Enoch, and the first city
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Καὶ ἔγνω Κάιν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, καὶ συλλαβοῦσα ἔτεκεν τὸν Ἐνώχ. καὶ ἦν οἰκοδομῶν πόλιν· καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν τὴν πόλιν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἑνώχ.
This Enoch (Ἐνώχ/Ἑνώχ — Swete's own text prints the name with smooth breathing at its first occurrence here and with rough breathing at its second occurrence and throughout v.18, an orthographic inconsistency preserved as printed) is Cain's son, the builder of the first city, and must be kept distinct from the other, righteous Enoch of Seth's line two generations later (Gen 5:18-24, "Enoch walked with God… and he was not, for God took him"; Jude 1:14 calls that Enoch "the seventh from Adam," a count that only works through Seth, not Cain). Two men, two cities: the murderer's son founds a city named for himself; his righteous, uninvolved namesake founds nothing and is instead taken up.
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