In the Christian tradition, hedonism is often considered a sinful way of life that separates human beings from the love of God, or from contact with divine essence. However, this talk will focus on a different tradition, one that actually tried to defending the perspective that genuinely pleasurable existence is inseparable from Christian beliefs and religion by proposing an "impervious reading" of the Bible. I refer to philosophers such as Augustine of Hippo, Lorenzo Valla, Francesco Filelfo, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and Pierre Gassendi, who could be defined as "Christian hedonists" inasmuch as they attempted to show that pleasure is a good that can be obtained by living a religious life. In order to ground their theory, they translated in Latin passages from the Old Gospel that present hedonism in a pious way. In particular, this talk will focus on two case-studies. On the one hand, I will focus on the translation/interpretation of the garden of Eden of the Genesis, as both the foreshadowing of the Christian paradise and a representation of the condition of human beings before their fall from God, or before the sinful corruption. The name of the garden itself is telling: "Eden" comes from the Hebrew term "Hedna", i.e. the word that gave birth to the notion of ἡδονή. Therefore, it will be argued that Christian hedonists read/translated this episode as proof that pleasure is the good, since before their expulsion from Eden Adam and Eve only had pleasurable experiences, including direct contact with divinity. On the other hand, I will reconstruct the exegesis of the "Psalms". Christian hedonists sought in this collection of poems the proof that loving God and leading a religious life reward one with a divine pleasurable life. An example is psalm 36. According to the Latin version, the psalmist prays divinity to inundate him with a torrent of pleasure ("torrens voluptatis").