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of the devil” and again “when he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for his father is a liar,” so as to mean Judas and Cain; then, “for his father was a liar,” so as to mean the devil himself, on account of the things similarly devised by each of them. For having breathed into the mouth of the serpent, the devil spoke all lies, and so he then deceived Eve. And their errant mythmaking is refuted, even though Scripture says “that Cain killed his brother, because he was of the devil.” For it has been shown altogether, that not because Eve, having conceived from the seed of the devil as in a marital union and bodily intercourse, gave birth to Cain and Abel, as it seemed to them, but on account of being of like character and an imitation of the devil's wickedness he was called his son. 7. Again, these same people say that Adam, having been united to Eve his own wife, begat Seth, his own son by nature. And then they say the power above, along with the ministering angels of the good God, came down and snatched away Seth himself, whom they also call Allogenes, and carried him up somewhere above and raised him for 2.88 a sufficient time, so that he might not be killed, and after a long time brought him down again into this world and made him spiritual and † bodily, so that the demiurge and the other authorities and powers of the world-making god would not prevail against him. And they say that he no longer served the maker and demiurge, but had come to know the unnamable power and the good God above, and served this one and had revealed many things against the maker of the world and the powers and authorities. † For whom indeed they also composed certain books written in the name of Seth himself, saying that they were given by him, and others in his name and that of his seven sons. For they say he begat seven sons called Allogenes, as we have also said in connection with other heresies, I mean of the Gnostics and Sethians. And these men also say there are other prophets, a certain Martiades and Marsianus, who were snatched up into the heavens and came down after three days. And there are many things which they fabricate in their mythmaking, and fabricating blasphemies against the existing God Almighty, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, as if he were a ruler and an inventor of wickedness, as they are convicted by their own words. For if he is an inventor of wicked things and an evildoer, how would he not immediately be found to be good, as we have also said in connection with other heresies, having legislated against fornication and adultery and robbery and covetousness? For they themselves also say he is the God of the Jews; and to the Jews he gave the law, in which he forbade all these things of which they say he is the inventor. And how could he be called the father of Satan, who has demonstrated so many things against him? And if he is foreign to the God above spoken of by them, and is not himself the God Almighty, our king and lord, who is preached in the law and in the prophets and in the gospels and apostles, himself God the Lord, and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, how does the Lord himself clearly teach us in the 2.89 gospel, saying, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,” in order to show that his Father is God of all things. 8. And indicating again that there will be a resurrection of the dead, the Son from him says, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up”; and by temple he meant his own body, which was to be destroyed by the hands of men, that is, to be killed. But that which was not a body, but appeared only in seeming, as these men in turn say, could not have come into hands and been raised on the third day, as he promised. It has therefore been clearly shown through such a dispensation that the resurrection of the dead is irrefutable and that there is neither need

