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and on earth. Go into all the world and preach the gospel of the kingdom; he who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who disbelieves will be condemned ".

But taking up the discourse again, we will recount in summary what was said above, so that they may now become more easily comprehended by all.

3. Recapitulation of the things said in the first discourse concerning Adam and Eve and the seven days and ages and the natural contemplation of paradise. (127)

Therefore God made the heaven and the earth and all that is in them, so that we may again examine the hidden meanings of divine Scripture, and then He thus formed man according to His image and likeness, that is, Adam alone. In six days He made all these things and on the seventh He rested, working nothing on it nor indeed naming the first day an eighth, so that not eight but only seven may be called the days of the week and thus cycling, they make up the (128) number of the weeks. For in these days the Creator is seen to have prefigured the seven ages. Therefore, having made these things so, the Master of all, since, being God, He foreknew that man would transgress His commandment and remain unrepentant, and it is altogether necessary for the one who does not repent both to be punished and to be condemned, He did not leave him in this world which was created in the six days along with that same Adam; but after He rested on the seventh day and it was fulfilled, then later He planted paradise in the east.

In what manner and why? So that he might be brought by God into it from this world, as into a certain palace and most illustrious city, just like a king, but when he transgressed the commandment of God and was for this reason about to fall from the kingdom and be exiled and cast out from the royal houses, he might be condemned to live again in this world in hope. For if God had not done these things so, but had only left the world and placed man in it, transgressing and not confessing nor repenting, where would He have cast him out? And where would he have had to live and die and return again to the earth from which he was taken, after the condemnation? Nowhere, certainly, but it would have been necessary for him to be condemned to live in Hades, having thereafter no recall to salvation; and then neither genesis nor the world's increase to a multitude, and man, such and so great a work of God's wisdom, would have perished.

But since before the ages God knew that he was going to transgress and He predestined his re-creation from regeneration, for this reason also the pledges of re-creation, after He had created all things and rested and mystically presignified the times and the ages in the seven days, (129) He later took, as it were, a leaven and a seed and a portion from each one of His works, so that, taking the portions from the works created in the seven days, not in them but on the eighth, He might prefigure the age to come through the creation in it, not numbering this with the seven nor making it manifest, but He allowed it to lie completely unknown to those before the law, and having been revealed somehow dimly to the prophets in the law He caused it to be proclaimed, but manifested to us the faithful and dawning as in the morning, just as we also expect the unsetting sun of righteousness to rise at any moment. And I said that He took portions: from all the earth, as one place in which He planted paradise, and from the whole body of Adam, one rib, that is, one member, and from the days, nothing. In what way? Because the portions

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καί ἐπί γῆς. Πορευθέντες εἰς τόν κόσμον ἅπαντα κηρύξατε τό εὐαγγέλιον τῆς βασιλείας· ὁ πιστεύσας καί βαπτισθείς σωθήσεται, ὁ δέ ἀπιστήσας κατακριθήσεται ".

Ἀλλ᾿ ἀναλαβόντες τόν λόγον ὡς ἐν ἐπιτόμῳ τά ἀνωτέρω ῥηθέντα αὖθις διηγησόμεθα, ὡς ἄν εὐσύνοπτα μᾶλλον ἄρτι τοῖς πᾶσι γένωνται.

γ΄. Ἀνακεφαλαίωσις τῶν ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ λόγῳ ῥηθέντων περί ταῆς τοῦ Ἀδάμ καί

τῆς Εὔας καί τῶν ἑπτά ἡμερῶν καί αἰώνων καί τῆς τοῦ παραδείσου φυσικῆς θεωρίας. (127)

Τοιγαροῦν ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεός τόν οὐρανόν καί τήν γῆν καί πάντα τά ἐν αὐτοῖς, ἵνα

πάλιν ἐξετάσωμεν τά ἐγκεκρυμμένα νοήματα τῆς θείας Γραφῆς, καί εἶθ᾿ οὕτως ἔπλασε τόν κατ᾿ εἰκόνα αὐτοῦ καί καθ᾿ ὁμοίωσιν ἄνθρωπον, αὐτόν δηλαδή μόνον τόν Ἀδάμ. Ἐν ἕξ ἡμέραις ἐποίησε ταῦτα πάντα καί ἐν τῇ ἑβδόμῃ κατέπαυσε, μηδέν ἐν αὐτῇ ἐργασάμενος μήτε μήν ὀγδόην ὀνομάσας ἡμέραν τήν πρώτην, ὡς ἄν μή ὀκτώ ἀλλ᾿ ἑπτά μόναι λέγωνται αἱ τῆς ἑβδομάδος ἡμέραι καί οὕτως ἀνακυκλούμεναι τόν (128) ἀριθμόν τῶν ἑβδομάδων ἀποτελῶσιν. Ἐν γάρ ταύταις ταῖς ἡμέραις τούς ἑπτά αἰῶνας ὁ ∆ημιουργός προϋποτυπώσας ὁρᾶται. Τοιγαροῦν καί ταῦτα οὕτω ποιήσας ὁ τῶν ὅλων ∆εσπότης, ἐπεί, ὡς ἅτε Θεός ὤν, προῄδει ὅτι μέλλει ὁ ἄνθρωπος παραβῆναι τήν αὐτοῦ ἐντολήν καί ἀμετανόητος μεῖναι, τόν δέ μή μετανοοῦντα ἀνάγκη πᾶσα καί τιμωρεῖσθαι τοῦτον καί κατακρίνεσθαι, οὐκ εἴασεν αὐτόν ἐν τούτῳ τῷ κόσμῳ τῷ ἐν ταῖς ἕξ ἡμέραις σύν αὐτῷ ἐκείνῳ τῷ Ἀδάμ κτισθέντι· ἀλλά μετά τό καταπαῦσαι ἐν τῇ ἑβδόμῃ ἡμέρᾳ καί πληρωθῆναι αὐτήν, τότε ὕστερον ἐφύτευσε τόν παράδεισον κατά ἀνατολάς.

