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having gifted man with his image. And it is possible to understand from similar things; 57.3 for we see that the savior took into his hands, as it is in the gospel, when he reclined at supper and took these things and having given thanks said, "This is my these things," and gave to his disciples 57.4 and said, "This is my these things." And we see that it is not equal nor similar either to the incarnate image or to the invisible divinity or to the features of the limbs. For the one is roundish * and without 57.5 sensation. * but with respect to power and he willed by grace to say, "This is my these things," and no one disbelieves the word. For he who does not believe it to be true in what he said, falls from grace and from 57.6 salvation. But when we hear, we also believe; we believe that it is his *, but we know that our Lord is wholly sensation, wholly sentient, wholly God, wholly moving, wholly active, wholly light, wholly Word, incomprehensible, but has gifted this to us with grace. 58.1 This Adam, therefore, was placed in paradise and ate from the tree. But paradise, it says, "is in Eden toward the east"; "but a spring went up from Eden," and it did not say "came down," so that we might not think that Eden is in heaven. For if it were in heaven, it would have said that a spring "comes down" from above. But it also says "a river goes out from 58.2 Eden"; and it did not say comes down. This "is divided into four heads. The name of the one is Pishon," and we see the Pishon before our eyes. And Pishon is the one called Ganges by the Indians and Ethiopians, but the Greeks call this the Indus river. "For it flows around all of Havilah," both lesser and greater Ethiopia, the parts of the Havilahites, and it crosses greater Ethiopia and falls into the south and sets within Gades into the great Ocean. 58.3 The second river is "Gihon." And we see the river as sensible and not allegorized; for this is the one coming down through Ethiopia and crossing lesser Ethiopia, Anoubitis and Blemmyan and Axomitis and flooding the parts of the Thebaid and Egypt flows out into this sea. But if anyone disbelieves, let him hear Jeremiah saying, "What have you to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the troubled water of 58.4 Gihon"? "The third" it says "river is Tigris, which flows before the Assyrians"; for it cuts through the parts of the East and goes under the earth and rises up from Armenia in the middle of the Cardyaeans and Armenians and gushes forth again and is divided into the land of the 58.5 Assyrians. But also the fourth river, the Euphrates, likewise in the same way going under the earth comes up from 58.6 Armenia and thus floods Persia. If, therefore, there is no sensible paradise, there is no spring; if there is no spring, there is no river; if there is no river, there are no four heads; if there is no Pishon, there is no 58.7 Gihon, there is no Tigris; if there is no Tigris, there is no Euphrates; if there is no Euphrates, there is no fig tree, there are no leaves, there is no Adam, there is no eating, there is no Eve; if there is no Eve, he did not eat from the 58.8 tree; if he did not eat from the tree, there is no Adam; if there is no Adam, there are no men, but truth is henceforth a myth and all things are allegorized. There is, therefore, Adam; for we are from him, all being his offspring in succession, and we see him through the multitude in the succession. 59.1 For Adam begets Seth according to his own idea and according to his own image. For lest anyone should think the one formed is other than those begotten, for this reason the scripture says "according to his own idea and according to his own image." And Seth begets Enosh, Enosh Cainan, Cainan Mahalalel, Mahalalel Jared and Jared

