Genesis 4:18
And Henoch begot Irad, and Irad begot Maviael, and Maviael begot Mathusael, and Mathusael begot Lamech:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Porro Henoch genuit Irad, et Irad genuit Maviaël, et Maviaël genuit Mathusaël, et Mathusaël genuit Lamech.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐγενήθη δὲ τῷ Ἑνὼχ Γαιδάδ, καὶ Γαιδὰδ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Μαιήλ, καὶ Μαιὴλ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Μαθουσαλά, καὶ Μαθουσαλὰ ἐγέννησεν ⸆ τὸν Λάμεχ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּוָּלֵ֤ד לַֽחֲנוֹךְ֙ אֶת עִירָ֔ד וְעִירָ֕ד יָלַ֖ד אֶת מְחֽוּיָאֵ֑ל וּמְחִיּיָאֵ֗ל יָלַד֙ אֶת מְת֣וּשָׁאֵ֔ל וּמְתוּשָׁאֵ֖ל יָלַ֥ד אֶת לָֽמֶךְ
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity, Chapter V
For the laying down of the law of once marrying, the very origin of the human race is our authority; witnessing as it emphatically does what God constituted in the beginning for a type to be examined with care by posterity. For when He had moulded man, and had foreseen that a peer was necessary for him, He borrowed from his ribs one, and fashioned for him one woman; whereas, of course, neither the Artificer nor the material would have been insufficient (for the creation of more). There were more ribs in Adam, and hands that knew no weariness in God; but not more wives in the eye of God. And accordingly the man of God, Adam, and the woman of God, Eve, discharging mutually (the duties of) one marriage, sanctioned for mankind a type by (the considerations of) the authoritative precedent of their origin and the primal will of God. …
St Augustine City of God, Of the Two Fathers and Leaders Who Sprang from One Progenitor
Since, then, Adam was the father of both lines, the father, that is to say, both of the line which belonged to the earthly, and of that which belonged to the heavenly city, when Abel was slain, and by his death exhibited a marvellous mystery, there were henceforth two lines proceeding from two fathers, Cain and Seth, and in those sons of theirs, whom it behoved to register, the tokens of these two cities began to appear more distinctly. For Cain begat Enoch, in whose name he built a city, an earthly one, which was not from home in this world, but rested satisfied with its temporal peace and happiness. …
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X, Chapter XXI. The answer to the question raised
Serenus : You have propounded two not unimportant questions, to which I will reply, to the best of my ability, in the order in which you have raised them. We cannot possibly believe that spiritual existences can have carnal intercourse with women. But if this could ever have literally happened how is it that it does not now also sometimes take place, and that we do not see some in the same way born of women by the agency of demons without intercourse with men? especially when it is clear that they delight in the pollution of lust, which they would certainly prefer to bring about through their own agency rather than through that of men, if they could possibly manage it, as Ecclesiastes declares: “What is it that hath been? The same that is. And what is it that hath been done? The same that is done. …