The Church Fathers · 374–377
The Medicine Chest
Panarion
Epiphanius of Salamis · c. 315–403
What it is
Eighty heresies described and refuted in order, each presented as a snakebite for which the book supplies the antidote, quoting sources now lost.
Why it lasted
The great catalogue of early Christian diversity, indispensable to historians precisely because its author collected what he despised.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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