On Weights and Measures

Name: On Weights and Measures
Author: Epiphanius of Salamis

De mensuris et ponderibus

Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310/320–403 AD) · written c. 392 AD · PG 43 · Part only

Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310/320–403), bishop of Salamis in Cyprus from 367, was the early church's great heresy-hunter — though his learning ranged far beyond controversy into Scripture, history, and antiquities.

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1Invitation to the handbook and the divisions of prophecy

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Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310/320–403 AD) — Bishop of Salamis (Constantia) on Cyprus. Best known for the Panarion (Medicine Chest), a vast catalogue of heresies, with the Ancoratus as a shorter doctrinal anchor for the churches. A fierce defender of Nicene orthodoxy and monastic discipline.

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Epiphanius of Salamis, On Measures and Weights: the opening chapter — ancient measures, ten kinds of prophecy, and prophetic signs.

On Weights and Measures, written near the end of his life, is his guide to the Bible's world: Hebrew weights, measures, and coins, the ancient translators of the Old Testament, and the books of Scripture — antiquarian lore in service of the reader.

This volume holds Chapter I: measures and weights, the ten prophetic genres, and prophetic signs.

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Invitation to the handbook and the divisions of prophecy§1

The author opens the work by inviting the student of letters to use this handbook on measures and weights, then lists the divisions of the prophecies and the signs that accompany them.

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1If anyone wants to know the parts of the divine Scriptures that make for broad learning—I mean the parts about measures and weights—he should not hesitate to consult this handbook. The student of letters must first know how many parts there are in the prophecies. The prophecies have been divided into ten kinds of contemplation, and they contain these: teachings, contemplations, exhortations, threats, lamentations, dirges, prayers, histories, and predictions. Alongside these same prophecies lie the following signs: the rejection of the former people, the rejection of the law according to the flesh, the New Covenant, the calling of the Gentiles, and Christ.

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