Genesis 4:23 (WEB)
Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.
Fathers and councils · 2
Basil the Great
“Your next question is of a kindred character, concerning the words of Lamech to his wives; “I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt: if Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.”” — editor's note: Gen. iv. 23, 24.
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Tertullian
“Other iniquities provoke the deluge: (iniquities) once for all avenged, whatever was their nature; not, however, “seventy-seven times,” which (is the vengeance which) double marriages have deserved.” — editor's note: Septuagies septies. See Gen. iv. 19–24.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 4.