7. And therefore the baptism of our regeneration is accomplished by means of these three propositions, when God the Father gives us grace for regeneration through his Son through the Holy Spirit. For those who bear the Spirit of God within them are brought to the Word, that is, to the Son, but the Son brings them to the Father, and the Father gives them to partake of incorruption. Consequently, without the Spirit it is impossible to see the Son, and without the Son it is impossible to approach the Father; for the knowledge of the Father is the Son, and the knowledge of the Son through the Holy Spirit, and the Son communicates the Spirit, according to His ministry, according to the Father's good pleasure, to those to whom and how the Father wills.

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And the Jews (God) as Lord and lawgiver, for in the middle of time, when mankind forgot God and departed from Him and apostatized, He brought them into ministry by the law, that they might know that they have (above them) the Lord, the creator and founder of the world, Who gives the breath of life, Whom we must worship day and night. To the Gentiles He is God, as creator and almighty, and at the same time as nourisher and bread-giver and king and judge; for no one can escape His judgment, neither Jew nor Gentile, nor believer who has sinned, nor angel. But those who now do not trust in His goodness will recognize His power at the judgment, as the blessed Apostle says: "You do not understand that the goodness of God draws you to repentance, you by your stubbornness and impenitence of heart store up for yourselves wrath for the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will reward each one according to his deeds" (Romans 11:4-6). This is He Who is called in the law the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of the living. And despite all this, the height and greatness of this particular God are indescribable.

9. But the world is surrounded by seven heavens, in which dwell the powers, angels and archangels, performing the service of worshiping God, the Almighty and Creator of all things, not because He supposedly needs it, but so that they may not be idle and useless and without grace. And therefore the Holy Spirit abounded in His indwelling, and the Prophet Isaiah numbered in the seven forms of ministry which rested upon the Son of God, that is, on the Word, when He came as a man. For "the Spirit of God," He says, "shall rest upon Him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength (the spirit of knowledge) and godliness, the spirit of the fear of God shall fill Him" (Isa. XI:2-3). And so, the first heaven above, which embraces the rest, is wisdom, and the second after it is the heaven of understanding, and the third is counsel, and the fourth, counting from above, is the heaven of strength, and the fifth is the heaven of knowledge, and the sixth is the heaven of godliness, and the seventh is this firmament above us, which is filled with the fear of the Spirit who illumines this heaven of ours (cf. Wisdom 1:7). For Moses took from here the pattern of the seven-branched lampstand, which shone continually in the sanctuary; because he arranged this divine service in the heavenly image, as the Word says to him: "You must make it exactly after the pattern that you saw on the mountain" (Exodus XXV, 40).

10. This God is glorified by His Word, who is the eternal Son of God, and by the Holy Spirit, who is the Wisdom of the Father of all; and the powers of these (the latter), the Word and the Wisdom, which are called cherubim and seraphim, glorify God with an unceasing song of praise; and every creature that is in heaven gives honor to God, the Father of all. He formed the whole world by the Word, and in this world there are also angels, and He gave laws to the whole world, so that each (being) should dwell in its own (domain) and not overstep the limits set by God, each doing the work entrusted to him.

11. But He created man with His own hands, taking from the earth the purest, finest, and most delicate, and to a certain extent He mingled His power with the earth; for He gave creation His own forms, so that the visible (in it) might also be God-like. For created man was placed on earth as the image of God. And in order for him to become alive, He breathed into his face the breath of life, so that both in breath and in creation man is like God. He was free and independent, since he was created by God in order to rule over everything that is on earth. And this entire universe, which contains everything in itself — prepared by God before the creation of man — was given to man as a place (of residence). And in this place there were, each with his own ministry, the servants of the God Who created all things; and the steward who was appointed over the Sorabs ruled over this place. The servants were angels, and the steward was the archangel.

12. God, having made man the ruler of the earth and all that is in it, has also made him the ruler of those who are servants on it (i.e., the angels). However, they possessed their proper perfection, and the lord, i.e. man, was small, for he was a child, and therefore it was necessary for him to grow to achieve perfection. And in order that his nourishment and growth might take place in full joy and pleasure, He prepared for him a better place than this world, which was excellent in air, beauty, light, food, plants, fruits, waters, and in all other means of life; And it's called paradise. And this paradise was so beautiful and beautiful that the Word of God was constantly moving in it, walking and conversing with man about the future that was to happen, sealing it beforehand; In this way it lived with them, and conversed with them, and was with men, teaching them righteousness. But man was a child, since he did not have perfect understanding, which is why he was easily deceived by the deceiver.

