De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini

But it is most entirely in accordance with nature "to sacrifice the males of every creature that openeth the womb, to God." [*]( Exodus xiii. 12. ) For as nature has given to women the womb, as the part most excellently adapted for the generation of animals, so also for the production of things she has placed a power in the soul, by means of which the mind conceives and is in travail, and brings forth many things.