Difference between revisions of "Seth"

<p> [[Son]] of [[Adam]] and Eve, born after the death of Abel, and father of Enos. His name signifies 'appointed': [[God]] thus continued the line of Abel, whom [[Cain]] slew, through the appointment of Seth. Hence, in [[Genesis]] 4:25,26 it is said in connection with Seth, "Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord." This is immediately followed by "This is the book of the generations of Adam," giving the lineage through [[Seth]] and his descendants, and making no mention of Cain and his descendants. From Seth the genealogy is traced to Noah, and the flood swept away all else. Genesis 5:3-8; Luke 3:38 . He is called SHETHin 1 Chronicles 1:1 . </p>

<p> [[Genesis]] 4:25; Genesis 5:3; 1 Chronicles 1:1. [[Seth]] means "foundation," being "appointed" in Abel's place as ancestor of the promised Seed. Father of [[Enos]] ("frailty"); a name embodying his sense of man's weakness, the opposite of the Cainites' pride. This sense of frailty led the Sethites to calling on [[God]] in His covenant relation to His believing people; thus began the church as a people separated from the world, and its service of prayer and praise. While the Cainites, by erecting a city and inventing worldly arts, laid the foundation of the world kingdom, the Sethites, by joint invocation of Jehovah's name i.e. His self manifestation towards man, founded the kingdom of God. </p>

<p> son of [[Adam]] and of Eve, was born A.M. 130, [[Genesis]] 5:3; Genesis 5:6; Genesis 5:10-11 . Seth, at the age of one hundred and five years, begat Enos, A.M. 235. He lived after this eight hundred and seven years, in all nine hundred and twelve years, and died A.M. 1042. [[Seth]] was the chief of "the children of God," as the [[Scripture]] calls them, Genesis 6:2 that is, those who before the flood preserved true religion and piety in the world, while the descendants of [[Cain]] gave themselves up to wickedness. The invention of letters and writing is by the rabbins ascribed to this patriarch. </p>

<p> <strong> SETH </strong> . The third son of Adam, [[Genesis]] 4:25 (J [Note: Jahwist.] ) Genesis 5:3 (P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] ), 1 Chronicles 1:1 , Luke 3:38 . In the first of these passages [[J]] [Note: Jahwist.] assigns a characteristic etymology for the name, [[Eve]] being made to say, ‘God hath set ( <em> shâth </em> ) for me another seed instead of Abel,’ for which reason she called him <em> Shçth </em> ( <em> i.e. </em> ‘setting’ or ‘slip’). In [[Sir]] 49:16 [[Seth]] is coupled with [[Shem]] as ‘glorified among men.’ </p>

<p> Seth. (compensation). [[Genesis]] 4:25; Genesis 6:3; 1 Chronicles 1:1. The third son of Adam, and father of Enos. (B.C. 3870). [[Adam]] handed down to Seth, and his descendants, the promise of mercy, faith in which became the distinction of God's children. Genesis 4:26. </p>

<p> The first son of [[Adam]] after the death of Abel, [[Genesis]] 4:25,26; 5:3,6,8 , and ancestor of the line of godly patriarchs. </p>

<p> [[Son]] of Adam, and father of Enos. (Genesis 5:3) His name is taken from Sheith, to put. </p>

[[Genesis]] 4:25Genesis 5:3Luke 3:38

<p> <b> SETH. </b> —The patriarch, mentioned as a link in our Lord’s genealogy (Luke 3:38). </p>

[[Genesis]] 4:255:3

<p> (Heb. Sheth, שֵׁת , i.e. compensation; Sept. and New Test. Σήθ; Josephus, Σῆθος [Ant. 1, 2, 3]; A.V. "Sheth" in 1 Chronicles 1:1; Numbers 24:7), the third son of [[Adam]] (born B.C. 4042), and the father of [[Enos]] (when 105 years old); he died at the age of 912 (Genesis 4:25-26; [[Genesis]] 5:3-8; 1 Chronicles 1:1; Luke 3:38). The signification of his name (given in Genesis 4:25) is "appointed" or "put" in the place of the murdered Abel, and Delitzsch speaks of him as the second Abel; but Ewald (Gesch. 1, 353) thinks that another signification, which he prefers, is indicated in the text, viz. "seedling," or "germ." The phrase "children of Sheth" (Numbers 24:17) has been understood as equivalent to all mankind, or as denoting the tribe of some unknown Moabitish chieftain; but later critics, among whom are Rosenmü ller and [[Gesenius]] (Thesaur. p. 346), bearing in mind the parallel passage (Jeremiah 48:45), render the phrase "children of noise, tumultuous ones," i.e. hostile armies. (See [[Sheth]]). </p> <p> In the 4th century there existed in [[Egypt]] a sect calling themselves Sethians, who are classed by Neander (Ch. Hist., 2, 115, ed. Bohn) among those [[Gnostic]] sects which, in opposing Judaism, approximated to paganism. (See. also Tillemont, Memoires, 2, 318.) [[Irenaeus]] (1, 30; comp. Massuet, Dissert. 1, 3, 14) and [[Theodoret]] (Hoeret. Fab. 14, 306), without distinguishing between them. and the Ophites, or worshippers of the serpent, say that in their system [[Seth]] was regarded as a divine effluence or virtue. Epiphanius, who devotes a chapter to them (Adv. Hoer. 1, 3, 39), says that they identified Seth with our Lord. See Quandt, [[De]] Christo in Nomine Sethi Adumbrato (Regiom. 1726). </p>

<p> [[Seth]] (compensation), the third son of Adam, to whom [[Eve]] gave this name in consequence of regarding him as sent to replace Abel, whom [[Cain]] had slain (; , sq.). </p>