Lamech
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Lanech
in the texts
Letters
Descendant of Cain whose boastful saying is analyzed.
There follows upon this a kindred question, that which was said by Lamech to his wives:
But the sin of Lamech does not need a flood for its cure, but Him who takes away the sin of the world.
The Rights of War and Peace
Biblical descendant of Cain who invokes Cain's precedent to claim impunity for a similar deed.
The conjecture of the divine will taken from the remarkable instance of Cain, whom no one was permitted to kill passed into a law, so that Lanech, having perpetrated a similar deed, promised himself impunity from this example.
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
A biblical figure identified as the first bigamist, cited as a cautionary counter-example to the monogamous model of Adam and Eve.
Lamech first, wedded to two, made three in one flesh.
De Monogamia
Biblical figure noted as the first bigamist, whose example was not repeated
Yet, once forced by Lamech, the institution of God thereafter stood firm to the very end of that race.
De Oratione
Lamech, for whom seventy-sevenfold vengeance was reckoned.
And when Peter had asked whether he must forgive his brother seven times, Nay, he said, seventy times seven — that he might reform the law for the better, since in Genesis vengeance was reckoned for Cain sevenfold, but for Lamech seventy times seven.