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Adam his wife Eve. In the 70th year their firstborn son Cain was born to them. In the 77th year they say that the righteous Abel was born. In the 85th year a daughter was born to them, and they named her Asuam. In the 97th year Cain brought an offering. In the 99th year Abel brought a sacrifice to God, being 22 years old, at the full moon of the 7th month among the Hebrews, that is, at the feast of tabernacles. It is to be noted that scripture calls Cain's offering of fruits a sacrifice, but Abel's gifts, showing the manner of each. In the same year Cain killed Abel, and the first-formed mourned him for four weeks of years, that is, 28 years. In the 127th year Adam and Eve put away their mourning. In the 135th year Cain took his own sister Asaunan, being 50 years old. and he was 65 years old. From the divine scripture concerning the race of Cain: And Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bore Enoch. and he was building a city and he named the city after the name of his son, Enoch. and to Enoch was born Gaidad; and Gaidad begot 9 Maleleel; and Maleleel begot Mathusala; and Mathusala begot Lamech. this Lamech, being the sixth from Cain, who first among men became a murderer, took two wives and committed a second murder. Cain, therefore, the first murderer of the righteous Abel, bears the type of the devil, as an inventor of evil and appearing unrepentant at the beginning of the creation of the world, but Lamech bears the type of the Jewish deicidal people who, in the middle of the 6th age, crucified the savior, whose sin and vengeance is also manifold. But the Lord is also the 77th from Adam. In the 196th year Enoch was born to Cain. This one first invented the plow. In the 197th year Cain built a city in the name of his son Enoch; but Abel cared for righteousness. Cain after the condemnation became more of a robber and greedy person, having first devised measures and weights and boundaries of land. and having gathered his own into one, he taught them to be occupied in wars. This one was low to the ground from the curse of God, and all who were born from him. And he dwelt in the land which is trembling, being low, being separated from Seth, according to the command of Adam. those from Seth, called sons of God and watchers, dwelt in the higher land of Eden near paradise. In the 230th year of Adam, in which Seth was born, it was the 160th year of Cain. And in the 234th year he begot a daughter, whom he named Azuran. In the 243rd year of Adam, Seth was weaned. In the 270th year of Adam, Seth, having been snatched up by angels, was initiated into the things concerning the transgression that was to be of the watchers, and concerning the coming flood of water, and concerning the advent of the savior. and having