Chapter 1 of the “Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius” (7th century): Adam and Eve Were Virgins When They Left Eden

 

 

Know that when Adam and Eve left Paradise they were virgins (‘Ιστεον οτι εξελθοντες ο τε Αδαμ και η Ευα εκ παραδεισου παρθενοι ετυγχανον). In the thirtieth year after their departure from Paradise <Adam knew his wife Eve and she conceived and> bore Cain their firstborn and his sister Calmana. And after another thirty years she gave birth to Abel along with his sister Deborah. (Apocalypse Pseudo-Methodius: An Alexandrian World Chronicle [trans. Benjamin Garstad; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 14; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012], 3)