События в первом столетии первого тысячелетия

We begin to calculate the years of the world's existence from the time of Adam's expulsion from paradise, for how long the time lasted during which Adam enjoyed the blessings of paradise is completely unknown to us. The time at which he began to suffer after his exile became known to us, and from here the years began, when the human race saw evil. Truly, Adam knew good and evil at a time when he was deprived of goodness and fell into unexpected disasters that he had never experienced before. For, being at first in paradise, he was like a son in his father’s house, without sorrow and labor, being satisfied with a ready and abundant meal; outside of paradise, as if expelled from his fatherland, he began to eat bread in the sweat of his brow with tears and sighs. His assistant Eve, the mother of all living, also began to give birth to children in illness, and to give birth to death rather than to life, for before their birth she killed them, subjecting the entire human race through her fall to a double death - mental and physical. And those who were born began not to live first, but first to die, for they were already dead in soul, and with their bodies they strived towards death, being born from the mother’s womb for this life along with mortal decay. (And she left us all the same image of birth.) For Eve, having conceived, gave birth to Cain, of whom the very matter showed that he was conceived in sins: when he grew up, he became the first murderer in heaven. It is also known that Abel, born after Cain, was a child of repentance, for he pleased God with his sacrifices. Regarding the birth of the first children of Adam, we find different opinions among the chroniclers. Others write that Cain was born after the first year of Adam's exile, and the next year Abel was born; Thus, from year to year, Adam and Eve’s sons and daughters multiplied (Gabriel Butselin). Others say that in the fifteenth year of their lives, Adam and Eve gave birth to a male child - Cain - along with a female child - Kalmana; when both grew up, their parents united them in carnal marriage to multiply the human race. Then, when fifteen years again passed from the birth of Cain, in the thirtieth year of their lives, Adam and Eve gave birth to Abel together with his sister Delvora (John Navcleres). Some wrote that Adam and Eve, after their expulsion from paradise, cried incessantly for a hundred years about their transgression of God’s commandment and about the deprivation of the blessings of paradise. During those years of their lamentable lamentation, they did not know themselves carnally, but remained in virginity, not touching one another. At the end of a hundred years, they recognized themselves through carnal union and began to give birth to children (Cornelius-a-Lapida, on Genesis, chapter 4, article 1). However, this is not confirmed by anything reliable. It is most likely that after the expulsion from paradise, our first parents, if not immediately, then not for a long time, knew each other carnally and began to give birth to children: this is partly because both of them were created at a perfect age, capable of marriage, and partly because natural lust and desire for carnal intercourse intensified in them after the former grace of God was taken away from them for the transgression of the commandment. In addition, seeing only themselves in this world and knowing, however, that they were created and destined by God in order to give birth and multiply the human race, they wanted to see fruit similar to themselves and the multiplication of humanity as soon as possible, and therefore they soon came to know themselves carnally and began to give birth. Note that Jewish rabbis consider Cain and Abel to be twins, but this is incorrect. You might be interested in: