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the commandment of God, he might receive immortality from Him as a reward and become a god; but if, on the other hand, he should turn to the things of death by disobeying God, he would himself be the cause of his own death. For God made man free and with free will. Therefore, what man acquired for himself through carelessness and disobedience, this God now bestows upon him through His own benevolence and mercy, when man is obedient to Him. For just as man by disobeying brought death upon himself, so by obeying the will of God, he who is willing can acquire for himself eternal life. For God gave us a law and holy commandments, which everyone who does them can be saved and, obtaining the resurrection, can inherit incorruption. And when Adam was cast out of paradise, thus he knew Eve his wife, whom God had made for him as a wife from his side. And this was not as if He were unable to fashion his wife separately, but God knew beforehand that men would name a multitude of gods. Therefore, being prescient and knowing that error was about to name through the serpent a multitude of gods who do not exist (for since there is one God, from that time error was already planning to sow a multitude of gods and to say: "You will be as gods"), lest, then, it might be supposed that this god made the man, but another the woman, for this reason He made them both; but also <He formed the man alone from the earth so that> through this might be shown the mystery of the monarchy according to God, and at the same time God made his wife <from his side> so that there might be greater affection towards her. So Adam, saying to Eve: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh," further prophesied, saying: "For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh"; which is shown to be fulfilled also in us. For who that marries lawfully does not disregard mother and father and all kindred and all his household, cleaving to and being united with his own wife, favoring her more? For which reason also some often become responsible even unto death for their own wives. This Eve, because she was deceived from the beginning by the serpent and became the originator of sin, the evil demon, who is also called Satan, who then spoke to her through the serpent, working even until now in the men possessed by him, calls out to Eve. And he is called a demon and a dragon because he has run away from God; for he was at first an angel. And concerning this there is much to say; wherefore for the present I pass over the narrative concerning them; for we have spoken of him in other places. So when Adam knew his wife Eve, she conceived and bore a son, whose name was Cain. And she said: "I have gotten a man through God." And she added

