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<p> son of Adam and of Eve, was born A.M. 130, &nbsp;Genesis 5:3; &nbsp;Genesis 5:6; &nbsp;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, &nbsp;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, &nbsp; Genesis 4:25 (J [Note: Jahwist.] ) &nbsp; Genesis 5:3 (P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] ), &nbsp; 1 Chronicles 1:1 , &nbsp; 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).'' &nbsp;Genesis 4:25; &nbsp;Genesis 6:3; &nbsp;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. &nbsp;Genesis 4:26. </p>

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

<p> (Heb. Sheth, '''''שֵׁת''''' '','' i.e. ''Compensation;'' Sept. and New Test. '''''Σήθ''''' ; Josephus, '''''Σῆθος''''' [ ''Ant.'' 1, 2, 3]; A.V. "Sheth" in &nbsp;1 Chronicles 1:1; &nbsp;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 (&nbsp;Genesis 4:25-26; &nbsp;Genesis 5:3-8; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 1:1; &nbsp;Luke 3:38). The signification of his name (given in &nbsp;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" (&nbsp;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 Rosenm '''''Ü''''' ller and [[Gesenius]] (Thesaur. p. 346), bearing in mind the parallel passage (&nbsp;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>