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Chronologica (fort. auctore anonymo excerptorum chronologicorum) ANONYMI CHRONOLOGICA.

The book of the generation of men in the day that God made Adam according to his image and likeness. Thus then was the first man made by God, whose name was Adam, and his wife Eve; male and female God made them. And Adam begot from his wife three sons, Cain, Abel, and Seth, and two daughters, Azura and Asoam. And Adam, according to God's command, gave names to all the four-footed animals and birds and amphibians and reptiles and fish and to his own children; but his own name and that of his wife an angel of the Lord told them. And Cain took as his wife his first sister Azura, and Seth the second, Asoam; and Abel was both a virgin and righteous and a shepherd of sheep, from which bringing sacrifices to God and being accepted, he is killed, being envied by his brother Cain.

4 But Cain, being a farmer, and living worse after his condemnation, was the first to invent measures and weights and boundaries of the earth; then having founded a city in the land of Naid opposite Eden, he named it after his son Enos, and having compelled his kinsmen to come together into one place, he occupied himself with wars. And after these things, he died when his house fell on him, as some say, but others that Lamech killed him. But Cain begot Enos, and Enos begot Gaidad, and Gaidad begot Maleleel, and Maleleel begot Mathusala, and Mathusala begot Lamech, who, taking two wives, Eldan and Selan, begot Iobel and Iubal and Thobel. And Iobel demonstrated animal husbandry, and Iubal demonstrated the psaltery and lyre, and Thobel the forging of bronze and iron. And one chose to dwell in tents and to raise cattle and to farm, and another devised lyre-playing and tragedies in addition to demonic practices, and the other contrived to supply swords and weapons for wars. Therefore the lineage of Cain, having been deemed worthy of mention up to this point, is separated from the number of the fathers, so that it is neither counted among the first, nor does it precede those that follow. Therefore, "whoever kills Cain shall suffer sevenfold vengeance" has such a solution: each one will die for his own sin, but you 5 who began the murder and became the instructor of the sin to others, will suffer sevenfold vengeance, that is, you will be punished seven times over and very much. For it is customary for scripture to use this number sevenfold, and it is indicative of an indefinite multitude, as in "render to our neighbors sevenfold" and "the barren has borne seven" and "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven." For among the things dared by Cain, the first sin is envy, 2nd deceit, 3rd murder, 4th that it was of a brother, 5th that it was the first murder, 6th that he caused grief to his parents, 7th that he lied to God; these are the 7 sins of Cain. And the punishments brought against him for his chastisement by divine justice are these. 1st, cursed is the ground from you, 2nd, you will work the ground, 3rd, it will not yield to you its strength, 4th groaning and trembling, with the 5th together, you shall be upon the earth, 6th which Cain himself revealed, saying, If you cast me out now from you, and from your face I shall be hidden, 7th that the punishment not even be hidden, but be made plain to all by a clear sign; for, it says, the Lord God set a mark on Cain, so that anyone who found him should not kill him.

And Adam was 230 years old when he begot Seth. This Seth was the first to discover Hebrew letters and wisdom and the signs 6 of the heaven and the turnings of the years and the months and the weeks, and he gave names to the stars and

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Chronologica (fort. auctore anonymo excerptorum chronologicorum) ANONYMI CHRONOLOGICA.

Βίβλος γενέσεως ἀνθρώπων ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν Ἀδὰμ κατ' εἰκόνα καὶ ὁμοίωσιν αὐτοῦ. οὕτω μὲν οὖν ὁ πρῶτος ἐγένετο ἄνθρωπος παρὰ θεοῦ, ᾧ ὄνομα Ἀδάμ, καὶ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ Εὔα· ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ ἐποίησεν αὐτοὺς ὁ θεός. ὁ δὲ Ἀδὰμ ἐγέννησεν ἐκ τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ υἱοὺς τρεῖς, τὸν Καΐν, τὸν Ἀβέλ, καὶ τὸν Σήθ, καὶ θυγατέρας δύο, τὴν Ἀζουρὰν καὶ τὴν Ἀσουάμ. καὶ ὁ μὲν Ἀδὰμ κατὰ κέλευσιν θεοῦ ἐπέθηκεν ὀνόματα πᾶσι τοῖς τετραπόδοις καὶ πετεινοῖς καὶ ἀμφιβίοις καὶ ἑρπετοῖς καὶ ἰχθύσι καὶ τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ τέκνοις· τὸ δὲ αὐτοῦ ὄνομα καὶ τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ ἄγγελος κυρίου εἶπεν αὐτοῖς. καὶ ὁ μὲν Κάϊν ἔλαβε γυναῖκα τὴν πρώτην ἀδελφὴν αὐτοῦ Ἀζουράν, Σὴθ δὲ τὴν δευτέραν Ἀσουάμ· καὶ ὁ μὲν Ἀβὲλ παρθένος τε καὶ δίκαιος ὑπῆρχε καὶ ποιμὴν προβάτων, ἐξ ὧν θυσίας προσαγαγὼν τῷ θεῷ καὶ δεχθεὶς ἀναιρεῖται, φθονηθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ Καΐν.