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ἐντολὴν τοῦ θεοῦ, μισθὸν κομίσηται παρ' αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀθανασίαν καὶ γένηται θεός, εἰ δ' αὖ τραπῇ ἐπὶ τὰ τοῦ θανάτου πράγματα παρ- ακούσας τοῦ θεοῦ, αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ αἴτιος ᾖ τοῦ θανάτου. ἐλεύθερον γὰρ καὶ αὐτεξούσιον ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον. ὃ οὖν ἑαυτῷ περιεποιήσατο δι' ἀμελείας καὶ παρακοῆς, τοῦτο ὁ θεὸς αὐτῷ νυνὶ δωρεῖται διὰ ἰδίας φιλανθρωπίας καὶ ἐλεημοσύνης, ὑπακούοντος αὐτῷ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. καθάπερ γὰρ παρακούσας ὁ ἄνθρωπος θάνατον ἑαυτῷ ἐπεσπάσατο, οὕτως ὑπακούσας τῷ θελήματι τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ βουλόμενος δύναται περιποιήσασθαι ἑαυτῷ τὴν αἰώνιον ζωήν. ἔδωκεν γὰρ ὁ θεὸς ἡμῖν νόμον καὶ ἐντολὰς ἁγίας, ἃς πᾶς ὁ ποιήσας δύναται σωθῆναι καὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως τυχὼν κληρονομῆσαι τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν. Ἐκβληθεὶς δὲ Ἀδὰμ ἐκ τοῦ παραδείσου, οὕτως ἔγνω Eὔαν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, ἣν ὁ θεὸς ἐποίησεν αὐτῷ εἰς γυναῖκα ἐκ τῆς πλευρᾶς αὐτοῦ. καὶ τοῦτο δὲ οὐχ ὡς μὴ δυνάμενος κατ' ἰδίαν πλάσαι τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ προηπίστατο ὁ θεὸς ὅτι ἤμελλον οἱ ἄνθρωποι πληθὺν θεῶν ὀνομάζειν. προγνώστης οὖν ὢν καὶ εἰδὼς ὅτι ἡ πλάνη ἤμελλεν διὰ τοῦ ὄφεως ὀνομάζειν πληθὺν θεῶν τῶν οὐκ ὄντων (ἑνὸς γὰρ ὄντος θεοῦ, ἔκτοτε ἤδη ἐμελέτα ἡ πλάνη πληθὺν θεῶν ὑπο- σπείρειν καὶ λέγειν· "Ἔσεσθε ὡς θεοί"), μήπως οὖν ὑπολημφθῇ ὡς ὅτι ὅδε μὲν ὁ θεὸς ἐποίησεν τὸν ἄνδρα, ἕτερος δὲ τὴν γυναῖκα, διὰ τοῦτο ἐποίησεν τοὺς δύο ἄμφω· οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ <ἔπλασεν τὸν ἄνδρα μόνον ἐκ γῆς ἵνα> διὰ τούτου δειχθῇ τὸ μυστήριον τῆς μοναρχίας τῆς κατὰ τὸν θεόν, ἅμα δ' ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ <ἐκ τῆς πλευρᾶς αὐτοῦ> ἵνα πλείων ᾖ ἡ εὔνοια εἰς αὐτήν. Πρὸς μὲν οὖν τὴν Eὔαν ὁ Ἀδὰμ εἰπών· "Τοῦτο νῦν ὀστοῦν ἐκ τῶν ὀστῶν μου καὶ σὰρξ ἐκ τῆς σαρκός μου", ἔτι καὶ ἐπροφήτευσεν λέγων· "Τούτου ἕνεκεν καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα καὶ προσκολληθήσεται πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσονται οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν"· ὃ δὴ καὶ αὐτὸ δείκνυται τελειού- μενον ἐν ἡμῖν αὐτοῖς. τίς γὰρ ὁ νομίμως γαμῶν οὐ καταφρονεῖ μητρὸς καὶ πατρὸς καὶ πάσης συγγενείας καὶ πάντων τῶν οἰκείων, προσκολλώμενος καὶ ἑνούμενος τῇ ἑαυτοῦ γυναικί, εὐνοῶν μᾶλλον αὐτῇ; διὸ καὶ μέχρι θανάτου πολλάκις ὑπεύθυνοι γίνονταί τινες διὰ τὰς ἑαυτῶν γαμετάς. Ταύτην τὴν Eὔαν, διὰ τὸ ἀρχῆθεν πλανηθῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ ὄφεως καὶ ἀρχηγὸν ἁμαρτίας γεγονέναι, ὁ κακοποιὸς δαίμων, ὁ καὶ σατὰν καλούμενος, ὁ τότε διὰ τοῦ ὄφεως λαλήσας αὐτῇ, ἕως καὶ τοῦ δεῦρο ἐνεργῶν ἐν τοῖς ἐνθουσιαζομένοις ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἀνθρώποις, Eὐὰν ἐκκαλεῖται. δαίμων δὲ καὶ δράκων καλεῖται διὰ τὸ ἀποδεδρακέναι αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ· ἄγγελος γὰρ ἦν ἐν πρώτοις. καὶ τὰ μὲν περὶ τούτου πολὺς ὁ λόγος· διὸ τανῦν παραπέμπομαι τὴν περὶ αὐτῶν διήγησιν· καὶ γὰρ ἐν ἑτέροις ἡμῖν γεγένηται ὁ περὶ αὐτοῦ λόγος. Ἐν τῷ οὖν γνῶναι τὸν Ἀδὰμ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ Eὔαν συλλαβοῦσα ἔτεκεν υἱόν, ᾧ τοὔνομα Κάϊν. καὶ εἶπεν· "Ἐκτησάμην ἄνθρωπον διὰ τοῦ θεοῦ." καὶ προσέθετο