Λάμεχ

Scripture mentions two Lamechs, one being the descendant of Cain, the other being the descendant of Enoch. For Noah had been begotten through Lamech, the one who is not [a descendant] from Cain, who had killed a man and also a youth for wounding him¹, and when he had committed two murders he also took their two wives, Eldah and Zillah.² He accuses himself to be worthy of punishment seventy-seven times. From Cain, he says, seven times punishment was exacted, but from Lamech, seventy-seven times.³ He is punished more greatly, because he did not learn anything from the fall of the first sinner. He slew the brothers of the righteous Enoch, who prayed in faith because of this that he might not see such a death, and having been heard he was taken away.⁴ But Enoch was [a descendant] of the righteous Seth, from whom Christ was descended, as his genealogy is recorded by Luke.⁵ For he was eager that the seed of the impious [ones] be taken out of the race of the just [ones], since fear of God is an abomination to a sinner. For even the family and the seed of Cain were condemned, but those from Seth were praised. And God did not wish for the race of the righteous to become mixed with the [race of] the impious, but [for the latter] to be obliterated. Therefore since they were committing murder and taking their women, the giants bore portentous monsters,⁶ because of whom the cataclysm came and destroyed everything utterly. Only Noah was found righteous in his generation, wherefore he was saved.⁷