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<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 Rosenmü 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>