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It belongs to the genre of apostolic geography, not narrative hagiography. The text survives in a single Greek manuscript tradition, often transmitted with Pseudo-Epiphanian writings. The Khazarzar edition is a modern digital transcription, not a critical edition. Attributed to Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310–403), the work's date is uncertain; it may be a later compilation reflecting traditions that crystallized after the 4th century. The lists were used in Byzantine and medieval Western martyrologies to assign apostolic sees, influencing later hagiographic traditions, though their historical reliability is low.","historical_context":"The work is attributed to Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310–403), a bishop and heresiologist active in Cyprus, but its date is uncertain. It may be a later compilation, as its lists reflect traditions that crystallized after the 4th century, possibly in the 5th or 6th century. The text survives in a single Greek manuscript tradition, often transmitted with Pseudo-Epiphanian writings, indicating a monastic or scholarly context of copying. The genre is apostolic geography, a subcategory of apocryphal acts and lists that assigned missionary territories to apostles and disciples, used in Byzantine and medieval Western martyrologies to legitimize episcopal sees. The Khazarzar edition is a modern digital transcription, not a critical edition, and may normalize orthography and omit marginalia present in manuscript witnesses. The work's transmission reflects the development of apostolic traditions in late antique and early medieval Christianity, with influence on hagiographic and liturgical texts.","significance":"The Appendices ad indices apostolorum discipulorumque is significant for its role in shaping apostolic geography and legitimizing episcopal sees in Byzantine and medieval Western Christianity. It influenced later hagiographic traditions and martyrologies, though its historical reliability is low. 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Τίτος ἐπίσκοπος Κρήτης αὐτοῖς τοῖς Κρησὶ καὶ ταῖς πέριξ νήσοις ἐκήρυξε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ κυρίου κἀκεῖ θανὼν ἐτάφη. Κρήσκης ἐν Γαλλίαις ἐκήρυξε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ κυρίου κἀκεῖ θάπτεται. Ὁ εὐνοῦχος Κανδάκης τῆς βασιλίσσης Αἰθιόπων ἐν Ἀραβίᾳ τῇ εὐδαίμονι καὶ ἐν Ταπροβάνῃ νήσῳ καὶ ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ ἐρυθρᾷ ἐκήρυξε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, λόγος δὲ ἔχει καὶ μεμαρτυρηκέναι αὐτὸν ἐνδόξως καὶ ταφῆναι ἐκεῖ· καί ἐστιν αὐτοῦ τὸ κοιμητήριον ὅπλον ἀκαταμάχητον τοῖς πιστοῖς ἀλιτηρίων βαρβάρων, φυγαδευτήριον νόσους ἀπελαῦνον καὶ ἰάματα ἐνεργοῦν ἕως καὶ σήμερον. Ἐκ τῶν ἀποστόλων τοῦ σωτῆρος τῶν οʹ γεγόνασιν, ὡς ἱστορεῖ Κλήμης ἐν πέμπτῃ τῶν ὑποτυπόσεων, Βαρνάβας, Σωσθένης, Κηφᾶς ὁμώνυμος Πέτρῳ, Ματθίας ὁ συγκαταριθμηθεὶς τοῖς ἕνδεκα, Εὔβουλος, Πούδης, Κρίσκης, ἐν τῇ βʹ, Βαρσαβᾶς καὶ Λίνος, οὗ μέμνηται Παῦλος Τιμοθέῳ γράφων, Θαδδαῖος, Κλεόπας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ. Ταῦτα εἰσὶ τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν προχειρισθέντων διακόνων. αʹ. Στέφανος ὁ πρωτομάρτυς. βʹ. Φίλιππος. γʹ. Πρόχωρος. δʹ. Νικάνωρ. εʹ. Τίμων. ʹ. Παρμενᾶς. ζʹ. καὶ Νικόλαος. Τῶν δὲ οʹ οἱ πρόκριτοί εἰσιν οὗτοι; Παῦλος, Μάρκος, Λουκᾶς, Τίτος, Κανδάκης ὁ εὐνοῦχος, Ἰωάννης βαπτιστής.","english":"126 Timothy, the bishop of Ephesus appointed by the blessed Paul, was from the Gentiles, not from the circumcision, to whom Paul also bears much witness, exhorting him to guard the good confession of the grace given to him, who also there gloriously suffered martyrdom. Titus, bishop of Crete, proclaimed the gospel of the Lord to the Cretans themselves and the surrounding islands, and there he died and was buried. Crescens in Gaul proclaimed the gospel of the Lord and is buried there. The eunuch of Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, in Arabia Felix and in the island of Taprobane and throughout the Red Sea region proclaimed the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and there is a report that he also gloriously suffered martyrdom and was buried there; and his resting place is an invincible weapon for the faithful against harmful barbarians, a refuge that drives away diseases and works cures even to this day. From the apostles of the Savior, the seventy, as Clement relates in the fifth book of the Hypotyposes, became Barnabas, Sosthenes, Cephas of the same name as Peter, Matthias who was numbered among the eleven, Eubulus, Pudens, Crescens, in the second, Barsabbas and Linus, whom Paul mentions writing to Timothy, Thaddaeus, Cleopas and those with him. These are the names of those appointed deacons. First, Stephen the protomartyr. Second, Philip. Third, Prochorus. Fourth, Nicanor. Fifth, Timon. Sixth, Parmenas. Seventh, and Nicolaus. And of the seventy, these are the foremost: Paul, Mark, Luke, Titus, Candace's eunuch, John the Baptist.