QYNN – ‘extended, diluted centralizing force’

ANWSH now reproduces another ‘Kain’, “but by extending and as it were, diluting its primitive forces; for although Kainan [QYNN] may be only the word Kain to which Moses has added the augmentation final [Noun final], it is very necessary that there should be preserved in the posterity of Sheth, the same nature that he has in his own. It is extended, it is diluted, as I have said, and its force which consisted in a violent centralization, has diminished in proportion to its extent. We have already observed this difference between Henoch and Aenosh, in v. 26 of the preceding chapter. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 158-159)