События в десятом столетии первого тысячелетия

The holy forefather Adam, who set the first example of both fall and repentance and with tearful sobbing, who pleased God with many deeds and labors, when he reached the age of 930, by God's revelation he knew his approaching death. Calling his assistant Eve, his sons and daughters, and also calling his grandchildren and great-grandsons, he instructed them to live virtuously, doing the will of the Lord and trying in every possible way to please Him. As the first prophet on earth, he announced the future to them. Having then taught peace and blessing to everyone, he died the death to which he was condemned by God for breaking the commandment. His death befell him on Friday (according to the testimony of Saint Irenaeus), on which he had previously transgressed the commandment of God in paradise, and at the same sixth hour of the day in which he ate the commanded food given to him from the hands of the Evangels. Leaving behind many sons and daughters, Adam did good to the entire human race all the days of his life. How many children Adam gave birth to, historians say differently about this. Georgiy Kedrin writes that Adam left behind 33 sons and 27 daughters; Cyrus Dorotheus of Monemvasia also affirms the same holy martyr Methodius, Bishop of Tire, during the reign of Diocletian in Chalcis (not in Chalcedon, but in Chalcis, for one is the city of Chalcedon, and the other is the city of Chalcis, which see in Onomasticon), a Greek city that suffered for Christ, in the Roman Martyr's Book under the 18th revered by the date of the month of September (not found in our Saints), narrates that Adam had one hundred sons and the same number of daughters born along with his sons, for twins were born, male and female. The entire human race mourned Adam, and they buried him (according to the testimony of Egisippus) in a marble tomb in Hebron, where the Damascus field is; The Mamvrian oak tree later grew there. There was also that double cave, which Abraham later acquired for the burial of Sarah and himself, having bought it from Ephron during the time of the sons of the Hittites. So, Adam, created from the earth, returned to the earth again according to the word of the Lord. Others wrote that Adam was buried where Golgotha ​​is, near Jerusalem; but it is appropriate to know that the head of Adam was brought there after the flood. There is a probable account of James of Ephesus, who was the teacher of St. Ephraim. He says that Noah, entering the ship before the flood, took the honest relics of Adam from the tomb and brought them with him into the ship, hoping through his prayers to be saved during the flood. After the flood, he divided the relics between his three sons: to the eldest son Shem he gave the most honorable part - the forehead of Adam - and indicated that he would live in that part of the earth where Jerusalem would later be created. Hereby, according to the vision of God and according to the prophetic gift given to him from God, he gave burial to the forehead of Adam in a high place, not far from the place where Jerusalem was to arise. Having poured a great grave over his forehead, he called it the “place of the forehead” from Adam’s forehead, buried where our Lord Christ was subsequently crucified by His will. After the death of the forefather Adam, the forefather Eve still survived; Having lived ten years after Adam, she died in 940 from the beginning of the world and was buried next to her husband, from whose rib she was created. Let us not pass over in silence Cain’s death, which, according to the legend of George Kedrin, followed a year after Adam’s death (others wrote that he died before Adam’s death). Kedrin says that Cain died because his stone house collapsed on him. However, other historiographers do not agree with this story. Most of them write the following about the death of Cain: the bigamist Lamech, who in his tribe was the son of Methuselah, the grandson of Gaidad and the great-grandson of Enoch, the son of Cain, nicknamed blind not because he was completely blind and did not see anything, but because he was short-sighted, as if blind, this Lamech unintentionally (accidentally) killed his great-great-grandfather Cain during a hunt. For Lamech loved to practice catching animals and for this he often went out into oak groves and deserts, staying in them for a long time. Cain, having suffered God's execution of groaning and shaking from a certain fear and horror, often attacking him, and most of all approaching death in his old age, as if persecuted by someone and fleeing, he moved, hiding in the desert, from place to place. It happened one day that Lamech went out hunting with his youth, who carried a quiver and arrows behind him. And then the youth saw in one place in the thicket of the forest that the branches with leaves were moving. Cain rested there, tired from his wanderings, and the youth thought that some kind of animal was there, and let Lamech know about it. Lamech pulled his bow, shot an arrow at the place to which the youth pointed and directed, and killed Cain, hitting his heart. They went and found not the beast, but their great-great-grandfather Cain, wounded by an arrow and dying. Then Lamech was filled with pity and, angry with the youth, began to beat the youth with the same bow and killed him to death. So Lamech committed a double murder in one hour, taking the lives of Cain and his youth, as he himself says to his wives: “I killed a man for my wound and a young man for my sore” (Gen. 4:23). For he was wounded in his heart and consumed by conscience about such a serious murder. Maleleel, son of Cain, grandson of Enosh and great-grandson of Seth, lived 165 years and begat Jared. After his birth, he remained in childbearing for 704 years and gave birth to sons and daughters. You might be interested in: