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of God through Moses, which is also shown from the Savior's own judgment. For you have gathered the very testimonies you brought forward against yourself. For the Lord says in the Gospel that "Moses wrote according to your hardness of heart"; but what Moses wrote, he did not write apart from the will of God, but legislated from the Holy Spirit. For the Lord says in the Gospel: "What God has joined together, let man not separate." And how he joined them, he went through the saying so that we might learn, 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." Then he adds, saying "What therefore God has joined together, let man not separate"; and yet the Lord nowhere said this, when he formed Adam and Eve, but only "Let us make a helper for him like himself." But this was said by Adam, when he arose from sleep and said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of her Man"; then he says, "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." Since, therefore, God did not say this, but Adam said it, and the Lord in the Gospel testifies that the saying spoken through Adam is of God, he showed from this very argument that there Adam spoke but by the will of God he uttered it, and here Moses legislated when God announced the legislation to him. And so these two statements of yours have already fallen, and 1.461 not from afar, but from the citation itself. And that it is the legislation of God, this is clear. And everywhere God legislates, some things for certain times, some as types, and some for a revelation of the good things to come, the fulfillment of which our Lord Jesus Christ, when he came, showed in the Gospel. 10. And taking up the matters of your other division of the gods, which is again divided in three ways, I will show that these too are slandered by you and are nothing other than the work of a charlatan. For what third god is present to us, composed of two likenesses and being neither the one nor the other of the two, having neither the evil and injustice as you said, nor the goodness and luminous substance, but being in the middle, a just one? For truly being a stranger to all justice, you are naturally ignorant of what justice is, thinking it is something other than goodness. But you will be greatly refuted, O scoundrel and stranger to the truth; for the just comes from nowhere but from goodness, nor will anyone otherwise become good, unless he is just. Wherefore the Lord also, praising the legislation and its just ones, said, "You adorn the tombs of the prophets and build the monuments of the just, and your fathers killed them." And from where have prophets and just men come, if not from the goodness of the Father? And that he might show that the just one stands on the side of goodness, he said, "Be like your Father who is in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the good and the evil, and sends rain on the just and the unjust," to show that the just is good and the good is just, and the evil is unjust and the unjust is evil. But the inconsistency of the law which you mentioned, you are not able to prove. For you are caught slandering the law, attributing some inconsistency to it, because the law said, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," and because the law executes the murderer. But from the very teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ it will be shown that it was not some inconsistency, but it was the same legislation and it works 1.462 the same as the commandment spoken by the Savior that "if someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." For the law also

