To Autolycus 2.20
Summary: Genesis 2:8–25 is quoted: the garden, its rivers, the command about the tree of knowledge, the creation of the woman, and the first marriage.
Greek text · Otto 8:110–114
Τὰ δὲ ῥητὰ τῆς ἱστορίας τῆς ἱερᾶς ἡ γραφὴ οὕτως περιέχει· Καὶ ἐφύτευσεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν παράδεισον ἐν Ἐδὲμ κατὰ ἀνατολάς, καὶ ἔθετο ἐκεῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὃν ἔπλασεν. Καὶ ἐξανέτειλεν ὁ θεὸς ἐκ τῆς γῆς πᾶν ξύλον, ὡραῖον εἰς ὅρασιν καὶ καλὸν εἰς βρῶσιν, καὶ τὸ ξύλον τῆς ζωῆς ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ παραδείσου καὶ τὸ ξύλον τοῦ εἰδέναι γνωστὸν καλοῦ καὶ πονηροῦ. Ποταμὸς δὲ ἐκπορεύεται ἐξ Ἐδὲμ ποτίζειν τὸν παράδεισον· ἐκεῖθεν ἀφορίζεται εἰς τέσσαρας ἀρχάς. Ὄνομα τῷ ἑνὶ Φεισών· οὗτος ὁ κυκλῶν πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν Εὐιλάτ· ἐκεῖ οὖν ἐστιν τὸ χρυσίον. Τὸ δὲ χρυσίον τῆς γῆς ἐκείνης καλόν· κἀκεῖ ἐστιν ὁ ἄνθραξ καὶ ὁ λίθος ὁ πράσινος. Καὶ ὄνομα τῷ ποταμῷ τῷ δευτέρῳ Γεών· οὗτος κυκλοῖ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν Αἰθιοπίας. Καὶ ὁ ποταμὸς ὁ τρίτος Τίγρις· οὗτος ὁ πορευόμενος κατέναντι Ἀσσυρίων. Ὁ δὲ ποταμὸς ὁ τέταρτος Εὐφράτης. Καὶ ἔλαβεν κύριος ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὃν ἔπλασεν, καὶ ἔθετο αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ ἐργάζεσθαι αὐτὸν καὶ φυλάσσειν. Καὶ ἐνετείλατο ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἀδάμ, λέγων· Ἀπὸ παντὸς ξύλου τοῦ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ βρώσει φαγεῖ· ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ ξύλου τοῦ γινώσκειν καλὸν καὶ πονηρὸν οὐ φάγησθε ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ· ᾗ δʼ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ φάγεσθε ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ θανάτῳ ἀποθανεῖσθε. Καὶ εἶπεν κύριος ὁ θεὸς Οὐ καλὸν εἶναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον μόνον· ποιήσωμεν αὐτῷ βοηθὸν κατʼ αὐτόν. Καὶ ἔπλασεν ὁ θεὸς ἔτι ἐκ τῆς γῆς πάντα τὰ θηρία τοῦ ἀγροῦ καὶ πάντα τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἤγαγεν αὐτὰ πρὸς τὸν Ἀδάμ. Καὶ πᾶν ὃ ἂν ἐκάλεσεν αὐτὰ Ἀδάμ, ψυχὴν ζῶσαν, τοῦτο ὄνομα αὐτοῦ. Καὶ ἐκάλεσεν Ἀδὰμ ὀνόματα πᾶσι τοῖς κτήνεσιν καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς πετεινοῖς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς θηρίοις τοῦ ἀγροῦ· τῷ δὲ Ἀδὰμ οὐχ εὑρέθη βοηθὸς ὅμοιος αὐτῷ. Καὶ ἐπέβαλεν ὁ θεὸς ἔκστασιν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀδάμ, καὶ ὕπνωσεν· καὶ ἔλαβεν μίαν τῶν πλευρῶν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐνεπλήρωσεν σάρκα ἀντʼ αὐτῆς. Καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν κύριος ὁ θεὸς τὴν πλευράν, ἣν ἔλαβεν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀδάμ, εἰς γυναῖκα, καὶ ἤγαγεν αὐτὴν πρὸς τὸν Ἀδάμ. Καὶ εἶπεν Ἀδάμ· Τοῦτο νῦν ὀστοῦν ἐκ τῶν ὀστῶν μου καὶ σὰρξ ἐκ τῆς σαρκός μου· αὕτη κληθήσεται γυνή, ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς ἐλήφθη αὐτή. Ἕνεκεν τούτου καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ προσκολληθήσεται πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσονται οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν. Καὶ ἦσαν οἱ δύο γυμνοί, ὅ τε Ἀδὰμ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ᾐσχύνοντο.
English · Claude translation
The words of the sacred history in Scripture run as follows: “And God planted the garden in Eden, toward the east, and put there the man whom he had formed. And God made every tree spring up out of the ground, beautiful to look at and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowing what may be known of good and evil. A river flows out of Eden to water the garden; from there it divides into four heads. The name of the first is Pheison; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Evilat, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good, and there are the carbuncle and the green stone. And the name of the second river is Geon; it flows around the whole land of Ethiopia. And the third river is the Tigris; it is the one that flows opposite Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed and put him in the garden to work it and to keep it. And God commanded Adam, saying: From every tree in the garden you may eat for food; but from the tree of knowing good and evil you shall not eat; on the day you eat from it you shall surely die. And the Lord God said: It is not good for the man to be alone; let us make for him a helper corresponding to him. And God formed further out of the ground all the wild beasts of the field and all the birds of the heaven, and brought them to Adam; and whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. And Adam gave names to all the cattle and all the birds of the heaven and all the wild beasts of the field; but for Adam there was found no helper like him. And God cast a trance upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs and filled up flesh in its place. And the Lord God built the rib that he had taken from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam. And Adam said: This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of her husband. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. And the two were naked, Adam and his wife, and they were not ashamed.”
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- Quoted from the Septuagint, which renders the garden “paradise” (παράδεισος).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (accent: grave on γραφὴ before a following word; accent: grave on ἂν before a following word): ἱερᾶς ἡ γραφή οὕτως → ἱερᾶς ἡ γραφὴ οὕτως; ᾗ δʼ ἄν ἡμέρᾳ → ᾗ δʼ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ.
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Theophilus, Autol. 2.20 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/theophilus-autolycus/2/20/).
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Theophilus, Autol. 2.20 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/theophilus-autolycus/2/20/).
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