ordingly, this: that men died and lived again. In Adam all men
died. But believers lived again through the promised seed, as the
history of Abel and Enoch testifies. In Adam, death was appointed for
Seth and all others; hence it is written of every one: "And he died."
But Abel and Enoch illustrate the resurrection from the dead and the
life immortal. The purpose intended is that we should not despair in
death but entertain the unwavering assurance that the believers in the
promised seed shall live, and be taken by God, whether from the water
or the fire or the gibbet, or the tomb. We desire to live, and we
shall live, namely the eternal life through the promised seed, which
remains when this is past.

IV. LAMECH AND HIS SON NOAH.

A. LAMECH.

1. He lived at the time Enoch was taken to heaven 75.

* To what end Enoch's ascension served the holy patriarchs 75.

2. Why Lamech called his son Noah 76-77.

* The erroneous comments of the rabbins taken by Lyra without
any good reason 78-79.

3. On what Lamech's heart was centered at Noah's birth 79-81.

4. How and why Lamech erred in the case of his son as Eve did at
Cain's birth 80.

* The longing of the patriarchs for the Messiah was of the Holy
Spirit 81.

* Complaint of the world's ingratitude 82.

* The patriarchs' greatest treasure and desire 82.

* Comparison of the three worlds 83-85.

* Why the present world so lightly esteems Christ, whom the
patriarchs so highly revered 84.

* The first world was the best, the last the worst 85.

IV. LAMECH AND HIS SON NOAH.

A. Lamech.

Vs. 28-29. _And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat
a son: and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us
in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh because of the
ground which Jehovah hath cursed._

75. Only incidentally Moses adverts in this account to the name of
Noah, which certainly deserves a somewhat careful examination. Lamech
was living when Enoch was taken away by God out of this life into the
other immortal life. When the great glory of God had become manifest
in the extraordinary miracle of the rapture from a lowly estate into
life eternal of Enoch who was a man like us, a husband, a man with
family, having sons, daughters, household, fields and cattle, the holy
fathers were filled and fired with