Epiphanius
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
your honour · your reverence
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Early Christian bishop listed among sources on nations practicing circumcision.
Wherefore there is reason to believe that the numerous nations, who, besides the Israelites, practiced circumcision, and who are mentioned by Herodotus, Strabo, Philo, Justin, Origen, Clemens, Alexandrinus, Epiphanius, and Jerom, were descended from Ishmael, Esau, or the posterity of Keturah.
Epiphanius calls this the Scythian fashion.
Letters
Bishop to whom letter 258 is addressed.
and so it seemed good to break open the letter that was brought from your honour.
But it would befit your peaceful disposition not to join the one and tear apart the other, but to bring what is divided into the union already existing.
To Epiphanius the Bishop