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EPHİPHANES'İN DOĞRULUK ÜZERİNE YAZDIKLARI
- İNGİLİZCE TERCÜME
Ephiphanes, the Son of Carpocrates: On Righteousness
Estimated Range of Dating: 130-160 A.D.
Archive Notes
The ideas of Mine and Thine crept in through the laws which cause
the earth, money, and even marriage no longer to bring forth fruit
of common use. For God made vines for all to use in common, since they
do not refuse the sparrow or the thief; and similarly wheat and other
fruits. But outlawed sharing and the vestiges of equality generated
the thief of domestic animals and fruits. For man God made all things
to be common property. He brought the female to be with the male in
common and in the same way united all the animals. He thus showed
rightousness to be a universal sharing along with equality. But those
who have been born in this way have denied the sharing which is the
corollary of their origin and say Let him who has taken one woman keep
her, whereas all can share her, just as the other animals show us.
With view to the permanence of the race, he has implanted in males a
strong and ardent desire which neither law nor custom nor any other
restraint is able to destroy. For it is God´s decree......
Consequently one must understand the saying You shall not desire
as if the lawgiver was making a jest, to which he added the even more
comic words Your neighbors goods. For he himself gave the desire to
sustain the race orders that it is to be supposed, though he removes
it from no other animals. And by the words Your neighbors wife he
says something even more ludicrous, since he forces what should be
common property to be treated as private posession.
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