“Here lies, reduced to a pinch of dust, he who, from a pinch of dust, was formed to govern the earth, ADAM, the son of None, the father of All, the stepfather of All and of himself. Having never wailed as a child, he spent his life in weeping, the result of penitence. Powerful, Wise, Immortal, Just, he sold for the price of disobedience, power, wisdom, justice, immortality. Having abused the privilege of Free-will, which weapon he had received for the preservation of Knowledge and Grace, by one stroke he struck with death himself and all the human race. The Omnipotent Judge who in His Justice took from him righteousness, by His Mercy restored it to him whole again: by whose goodness it has fallen out, that we may call that crime happy, which obtained such and so great A Redeemer. Thenceforth Free-will, which he in happiness used to bring forth Misery, is used in Misery to bring forth Happiness. For if we, partakers of his pernicious inheritance, partake also of his penitential example, and lend our ears to salutary counsels, Then we (who by our Free-will could lose ourselves) can be saved by the grace of the Redeemer, and the co-operation of our Free-will. The First Adam Lived to Die; The Second Adam Died to Live. Go, and imitate the penitence of the First Adam; Go, and celebrate the goodness of the Second Adam.” Footnote 135: Weil, pp. 40-3. Footnote 136: Tabari, i. c. xxxiii. Footnote 137: Colin de Plancy, p. 78. Footnote 138: Herbelot, i. p. 95. Footnote 139: Moses bar Cepha. Commentarius de Paradiso, P. i. c. 14. Fabricius, i. p. 75. Footnote 140: S. Basil Seleuc., Orat. xxxviii. Footnote 141: Lettre de H. A. D., Consul de France en Abyssinie, 1841. VIII. SETH. When Seth had ascended the throne of his father, says Tabari, he was the greatest of the sons of Adam. Every year he made the pilgrimage to the Kaaba, and he ruled the world with equity, and everything flourished during his reign. At the age of fifty he had a son; he called his name Enoch and named him his executor. He died at the age of nine hundred.[142] Seth and the other sons of Adam waged perpetual war against the Divs, or giants, the sons of Kabil, or Cain. Rocail was another son of Adam, born next after Seth. He possessed, says the Tahmurath Nâmeh, the most wonderful knowledge in all mysteries. He had a genius so quick and piercing, that he seemed to be rather an angel than a man. Surkrag, a great giant, son of Cain, commanded in the mountains of Kaf, which encompass the centre of the earth. This giant asked Seth to send him Rocail, his brother, to assist him in governing his subjects. Seth consented, and Rocail became the vizier or prime minister of Surkrag, in the mountains of Kaf.