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Chapter XXV.—Cain’s Name and Nature.
“Hence the ambiguous name which she gave to
her first-born son, calling him Cain, which has
a capability of interpretation in two ways;970
| 970 [Note the fantastic
mysticism of this interpretation here given.—R.] | for
it is interpreted both Possession and
Envy, as signifying that in the future he was
to envy either a woman, or possessions, or the love of the parents
towards her.971
But if it be
none of these, then it will befall him to be called the Possession. For she possessed him first, which also
was advantageous to him. For he was a murderer and a liar, and
with his sins was not willing to be at peace with respect to the
government. Moreover, those who came forth by succession from him
were the first adulterers. And there were psalteries, and harps,
and forgers of instruments of war. Wherefore also the prophecy of
his descendants being full of adulterers and of psalteries, secretly by
means of pleasures excites to wars.
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