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κατ' εἰκόνα τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ δωρησάμενος. καὶ νοῆσαί ἐστιν ἀπὸ τῶν ὁμοίων· 57.3 ὁρῶμεν γὰρ ὅτι ἔλαβεν ὁ σωτὴρ εἰς τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἔχει ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ, ὅτε ἀνέκειτο ἐν τῷ δείπνῳ καὶ ἔλαβε τάδε καὶ εὐχαριστήσας εἶπε «τοῦτό μού ἐστι τάδε» καὶ ἔδωκε τοῖς αὐτοῦ μαθηταῖς 57.4 καὶ εἶπε «τοῦτό μού ἐστι τάδε.» καὶ ὁρῶμεν ὅτι οὐκ ἴσον ἐστὶν οὐδὲ ὅμοιον οὐ τῇ ἐνσάρκῳ εἰκόνι οὐ τῇ ἀοράτῳ θεότητι οὐ τοῖς χαρακτῆρσι τῶν μελῶν. τὸ μὲν γάρ ἐστι στρογγυλοειδὲς * καὶ ἀν57.5 αίσθητον. * ὡς πρὸς τὴν δύναμιν καὶ ἠθέλησεν χάριτι εἰπεῖν «τοῦτό μού ἐστι τάδε» καὶ οὐδεὶς ἀπιστεῖ τῷ λόγῳ. ὁ γὰρ μὴ πιστεύων εἶναι αὐτὸν ἀληθινὸν ἐν ᾧ εἶπεν, ἐκπίπτει τῆς χάριτος καὶ τῆς σωτη57.6 ρίας. ὅταν δὲ ἀκούσωμεν, καὶ πιστεύσωμεν· πιστεύομεν ὅτι ἔστιν αὐτοῦ *, τὸν δὲ κύριον ἡμῶν οἴδαμεν ὅλον αἴσθησιν ὅλον αἰσθητικὸν ὅλον θεὸν ὅλον κινοῦντα ὅλον ἐνεργοῦντα ὅλον φῶς ὅλον Λόγον, ἀκατάληπτον, ἀλλὰ μετὰ χάριτος ἡμῖν τοῦτο δεδωρημένον. 58.1 Οὗτος τοίνυν ὁ Ἀδὰμ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ ἐτέθη καὶ ἔφαγεν ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου. ὁ δὲ παράδεισος, φησίν «ἐν Ἐδὲμ κατὰ ἀνατολάς»· «πηγὴ δὲ ἀνέβαινεν ἐξ Ἐδέμ», καὶ οὐκ εἶπε «κατέβαινεν», ἵνα μὴ νομίσωμεν ἐν οὐρανῷ εἶναι τὴν Ἐδέμ. εἰ γὰρ ἐν οὐρανῷ ἦν, ἄνωθεν ἂν εἶπε «κατέρχεται» πηγή. ἀλλὰ καί φησι «ποταμὸς ἐκπορεύεται ἐξ 58.2 Ἐδέμ»· καὶ οὐκ εἶπε κατέρχεται. οὗτος «ἀφορίζεται εἰς τέσσαρας ἀρχάς. ὄνομα τῷ ἑνὶ Φεισών», καὶ ὁρῶμεν τὸν Φεισὼν ἐπ' ὄψεσιν ἡμῶν. καὶ Φεισὼν μέν ἐστιν ὁ Γάγγης παρὰ τοῖς Ἰνδοῖς καλούμενος καὶ Αἰθίοψιν, Ἕλληνες δὲ τοῦτον καλοῦσιν Ἰνδὸν ποταμόν. «πᾶσαν γὰρ τὴν Εὐιλὰτ περικυκλοῖ», τὴν μικρὰν Αἰθιοπίαν καὶ τὴν μεγάλην, τὰ μέρη τῶν Εὐιλαίων, διαπερᾷ δὲ τὴν μεγάλην Αἰθιοπίαν καὶ πίπτει εἰς τὸν νότον καὶ δύνει ἔσωθεν Γαδείρων εἰς τὸν μέγαν Ὠκεανόν. 58.3 δεύτερος ποταμὸς «Γεών». καὶ αἰσθητὸν ὁρῶμεν τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ οὐκ ἀλληγορούμενον· οὗτος γὰρ ὁ κατὰ τὴν Αἰθιοπίαν κατερχόμενος καὶ διαπερῶν τὴν μικρὰν Αἰθιοπίαν, Ἀνουβῖτίν τε καὶ Βλεμμύαν καὶ Ἀξωμῖτιν καὶ ἐπικλύζων τὰ μέρη Θηβαΐδος καὶ Αἰγύπτου εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν ταύτην ἐκπίπτει. εἰ δέ τις ἀπιστεῖ, ἀκουέτω τοῦ Ἰερεμίου λέγοντος «ἵνα τί ὑμῖν καὶ τῇ γῇ Αἰγύπτου τοῦ πιεῖν ὕδωρ Γεὼν τὸ τεθο58.4 λωμένον»; «τρίτος» φησί «ποταμὸς Τίγρης, ὁ πορευόμενος κατέναντι τῶν Ἀσσυρίων»· διατέμνει γὰρ τὰ μέρη τῆς Ἀνατολῆς καὶ δύνει ὑπὸ τὴν γῆν καὶ ἀνίσχει ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀρμενίας κατὰ μέσον Καρδυαίων καὶ Ἀρμενίων καὶ ἀναπηγάζει πάλιν καὶ διατέμνεται εἰς τὴν τῶν Ἀσσυ58.5 ρίων γῆν. ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ ποταμὸς ὁ τέταρτος Εὐφράτης, ὡσαύτως ὁμοίως τῷ αὐτῷ τρόπῳ δύνων ὑπὸ τὴν γῆν ἀνέρχεται ἀπὸ τῆς 58.6 Ἀρμενίας καὶ οὕτως ἐπικλύζει τὴν Περσίδα. εἰ τοίνυν οὐκ ἔνι παράδεισος αἰσθητός, οὐκ ἔνι πηγή· εἰ οὐκ ἔνι πηγή, οὐκ ἔνι ποταμός· εἰ οὐκ ἔνι ποταμός, οὐκ εἰσὶ τέσσαρες ἀρχαί· εἰ οὐκ ἔνι Φεισών, οὐκ 58.7 ἔνι Γεών, οὐκ ἔνι Τίγρης· εἰ οὐκ ἔνι Τίγρης, οὐκ ἔνι Εὐφράτης· εἰ οὐκ ἔνι Εὐφράτης, οὐκ ἔνι συκῆ, οὐκ ἔνι φύλλα, οὐκ ἔνι Ἀδάμ, οὐκ ἔνι τὸ φαγεῖν, οὐκ ἔνι Εὔα· εἰ οὐκ ἔνι Εὔα, οὐκ ἔφαγεν ἀπὸ τοῦ 58.8 ξύλου· εἰ οὐκ ἔφαγεν ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου, οὐκ ἔνι Ἀδάμ· εἰ οὐκ ἔνι Ἀδάμ, οὐκ εἰσὶν ἄνθρωποι, ἀλλὰ μῦθος λοιπὸν ἡ ἀλήθεια καὶ ἀλληγορεῖται τὰ πάντα. ἔστι τοίνυν Ἀδάμ· ἔσμεν γὰρ ἐξ αὐτοῦ, τὸ γένος αὐτοῦ ὄντες πάντες κατὰ διαδοχήν, καὶ ὁρῶμεν αὐτὸν διὰ τοῦ πλήθους ἐν τῇ διαδοχῇ. 59.1 Ἀδὰμ γὰρ γεννᾷ κατὰ τὴν ἰδέαν αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ τὴν εἰκόνα αὐτοῦ τὸν Σήθ. ἵνα γὰρ μή τις νομίσῃ τὸν πεπλασμένον ἄλλον καὶ τοὺς γεγεννημένους ἄλλους, διὰ τοῦτό φησιν ἡ γραφή «κατὰ τὴν ἰδέαν αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ τὴν εἰκόνα αὐτοῦ». Σὴθ δὲ γεννᾷ τὸν Ἐνώς, Ἐνὼς τὸν Καϊνάν, Καϊνὰν τὸν Μαλελεήλ, Μαλελεὴλ τὸν Ἰάρετ καὶ Ἰάρετ τὸν