Gen_5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Ver. 13. And begat sons and daughters.] Everything is generative of itself, says the philosopher. {a} And, that man is unworthy to be born, of whom another is not born, says the orator.
{a} Propriissimum opus viventis est, generare sibi simile . - Arist.