The article is devoted to the study of patristic, mostly Greek-language interpretations of the fragment of the verse Gen. 3. 22 " and the Lord God said: behold, Adam became as one of Us, knowing good and evil." There are three main strategies for interpreting this fragment. First, the most common (from the Hieromartyr. Justin the Philosopher before the prof. Maxim of the Confessor), notes in it the irony of God, aimed at showing Adam that the serpent's promise to "become like the gods" was not fulfilled, and at the same time calling Adam to repentance. The features of the Armenian and Antiochian versions of this paradigm, possibly Dating back to the pseudo-Clement tradition, are highlighted. The second strategy, developed in the Alexandrian tradition (Origen and Didymus the Blind), reads " one of Us "as" one of " the original community of God and all the intelligent forces, among which was the devil, who fell away from God, and who then became like Adam in his fall. The third strategy was developed in the context of the Christological theology of the fourth and sixth Ecumenical councils (SVT. Cyril of Alexandria and prof. Anastasia sinait) and is itself Christological: "one of Us" denotes the Word of God as the second Hypostasis of the Holy spirit. The Trinity, and the likeness of Adam to God is considered from the point of view of the fundamental analogy of Christ — the second Adam and Adam the first. The author compares the arguments used in each strategy, shows the internal consistency of each of them and the difficulties that arise when correlating them with each other.