GENESIS, TYPICALLY CONSIDERED, CHAPTER 5
GENESIS, TYPICALLY CONSIDERED, CHAPTER 5
Then the whole family of God, who only die here.
Enoch specially presents the redeemed, translated Church.
There is a difference here from chapter 1: 26; “in his image according to his likeness”, here “in his likeness according to his image” (verse 3), this is natural, I think. God meant man to be His image, and created him according to His likeness therefore; man could not create anything — he begat him in his likeness, he could do nothing else — and hence according to his image, to take the place he was in, this was a consequence of begetting necessarily in his likeness. Hence indeed we have not “a son” — he begat after this manner.
But calling him “Seth”, I apprehend, was an act of faith; Eve gave it him in gracious thankfulness — God appointed to her — Adam adopts it indeed, but with him it is simply the appointed one, not appointed to him. Eve was not wrong, but this was quite right — by the divine Spirit, I apprehend, which moved Eve’s heart, but it was prophetic in Adam.
In verse 32, I apprehend the date is vague, indicating about the time in which God began to deal in view of the Flood, but [p. 116] if the genealogical age of chapter 11: 10 be taken, Shem was born three years after Noah was 500. I suppose Japheth was the eldest.