And unto Enoch (whose wife probably would also be his sister, few caring at this early stage to intermarry with the accursed race) was born Irad. Years passed away, the family of Cain grew to manhood, and, in imitation of their parents, founded homes for themselves. Assyriologists say that the name means “Man of God,” and is the same as Mutu-sha-ili. The LXX Μαίηλ must have read Mahyiel = “God maketh me to live.” Genesis 6:7, where “destroy” is in the marg. If a Hebrew word, it may mean “blotted out by God.” Cf. Irad] The name occurs in 1 Chronicles 4:18 see note on Jared, Genesis 5:16. The most that can be said is that these names preserve the recollection of legendary persons, and that they have received a Hebraized form which rendered them easier of pronunciation and facilitated a symbolical interpretation. ![]() These well-meaning endeavours have sometimes been based on the assumption that Hebrew was the original language. The facts of history are not to be spelt out from the obscure etymology of primaeval proper names. It is very doubtful, whether the original names would have conveyed the same thoughts which their later Hebraized pronunciation has suggested to devout, but fanciful, imagination. It is a mistake, into which some commentators have been betrayed, to endeavour to extract meanings from the proper names of the antediluvian patriarchs. And unto Enoch, &c.] The genealogy of Cain is a framework of names, each of which may have been connected with traditions that either had been forgotten, or were not deemed suitable for preservation in this context. ![]() 34, 35.Ĭambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 18. These begat sons that exceeded others in bulk and height, whose names were given to the mountains they first possessed, and from them were called Cassius, Libanus, Antilibanus, and Brathy and of them were begotten Memrumus and Hypsuranius, so called by their mothers, women, who, without shame, lay with everyone they could meet with of these came Agreus and Halieus, the inventors of fishing and hunting and these seem to answer to the generations from Cain to Lamech and it is no wonder Moses should take no more notice of such a set of men which, according to their own historian, deserved but little regard. ![]() The names of the immediate posterity of Genos or Cain, according to Sanchoniatho, and, as Philo Byblius (l) has translated them, were light, fire, and flame who found out fire by rubbing pieces of wood together, and taught the use of it, from whence they seem to have their names. But of neither of them is any other mention made, either in sacred or profane history nor is it said how old Enoch was when Irad was born, nor how long he lived after as is recorded of Adam, Seth, and their posterity:Īnd Irad begat Mehujael, and Mehujael begat Methusael of whom also we have no other account:Īnd Methusael begat Lamech and it seems for the sake of Lamech that the genealogy of Cain's posterity is described and carried down thus far, some things being to be taken notice of concerning him. Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd unto Enoch was born Irad. Thus in the Cainite line Enoch is initiation into city life, in the Sethite into a life of holiness and the Cainite polygamist Lemech, rejoicing in the weapons invented by his son, is the very opposite of the Sethite Lemech, who calls his son Noah, quiet, rest Even when the names are the same, their history is often most diverse. Thus Mehujael, smitten of God, answers to Mahalaleel, glory to God Methusael, God’s hero, to Methuselah, the armed warrior. But it is usually a similarity of sound only with a diversity of meaning. ![]() In the list that follows, the names Mehujael (Samaritan Michel, Syriac Mahvoyel), Methusael, Enoch, and Lamech (Heb., Lemech), have a certain degree of similitude with those in the line of the Sethites, whence many commentators have assumed that the two lists are variations of the same original record. calls ‘Irad Gaïdad, and the Syriac ‘Idor. Possibly ‘Irad means citizen but these names have been so corrupted by transcribers that we cannot feel sure of them. It has little in common with Jared, as it begins with a harsh guttural, usually omitted in English because unpronounceable, but which appears as g in Gomorrah. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Unto Enoch was born Irad.-Cain was building a city, ‘Ir, and it was this probably which suggested the name ‘Irad.
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