Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 41

ed. Paul Wendland

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[41] χρὴ τοίνυν εἰδέναι ὅτι τῶν λεχθέντων ἕκαστον ὀνομάτων ἑρμηνευθὲν διπλοῦν ἐστιν. ἑρμηνεύεται δ’ ὁ μὲν Ἐνώχ, καθάπερ εἶπον, χάρις σου, Μαθουσάλα δ’ ἐξαποστολὴ θανάτου,
ὁ δ’ αὖ Λάμεχ ταπείνωσις. τὸ μὲν οὖν „χάρις σου“ λέγεται μὲν πρὸς τὸν ἐν ἡμῖν νοῦν ὑπ’ ἐνίων, λέγεται δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὸν τῶν ὅλων ὑπὸ τῶν ἀμεινόνων.

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.) — 41 focus

[41] We must therefore be aware that each of the aforesaid names, being interpreted, has a double signification; for Enoch, being interpreted, means, as I have already said, "thy grace," and Methusaleh means, the sending forth of death. Lamech, again means, humiliation. Now the expression, "Thy grace," is by some persons referred to the mind that is in us; and by more learned and sounder interpreters it is referred to the mind of other persons.

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