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Letter XCI. From Epiphanius to Jerome.
An exultant letter from Epiphanius in which he describes
the success of his council (convened at the suggestion of Theophilus),
sends Jerome a copy of its synodical letter. and urges him to go on
with his work of translating into Latin documents bearing on the
Origenistic controversy. Written in 400 a.d.
To his most loving lord, son, and brother, the presbyter Jerome, Epiphanius sends greeting
in the Lord. The general epistle written2635
to all Catholics belongs particularly to
you; for you, having a zeal for the faith against all heresies,
particularly oppose the disciples of Origen and of Apollinaris whose
poisoned roots and deeply planted impiety almighty God has dragged
forth into our midst, that having been unearthed at Alexandria they
might wither throughout the world. For know, my beloved son, that
Amalek has been destroyed root and branch and that the trophy of the
cross has been set up on the hill of Rephidim.2636
For as when the hands of Moses were
held up on high Israel prevailed, so the Lord has strengthened His
servant Theophilus to plant His standard against Origen on the altar of
the church of Alexandria; that in him might be fulfilled the words:
“Write this for a memorial, for I will utterly put out
Origen’s heresy from under heaven together with that Amalek
himself.” And that I may not appear to be repeating the same
things over and over and thus to be making my letter tedious, I send
you the actual missive written to me that you may know what Theophilus
has said to me, and what a great blessing the Lord has granted to my
last days in approving the principles which I have always proclaimed by
the testimony of so great a prelate. I fancy that by this time you also
have published something and that, as I suggested in my former letter
to you on this subject, you have elaborated a treatise for readers of
your own language. For I hear that certain of those who have made
shipwreck2637
have come also to the West, and
that, not content with their own destruction, they desire to involve
others in death with them; as if they thought that the multitude of
sinners lessens the guilt of sin and the flames of Gehenna do not grow
in size in proportion as more logs are heaped upon them. With you and
by you we send our best greetings to the reverend brothers who are with
you in the monastery serving God.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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