Epiphanes
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Son of Carpocrates, author of On Justice, posthumously worshipped as a god; taught justice as sexual and property community.
" And the addition of the word "I" shows the more pressing force of the commandment, and that both Carpocrates and Epiphanes fight against God—Epiphanes, who, in that very much-talked-of book, On Justice I mean, adds something like this in so many words:
This man, then, says in his work On Justice that the justice of God is a kind of community based on equality.
rather, all sow and beget alike, having an inborn community given them by justice.
Adversus Judaeos
King counted with his regnal years in the chronological reckoning toward Christ's coming.
After him Epiphanes, twenty-four years.