and multiply” [Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1, 7; 35:11]; for now the other voice has superseded: “Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days!” [Luke 21:23], and again: “the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none” [1 Cor 7:29]. (3) Nevertheless, unless I am mistaken, both are the proclamation of one and the same God. Then, in the beginning, God certainly sent forth the sowing of the people, giving free rein to