4 Ὁ δὲ Καῒν γεωργὸς τυγχάνων, καὶ μετὰ τὴν καταδίκην χειρόνως βιώσας, πρῶτος μέτρα καὶ στάθμια καὶ γῆς ὅρους ἐπενόησεν· εἶτα κτίσας ἐν γῇ Ναῒδ πόλιν κατέναντι Ἐδὲμ ἐπωνόμασεν αὐτὴν εἰς ὄνομα τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἐνώς, καὶ εἰς ἓν συνελθεῖν τοὺς οἰκείους αὐτοῦ ἀναγκάσας εἰς πολέμους ἑαυτὸν ἀπησχόλει. κατὰ δὲ ταῦτα τῆς οἰκίας ἐπ' αὐτὸν πεσούσης ἀπέθανεν, ὡς ἔνιοί φασιν, ἕτεροι δὲ ὅτι Λαμὲχ αὐτὸν ἀπέκτεινεν. ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν Καῒν ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἐνώς, ὁ δὲ Ἐνὼς τὸν Γαϊδάδ, ὁ δὲ Γαϊδὰδ τὸν Μαλελεήλ, ὁ δὲ Μαλελεὴλ τὸν Μαθουσάλα, ὁ δὲ Μαθουσάλα τὸν Λαμέχ, ὃς καὶ δύο γυναῖκας ἀγόμενος, Ἐλδὰν καὶ Σελάν, ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἰοβὴλ καὶ τὸν Ἰουβὰλ καὶ τὸν Θοβέλ. ὁ δὲ μὲν Ἰοβὴλ κατέδειξεκτηνοτροφίαν, ὁ δὲ Ἰουβὰλ κατέδειξε ψαλτήριον καὶ κιθάραν, ὁ δὲ Θοβὲλ σφυροκοπίαν χαλκοῦ καὶ σιδήρου. καὶ ὁ μὲν ἐν σκηναῖς κατοικεῖν κτηνοτροφεῖν τε καὶ γεωργεῖν ᾑρετίσατο, ὁ δὲ κιθαρῳδίας καὶ τραγῳδίας τοῖς δαιμονικοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασι προσεπενόησεν, ὁ δὲ ξίφη τε καὶ ὅπλα χορηγεῖν εἰς πολέμους ἐμηχανήσατο. τὸ οὖν γένος Κάϊν μέχρι τούτου ἀξιωθὲν μνήμης τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τῶν πατέρων ἀποκρίνεται, ἵνα μήτε τοῖς πρώτοις ᾖ συνταττόμενος μήτε τῶν ἑξῆς ἀφηγούμενος. τὸ τοίνυν «πᾶς ὁ ἀποκτείνας Κάϊν ἑπτὰ ἐκδικούμενα παραλύσει» τοιαύτην ἔχει τὴν λύσιν· ἕκαστος μὲν τῷ ἑαυτοῦ ἁμαρτήματι ἀποθανεῖται, σὺ 5 δὲ ὁ τοῦ φόνου κατάρξας καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ὑφηγητὴς τοῦ ἁμαρτήματος γενόμενος ἑπτὰ ἐκδικούμενα παραλύσεις, τουτέστιν ἑπταπλασίως τιμωρηθήσῃ καὶ πάμπολλα. σύνηθες γὰρ τῇ γραφῇ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τοῦτον ἑπταπλασίονα κεχρῆσθαι, καὶ ἔστιν ἀδιορίστου πλήθους σημαντικόν, ὡς τὸ «ἀπόδος τοῖς γείτοσιν ἡμῶν ἑπταπλασίονα» καὶ τὸ «ἡ στεῖρα ἔτεκεν ἑπτά» καὶ «οὐ λέγω σοι ἕως ἑπτάκις, ἀλλ' ἕως ἑβδομήκοντα ζʹ.» ἐν μὲν γὰρ τοῖς παρὰ τοῦ Κάϊν τετολμημένοις πρῶτον ἁμάρτημα φθόνος, βʹ δόλος, γʹ φόνος, δʹ ὅτι ἀδελφοῦ, εʹ ὅτι πρῶτος φόνος, ςʹ ὅτι γονεῦσι πένθος ἐποίησεν, ζʹ ὅτι θεῷ ἐψεύσατο· ταῦτα μὲν τὰ τοῦ Κάϊν ζʹ ἁμαρτήματα. αἱ δὲ εἰς κόλασιν αὐτοῦ παρὰ τῆς θείας δίκης ἐπενεχθεῖσαι τιμωρίαι εἰσὶν αὗται. αʹ ἐπικατάρατος ἡ γῆ ἀπό σου, βʹ ἐργᾷ τὴν γῆν, γʹ οὐ προσθήσει τοῦ δοῦναί σοι τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῆς, δʹ στένων καὶ τρέμων, μετὰ τὴν εʹ ὁμοῦ, ἔσῃ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ςʹ ἣν αὐτὸς ἀπεκάλυψεν ὁ Κάϊν, εἰπών, Εἰ ἐκβάλλῃς με νῦν ἀπό σου καὶ ἀπὸ προσώπου σοῦ κρυβήσομαι, ζʹ τὸ μηδὲ κρύπτεσθαι τὴν τιμωρίαν, ἀλλὰ σημείῳ προδήλῳ πᾶσι δηλοποιεῖσθαι· ἔθετο γάρ, φησί, κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῷ Κάϊν σημεῖον τοῦ μὴ ἀνελεῖν αὐτὸν πάντα τὸν εὑρίσκοντα αὐτόν.

Ὁ δὲ Ἀδὰμ σλʹ ἐτῶν ἦν, ὅτε ἐγέννησε τὸν Σήθ. οὗτος ὁ Σὴθ πρῶτος ἐξεῦρε γράμματα Ἑβραϊκὰ καὶ σοφίαν καὶ τὰ σημεῖα 6 τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τὰς τροπὰς τῶν ἐνιαυτῶν καὶ τοὺς μῆνας καὶ τὰς ἑβδομάδας, καὶ τοῖς ἄστροις ἐπέθηκεν ὀνόματα καὶ