apprehcn si ,·e of some evil befalling their attaches to 1~ (cf. Ewald's 'Hcb. Syntax,' busbnnd throngh the use of 'l'ubal-caiu's § 353). And to Seth, to him also there wa.: de.uf!'crous weapons, thnt ihere was no cause born a eon. Thus tho expectations of Eve for their nnxietios and alarms, ns he lmcl not concerning her God-given son ,vero not dis- slain a man, tlrnt he should be woundcil, or appointed, but realised in tho commonco- B vonng mnn, that he should be !nut; but ment and continuance of a godly lino. The this interpretation, it may be fairly urged, pious father of this succeeding child, how- is too strained to be even probably correct. ever, had eithor begun to realise tho feeble• Vers. 25, 26.-The narrntive now revert.~ ness and weakness of human life, or perhaps to the fortunos of the donbly saddened pair. to be conscious of the sickly nnd infirm state And Adam knew his wife ag:i.in. Having in which religion then was. And he called mournfully nbstained for a season d tlwro his (son's) name Enos. Enos!,,, "mo.n" coiiiurrali (Cahin) ; not ne.xissarily implying (Gesenius); "mortal, decaying man" (Fiirst); that Adam nnd Eve had not other children "man, sickly" (Murphy). Then began who had gro"-n to man's estate prfor to the men. Literally, it was begu11,. Huchal death of Abel (cf. eh. v. 4). And she bare a third preterite lt0phal of clialal (Greek, son and ea.lied his ne.me Seth. Sheth, from xaXaw, Xvw), to open a way. Hence "the sh?l:h, to pnt or place; hence appointed, put, literal sense of the word is, n way was now compensation. For God, said slie, ~e.th ap- opened up, and an access afforded, to the pointed me another seed-semen singulare worship of God, in the particular manner (Cah-in);filium, Eve havin~ borne daughters here described" (Woi·dsworth). To call previously (Onkelos, J onathOn, Datho, ~- upon the name of the Lord. Either (1) to senmiiller)-instead of Abel. Her other child- invoke by prayer the name of Jehoval1, ren probably had gone in the way o_f Cai~, i. e. Jehovah himself as he had been pleased ]Mving none to carry on the holy lme, till to discover his attributes and character to this son was born, whom in faith she expects men, referring to the formal institution of to be another Abel in respect of piety, b~t, public worship. "The expression is els_e- unlike him, the head of a godly family where used to denote e.ll the appropriate acts (Calvin). Whom Cain slew. Literally,/or and exercises of the stated worship of God- Cain killed him (Kalisch). The A. V. ch. xii 8 ; xiii. 4 ; xxi. 33 ; 1 Chron. xvi. 8 ; fol!O\,s the LXX., ov a,rfrn,vE ,caiv, and Ps. cv. 1" (Bush), Or (2) to call them_~elves has the support of Gesenius, who renders by the name of J ehovah-cf. N um. XXXII; 42; •.;i = i?.i~ (see '!ex. sub nom. ') ; of Rosen- Judges xviii. 29 ; Ps. xlix. 12 ; Isa. xhv. 5 miiller, •who says, "Conjnnctio enim cansalis (martrin). Other renderings need only be ,:;i srepius pro rclativo pronomine nsurpatur," mentioned to be set a.side. (a) 'rhen began quoting, though without much e.ptness, Ps. men profanely to call upon the name of God 1.u:i 15 (com. in loco) ; and of Sal Glass, who (Onkelos, Jone.than, J osephu.s), referring to 11t1_pplies several so-called examples o_f t~e the institution of idolatry. (b) Then men relative force of •.;i, every one of which IS became so profane RS to cease to call (Che.Idea perfectly in_te~gible by_ ~~~!-3-ting the par- Targum). (c) Then he hoped to call upon ticle e.s quia ( Sac. Phil., 1u. 2, ~-) ; a~~ the name of the Lord; ovroc ;;,,,,,.,rrEv i11"111:a- of Stanley Leathes (' Heb. Gram., eh. XlL XEirr8cn ro ovoµa Kvpiov roii 8Eov (LXX). 16). There seems, however, n? sufficient (d) Then the name J~hovah wn:s f~r t~e reason for departing from t_he ordin3:ry casual first time invoked (CaJetan), which 1s dis- signification of the particle. . Fiirst d?es proved by eh. iv. 3. not recognise the meaning which Gcsemus
HOMILETICS. Vers. 17-26.-Tlt,e progress of tlie race. I. ITS INCREASE n~ POPULATION. Starti?g from a single pair in Eden in the course of seven generations _the human family mn.st have attained to very considerable dimensions. At the birth of Se~h, Ada!I• was 130 years old, and in all probability had other s_ons an~ daught~rs besides Cam d 1i·18 if If Lamech the seventh from Adam m the lme of Cam, was contem- an w e:tl Enoch the' seventh from Adam in the line of Seth, at least 600 years poraneous w1 1 , . if Ab h • t k · 1 1ia d passe d awaY Sm• ce the race becran to multiply; and " ra am s s oc m ease than 400 ea.res amounted to 600,000, Cam's posterity m t h e J'k o • • • i e t'ime-m1g • ht a;1se. • to the like Jultitude" (Willet). If to these the descendants of .Seth be adde~, it will at once appear that the earth's population ~n the time of La~ech was cons1derabl! over 1,000,000 of inhabitants. Let it remmd us of the reality and po,vcr of God a blessing (eh. i. 28). 11. 1TB ADVA_NCEHENT IN INTELLIGENCK. "It is a curious fact that while all on. 1v. 17-26.J THE BOOK OF GENESIS. 91