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"Τιμόθεος","severity":"info","text":"Timothy is described as bishop of Ephesus appointed by Paul, from Gentiles, not from circumcision, and as a martyr.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Κανδάκης ὁ εὐνοῦχος","severity":"info","text":"The eunuch of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, is identified with the Ethiopian official baptized by Philip in Acts 8:26–39, here active in Arabia Felix, Taprobane (Sri Lanka), and the Red Sea region.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"κοιμητήριον","severity":"info","text":"The eunuch’s tomb is described as an invincible weapon against barbarians and a site of miraculous healings, reflecting a later hagiographic tradition of relic veneration.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ","severity":"info","text":"The list of the seventy apostles includes Cleopas and those with him, likely alluding to Luke 24:18 where Cleopas is one of the disciples who met the risen Christ.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Ταῦτα εἰσὶ τὰ ὀνόματα","severity":"info","text":"The passage shifts from individual apostolic notices to a catalog of the seven deacons (including Stephen and Nicolaus) and then to the seventy apostles, ending with a list that anomalously includes John the Baptist.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Ἰωάννης βαπτιστής","severity":"caution","text":"Including John the Baptist among the seventy apostles is historically and theologically anomalous; the text may be corrupt or reflect a later scribal addition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'ἐν τῇ βʹ' is ambiguous: it may refer to a second book of Clement's Hypotyposes or to a second list; the reading taken is that it introduces a second group of names.","The inclusion of John the Baptist among the seventy apostles is likely a textual corruption or interpolation."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"Δεῖ γινώσκειν τὸ πῶς συνεγράφησαν τὰ δʹ εὐαγγέλια. Ὅτι μετὰ τὴν ἀνάληψιν τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τὸ κατὰ Ματθαῖον μετὰ ἔτη ηʹ, τὸ κατὰ Μάρκον μετὰ ἔτη ιβʹ, τὸ κατὰ Ἰωάννην μετὰ ἔτη λʹ ἐπὶ Δομετιανοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως, τὸ κατὰ Λουκᾶν μετὰ ἔτη ιεʹ. Τὸ κατὰ Ματθαῖον εὐαγγέλιον ἑβραΐδι διαλέκτῳ γραφὲν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐξεδώθη, ἑρμηνεύθη δὲ ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου. Τὸ κατὰ Μάρκον ὑπηγορεύθη ὑπὸ Πέτρου ἐν Ῥώμῃ. Τὸ κατὰ Λουκᾶν ὑπηγορεύθη ὑπὸ Παύλου ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ. Τὸ κατὰ Ἰωάννην ἐν τοῖς χρόνοις Τραιανοῦ ὑπηγορεύθη ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ Κομόδου, ἐν Πάτμῳ τῇ νήσῳ ἐγράφη. Τοῦ δὲ κατὰ Λουκᾶν ὑπὸ Λουκᾶ μαθητοῦ ὑπάρχοντος τοῦ ἀποστόλου Παύλου, οὗ μνημονεύων ὁ αὐτὸς ἀπόστολος ἔν τινι ἐπιστολῇ γράφει· ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς Λουκᾶς ὁ ἀγαπητὸς ἰατρός, καὶ τὰς πράξεις δὲ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων ὁ αὐτὸς εὐαγγελιστὴς συνεγράψατο. Οὔτε πλείονα τῶν ἀριθμῶν, οὔτε ἐλάττονα ἐνδέχεται αὐτὰ γενέσθαι. Τὸ μὲν γὰρ κατὰ Ἰωάννην εὐαγγέλιον τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς ἡγεμωνικὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ πρακτικὴν καὶ ἔνδοξον γενεὰν διηγεῖται· ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεὸν καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος, πάντα δι' αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο· διὰ τοῦτο εἰς ὁμοίωμα ἀετοῦ. Τὸ δὲ κατὰ Λουκᾶν ἅτε ἀπὸ ἱερατικοῦ χαρακτῆρος ὑπάρχων ἀπὸ Ζαχαρίου ἤρξατο τοῦ ἱερέως λέγων· ἐγένετο ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις Ἡρώδου, τοῦ βασιλέως τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ἱερεύς τις ὀνόματι Ζαχαρίας ἐξ ἐφημερίας Ἀβία, ἐπειδὴ κατὰ τὴν παλαιὰν τοῦ νόμου