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Epiphany service the following line Σήμερον παράδεισος ήνεῳκται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις 188 [handwritten: ἀνθρώποις] and paradise is spoken of as the Garden of Eden, ὁ παράδεισος [handwritten: φυτεύεται ἐν Ἐδέμ κατ' ἀνατολάς 189] This restoration of man to the Garden of Eden or paradise is depicted in the xxx baptistery at Dura-Europos by the collocation in one panel of the good shepard and Adam and Eve. 190 The devil or monster then becomes the xxx xxx snake who tempted Eve. Origen wrote [handwritten: Ἰησοῦς δὲ συνοδεύοντος Σωτῆρος ἐπὶ τὸν παράδεισον, κατὰ πρόνοιαν τοῦ ὄφεως ... 191 νικημένου καὶ γυντριβέντος ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ 192]
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In the drawing preserved in the Vienna Genesis, moreover, the Garden of Eden is xxxx shown with gates. In one of the hymns of Ephraem, the Syrian, sung to those who had just been baptized, Jesus is he qui aperit vobis xx januam Paradisi et introducit in Eden. 194 Indeed in this respect and that of the juxtaposition of light and the introduction of baptism, the following part of the Syriac rite of the blessing of the waters is pertinent-"by Thy coming in the flesh Thou hast restored to his former divine xxxxx estate man who had fallen there-
Handwritten: his own negligence, inasmuch as he erred through
from through, the counsel of a woman, and Thou hast washed away from him by the washing of the second birth the filth which had come upon him; do Thou, now, O Lord, Who hast brought us into this hour, be among us, and in driving away from our souls the darkness of ignorance fill us with that light which is above the world. Similar xxx statements occur in the Nestorian 195
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