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Thus the beginning of death came to travel into this world until this very day upon the whole race of men. But God, being merciful and wishing to provide an occasion for repentance and confession to Cain, just as also to Adam, said: "Where is Abel your brother?" But Cain answered God disobediently, saying: "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?" Thus God, being angered with him, said: "What is this that you have done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand; you shall be a groaner and a trembler on the earth." For which reason, from that time, the earth, being afraid, no longer accepts the blood of man, nor even of any animal; from which it is clear that it is not the cause, but the man who transgressed. Cain, therefore, also had a son whose name was Enoch. And he built a city, which he named after the name of his son, Enoch. From that time came the beginning of the building of cities, and this before the flood, not as Homer falsely says: "For not yet was the city of mortal men inhabited." And to Enoch was born a son named Gaidad; he begot the one called Meel, and Meel begot Methuselah, and Methuselah begot Lamech. And Lamech took for himself two wives, whose names were Adah and Zillah. From that time came the beginning of polygamy, but also of music. For to Lamech were born three sons, Obel, Jubal, Thobel. And Obel became a man who dwelt in tents, a cattle-breeder, but Jubal is he who introduced the psaltery and harp, and Thobel became a hammerer, a smith of bronze and iron. Up to this point, therefore, the seed of Cain had its catalog; and for the rest, his genealogical seed has passed into oblivion, because he murdered his brother. But in the place of Abel, God granted Eve to conceive and bear a son, who is called Seth; from whom the rest of the race of men proceeds to this very day. And for those who are willing and studious, it is easy to demonstrate concerning all the generations through the holy scriptures. For indeed, an account has already been given by us in part in another discourse, as we have said above, the order of the genealogy in the first book concerning histories. But all these things the Holy Spirit teaches us, through Moses and the other prophets, so that the writings concerning us, the God-fearing, happen to be more ancient, and indeed are also shown to be truer than all historians and poets. But indeed, concerning music, some have talked nonsense that Apollo was its inventor, while others say that Orpheus invented music from the sweet song of birds. But their account is shown to be empty and vain; for these men came into being many years after the flood. And concerning Noah, who is called by some Deucalion, the narrative has been given by us in the book which we mentioned before, in which, if you wish, also