παράδοσιν οἱ ἱερεῖς ταύρους ἐκόμιζον· διὰ τοῦτο καὶ τὸ εἶδος αὐτοῦ ὡς μοσχόμορφον ἀνιστορίζεται.","english":"It is necessary to know how the four Gospels were composed. That after the ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Gospel according to Matthew was after eight years, the Gospel according to Mark after twelve years, the Gospel according to John after thirty years in the time of the emperor Domitian, the Gospel according to Luke after fifteen years. The Gospel according to Matthew, written in the Hebrew dialect by him in Jerusalem, was published, and it was interpreted by John. The Gospel according to Mark was dictated by Peter in Rome. The Gospel according to Luke was dictated by Paul in Rome. The Gospel according to John, in the times of Trajan, was dictated by John himself in the time of Commodus, and was written on the island of Patmos. And of the Gospel according to Luke, by Luke, who was a disciple of the apostle Paul, whom the same apostle mentions in a certain letter, writing: \"Luke, the beloved physician, greets you.\" And the Acts of the holy apostles were also composed by the same evangelist. It is not possible for these to be either more or fewer in number. For the Gospel according to John narrates his governing, effective, and glorious generation from the Father: \"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; everything came into being through him.\" Therefore it is in the likeness of an eagle. And the Gospel according to Luke, since he was of a priestly character, began from Zacharias the priest, saying: \"It happened in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, that there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah,\" because according to the ancient tradition of the law, the priests brought bulls; therefore his form is also depicted as calf-shaped.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"text","lemma":"μετὰ ἔτη ηʹ ... ιβʹ ... λʹ ... ιεʹ","severity":"info","text":"The passage assigns years after the ascension for the composition of each Gospel: Matthew 8, Mark 12, John 30 (under Domitian), Luke 15. These figures are traditional and not historically reliable.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"ἑβραΐδι διαλέκτῳ","severity":"info","text":"The claim that Matthew wrote in Hebrew (or Aramaic) is a patristic commonplace, found in Papias and Irenaeus, but the canonical Gospel of Matthew is in Greek.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος","severity":"info","text":"Quotes John 1:1-3 loosely: 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; everything came into being through him.' The final clause is a paraphrase.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"ἐγένετο ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις Ἡρώδου","severity":"info","text":"Alludes to Luke 1:5, which introduces Zacharias in the days of Herod. The passage adds the detail 'of the course of Abijah' (cf. 1 Chronicles 24:10).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"εἰς ὁμοίωμα ἀετοῦ ... μοσχόμορφον","severity":"info","text":"The evangelist symbols (eagle for John, calf for Luke) reflect a tradition known from Irenaeus and later standard in Western iconography. Luke's calf derives from his priestly beginning with Zacharias and the bull sacrifice.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"ἐπὶ Κομόδου","severity":"caution","text":"The text says John's Gospel was dictated under Trajan but written on Patmos in the time of Commodus (180-192 CE). This is chronologically confused; John's exile is traditionally under Domitian (81-96 CE).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'ἑρμηνεύθη δὲ ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου' is ambiguous: it may refer to John the Evangelist or John the Presbyter, a figure known from Papias.","The chronology of John's Gospel (Trajan vs. Commodus) is contradictory and likely a scribal error or conflation."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"scripture","severity":"info","ref":"John 1:1","text":"The English carries the scriptural phrase “in the beginning was the word”, which matches John 1:1. The match is on the English draft; check the Coptic before quoting the verse."