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διαβόλου» καὶ πάλιν «ὅταν λαλῇ τὸ ψεῦδος, ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων λαλεῖ, ὅτι ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ ψεύστης ἐστίν», ἵνα εἴπῃ Ἰούδαν καὶ Κάϊν· εἶτα «καὶ γὰρ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ ψεύστης ἦν», ἵνα εἴπῃ αὐτὸν τὸν διάβολον, διὰ τὰ ὁμοίως πεπραγματευμένα ἑκάστῳ τούτων. ἐμπνεύσας γὰρ ἐν στόματι τοῦ ὄφεως ψευδῆ πάντα λελάληκεν ὁ διάβολος καὶ οὕτως τότε ἐξηπάτησε τὴν Εὔαν. καὶ ἀνῄρηται παρὰ τούτοις ἡ πεπλανημένη μυθοποιία, κἂν λέγῃ ἡ γραφή «ὡς ὁ Κάϊν ἀπέκτεινε τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ διαβόλου ἦν». ἐδείχθη γὰρ παντάπασιν, ὅτι οὐχὶ διὰ τὸ τὴν Εὔαν, ἐκ τοῦ σπέρματος τοῦ διαβόλου συλλαβοῦσαν ὡς κατὰ συζυγίαν γάμου καὶ συνάφειαν σωμάτων, γεγεννηκέναι τὸν Κάϊν καὶ τὸν Ἄβελ, ὡς τούτοις ἔδοξεν, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ ὁμότροπον καὶ μίμημα τῆς τοῦ διαβόλου κακοτροπίας υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἤκουσε. 7. Πάλιν δὲ λέγουσιν οἱ αὐτοὶ τὸν Ἀδὰμ συναφθέντα τῇ Εὔᾳ τῇ ἰδίᾳ γαμετῇ γεγεννηκέναι τὸν Σήθ, φύσει ἴδιον αὐτοῦ υἱόν. καὶ τότε φασὶ τὴν ἄνω δύναμιν σὺν τοῖς ὑπουργοῖς τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ θεοῦ ἀγγέλοις καταβεβηκέναι καὶ ἡρπακέναι αὐτὸν τὸν Σήθ, ὃν καὶ Ἀλλογενῆ καλοῦσι, καὶ ἀνενηνοχέναι ἄνω που καὶ ἀναθρέψαι χρόνῳ 2.88 ἱκανῷ, ἵνα μὴ ἀποκτανθῇ, καὶ μετὰ χρόνον πολὺν πάλιν κατενηνοχέναι εἰς τόνδε τὸν κόσμον καὶ πνευματικὸν ἀπεργάσασθαι αὐτὸν καὶ † σωματικόν, εἰς τὸ μὴ κατισχύειν τόν τε δημιουργὸν κατ' αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἐξουσίας καὶ ἀρχὰς τοῦ κοσμοποιοῦ θεοῦ. μηκέτι δὲ αὐτόν φασι λελατρευκέναι τῷ τε ποιητῇ καὶ δημιουργῷ, ἐπεγνωκέναι δὲ τὴν ἀκατονόμαστον δύναμιν καὶ τὸν ἄνω ἀγαθὸν θεόν, τούτῳ τε λελατρευκέναι καὶ κατὰ τοῦ ποιητοῦ τοῦ κόσμου καὶ ἀρχῶν καὶ ἐξουσιῶν πολλὰ ἀποκεκαλυφέναι. † ᾧ δὴ καὶ βίβλους τινὰς ἐξετύπωσαν εἰς ὄνομα αὐτοῦ τοῦ Σὴθ γεγραμμένας, παρ' αὐτοῦ αὐτὰς δεδόσθαι λέγοντες, ἄλλας δὲ εἰς ὄνομα αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν ἑπτὰ υἱῶν αὐτοῦ. φασὶ γὰρ αὐτὸν ἑπτὰ γεγεννηκέναι υἱοὺς Ἀλλογενεῖς καλουμένους, ὡς καὶ ἐν ἄλλαις αἱρέσεσιν εἰρήκαμεν, Γνωστικῶν φημι καὶ Σηθιανῶν. οὗτοι δὲ καὶ ἄλλους προφήτας φασὶν εἶναι, Μαρτιάδην τινὰ καὶ Μαρσιανόν, ἁρπαγέντας εἰς τοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ διὰ ἡμερῶν τριῶν καταβεβηκότας. καὶ πολλά ἐστιν ἃ μυθοποιοῦντες πλαστῶς ἐκτυποῦσι, βλάσφημά τε πλάττοντες κατὰ τοῦ ὄντος θεοῦ παντοκράτορος, πατρὸς τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὡς ἄρχοντος ὄντος καὶ πονηρίας εὑρετοῦ, ὡς ἀπ' αὐτῶν τῶν παρ' αὐτοῖς λόγων ἁλίσκονται. Εἰ γὰρ πονηρῶν ἐστιν εὑρετὴς καὶ κακοποιός, πῶς εὐθὺς οὐκ ἀγαθὸς εὑρεθείη, ὡς καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἄλλαις αἱρέσεσιν εἴπαμεν, κατὰ πορνείας καὶ μοιχείας καὶ ἁρπαγῆς καὶ πλεονεξίας νομοθετήσας; θεὸν γὰρ αὐτὸν τῶν Ἰουδαίων καὶ αὐτοὶ λέγουσι· τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις δὲ τὸν νόμον ἔδωκεν, ἐν ᾧ πάντα ταῦτα ἀπηγόρευσεν ὧν εὑρετὴν αὐτὸν λέγουσιν εἶναι. πῶς δὲ πατὴρ τοῦ Σατανᾶ κληθείη ὁ κατ' αὐτοῦ τὰ τοσαῦτα ὑποδείξας; καὶ εἰ ἀλλότριός ἐστι τοῦ ἄνω παρ' αὐτοῖς λεγομένου θεοῦ καὶ οὐκ αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ, ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ κύριος ἡμῶν, ὁ ἐν νόμῳ καὶ ἐν προφήταις καὶ ἐν εὐαγγελίοις καὶ ἀποστόλοις κηρυσσόμενος, αὐτὸς θεὸς κύριος, πατὴρ δὲ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, πῶς αὐτὸς σαφῶς ἡμᾶς διδάσκει ὁ κύριος ἐν 2.89 εὐαγγελίῳ λέγων «εὐχαριστῶ σοι, πάτερ, κύριε οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς», ἵνα δείξῃ τὸν αὐτοῦ πατέρα θεὸν τῶν πάντων. 8. Καὶ περὶ νεκρῶν ἀναστάσεως ὑποφαίνων ἔσεσθαι πάλιν φησὶν ὁ ἐξ αὐτοῦ υἱός «λύσατε τὸν ναὸν τοῦτον, καὶ ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέραις ἐγερῶ αὐτόν»· ναὸν δὲ ἔλεγε τὸ ἴδιον σῶμα, λυόμενον μὲν διὰ χειρῶν ἀνθρώπων τουτέστιν ἀποκτεινόμενον. τὸ δὲ μὴ ὂν σῶμα, ἀλλὰ δοκήσει φαινόμενον, ὡς οὗτοι πάλιν λέγουσιν, οὐκ ἂν ἠδύνατο εἰς χεῖρας ἔρχεσθαι ἐγείρεσθαί τε τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ, καθὼς ἐπηγγείλατο. δέδεικται τοίνυν σαφῶς διὰ τῆς τοιαύτης οἰκονομίας ἀναντίρρητος ἡ τῶν νεκρῶν ἀνάστασις καὶ ὅτι οὔτε χρεία