, however, I think that you have also published some work, and, in accordance with the prior epistle 21, in which I had encouraged you on this matter, have polished the book,, which the men of your tongue may read. For I hear that the shipwrecks of certain men have reached the West C; who, not content with their own perdition, wish to have more participants in death; as if the multitude of those sinning would diminish the crime; and D as if the greater number of logs would not increase the flame of Gehenna. The holy brothers who are with you in the monastery, serving the Lord, we greet most warmly, both with you and through you.