על צאצאי קין מ״טOn the Posterity of Cain and his Exile 49
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1[170] Well then, the mind, when it begets a beginning of good disposition and a kind of first pattern of virtue in Seth, which means “Watering,” is audacious with a fine and holy audacity. For it says, “God raised up to me another seed in the place of Abel, whom Cain slew” (Gen. 4:25). The statement that none of God’s seeds fall to the ground, but all mount upwards rising from out of earthly surroundings,
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2[171] and leaving them behind, is a noticeable statement that can stand every test. For the seeds that mortals deposit for the production of living beings or plants do not all come to perfection; and we are well content if those that come to nothing do not outnumber those that hold on. But God sows in souls nothing futile, but seeds so successful and perfect in every case that each one immediately yields the full crop of the fruits appropriate to it.