}]},{"i":3,"ref":"p3","source":"Ματθαῖος δὲ τὴν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον αὐτοῦ γένεσιν ἐξηγεῖται, βίβλος γενέσεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ υἱοῦ Ἀβραάμ, καὶ πάλιν τοῦ δὲ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ γέννησις οὕτως ἦν, ὅθεν καὶ ἀνθρωπόμορφον αὐτοῦ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ἐξεικονίζεται. Μάρκος δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ προφητικοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ ἐξ ὕψους ἐπιόντος ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐποιήσατο, ἀρχὴν λέγων τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, καθὼς γέγραπται ἐν τοῖς προφήταις· φωνὴ βοῶντος ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, τὴν προφητικὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, διὰ τοῦτο δεικνὺς\n\nκαὶ τὴν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τοῦ λέοντος ἀνιστορίζων εἰκόνα· ἁγία τριὰς ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν σῶσον ἡμᾶς τῇ χάριτί σου. Μάρκος ὁ εὐαγγελιστής, ἐπίσκοπος Ἀλεξανδρέων. Λουκᾶς ὁ εὐαγγελιστής, οὗτοι οἱ δ' ἐκ τῶν οʹ τυγχάνουσιν διασκορπισθέντες ἐπὶ τῷ κηρύγματι ᾧ εἶπεν ὁ κύριος· ἐὰν μή τις οὐ φάγῃ μου τὴν σάρκα καὶ πίῃ μου τὸ αἷμα, οὐκ ἔστι μου ἄξιος. Ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν διὰ Πέτρου, ὁ δὲ διὰ Παύλου πάλιν ἐπανακάμψαντες πρὸς κύριον εὐαγγελίσασθαι καταξιοῦνται ὑπὲρ οὗ καὶ ἐμαρτύρησαν, ὁ μὲν πυρποληθείς, ὁ δὲ σταυρωθεὶς ἐπὶ ἐλαίας.","english":"Matthew explains his human genealogy, the book of the generation of Jesus Christ son of Abraham, and again the birth of Jesus Christ was thus, whence his Gospel is depicted as anthropomorphic. Mark, however, began from the prophetic spirit coming from above in the heavens, saying the beginning of the Gospel, as it is written in the prophets: a voice crying in the wilderness, showing the prophetic image of the Gospel, for this reason also depicting the image of the lion in the wilderness. Holy Trinity, our God, save us by your grace. Mark the evangelist, bishop of the Alexandrians. Luke the evangelist, these four are from the seventy, having been scattered for the proclamation which the Lord said: unless someone eats my flesh and drinks my blood, he is not worthy of me. But some through Peter, some through Paul, having returned again to the Lord, are deemed worthy to proclaim the Gospel, for which they also bore witness, one burned, the other crucified on an olive tree.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"Ματθαῖος δὲ τὴν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον αὐτοῦ γένεσιν ἐξηγεῖται","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'τὴν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον γένεσιν' (the human genealogy) refers to Matthew's Gospel opening with a human lineage, contrasting with Mark's prophetic beginning.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"glossary","lemma":"ἀνθρωπόμορφον","severity":"info","text":"The term 'ἀνθρωπόμορφον' (anthropomorphic) describes Matthew's Gospel as having a human form, aligning with the traditional symbol of the man for Matthew.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"φωνὴ βοῶντος ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ","severity":"info","text":"This phrase echoes Isaiah 40:3 (LXX) and is used in Mark 1:3, linking Mark's Gospel to the prophetic voice and the lion symbol.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"external","lemma":"Μάρκος ὁ εὐαγγελιστής, ἐπίσκοπος Ἀλεξανδρέων","severity":"info","text":"The tradition that Mark was bishop of Alexandria is attested in Eusebius (Hist. eccl. 2.16) and later hagiography, though not universally accepted.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"ἁγία τριὰς ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν σῶσον ἡμᾶς τῇ χάριτί σου","severity":"info","text":"This doxological insertion ('Holy Trinity, our God, save us by your grace') is a liturgical formula, likely a scribal or later addition to the text.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"οὗτοι οἱ δ' ἐκ τῶν οʹ τυγχάνουσιν διασκορπισθέντες","severity":"caution","text":"The claim that the four evangelists were among the Seventy disciples is not found in canonical tradition; it may reflect later legendary expansion.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'οἱ δ' ἐκ τῶν οʹ' could mean 'the four from the seventy' or 'these four from the seventy'; the reading taken is that the evangelists are counted among the Seventy disciples.","The doxology 'ἁγία τριὰς ...' may be a later interpolation, as it interrupts the narrative flow."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]}]}