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PARALLEL HISTORY BIBLE - Genesis 4:4


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LXX- Greek Septuagint - Genesis 4:4

και 2532 αβελ 6 ηνεγκεν 5342 5656 και 2532 αυτος 846 απο 575 των 3588 πρωτοτοκων 4416 των 3588 προβατων 4263 αυτου 847 και 2532 απο 575 των 3588 στεατων αυτων 846 και 2532 επειδεν 1896 5627 ο 3588 3739 θεος 2316 επι 1909 αβελ 6 και 2532 επι 1909 τοις 3588 δωροις 1435 αυτου 847

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Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat: and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.

King James Bible - Genesis 4:4

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

World English Bible

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

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Anf-04 iii.xi.iii Pg 225, Anf-07 ix.ix.ii Pg 69, Anf-07 ix.ix.ii Pg 71, Anf-07 ix.viii.i Pg 62, Anf-07 ix.viii.ii Pg 80, Npnf-101 vii.1.CII Pg 30, Npnf-104 iv.ix.xxiv Pg 58, Npnf-108 ii.LXXVIII Pg 62, Npnf-109 xix.xiv Pg 45, Npnf-111 vii.ix Pg 50, Npnf-113 iv.iv.iii Pg 51, Npnf-114 v.xxvi Pg 35, Npnf-114 vi.xxvi Pg 35, Npnf-211 iv.iv.ix.xxiii Pg 5, Npnf-212 iii.iv.iv.xi Pg 4, Npnf-213 ii.v.lvii Pg 7

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Genesis 4:4

Early Christian Commentary - (A.D. 100 - A.D. 325)

Anf-01 ix.ii.iv Pg 20
Ex. xiii. 2; Luke ii. 23.

For He, being everything, opened the womb2697

2697 Not as being born of it, but as fecundating it, and so producing a manifold offspring. See below.

of the enthymesis of the suffering Æon, when it had been expelled from the Pleroma. This they also style the second Ogdoad, of which we shall speak presently. And they state that it was clearly on this account that Paul said, “And He Himself is all things;”2698

2698


Anf-03 v.vii.xxiii Pg 14
Ex. xiii. 2; Luke ii. 23.

For who is really holy but the Son of God? Who properly opened the womb but He who opened a closed one?7262

7262 Clausam: i.e. a virgin’s.

But it is marriage which opens the womb in all cases. The virgin’s womb, therefore, was especially7263

7263 Magis.

opened, because it was especially closed.  Indeed7264

7264 Utique.

she ought rather to be called not a virgin than a virgin, becoming a mother at a leap, as it were, before she was a wife.  And what must be said more on this point? Since it was in this sense that the apostle declared that the Son of God was born not of a virgin, but “of a woman,” he in that statement recognised the condition of the “opened womb” which ensues in marriage.7265

7265 Nuptialem passionem.

We read in Ezekiel of “a heifer7266

7266 Epiphanius (Hær. xxx. 30) quotes from the apocryphal Ezekiel this passage: Τέξεται ἡ δάμαλις, καὶ ἐροῦσιν—οὐ τέτοκεν. So Clem. Alex. Stromata, vii. Oehler.

which brought forth, and still did not bring forth.” Now, see whether it was not in view of your own future contentions about the womb of Mary, that even then the Holy Ghost set His mark upon you in this passage; otherwise7267

7267 Ceterum.

He would not, contrary to His usual simplicity of style (in this prophet), have uttered a sentence of such doubtful import, especially when Isaiah says, “She shall conceive and bear a son.”7268

7268


Anf-03 iv.iv.xiv Pg 15
i.e., a space of fifty days, see Deut. xvi. 10; and comp. Hooker, Ecc. Pol. iv. 13, 7, ed. Keble.



Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxi Pg 20
2 Kings iv. 42–44.

O Christ, even in Thy novelties Thou art old! Accordingly, when Peter, who had been an eye-witness of the miracle, and had compared it with the ancient precedents, and had discovered in them prophetic intimations of what should one day come to pass, answered (as the mouthpiece of them all) the Lord’s inquiry, “Whom say ye that I am?”4275

4275


Anf-03 vi.iv.xxix Pg 8
2 Kings iv. 42–44.

it has no delegated grace to avert any sense of suffering;8951

8951 i.e. in brief, its miraculous operations, as they are called, are suspended in these ways.

but it supplies the suffering, and the feeling, and the grieving, with endurance: it amplifies grace by virtue, that faith may know what she obtains from the Lord, understanding what—for God’s name’s sake—she suffers. But in days gone by, withal prayer used to call down8952

8952 Or, “inflict.”

plagues, scatter the armies of foes, withhold the wholesome influences of the showers. Now, however, the prayer of righteousness averts all God’s anger, keeps bivouac on behalf of personal enemies, makes supplication on behalf of persecutors. Is it wonder if it knows how to extort the rains of heaven8953

8953 See Apolog. c. 5 (Oehler).

—(prayer) which was once able to procure its fires?8954

8954


Anf-01 ix.ii.iv Pg 20
Ex. xiii. 2; Luke ii. 23.

For He, being everything, opened the womb2697

2697 Not as being born of it, but as fecundating it, and so producing a manifold offspring. See below.

of the enthymesis of the suffering Æon, when it had been expelled from the Pleroma. This they also style the second Ogdoad, of which we shall speak presently. And they state that it was clearly on this account that Paul said, “And He Himself is all things;”2698

2698


Anf-03 v.vii.xxiii Pg 14
Ex. xiii. 2; Luke ii. 23.

For who is really holy but the Son of God? Who properly opened the womb but He who opened a closed one?7262

7262 Clausam: i.e. a virgin’s.

But it is marriage which opens the womb in all cases. The virgin’s womb, therefore, was especially7263

7263 Magis.

opened, because it was especially closed.  Indeed7264

7264 Utique.

she ought rather to be called not a virgin than a virgin, becoming a mother at a leap, as it were, before she was a wife.  And what must be said more on this point? Since it was in this sense that the apostle declared that the Son of God was born not of a virgin, but “of a woman,” he in that statement recognised the condition of the “opened womb” which ensues in marriage.7265

7265 Nuptialem passionem.

We read in Ezekiel of “a heifer7266

7266 Epiphanius (Hær. xxx. 30) quotes from the apocryphal Ezekiel this passage: Τέξεται ἡ δάμαλις, καὶ ἐροῦσιν—οὐ τέτοκεν. So Clem. Alex. Stromata, vii. Oehler.

which brought forth, and still did not bring forth.” Now, see whether it was not in view of your own future contentions about the womb of Mary, that even then the Holy Ghost set His mark upon you in this passage; otherwise7267

7267 Ceterum.

He would not, contrary to His usual simplicity of style (in this prophet), have uttered a sentence of such doubtful import, especially when Isaiah says, “She shall conceive and bear a son.”7268

7268


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