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Seth the Allogenes and blasphemy against the Creator

7. Again these same people say that Adam, joined to Eve his own wife, begot Seth, by nature his own son. And then they say that the power above, together with the angels who serve the good God, came down and snatched away Seth himself,

whom they also call Allogenes, and carried him up somewhere and reared him for a sufficient time, so that he might not be killed; and after a long time they brought him down again into this world and made him spiritual and †bodily†, so that neither the one against him nor the other authorities and principalities of the world-making God might prevail over him.

They say that he no longer served the maker and craftsman, but recognized the unnameable power and the good God above, served him, and revealed many things against the maker of the world and against the principalities and authorities. †For him† they have also fashioned 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 that he begot seven called Allogenes, as we have also said in other heresies—I mean those of the Gnostics and the Sethians.

These people also say that there are other prophets, a certain Martiades and Marsianos, who were snatched up into the heavens and after three days came down again.

And there are many things that they invent by myth-making and fashion falsely, and they fabricate blasphemies against the true God Almighty, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, as though he were a ruler and an inventor of wickedness—as they are caught from their own words among them.

For if he is an inventor of evils and a doer of harm, how would he not at once be found good, as we have also said in the other heresies, seeing that he legislated against fornication and adultery and plunder and greed? For they themselves also call him 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 father of Satan who has shown so many things against him?

And if he is alien to the God above of whom they speak, and is not himself the God Almighty, our King and Lord, who in the law and in the prophets and in the Gospels and apostles is himself God the Lord, and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ—how does the Lord clearly teach us in the Gospel, saying, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,” so as to show that his Father is God of all?