Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.xxix Pg 2.1
Anf-03 vi.iv.xxii Pg 18
Gen. iv. 2.
inasmuch as it might have named “wives of men,” or “females,” indifferently.8890 8890 i.e. If married women had been meant, either word, “uxores” or “feminæ,” could have been used indifferently.
Likewise, in that it saith, “And they took them to themselves for wives,”8891 8891
Anf-03 iv.ix.v Pg 4
See Gen. iv. 2–14. But it is to be observed that the version given in our author differs widely in some particulars from the Heb. and the LXX.
From this proceeding we gather that the twofold sacrifices of “the peoples” were even from the very beginning foreshown. In short, when the sacerdotal law was being drawn up, through Moses, in Leviticus, we find it prescribed to the people of Israel that sacrifices should in no other place be offered to God than in the land of promise; which the Lord God was about to give to “the people” Israel and to their brethren, in order that, on Israel’s introduction thither, there should there be celebrated sacrifices and holocausts, as well for sins as for souls; and nowhere else but in the holy land.1199 1199
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 4
VERSE (2) - Ge 30:29-31; 37:13; 46:32-34; 47:3 Ex 3:1 Ps 78:70-72 Am 7:15
