Genesis 5:3, 4, 5 Commentary
THOMAS SCOTT COMMENTARY
Verse 3. The distinction between Adam created in the likeness of God, and Set begotten in the likeness of Adam after the fall, is very remarkable.—It is generally allowed that Adam and Eve were personally pardoned, and recovered to holiness: but Adam was no longer the representative of his posterity, as he was when he transgressed the covenant; thus he communicated to them that nature which he had as a sinner, not the new nature which he had as a believer.—Seth also seems to have been a godly person; not as begotten by Adam, but as born again of the Spirit; and this seems to have been noted in respect of him, lest Cain’s wickedness should be ascribed to other causes, and Abel’s righteousness to the goodness of his natural disposition, and not to the grace of God. But indeed the character and conduct of all Seth’s posterity (Christ alone excepted), plainly testify what that image was in which he was begotten.
THOMAS HAWEIS COMMENTARY
Verses 3-5: No notice is taken of what other children he begat; thou in virtue of the blessing, he begat many before, as well as after Seth. 1. The time of his birth. The 130th year, a long space, and full of trouble: now there is a little sunshine after the dark cloud. We need be thankful for every mercy in the way, and wait in this vale of tears with patience, till our appointed change comes. 2. What is said of him? He begat him in his own likeness, not in the image of God, in which he himself was created, but in the likeness of his own corrupt and fallen self. Miserable effects of sin! We can entail nothing now upon our offspring but sin, and the cause of it. Grace doth not run in the blood, but corruption doth. 3. His age and death; certain to come, though long delayed; may we often remember it, and learn from the view, so to number our days, as to apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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