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οὕτως ἀρχὴ θανάτου ἐγένετο εἰς τόνδε τὸν κόσμον ὁδοιπορεῖν ἕως τοῦ δεῦρο ἐπὶ πᾶν γένος ἀνθρώπων. Ὁ δὲ θεὸς ἐλεήμων ὢν καὶ βουλόμενος ἀφορμὴν μετανοίας καὶ ἐξομολογήσεως παρασχεῖν τῷ Κάϊν, καθάπερ καὶ τῷ Ἀδάμ, εἶπεν· "Ποῦ Ἄβελ ὁ ἀδελφός σου;" ὁ δὲ Κάϊν ἀπεκρίθη ἀπειθῶς τῷ θεῷ εἰπών· Ὅὐ γινώσκω· μὴ φύλαξ εἰμὶ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ μου;" οὕτως ὀργισθεὶς αὐτῷ ὁ θεὸς ἔφη· "Τί ἐποίησας τοῦτο; φωνὴ αἵματος τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου βοᾷ πρός με ἐκ τῆς γῆς. καὶ νῦν ἐπικατάρατος σὺ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, ἣ ἔχανεν δέξασθαι τὸ αἷμα τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου ἐκ χειρός σου· στένων καὶ τρέμων ἔσῃ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς." διὸ ἔκτοτε φοβηθεῖσα ἡ γῆ οὐκέτι ἀνθρώπου αἷμα παραδέχεται, ἀλλ' οὐδέ τινος ζώου· ᾗ φανερὸν ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτὴ αἰτία, ἀλλ' ὁ παραβὰς ἄνθρωπος. Ὁ οὖν Κάϊν καὶ αὐτὸς ἔσχεν υἱὸν ᾧ ὄνομα Ἐνώχ. καὶ ᾠκο- δόμησεν πόλιν, ἣν ἐπωνόμασεν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἐνώχ. ἀπὸ τότε ἀρχὴ ἐγένετο τοῦ οἰκοδομεῖσθαι πόλεις, καὶ τοῦτο πρὸ κατακλυσμοῦ, οὐχ ὡς Ὅμηρος ψεύδεται λέγων· Oὐ γάρ πω πεπόλιστο πόλις μερόπων ἀνθρώπων. Τῷ δὲ Ἐνὼχ ἐγενήθη υἱὸς ὀνόματι Γαϊδάδ· ἐγέννησεν τὸν καλούμενον Μεήλ, καὶ Μεὴλ τὸν Μαθουσάλα, καὶ Μα- θουσάλα τὸν Λάμεχ. ὁ δὲ Λάμεχ ἔλαβεν ἑαυτῷ δύο γυναῖκας, αἷς ὀνόματα Ἀδᾶ καὶ Σελᾶ. ἔκτοτε ἀρχὴ ἐγένετο τῆς πολυμιξίας, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς μουσικῆς. τῷ γὰρ Λάμεχ ἐγένοντο τρεῖς υἱοί, Ὠβὴλ, Ἰουβὰλ, Θοβέλ. καὶ ὁ μὲν Ὠβὴλ, ἐγένετο ἀνὴρ ἐν σκηναῖς κτηνοτροφῶν, Ἰουβὰλ δέ ἐστιν ὁ καταδείξας ψαλτήριον καὶ κιθάραν, Θοβὲλ δὲ ἐγένετο σφυροκόπος χαλκεὺς χαλκοῦ καὶ σιδήρου. ἕως μὲν οὖν τούτου ἔσχεν τὸν κατάλογον τὸ σπέρμα τοῦ Κάϊν· καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν εἰς λήθην αὐτοῦ γέγονεν τὸ σπέρμα τῆς γενεαλογίας, διὰ τὸ ἀδελφοκτονῆσαι αὐτὸν τὸν ἀδελφόν. Eἰς τὸν τόπον δὲ τοῦ Ἄβελ ἔδωκεν ὁ θεὸς συλλαβεῖν τὴν Eὔαν καὶ τεκεῖν υἱόν, ὃς κέκληται Σήθ· ἀφ' οὗ τὸ λοιπὸν γένος τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὁδεύει μέχρι τοῦ δεῦρο. τοῖς δὲ βουλομένοις καὶ φιλομαθέσιν καὶ περὶ πασῶν τῶν γενεῶν εὔκολόν ἐστιν ἐπιδεῖξαι διὰ τῶν ἁγίων γραφῶν. καὶ γὰρ ἐκ μέρους ἡμῖν γεγένηται ἤδη λόγος ἐν ἑτέρῳ λόγῳ, ὡς ἐπάνω προειρήκαμεν, τῆς γενεαλογίας ἡ τάξις ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ βίβλῳ τῇ περὶ ἱστοριῶν. Ταῦτα δὲ πάντα ἡμᾶς διδάσκει τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, τὸ διὰ Μωσέως καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν προφητῶν, ὥστε τὰ καθ' ἡμᾶς τοὺς θεοσεβεῖς ἀρχαιότερα γράμματα τυγχάνει, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀληθέ- στερα πάντων συγγραφέων καὶ ποιητῶν δείκνυται ὄντα. ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τὰ περὶ τῆς μουσικῆς ἐφλυάρησάν τινες εὑρετὴν Ἀπόλλωνα γεγενῆσθαι, ἄλλοι δὲ Ὀρφέα ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν ὀρνέων ἡδυφωνίας φασὶν ἐξευρηκέναι τὴν μουσικήν. κενὸς δὲ καὶ μάταιος ὁ λόγος αὐτῶν δείκνυται· μετὰ γὰρ πολλὰ ἔτη τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ οὗτοι ἐγένοντο. τὰ δὲ περὶ τοῦ Νῶε, ὃς κέκληται ὑπὸ ἐνίων ∆ευκαλίων, ἐν τῇ βίβλῳ ᾗ προειρήκαμεν ἡ διήγησις ἡμῖν γεγένηται ᾗ, εἰ βούλει, καὶ