become unseen for 40 days, he came and explained to the first-formed all that he was initiated into by angels. and he was then 40 years old. Seth was pious and very well-formed, and all those from him were pious and beautiful. These, according to the command of Adam, dwelt in the higher land of Eden, opposite paradise, living like angels, until the thousandth cosmic year. The author of evil, not bearing to see their virtuous way of life, wounded them with the beauty of the then daughters of men, 10 concerning whom the divine Moses also says that the sons of God, seeing that the daughters of men were beautiful, took wives for themselves from them. In the 425th year Seth took for a wife Azuran his own sister. And Seth was 195 years old, and Azura was 191 years old. In the 435th year Enos was born to Seth. This one, having become one hundred and ninety years old, begot Cainan in the 625th year. From Adam until the birth of Enos, four hundred and thirty-five years, as the scripture shows: Enos hoped to call upon the name of the Lord God first, that is, to be addressed by the name of God. For Enos is interpreted as 'man' according to the Hebrew understanding. and thus also the savior, son of the existing man, according to the natural argument of Africanus. First period of 532 years in this year

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Ἀδὰμ Εὔαν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ. Τῷ οʹ ἔτει ἐγεννήθη αὐτοῖς πρωτοτόκος υἱὸς ὁ Κάιν. Τῷ οζʹ ἔτει φασὶ γεγενῆσθαι τὸν δίκαιον Ἄβελ. Τῷ πεʹ ἔτει ἐγεννήθη αὐτοῖς θυγάτηρ, καὶ ὠνόμασαν αὐτὴν Ἀσουάμ. Τῷ ζζʹ ἔτει προσήνεγκε Κάιν. Τῷ ζθʹ ἔτει Ἄβελ ἀνήνεγκε θυσίαν τῷ θεῷ κβʹ ἔτος ἄγων, κατὰ τὴν πανσέληνον τοῦ ζʹ μηνὸς παρ' Ἑβραίοις, ἤγουν ἐν τῇ σκηνοπηγίᾳ. Σημειωτέον ὅτι τὴν Κάιν καρποφορίαν θυσίαν καλεῖ ἡ γραφή, τὰ δὲ τοῦ Ἄβελ δῶρα, δηλοῦσα τὸν τρόπον ἑκατέρου. Τῷ αὐτῷ θʹ ἔτει ἀνεῖλεν ὁ Κάιν τὸν Ἄβελ, καὶ ἐπένθησαν αὐτὸν οἱ πρωτόπλαστοι ἑβδομαδικοὺς δʹ, ἤγουν ἔτη κηʹ. Τῷ ρκζʹ ἔτει ὁ Ἀδὰμ καὶ ἡ Εὔα ἀπέθεντο τὸ πένθος. Τῷ ρλεʹ ἔτει ἔλαβεν ὁ Κάιν τὴν ἰδίαν ἀδελφὴν Ἀσαυνᾶν οὖσαν ἐτῶν νʹ. αὐτὸς δὲ ἦν ἐτῶν ξεʹ. Τῆς θείας γραφῆς περὶ τοῦ γένους Κάιν Καὶ ἔγνω Κάιν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ καὶ συλλαβοῦσα ἔτεκε τὸν Ἐνώχ. καὶ ἦν οἰκοδομῶν πόλιν καὶ ἐπωνόμασε τὴν πόλιν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἐνώχ. ἐγεννήθη δὲ τῷ Ἐνὼχ Γαϊδάδ· καὶ Γαϊδὰδ ἐγέννησε τὸν 9 Μαλελεήλ· καὶ Μαλελεὴλ ἐγέννησε τὸν Μαθουσάλα· καὶ Μαθουσάλα ἐγέννησε τὸν Λάμεχ. οὗτος ὁ Λάμεχ ἕκτος ὢν ἀπὸ Κάιν, ὃς πρῶτος ἐν ἀνθρώποις φονεὺς ἐγένετο, ἔλαβε δύο γυναῖκας καὶ δεύτερον φόνον ἐποίησε. Κάιν οὖν πρῶτος φονεὺς Ἄβελ τοῦ δικαίου τύπον φέρει τοῦ διαβόλου, ὡς ἐφευρετὴς τοῦ κακοῦ καὶ ἀμεταμέλητος ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς κοσμογονίας φανείς, Λάμεχ δὲ τύπον φέρει τοῦ Ἰουδαϊκοῦ κυριοκτόνου λαοῦ κατὰ τὸν ςʹ αἰῶνα μεσοῦντα σταυρώσαντος τὸν σωτῆρα, οὗ καὶ πολλαπλασίως ἡ ἁμαρτία καὶ ἡ ἐκδίκησις. ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ κύριος οζʹ ἀπὸ Ἀδάμ. Τῷ ρ ζςʹ ἔτει ἐγεννήθη τῷ Κάιν ὁ Ἐνώχ. οὗτος πρῶτος ἄροτρον εὗρεν. Τῷ ρ ζζʹ ἔτει Κάιν ἔκτισε πόλιν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἐνώχ· Ἄβελ δὲ δικαιοσύνης ἐφρόντιζεν. ὁ Κάιν μετὰ τὴν καταδίκην ἅρπαξ καὶ πλεονέκτης μᾶλλον ἐγένετο μέτρα καὶ σταθμία καὶ ὅρους γῆς πρῶτος ἐπινοήσας. τοὺς δὲ οἰκείους εἰς ἓν συναγαγὼν ἐν πολέμοις ἀσχολεῖσθαι ἐδίδασκεν. οὗτος χθαμαλὸς ἦν ἀπὸ τῆς κατάρας τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ πάντες οἱ ἐξ αὐτοῦ γεννώμενοι. ᾤκει δὲ τὴν γῆν ἥτις ἐστὶ τρέμουσα, χαμηλὴ οὖσα, κεχωρισμένος ὑπάρχων ἐκ τοῦ Σήθ, κατὰ πρόσταξιν τοῦ Ἀδάμ. οἱ ἐκ τοῦ Σὴθ υἱοὶ θεοῦ λεγόμενοι καὶ ἐγρήγοροι τὴν ὑψηλοτέραν γῆν τῆς Ἐδὲμ πλησίον τοῦ παραδείσου κατῴκουν. Τῷ σλʹ ἔτει Ἀδάμ, ἐν ᾧ ὁ Σὴθ ἐγεννήθη, ρξʹ ἔτος ὑπῆρχε τοῦ Κάιν. Τῷ δὲ σλδʹ ἔτει ἐγέννησε θυγατέρα, ἣν ὠνόμασεν Ἀζουράν. Τῷ σμγʹ ἔτει τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ἀπεγαλακτίσθη ὁ Σήθ. Τῷ σοʹ ἔτει τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ὁ Σὴθ ἁρπαγεὶς ὑπὸ ἀγγέλων ἐμυήθη τὰ περὶ τῆς παραβάσεως μέλλοντα ἔσεσθαι τῶν ἐγρηγόρων, καὶ τὰ περὶ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ τοῦ ὕδατος ἐσομένου καὶ τὰ περὶ τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ σωτῆρος. καὶ γενόμενος ἄφαντος ἡμέρας μʹ ἐλθὼν ἐξηγήσατο τοῖς πρωτοπλάστοις ὅσα ἐμυήθη δι' ἀγγέλων. ἦν δὲ τότε ἐτῶν μʹ. ὁ Σὴθ εὐσεβὴς ἦν καὶ εὐδιά πλαστος σφόδρα καὶ οἱ ἐξ αὐτοῦ πάντες εὐσεβεῖς καὶ ὡραῖοι ἦσαν. οὗτοι κατὰ πρόσταγμα τοῦ Ἀδὰμ τὴν ὑψηλοτέραν γῆν ᾤκουν τῆς Ἐδέμ, κατέναντι τοῦ παραδείσου, ἀγγελικῶς βιοῦντες, ἕως τοῦ χιλιοστοῦ κοσμικοῦ ἔτους. τούτων τὴν ἐνάρετον πολιτείαν μὴ φέρων ὁ ἀρχέκακος βλέπειν, εἰς τὴν ὡραιότητα τῶν τότε θυγατέρων τῶν ἀνθρώπων αὐτοὺς ἔτρωσε, 10 περὶ ὧν φησι καὶ ὁ θεῖος Μωϋσῆς ὅτι ἰδόντες οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ θεοῦ τὰς θυγατέ ρας τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὅτι καλαί εἰσιν, ἔλαβον ἑαυτοῖς γυναῖκας ἐξ αὐτῶν. Τῷ υκεʹ ἔτει ὁ Σὴθ ἔλαβε γυναῖκα Ἀζουρὰν τὴν ἰδίαν ἀδελφήν. ἦν δὲ Σὴθ ἐτῶν ρ ζεʹ, Ἀζουρὰ δὲ ἐτῶν ρ ζαʹ. Τῷ υλεʹ ἔτει ἐγεννήθη τῷ Σὴθ ὁ Ἐνώς. οὗτος γενόμενος ἐτῶν ἑκατὸν ἐνενήκοντα ἐγέννησε τὸν Καϊνᾶν τῷ χκεʹ ἔτει. Ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως γεννήσεως Ἐνὼς ἔτη τετρακόσια τριάκοντα πέντε, δηλούσης τῆς γραφῆς· Ἐνὼς ἤλπισεν ἐπικαλεῖσθαι τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ πρῶτος, τοῦτ' ἔστι προσαγορεύεσθαι ὀνόματι θεοῦ. ἑρμηνεύεται γὰρ ὁ Ἐνὼς ὡσανεὶ ἄνθρωπος κατὰ τὸν Ἑβραϊκὸν νοῦν. οὕτω δὲ καὶ ὁ σωτὴρ υἱὸς τοῦ ὄντος ἀνθρώπου, κατὰ τὸν φυσικὸν λόγον Ἀφρικανοῦ. Πρώτη περίοδος τῶν φλβʹ ἐτῶν τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει