The Line of Seth
These two verses begin the line of Seth which is parallel to that of Cain. The more complete genealogy, found in ch. 5, comes from a different source (P). But it is not unlikely that they are derived from the same materials as the previous section.
Verse Genesis 4:25. _GOD-HATH APPOINTED ME ANOTHER SEED INSTEAD OF ABEL_] Eve must have received on this occasion some Divine communication, else how could she have known that this son was appointed...
- XX. Sheth 25. שׁת _shēt_, Sheth, “placed, put.” 26. אנישׁ _'enôsh_, Enosh, “man, sickly.” בשׁם קרא _qero'_ _beshēm_ means, first, to call an object by its name...
CHAPTER 4 After the Fall and the Two Seeds _ 1. Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1)_ 2. Their offerings (Genesis 4:3) 3. The divine remonstrance (Genesis 4:6) 4. Abel slain by his brother ...
Cainite and Sethite Genealogies. Genesis 4:17 probably belongs to the earliest stratum of J, in which the progress of civilisation is not interrupted by the Flood, and the human race is derived from A...
SETH. substituted. Figure of speech _Paronomasia_. _Sheth_ (Seth)... _Sheth_ (appointed). GOD. Elohim. SEED. son, by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause)....
CALLED HIS NAME SETH—FOR GOD HATH APPOINTED, &C.— Here you see, as before, Genesis 4:1 the reason of the name given, Seth, i.e.. appointed, or given in the place of Abel, to continue the chosen line,...
PART NINETEEN: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MESSIANIC LINE (Genesis 4:25 to Genesis 5:32) 1. _The Birth of Seth_ 25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For, said she...
_AND ADAM KNEW HIS WIFE AGAIN; AND SHE BARE A SON, AND CALLED HIS NAME SETH: FOR GOD, SAID SHE, HATH APPOINTED ME ANOTHER SEED INSTEAD OF ABEL, WHOM CAIN SLEW._ Called his name Seth - or Sheth; i:e.,...
4:25 Seth. (e-16) Appointed....
CAIN AND ABEL. THE DESCENDANTS OF CAIN The narrative, which forms part of the Primitive document, impressively shows how sin, having once appeared, became hereditary in the human race, and speedily de...
‘Seth’ means ‘given’....
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 4 CAIN KILLS ABEL V1 Adam had sex with his wife Eve and she became *pregnant. Her son Cain was born. She said, ‘I have gained a man by the *Lord’...
SUBSTITUTION OF SETH FOR ABEL. (25) ANOTHER SEED INSTEAD OF ABEL, WHOM CAIN SLEW. — Cain, the firstborn, and Abel, who had outstripped him in prosperity, were both lost to Adam. But instead of the th...
וַ יֵּ֨דַע אָדָ֥ם עֹוד֙ אֶת ־אִשְׁתֹּ֔ו וַ
CAIN AND ABEL Genesis 4:1 IT is not the purpose of this narrator to write the history of the world. It is not his purpose to write even the history of mankind. His object is to write the history of r...
CAIN'S CAREER Genesis 4:9 God's first question to the soul is, “Adam, where art thou?” The next, “Where is thy brother?” We _are_ our brother's keepers. All related to us, within our reach, or needin...
The degeneration of the first man and woman was transmitted, the firstborn being manifestly an inheritor of the fallen nature of his parents. His mother named him Cain, intimating a hope that the seed...
THE PROMISED SEED The promised seed might have come through Abel, but he was dead. Man might have seen that as an end to the plan of salvation. After all, the one righteous man had been killed by a s...
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD. Enos signifying wretchedness; in allusion, perhaps. to the fallen state ()...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
25._Adam knew his wife again_. Some hence infer that our first parents were entirely deprived of their offspring when one of their sons had been slain, and the other was cast far away into banishment....
But grace could work. The grace of a God above the evil of man, and Abel approaches Him by faith. Hereon follows the separation of the families of God and of the enemy, of the world and of faith. Abel...