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τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ Μωυσέως, ὃ καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆς τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἐπικρίσεως δείκνυται. αὐτὰς γὰρ ἃς παρήγαγες μαρτυρίας κατὰ σαυτοῦ ἐπισυνήγαγες. φάσκει γὰρ ὁ κύριος ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ ὅτι «Μωυσῆς ἔγραψεν κατὰ τὴν σκληροκαρδίαν ὑμῶν»· ὃ δὲ ἔγραψε Μωυσῆς οὐκ ἐκτὸς βουλήσεως θεοῦ ἔγραψεν, ἀλλ' ἐκ πνεύματος ἁγίου ἐνομοθέτησε. λέγει γὰρ ὁ κύριος ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ· «ὃ ὁ θεὸς συνέζευξεν, ἄνθρωπος μὴ χωριζέτω». καὶ πῶς συνέζευξεν, διεξῆλθεν * τὸ ῥῆμα ἵνα μάθωμεν λέγων «ἀντὶ τούτου καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ κολληθήσεται τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσονται οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν». εἶτα ἐπιφέρει λέγων «ὃ οὖν ὁ θεὸς συνέζευξεν, ἄνθρωπος μὴ χωριζέτω»· καίτοι γε οὐδαμοῦ τοῦ κυρίου τοῦτο εἰρηκότος, ὁπηνίκα τὸν Ἀδὰμ καὶ τὴν Εὔαν ἔπλασεν ἢ μόνον «ποιήσωμεν αὐτῷ κατ' αὐτὸν βοηθόν». ἀλλὰ τοῦτο ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ εἴρηται, ὅτε ἀνέστη ἐκ τοῦ ὕπνου καὶ εἶπεν «τοῦτο νῦν ὀστοῦν ἐκ τῶν ὀστῶν μου καὶ σὰρξ ἐκ τῆς σαρκός μου· αὕτη κληθήσεται γυνὴ ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς ἐλήφθη αὕτη»· εἶτά φησιν «ἀντὶ τούτου καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ, καὶ κολληθήσεται τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσονται οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν». οὐ τοῦ θεοῦ τοίνυν τοῦτο εἰπόντος, τοῦ δὲ Ἀδὰμ εἰρηκότος, τοῦ κυρίου δὲ ἐπιμαρτυροῦντος ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ θεοῦ εἶναι τὸ ῥῆμα τὸ διὰ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ εἰρημένον, ἀπ' αὐτῆς τῆς ὑποθέσεως ἔδειξεν, ὅτι ἐκεῖ μὲν Ἀδὰμ εἴρηκεν θεοῦ δὲ βουλήσει ἐφθέγγετο καὶ ὧδε ὁ Μωυσῆς ἐνομοθέτησεν θεοῦ αὐτῷ καταγγείλαντος τὴν νομοθεσίαν. καὶ αὗται μὲν ἤδη αἱ δύο σου λέξεις διέπεσον, καὶ 1.461 οὐ πόρρωθεν, ἀλλὰ ἀπ' αὐτῆς τῆς χρήσεως. καὶ ὅτι μὲν νομοθεσία θεοῦ ἔστιν, τοῦτο δῆλον. πανταχοῦ δὲ θεὸς νομοθετεῖ τὰ μὲν εἰς χρόνους, τὰ δὲ εἰς τύπους, τὰ δὲ εἰς ἀποκάλυψιν τῶν μελλόντων ἔσεσθαι ἀγαθῶν, ὧν ἐλθὼν ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ἔδειξε τὴν πλήρωσιν ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ. 10. Τὰ δὲ τῆς παρὰ σοὶ ἑτέρας θεῶν διαιρέσεως τριχῆ πάλιν διαιρεθείσης ἐπαναλαβὼν καὶ αὐτὰ δείξω παρὰ σοὶ σεσυκοφαντημένα καὶ οὐκ ἄλλο τι ὂν ἀλλὰ γόητος τὸ ἔργον. ποῖος γὰρ ἡμῖν τρίτος θεὸς πάρεστιν, ἐκ δύο συσταθεὶς ὁμοιωμάτων καὶ οὔθ' ἕτερον ὢν τῶν δύο, οὔτε τὴν κακίαν ἔχων καὶ ἀδικίαν ὡς ἔφης, οὔτε τὴν ἀγαθότητα καὶ φωτεινὴν οὐσίαν, μεσαίτατος δὲ ὢν δίκαιος; καὶ γὰρ ἀληθῶς ἀλλότριος ὢν πάσης δικαιοσύνης εἰκότως ἀγνοεῖς τί ποτέ ἐστι δικαιοσύνη, ἑτέραν αὐτὴν παρὰ τὴν ἀγαθότητα νομίζων. πολὺ δὲ ἐλεγχθήσῃ, ὦ ῥᾳδιουργὲ καὶ ἀλλότριε τῆς ἀληθείας· οὐδαμόθεν γὰρ γίνεται τὸ δίκαιον ἀλλ' ἐξ ἀγαθότητος καὶ οὐδὲ ἄλλως τις γενήσεται ἀγαθός, εἰ μὴ ᾖ δίκαιος. ὅθεν καὶ ὁ κύριος, ἐπαινῶν τὴν νομοθεσίαν καὶ τοὺς αὐτῆς δικαίους, ἔλεγεν «κοσμεῖτε τοὺς τάφους τῶν προφητῶν καὶ οἰκοδομεῖτε τὰ μνημεῖα τῶν δικαίων, καὶ οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἀπέκτειναν αὐτούς». πόθεν δὲ γεγόνασι προφῆται καὶ δίκαιοι ἀλλ' ἢ ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ πατρὸς ἀγαθότητος; καὶ ἵνα δείξῃ ὅτι ἐν τῷ μέρει τῆς ἀγαθότητος ὁ δίκαιος ἕστηκεν, ἔλεγεν «ὅμοιοι γένεσθε τῷ πατρὶ ὑμῶν τῷ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, ὅτι ἀνατέλλει αὐτοῦ τὸν ἥλιον ἐπὶ ἀγαθοὺς καὶ πονηροὺς καὶ βρέχει ἐπὶ δικαίους καὶ ἀδίκους», ἵνα δείξῃ τὸ δίκαιον ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὸ ἀγαθὸν δίκαιον καὶ τὸ πονηρὸν ἄδικον καὶ τὸ ἄδικον πονηρόν. Τὴν δὲ ἐπιπλοκὴν ἣν ἔφης τοῦ νόμου οὐ δύνασαι ἀποδεῖξαι. ἑάλως γὰρ συκοφαντῶν τὸν νόμον, ἐπιπλοκήν τινα αὐτῷ προσάπτων, διὰ τὸ εἰρηκέναι τὸν νόμον «ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ καὶ ὀδόντα ἀντὶ ὀδόντος» καὶ ἐπειδὴ φονεύει ὁ νόμος τὸν φονευτήν. ἀλλὰ ἐξ αὐτῆς τῆς τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ πραγματείας δειχθήσεται ὅτι οὐκ ἐπιπλοκή τις ἦν, ἀλλ' ἡ αὐτὴ ἦν νομοθεσία καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ 1.462 ἐνεργεῖ τῇ ὑπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος εἰρημένῃ ἐντολῇ ὅτι «ἐάν τίς σε τυπτήσῃ εἰς τὴν δεξιὰν σιαγόνα, στρέψον αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην». καὶ γὰρ καὶ ὁ νόμος