Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
KJV
Vixit autem Adam centum triginta annis : et genuit ad imaginem et similitudinem suam, vocavitque nomen ejus Seth.
Vulgate
ἔζησεν δὲ Ἀδὰμ διακόσια καὶ τριάκοντα ἔτη, καὶ ἐγέννησεν κατὰ τὴν εἰδέαν αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ τὴν εἰκόνα αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Σήθ.
LXX
And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
ASV
וַֽ/יְחִ֣י אָדָ֗ם שְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים וּ/מְאַת֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וַ/יּ֥וֹלֶד בִּ/דְמוּת֖/וֹ כְּ/צַלְמ֑/וֹ וַ/יִּקְרָ֥א אֶת שְׁמ֖/וֹ שֵֽׁת
Hebrew
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Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. Moses recites the catalogue of the posterity of Adam through Seth, to show that the Church of God was preserved through that line. The extraordinary longevity recorded here is not to be wondered at as a fable, for God sustained the lives of the patriarchs for the propagation of the human race and the transmission of divine truth from…
20. Again, when the Bishops said that the Word must be described as the True Power and Image of the Father, in all things exact and like the Father, and as unalterable, and as always, and as in Him without division (for never was the Word not, but He was always, existing everlastingly with the Father, as the radiance of light), Eusebius and his fellows endured indeed, as not da…
Human beings brought forth children of the same nature as themselves after the fall. That is to say, being corrupt they brought forth corrupt children. The corruption spread, by God's just judgment, from Adam to all his descendants — except for Christ alone — not by way of imitation (as the Pelagians of old asserted) but by way of the propagation of a perverted nature.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:48 — As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
- 1Cor 15:49 — And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
- Gen 4:25 — And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
- Gen 4:25 — And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
- John 3:6 — That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Ps 51:5 — Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.