One interesting feature of this genealogy is that Cain is conspicuous by absence of his name. It is as striking as absence of Aaron from the list of heroes of faith in ch.11 of the Book to Hebrews. The Holy Spirit left his name out for a definite reason. Cain was not in the likeness of the Son while Seth was.
The emphasis is built up by the term 'likeness.' Of Adam the Spirit introduces the generations of Adam with this statement, "In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him' He goes on to elaborate and evidently it is of the holy family, 'Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created'. Here from the construction of words we can understand what the Spirit is driving at,- Adam as the head is qualified by phrase 'called their name Adam' for the simple reason that Eve is included in him,-and it establishes her as symbol for the body of Christ. In the likeness of God points Adam in relation to Jesus Christ as the Son.
This justifies the last line in the Lucan genealogy, 'Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God(3:38). In short the Spirit was right in presenting Adam as a forerunner of Jesus, which St Paul takes in the ch.5 of his epistle to the Romans.
What about Cain? His genealogy is given separately in the previous chapter. "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden(4:16).Of his descendant Lamech boasts thus: 'If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold(v.24)." Unlike the obedience we find in God the Son, what Cain has given Lamech is altogether different trait. Natural it would be to equate the mark of Cain antithetical to the name of the Father in the foreheads of the first fruits unto God (Re.14:1)
One interesting feature of this genealogy is that Cain is conspicuous by absence of his name. It is as striking as absence of Aaron from the list of heroes of faith in ch.11 of the Book to Hebrews. The Holy Spirit left his name out for a definite reason. Cain was not in the likeness of the Son while Seth was.
The emphasis is built up by the term 'likeness.' Of Adam the Spirit introduces the generations of Adam with this statement, "In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him' He goes on to elaborate and evidently it is of the holy family, 'Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created'. Here from the construction of words we can understand what the Spirit is driving at,- Adam as the head is qualified by phrase 'called their name Adam' for the simple reason that Eve is included in him,-and it establishes her as symbol for the body of Christ. In the likeness of God points Adam in relation to Jesus Christ as the Son.
This justifies the last line in the Lucan genealogy, 'Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God(3:38). In short the Spirit was right in presenting Adam as a forerunner of Jesus, which St Paul takes in the ch.5 of his epistle to the Romans.
What about Cain? His genealogy is given separately in the previous chapter. "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden(4:16).Of his descendant Lamech boasts thus: 'If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold(v.24)." Unlike the obedience we find in God the Son, what Cain has given Lamech is altogether different trait. Natural it would be to equate the mark of Cain antithetical to the name of the Father in the foreheads of the first fruits unto God (Re.14:1)
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