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Originally Posted by Just_A_Mom
Ge*4:26
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son;
and he called his name Enos:
then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Monkey wrenches...gotta throw them in there once and awhile.
Enos means;
mortal man; sick; despaired of; forgetful
Okay Bullingers says this verse, esp. "then began" means that men DID not follow Adam, Enos went the way of Cain. The men were separated from the followers of Jehovah. This is in conflict of all my other sources.
Anyone want to shed some light? Or have anymore explanation as to why Bullinger thought this?
If Seth replaced Abel and the seedline was to be 'pure' again...what in the world happened to Enos?
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Be careful, Just_A_Mom.
That's not exactly what Bullinger said.
He does mention that the Hebrew expresses
"Not began to worship: for Able worshipped and others doubless, long before. (we see this in Ables offering to God and in Adam and Eve's words too) But here: "began to worship [other gods] by the name of Yahveh, or, "began profanely to call upon the name of the Yahveh".
When we look up the Hebrew, Bullinger is correct.
But
Where in that verse does it say that Enos went the way of Cain? Bullinger said it, but does the scripture?
Bullinger is right about the Hebrew expression of "
profaning the name of Yahveh."
And it's unusual for him not to give a side margin note of the KJV where the word "men" is used. As I'm looking at it in the Hebrew, it's because the word "men" is not in the MS in that verse.
The other thing Bullinger failed to catch or mention is the word
"then". It expresses "eleswhere was the name of Yahveh profaned".
That's completely different than saying that Enos went the "way of Cain"
Do you think that God would have "appointed another seed" in Able's stead just to have it polluted in the next generation?
Green's Interlinear Bible...
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son. And she called his name Seth, for God has appointed me another seed in place of Able, because Cain killed him. And a son was born to Seth, and he called his name Enos.
Then it say's...
"Then was it begun to call on the name of Yahveh"
Followed by....
"This is the generations of Adam... etc, etc,,
So after Seth had Enos,
"then elswhere was the name of Yahveh profaned."
Bullinger got it wrong in saying that Enos "went the way of Cain." The scripture doesn't say it, nor does it imply it.
Good question though.
:thup2