Τίνα τρόπον καί διά τί; Ἵνα ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου, ὡς ἐν παλατίῳ τινί καί πόλει περιφανεστάτη, οἷα δή βασιλεύς, ὑπό τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ εἰσαχθῇ, ὁπόταν δέ τήν τοῦ Θεοῦ παραβῇ ἐντολήν καί διά τοῦτο ἐκπεσεῖν μέλλῃ τῆς βασιλείας καί τῶν βασιλείων οἴκων ἐξορισθῆναι καί ἀπορριφῆναι, ἐν τούτῳ πάλιν τῷ κόσμῳ διάγειν ἐπ᾿ ἐλπίδι κατακριθῇ. Εἰ γάρ μή ταῦτα οὕτως ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεός, ἀλλά μόνον τόν κόσμον ἀφῆκε καί ἐν αὐτῷ τόν ἄνθρωπον ἔθετο, παραβαίνοντα καί μή ἐξομολογούμενον μηδέ μετανοοῦντα, ποῦ εἶχεν αὐτόν ἐξῶσαι; Ποῦ δέ καί βιοῦν καί ἀποθνῄσκειν αὐτόν ἐχρῆν καί πάλιν ἐπιστρέφειν εἰς τήν γῆν ἐξ ἧς ἐλήφθη, μετά τήν καταδίκην; Πάντως οὐδαμοῦ, ἀλλ᾿ ἤ ἐν ᾅδῃ ζῶντα ἔδει κατακριθῆναι αὐτόν, μηδεμίαν ἔκτοτε ἀνάκλησιν σωτηρίας ἔχοντα· καί λοιπόν οὔτε γένεσις οὔτε κόσμου αὔξησις εἰς πλῆθος, καί ἀπώλετο τό τοιοῦτον καί τηλικοῦτον σοφίας Θεοῦ ἔργον ὁ ἄνθρωπος.

Ἐπεί δέ πρό τῶν αἰώνων ἐγίνωσκεν ὁ Θεός ὅτι παραβῆναι μέλλει καί τήν ἐκ παλιγγενεσίας αὐτοῦ ἀνάπλασιν προωρίσατο, διά τοῦτο καί τούς τῆς ἀναπλάσεως ἀρραβῶνας, μετά τό κτίσαι αὐτόν πάντα καί καταπαῦσαι καί τούς καιρούς καί τούς αἰῶνας ἐν ταῖς ἑπτά ἡμέραις μυστικῶς προσημᾶναι, (129) οἱονεί ζύμην καί σπόρον καί μερίδα ἀφ᾿ ἑνός ἑκάστου τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ ὕστερον ἔλαβεν, ἵνα τάς ἐκ τῶν ἔργων μερίδας τῶν κτισθέντων ἐν ταῖς ἑπτά ἡμέραις μή ἐν αὐταῖς αὐτάς ἀλλ᾿ ἐν τῇ ὀγδόῃ λαβών, τόν μέλλοντα αἰῶνα διά τῆς ἐν αὐτῇ δημιουργίας προϋπογράψῃ, μή ἀριθμήσας ταύτην ταῖς ἑπτά μηδέ δήλην αὐτήν ποιήσας, ἀλλ᾿ ἀγνοουμένην μέν εἴασε κεῖσθαι αὐτήν ὅλως τοῖς πρό τοῦ νόμου, δηλωθεῖσα δέ τοῖς ἐν νόμῳ προφήταις ἀμυδρῶς πως καί ἀπαγγελθεῖσαν πεποίηκε, φανερωθεῖσαν δέ ἡμῖν τοῖς πιστοῖς καί διαυγάσασαν ὡς ἐν πρωΐαν, καθά δή καί προσδοκῶμεν τόν ἄδυτον τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἥλιον ὅσον οὔπω ἐξανατεῖλαι. Μερίδας δέ εἶπον λαβεῖν αὐτόν ἐκ μέν τῆς γῆς ἁπάσης ὡς χωρίον ἕν ἐν ᾧ ἐφύτευσε τόν παράδεισον, ἐκ δέ τοῦ ὅλου σώματος τοῦ Ἀδάμ μίαν πλευράν ἤτοι μέλος ἕν, ἐκ δέ τῶν ἡμερῶν οὐδέν. Τίνα τρόπον; Ἐπειδή αἱ μέν μερίδες