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So this people from the seed of Abraham, that is, the portion from the side of Adam, was established by God as another new and third world, bearing the image (134) of that first world and paradise and of the second, namely, the one in the ark, and not only this, but also a type of the things that were to come after, being something in between, both prefiguring the ancient things for what was to come later, and signifying for what was to come later that the ancient things were to be joined. For it had the land of promise instead of that paradise as another, second paradise; the ark instead of the Theotokos, announcing to us beforehand through them and depicting the return and inheritance in that one which was to be for the saints in the renewal of the Holy Spirit. It had the law, as the forefathers had the commandment; and through the bondage of the law it signified the freedom beyond the law that was to be given in a spiritual law. It had the jar of manna instead of the tree of life in the midst of paradise, of which those others were not permitted to eat, the jar bearing an image of and signifying that which was to bear Christ within. It had the manna instead of Christ; for he is the bread that came down from heaven and gives eternal life to the world; for this reason the manna was also from the heavens; "For man," it says, "ate the bread of angels." And to speak concisely, having made it a new paradise, He placed in it many things more precious and exalted than that paradise, inasmuch as it was a type of greater promises and realities.

For He also placed Moses in it, as He had placed Adam there; and God spoke to him as to Adam, and Moses spoke to God as did Adam; But Adam did not have, as this one did, the hope of a promise that the only-begotten Son of God and God would come there bodily. That one had the tree of life, but not that life itself; but this one possessed in the prophets the grace of the Spirit, more manifest than the tree of life (135), since they promised that the perfect and true life would be given in Christ. That paradise had a life without toil and without care, and trees and beautiful fruits for food; this one also had the manna from heaven as ready-made food, as has been said; and they drank from a following rock water that was sweeter than honey; but not only that, for also "their garments and their sandals did not grow old nor wear out," but these also grew with their bodies, and there was not a sick person in their tribes. Those in the first paradise had the threat of death and a curse in the transgression of the commandment; those in this one had the hope of remission of sins and the blessing of eternal life should any of them not fulfill the law of God, with the promise that Christ would come and make possible what was impossible for them, not for the condemnation of those who did not keep it, but for the salvation of those who believed. The first had the flaming sword guarding the entrance to the tree of life and barring from it Adam and those from him; this one had the archangel Michael, who rather cared for and guarded those in it, not permitting the scattered nations to enter into it. God preordained there that through the side of Adam the recreation of Adam should happen; and for this reason the woman then came from the man without intercourse, so that in turn from the woman the side of Adam might be taken and without emission and intercourse might be born a man, Christ and God, and through him Adam might be renewed; in this paradise God promised to Abraham to bring in through his seed (136) all the nations that had been cast out and make them one flock.

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Ὁ μέν οὖν λαός οὗτος ὁ ἐκ τοῦ σπέρματος Ἀβραάμ, ἤγουν ἡ μερίς ἡ ἐκ τῆς

πλευρᾶς τοῦ Ἀδάμ, οἷα δέ νέος ἄλλος τις καί τρίτος κόσμος ὑπό τοῦ Θεοῦ κατέστη, εἰκόνα (134) τοῦ πρώτου φέρων ἐκείνου κόσμου καί παραδείσου καί αὐτοῦ τοῦ δευτέρου, τοῦ ἐν τῇ κιβωτῷ δηλονότι, οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλά καί τύπον τῶν μετά ταῦτα μελλόντων γενέσθαι, μέσος τις ὤν καί τά μέν ἀρχαῖα τοῖς εἰς ὕστερον ὑπογράφων, τοῖς δέ γε ὕστερον τά ἀρχαῖα σημαίνων συνάπτεσθαι. Εἶχε γάρ τήν γῆν τῆς ἐπαγγελίας ἀντί τοῦ παραδείσου ἐκείνου παράδεισον ἄλλον δεύτερον, τήν κιβωτόν ἀντί τῆς Θεοτόκου, προμηνύων ἡμῖν δι᾿ αὐτῶν καί ἐξεικονίζων τήν ἐν ἀνακαινώσει Πνεύματος Ἁγίου μέλλουσαν ἔσεσθαι τοῖς ἁγίοις ἐν ἐκείνῳ ἐπάνοδον καί κληρονομίαν. Εἶχε τόν νόμον, ὡς τήν ἐντολήν οἱ προπάτορες ἐδήλου δέ διά τῆς τοῦ νόμου δουλείας τήν ὑπέρ νόμον δοθήσεσθαι μέλλουσαν ἐλευθερίαν ἐν νόμῳ πνευματικῷ. Εἶχε τήν στάμνον τοῦ μάννα ἀντί τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ παραδείσου, οὗ φαγεῖν οὐκ ἐάθησαν ἐκεῖνοι, εἰκόνα φέρουσαν καί δηλοῦσαν τήν στάμνον τήν τόν Χριστόν φέρειν ἐντός μέλλουσαν. Εἶχε τό μάννα ἀντί τοῦ Χριστοῦ· αὐτός γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ἄρτος ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καταβάς καί ζωήν αἰώνιον τῷ κόσμῳ διδούς· διά τοῦτο γάρ καί τό μάννα ἐξ οὐρανῶν ἦν· "Ἄρτον γάρ, φησίν, ἀγγέλων ἔφαγεν ἄνθρωπος". Καί συνελόντα εἰπεῖν, παράδεισον αὐτόν νέον πεποιηκώς, πολλά τοῦ παραδείσου ἐκείνου τιμιώτερά τε καί ὑψηλότερα ἐν αὐτῷ ἔθετο, ὅσῳ καί μειζόνων ἐπαγγελιῶν καί πραγμάτων τύπος ἦν.

Ἔθετο καί γάρ ἐν αὐτῷ τόν Μωϋσῆν, καθάπερ ἐκεῖ τόν Ἀδάμ· καί ἐλάλει αὐτῷ ὁ Θεός ὡς τῷ Ἀδάμ καί ὁ Μωϋσῆς ἐλάλει τῷ Θεῷ καθώς ὁ Ἀδάμ· Ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ εἶχεν ὁ Ἀδάμ ὡς οὗτος ἐπαγγελίας ἐλπίδα τοῦ σωματικῶς ἐκεῖσε παραγενέσθαι τόν μονογενῆ τοῦ Θεοῦ Υἱόν καί Θεόν. Εἶχεν ἐκεῖνος τό ξύλον τῆς ζωῆς, οὐκ ἐκείνην δέ αὐτήν τήν ζωήν· οὗτος δέ ἐκδηλοτέραν μέν ὑπέρ τό τῆς ζωῆς ξύλον (135) τήν τοῦ Πνεύματος χάριν ἐν τοῖς προφήταις ἐκέκτητο, τήν τελείαν καί ἀληθινήν ζωήν ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ δοθήσεσθαι κατεπαγγελλομένοις. Εἶχεν ὁ παράδεισος ἐκεῖνος ἄπονον ζωήν καί ἀμέριμνον, δένδρα τε καί καρπούς ὡραίους εἰς βρῶσιν· εἶχε καί οὗτος τό μάννα ἐξ οὐρανοῦ τροφήν αὐτοσχέδιον, ὥσπερ εἴρηται· ἔπινόν τε ἐκ πέτρας ἀκολουθούσης ὕδωρ ὑπέρ μέλιν γλυκάζον· οὐ μήν ἀλλά γάρ καί "τά ἱμάτια αὐτῶν καί τά ὑποδήματα οὐκ ἐπαλαιοῦντο οὐδέ ἐφθείροντο", ἀλλά συνηύξανον καί ταῦτα τοῖς αὐτῶν σώμασι καί οὐκ ἦν ἐν ταῖς φυλαῖς αὐτῶν ὁ ἀσθενῶν. Εἶχον οἱ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ παραδείσῳ ἀπειλήν θανάτου καί κατάρας ἐν τῇ παραβάσει τῆς ἐντολῆς· εἶχον οἱ ἐν τούτῳ ἀφέσεως ἁμαρτιῶν ἐλπίδα καί εὐλογίαν ζωῆς αἰωνίου ἐν τῷ μή πληρῶσαι τόν νόμον τοῦ Θεοῦ τινα ἐξ αὐτῶν, τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐλθεῖν κατεπαγγελλομένου καί ποιῆσαι τό ἀδύνατον παρ᾿ ἐκείνοις δυνατόν, οὐχί πρός κατάκρισιν τῶν μή φυλαξάντων, ἀλλά πρός σωτηρίαν τῶν πιστευσάντων. Εἶχεν ὁ πρῶτος τήν φλογίνην ῥομφαίαν φυλάττουσαν τήν εἴσοδον τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς καί ἀπείργουσαν ἐξ αὐτοῦ τόν Ἀδάμ καί τούς ἐξ αὐτοῦ· εἶχεν οὗτος τόν ἀρχιστράτηγον Μιχαήλ, τούς ἐν αὐτῷ μᾶλλον περισκέποντα καί φυλάσσοντα, τά δέ διασπαρέντα ἔθνη τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν ἐν αὐτῷ μή παραχωροῦντα. Προῳκονόμησεν ἐκεῖ ὁ Θεός, ἵνα διά τῆς πλευρᾶς τοῦ Ἀδάμ ἡ τοῦ Ἀδάμ ἀνάπλασις γένηται· καί διά τοῦτο ἐκ τοῦ ἀνδρός τότε ἄνευ συνουσίας γέγονεν ἡ γυνή, ὡς ἄν ἐκ τῆς γυναικός πάλιν ἡ πλευρά ληφθῇ τοῦ Ἀδάμ καί ἄνευ ῥεύσεως καί συνουσίας γεννηθῇ ἀνήρ ὁ Χριστός καί Θεός καί δι᾿ αὐτοῦ ὁ Ἀδάμ ἀνακαινισθῇ· προεπηγγείλατο ἐν τούτῳ τῷ παραδείσῳ ὁ Θεός τῷ Ἀβραάμ εἰσαγαγεῖν ἐν τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ (136) πάντα τά ἐξωσθέντα ἔθνη καί μίαν ποίμνην αὐτούς ἀπεργάσασθαι.

Ἐπεί οὖν οἱ ἐν τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς τούτοις ὄντες καί πρό τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τήν τῆς ἐπαγγελίας γῆν καί μετά τό εἰσελθεῖν παρέβησαν καί αὐτοί τήν ἐντολήν τοῦ Θεοῦ