Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 10

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[10] 3 | τὸν μὲν οὖν Ἀδὰμ ὁ θεὸς ἐκβάλλει, ὁ δὲ Κάιν ἐθελοντὴς ¹ ἐξέρχεται, δηλοῦντος ἡμῖν Μωυσέως ἑκατέρου τρόπου εἶδος, ἑκούσιόν τε καὶ ἀκούσιον. ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν ἀκούσιον ἅτε οὐχ ἡμετέρᾳ γνώμῃ συνιστάμενον λήψεται τὴν ἐνδεχομένην αὖθις ἴασιν· „ἐξαναστήσει γὰρ ὁ
θεὸς σπέρμα ἕτερον ἀντ’ Ἄβελ, ὃν ἀπέκτεινε Κάιν“ (Gen. 4, 25) ψυχῇ τῇ μὴ παρ’ ἑαυτῆς τραπείσῃ, γέννημα ἄρρεν, Σὴθ τὸν ποτισμόν.

De Posteritate Caini. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Posteritate Caini (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On the Posterity of Cain First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 10 focus

Accordingly God banished Adam; but Cain went forth from his presence of his own accord; Moses here showing to us the manner of each sort of absence from God, both the voluntary and the involuntary sort; but the involuntary sort as not existing in consequence of any intention on our part, will subsequently have such a remedy applied to it as the case admits of; for God will raise up another offspring in the place of Abel, whom Cain slew, a male offspring for the soul which has not turned by its own intention, by name Seth, which name being interpreted means irrigation;

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