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On the Posterity of Cain

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 66

[66] [cap.19] Now the son of Enoch is called Gaidad, [42] which, being interpreted, means a flock of sheep, very consistently with what has gone before; for he who attributes everything to the mind, which is not able to comprehend even its own nature, so as to pronounce what kind of thing it is, would be very likely to beget a number of irrational powers collected into one flock; for such is not the opinion of men who are able to reason.