"Behold, thou art with child, and then shall bring forth a son, and shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard the cry of thy humiliation.  He shall be a rude man, his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him." 
                                                                                                    Genesis 16:8
                                                                                                     Quoted in De Fuga et Inventione
                                                                                                       Philo of Alexandria
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