The Book of Beginnings

Studies in Genesis

Lesson 26 : Genesis 4:25, 26 – Sixth Paragraph: The Birth of Seth and Enosh

BIRTH OF SETH – THE NAME FOR GOD – ‘BEGAN TO CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD – THE HEBREW HAS AN INDEFINITE CONSTRUCTION – ‘TO CALL’ COULD BE AN INVOCATION OR A PROCLAMATION – THE DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS – TRADITIONALLY THE JEWS CONSIDER THIS NEGATIVELY – ‘ADAM AND EVE BEGAN “ONCE AGAIN” TO CALL UPON THE LORD’ – ‘BEGAN’ IS PASSIVE, THUS ‘MEN BEGAN TO BE CALLED BY THE NAME OF YAHWEH’ – ‘THIS IS WHEN PEOPLE BEGAN USING THE HOLY TETRAGRAMMATON IN WORSHIP’ – ‘MEN BEGAN TO PROCLAIM THE NATURE OF THE LORD’ – ‘GEN 4:26 MARKS A NEW DIRECTION IN FORMAL WORSHIP, THE COMMENCEMENT OF PUBLIC WORSHIP CONSISTING OF PRAYER, PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING’ – ‘MOSES IS CONTRASTING THE TWO LINES OF GEN 3:15′ – HOW ARE WE TO RECONCILE THIS VERSE WITH EXOD 6:2,3?