על צאצאי קין כ״אOn the Posterity of Cain and his Exile 21
א׳
1[73] What issue awaits him who does not live according to the will of God, save death of the soul? And to this is given the name Methuselah, which means (as we saw) “a dispatch of death.” Wherefore he is son of Mahujael (Gen. 4:18), of the man who relinquished his own life, to whom dying is sent, yea soul-death, which is the change of soul under the impetus of irrational passion.
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2[74] When the soul has conceived this passion, it brings forth with sore travail-pangs incurable sicknesses and debilities, and by the contortion brought on by these it is bowed down and brought low; for each one of them lays on it an intolerable burden, so that it is unable even to look up. To all this the name “Lamech” has been given, which means “humiliation,” that Lamech may prove himself son of Methuselah (Gen. 4:18), with entire fitness, a low and cringing passion being offspring of the soul’s death, a sore debility child of irrational impulse.