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185* first city. According to the Chronicle of Josephus this foundation of the city was the cause of increasing gathering of possessions, of violent robberies; Cain fortified the city because he feared them whom he had in any way despoiled. Therefore, the beginning of power and sovereignty is to be found in human cupidity and violence- Wherefore Solomon says to the kings,

Gen. 4.

1-Sam. 12: 13 and 25.

"For all men are foolish by nature." Wisdom of Solomon, 13:1.

Gen.4:17. See Wyclif,, chap. XXI: "Nam Gen. quarto capitulo, 17, legitur quod Cayn post fratricidium civitatem construxit, cuius causa secundum Iosephum fuit quod 'rapinis et violencia open congregans suos ad latrocinia invitabat et simplicitatem vite hominum, quam ad invencionem mensurarum et poderum permutavit, ad caliditatem et corrupcionem perduxit; terminos terre primus posuit, civitates muravit, et timens quod ledebat, suos in suis urbibus collegit": Hec origo civilitatis secundum Scripturas." (Poole's Edition).

"And when Cain had traveled over many countries, he, with his wife, built a city, named Nod However, he did not accept of his punishment in order to amend, but to increase his wickedness; for he only aimed to procure every thing that was for him and his bodily pleasure, though it obliged him to be injurious to his neighbors. He augmented his household substance with much wealth, by rapine am violence; he excited his acquaintance to procure pleasures and spoils by robbery, and became a great leader of men into wicked courses He set boundaries about lands, built a city and fortified it with walls, and he compelled his family to come together to it" Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, Book I, chap.II, 2. (In, transl. by Wm. Whiston, Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1871, p.27).

Psalm 2:10.

Wisdom of Solomon, 6:2–3.

Wisdom ot Solomon, 6:5.

Gen.4:17. See Wyclif,, chap. XXI: "Nam Gen. quarto capitulo, 17, legitur quod Cayn post fratricidium civitatem construxit, cuius causa secundum Iosephum fuit quod 'rapinis et violencia open congregans suos ad latrocinia invitabat et simplicitatem vite hominum, quam ad invencionem mensurarum et poderum permutavit, ad caliditatem et corrupcionem perduxit; terminos terre primus posuit, civitates muravit, et timens quod ledebat, suos in suis urbibus collegit": Hec origo civilitatis secundum Scripturas." (Poole's Edition).

"And when Cain had traveled over many countries, he, with his wife, built a city, named Nod However, he did not accept of his punishment in order to amend, but to increase his wickedness; for he only aimed to procure every thing that was for him and his bodily pleasure, though it obliged him to be injurious to his neighbors. He augmented his household substance with much wealth, by rapine am violence; he excited his acquaintance to procure pleasures and spoils by robbery, and became a great leader of men into wicked courses He set boundaries about lands, built a city and fortified it with walls, and he compelled his family to come together to it" Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, Book I, chap.II, 2. (In, transl. by Wm. Whiston, Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1871, p.27).

Psalm 2:10.

Wisdom of Solomon, 6:2–3.

Wisdom ot Solomon, 6:5.