The Deception of False Descriptions
They lie by thinking through false concepts. For the deceivers write that Peter the holy apostle was an old man, with a bald head and a beard; and others write that the holy Paul was either hairless or a bald-headed man, and that the other disciples were simply bald.
If, therefore, the Savior had hair, while the other disciples were bald and he himself was not bald and appeared equal to them, by what reason were the Pharisees and the scribes giving thirty pieces of silver to Judas for a wage, so that, having loved him, he might show them, 'this is the one you seek,' when they were able to know both through themselves and through others by the sign of the hair they were seeking to find, and not to give a wage?
Greek
ἐννοίας διανοούμενοι, ψεύδονται. γράφουσι γὰρ Πέτρον τὸν ἅγιον ἀπόστολον οἱ πλάνοι γέροντα ἄνδρα, τὴν κεφαλὴν καὶ τὸ γένειον κεκαρμένον· γράφουσι δὲ καὶ τὸν ἅγιον Παῦλον ἄλλοι μὲν ἀναφαλαντέα, ἄλλοι δὲ φαλακρὸν γενειήτην καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους μαθητὰς ψιλῶς κεκαρμένους. 27 εἰ τοίνυν κόμην εἶχεν ὁ σωτήρ, οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι μαθηταὶ ἦσαν κεκαρμένοι καὶ μὴ ἦν αὐτὸς κεκαρμένος καὶ ἴσος αὐτοῖς φαινόμενος, τίνι τῷ λόγῳ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς τριάκοντα ἀργύρια ἐδίδουν τῷ Ἰούδᾳ μισθοῦ χάριν, ὅπως φιλήσας αὐτὸν ὑποδείξῃ αὐτοῖς ὅτι "οὗτός ἐστιν ὃν ζητεῖτε", δυνάμενοι καὶ δι' ἑαυτῶν καὶ ὑπ' ἄλλων γνῶναι διὰ τοῦ σημείου τῆς κόμης ὃν ἐζήτουν εὑρεῖν καὶ μὴ μισθὸν δοῦναι; 28 ὁμολογεῖ, πρῶτα μὲν ὡς χλεύη τοῖς
About this text
Epiphanius begs the emperor to remove religious images, and explains why Christ must not be painted.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 41–43 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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