{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Since, then, Adam was the father of both lines,—the father,\r\nthat is to say, both of the line which belonged to the earthly,\r\nand of that which belonged to the heavenly city,—when Abel\r\nwas slain, and by his death exhibited a marvellous mystery,\r\nthere were henceforth two lines proceeding from two fathers,\r\nCain and Seth, and in those sons of theirs, whom it behoved\r\nto register, the tokens of these two cities began to appear\r\nmore distinctly. For Cain begat Enoch, in whose name he\r\nbuilt a city, an earthly one, which was not from home in this\r\nworld, but rested satisfied with its temporal peace and happiness.\r\nCain, too, means \"possession;\" wherefore at his birth\r\neither his father or mother said, \"I have gotten a man through\r\nGod.\" Then Enoch means \"dedication;\" for the earthly city\r\nis dedicated in this world in which it is built, for in this\r\nworld it finds the end towards which it aims and aspires.\r\nFurther, Seth signifies \"resurrection,\" and Enos his son signifies\r\n\"man,\" not as Adam, which also signifies man but is\r\nused in Hebrew indifferently for man and woman, as it is\r\nwritten, \"Male and female created He them, and blessed them,\r\nand called their name Adam,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_184_184\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_184_184\">[184]</a> leaving no room to doubt that\r\nthough the woman was distinctively called Eve, yet the name\r\nAdam, meaning man, was common to both. But Enos means\r\nman in so restricted a sense, that Hebrew linguists tell us it\r\ncannot be applied to woman: it is the equivalent of the\r\n\"child of the resurrection,\" when they neither marry nor are\r\ngiven in marriage.<a id=\"FNanchor_185_185\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_185_185\">[185]</a> For there shall be no generation in that\r\nplace to which regeneration shall have brought us. Wherefore\r\nI think it not immaterial to observe that in those generations<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_82\">[Pg 82]</a></span>\r\nwhich are propagated from him who is called Seth,\r\nalthough daughters as well as sons are said to have been\r\nbegotten, no woman is expressly registered by name; but in\r\nthose which sprang from Cain at the very termination to\r\nwhich the line runs, the last person named as begotten is a\r\nwoman. For we read, \"Methusael begat Lamech. And\r\nLamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was\r\nAdah, and the name of the other Zillah. And Adah bare\r\nJabal: he was the father of the shepherds that dwell in tents.\r\nAnd his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all\r\nsuch as handle the harp and organ. And Zillah, she also\r\nbare Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and\r\niron: and the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_186_186\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_186_186\">[186]</a> Here terminate\r\nall the generations of Cain, being eight in number,\r\nincluding Adam,—to wit, seven from Adam to Lamech, who\r\nmarried two wives, and whose children, among whom a woman\r\nalso is named, form the eighth generation. Whereby it is\r\nelegantly signified that the earthly city shall to its termination\r\nhave carnal generations proceeding from the intercourse\r\nof males and females. And therefore the wives themselves\r\nof the man who is the last named father of Cain's line are\r\nregistered in their own names,—a practice nowhere followed\r\nbefore the deluge save in Eve's case. Now as Cain, signifying\r\npossession, the founder of the earthly city, and his son\r\nEnoch, meaning dedication, in whose name it was founded,\r\nindicate that this city is earthly both in its beginning and in\r\nits end,—a city in which nothing more is hoped for than can\r\nbe seen in this world,—so Seth, meaning resurrection, and\r\nbeing the father of generations registered apart from the\r\nothers, we must consider what this sacred history says of\r\nhis son.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FIFTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-140"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1f4fab480f47d113f1a502c3a2ee26d03387baa1c2543fa68511d7aac1e169d2","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke xx. 35","verse":35,"verse_end":35}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_185_185","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_185_185","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_185_185\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_185_185\"><span class=\"label\">[185]</span></a> Luke xx. 35, 36.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_185_185","text_sha256":"b03836d3ebb418ad7c937580cdc97dce6361d73e01412208776a4bfdad7a82e3","verified":false,"work_id":null}