AND ADAM KNEW HIS WIFE AGAIN,.... The Targum of Jonathan adds, at the end of a hundred and thirty years after Abel was killed, see Genesis 5:3 but, according to Bishop Usher, Seth was born the same ye...
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, [said she], hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. Ver. 25. _She bare a son, and called,...
Gen. 4:25. "Hath appointed _me_," etc. Eve does not say, God hath appointed _us_ another seed, but hath appointed _me._ She speaks of Abel and Seth, the righteous children of Adam and Eve, as _her _ s...
In this verse we find the first mention of Adam in the story of this chapter. No question, the murder of Abel, and the impenitency and apostacy of Cain, were a very great grief to him and Eve and the...
1 The birth, trade, and religion of Cain and Abel. 8 The murder of Abel. 9 The curse of Cain. 17 Enoch the first citie. 19 Lamech and his two wiues. 25 The birth of Seth, 26 and Enos. 1 AND Ada...
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth; for God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. The names of other children of Adam and E...
Seth and Enos...
SECOND SECTION _Cain and Abel. The Cainites. The ungodly Worldliness of the First Civilization._ GENESIS 4:1-26 1And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare Cain [the gotten, or possessi...
CAIN AND ABEL Adam and Eve, having acquired a sinful nature, could only communicate the same nature to their children. Their firstborn was named Cain, which means "smith" or "fabricator," one who plan...
SETH: _ Heb._ Sheth...
25,26 Our first parents were comforted in their affliction by the birth of a son, whom they called Seth, that is, 'set,' 'settled,' or 'placed;' in his seed mankind should continue to the end of time...
_ Circ. 3874_ She gave the name, but not without Adam's consent, GENESIS 5:3. She spoke by Divine inspiration. Note that the word SEED is used of one single person here, and GENESIS 21:13, GENESIS 38:...
& Genesis 5:1-32 As each section of the Book of Genesis opens before us, we are furnished with fresh evidence of the fact that we are travelling over, what a recent writer has well termed, "the seed-...
Genesis 4:25 Adam H120 knew H3045 (H8799) wife H802 again H5750 bore H3205 (H8799) son H1121 named...
Genesis 4:25 TO GENESIS 5:1 A THE BIRTH OF SETH This section may have been written (from source material) specifically to connect the Cainite records with the following record of Seth's genealogy, and...
SETH That is, "Sheth", means "appointed"....
Genesis 4 I. From the story of Cain we gather the following thoughts: I. Eve's disappointment at the birth of Cain should be a warning to all mothers. Over-estimate of children may be traced somet...
CONTENTS: First sons of Adam, Cain and Abel. Murder of Abel. First civilization. Birth of Seth. CHARACTERS: Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth. CONCLUSION: Attainment can never take the place of Atonement....
Genesis 4:1. _I have gotten._ קניתי _kaniti,_ from the root _kana,_ he possessed. The LXX have betrayed their ignorance of the Eternal Word, or Wisdom, by frequently rendering this word _created._ God...
_Another seed, instead of Abel_ SETH To Eve is born a third son; and he comes to them as the gift of love and the pledge of hope. Eve names him Seth, which means “set” or “placed” or “appointed,” as...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 4:25 ANOTHER OFFSPRING. Compare “her offspring” (Genesis 3:15). At that time people began to call upon the name of th
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 4:23. Adah and Zillah.] Probably the oldest fragment of poetry extant. With a slight freedom of translation, we may perhaps thus approach the metrical cast of the original:—...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 4:17 Domiciled in Nod, whither, impelled by woman's love, his wife had accompanied him, the unhappy fugitive began to seek, if not to find, relief from the gnawing agonies of remor...
Lets turn to Genesis Chapter four. Adam and Eve have been expelled from the Garden of Eden because of their disobedience to God. And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said...
A.M. 130. B.C. 3874. and called. Genesis 5:3 Genesis 5:4 1 Chronicles 1:1 Luke 3:38 Seth. Heb. Sheth; i.e., appointed, or put. God....
This is the first mention of Adam in the story of this chapter. No question the murder of Abel, and the impenitency and apostacy of Cain, were a very great grief to him and Eve, and the more because t...