Genesis 5:1
THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM] i.e. the genealogy of Adam's descendants, cp. Genesis 2:4 and note.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM] i.e. the genealogy of Adam's descendants, cp. Genesis 2:4 and note.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DESCENDANTS OF ADAM TO NOAH The purpose of the historian in giving the names and ages of the antediluvian Patriarchs was, no doubt, to show the glorious ancestry of the chosen race, and to account for the period between the Creation and the Flood. This, according to the Hebrews, was 1656 years.... [ Continue Reading ]
CALLED THEIR NAME ADAM] This shows that the word 'Adam' was originally applied to the race, and was not a proper name. In the previous v. it is so used for the first time in the Priestly narrative.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS OWN LIKENESS] as he himself was created in the likeness of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
ENOCH] the one figure which breaks the formality of this chapter His conduct is mentioned in a way which implies that the majority of men lived differently. In all his actions he recognised the duty which he owed to God; from none of his thoughts was God absent; he lived in communion with Him. The m... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAYS OF ENOCH] It is noteworthy that the life of Enoch is the shortest mentioned in this c.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOAH] here connected with _nahem,_ 'to comfort.' The name is really derived from _nuah,_ 'to rest.' The comfort may refer to the invention of wine, which is attributed to Noah in Genesis 9:20, a passage perhaps from the same source as the present one.... [ Continue Reading ]