“He denotes the first offspring of Adam, that is, Cain, who through the wickedness of envy departed from God and unjustly killed his brother Abel, bringing about his own destruction. When the punishment for this crime was exacted in the flood and the generation of Cain was destroyed, divine wisdom again, through the co…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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3But when the unrighteous went away from her in his anger, he perished also in the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.
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1She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,
2And gave him power to rule all things.
— Wisdom of Solomon 10:3 —
4For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood, wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous in a piece of wood of small value.
5Moreover, the nations in their wicked conspiracy being confounded, she found out the righteous, and preserved him blameless unto God, and kept him strong against his tender compassion toward his son.