Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 66

ed. Paul Wendland

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[66] 19 Υἱὸς δὲ τοῦ Ἐνὼχ λέγεται Γαϊδάδ (Gen. 4, 18), ὃ ἑρμηνεύεται ποίμνιον, σφόδρα ἀκολούθως· τὸν γὰρ τῷ νῷ χαριζόμενον τὰ πάντα τῷ μηδὲ τὴν αὑτοῦ φύσιν ἥτις ἐστὶ καταλαβεῖν δυναμένῳ γεννᾶν
ἀλόγους ἥρμοττε δυνάμεις, ἀγειρομένας εἰς ποίμνιον· οὐ γὰρ λογικῶν ἀνδρῶν τὸ δόγμα.

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.) — 66 focus

Now the son of Enoch is called Gaidad, ¹ which, being interpreted, means a flock of sheep, very consistently with what has gone before; for he who attributes everything to the mind, which is not able to comprehend even its own nature, so as to pronounce what kind of thing it is, would be very likely to beget a number of irrational powers collected into one flock; for such is not the opinion of men who are able to reason.

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