13. In Paradise, when man lived there, God brought all the animals to him and commanded him to give them all names; and everything that Adam called a living creature became his name. And He decided to create a helper for man as well, for thus God said: "It is not good for man that he is alone; let us make him a helper corresponding to him" (Gen. 2:10). II, 18); for among all other living creatures there was not found for Adam a helper like him, equal in dignity and like. God Himself brought a frenzy upon Adam and put him to sleep; and here one thing follows from another: while there had been no sleep in Paradise before, he came to Adam by the will of God. And God took one of Adam's side, and filled its place with flesh; and the rib which He took, He created for a woman, and brought her to Adam. And when he saw her, he said, "This is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called a woman, for she was taken from her husband" (Gen. 2:10). II, 23).

14. Both Adam and Eve, for that is the name of the woman, were naked and were not ashamed, for they had an innocent and childlike feeling, and did not go so far as to think about anything or understand what later, in a state of depravity, had to be born in the soul as a result of sensual desires and shameful passions. For then they kept their nature still intact, because in them was the breath of life breathed into creation. To the Spirit, as long as it abides in its proper dignity and power, all that is evil is incomprehensible and inaccessible; therefore, they were not ashamed when they kissed, embraced each other in purity, like children.

15. But in order that man should not think much of himself and be haughty, as if he did not have a master because of the dominion and freedom given to him, and thus sinned against God, his creator, transgressing his limit, and did not come to a self-satisfied, proud thought against God, God gave him a commandment that he should know that he has the Lord of all as his master. Likewise, God set a certain limit for him, so that, if he kept the commandment of God, he would always remain as he was, that is, immortal; but if he does not observe, he will become mortal, turning to the earth from which his creation began. The commandment was as follows: "Of every tree that is in the garden you may eat at will, only of the tree from which the knowledge of good and evil you cannot eat, for in the day that you eat you will surely die" (Gen. 2:10). II, 16–17).

16. Man did not fulfill this commandment, but did not obey God, deceived by the angel, who, envious of people for the sake of the many gifts that God gave them, and looking at it with enmity, both destroyed himself and made man sinful, persuading him not to obey the commandment of God. Thus, having at first become the head and leader of sin in his deceit, the angel himself was once smitten, after he had sinned against God, and then he led man to the loss of paradise. And since he, deceived by the dignity of his nature, rebelled and separated himself from God, he is called in the Hebrew language Satan, that is, an adversary; but he is also called a slanderer. God cursed the serpent that carried within itself an adversary, which curse was extended both to the animal itself and to the hidden angel, Satan, who nested in it. He removed man from His face, then blocking his path leading to paradise. For paradise does not accept sinners.

17. But when Adam and his wife Eve were out of Paradise, they fell into many calamities and confusion, and walked in this world with sorrow and sorrow and sighing. For man under the rays of this sun tilled the earth, and it brought him thorns and thistles, as a punishment for sin. Then it was also written: "Adam knew his wife, and when she conceived, she bore Cain, and afterwards gave birth to Abel" (Gen. 2:10). IV,1–2). But the rebellious angel, who led man to disobedience and made him sinful and was the cause of his expulsion from paradise, not being satisfied with the first evil, committed the second among the brothers; for, having filled Cain with his spirit, he made him a fratricide. And so Abel died, having been slain by his brother, as a sign that henceforth some would be persecuted and oppressed and put to death, but the unrighteous would kill and persecute the righteous. Being even more angry at this, God cursed Cain, and this curse spread over each of his entire family, by inheritance from child to child, like a sower. God raised up another son for Adam in the place of the slain Abel.

18. And evil, spreading and spreading, took possession of the whole human race, so that there was too little seed of righteousness in them, and on earth there was a mixture between the various elements; for the angels mingled with the daughters of the sons of men, who bore them children, who were called earth-born because of their extraordinary stature. Then the angels brought an evil teaching as a gift to their wives; For they taught them the powers of roots and herbs, as well as the art of dyeing and rouge, and the manufacture of costly fabrics, magic remedies for hatred, love, ardent passion, and amorous seductions, magic bandages, all kinds of juggling and God-hating idolatry, through the introduction of which into the world the work of the evil one was exalted, and the work of righteousness, diminished, weakened,

19. until the judgment of God came upon the world by means of a flood in the tenth generation, in which Noah alone, after the first-created, proved righteous, and for his righteousness he himself remained alive, so he shut up his wife and his three sons and three wives of his sons in the ark, together with all the animals that God commanded to take with him into the ark. And then destruction befell all both people and animals that were on the earth — only the one who took refuge in the ark remained alive. The three sons of Poi were: Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom the (human) race multiplied again; for after the flood men received their beginning from them.