m's vow of chastity refuted 30.

9. How we are to understand that Adam begat a son in his own
likeness 31.

10. Whether Adam's son Seth had God's likeness 31.

11. How Adam acquired again the lost image 32.

12. How Seth secured the likeness of God 32.

13. Why Adam gave his son the name Seth; its meaning 33.

* The long lives of the first men.

a. Longevity a part of the happy state of the first world 34.

b. The causes of such long lives 34-35.

* Men's bodies were much stronger and healthier than ours 35.

c. Whether the climate, food and holy living contributed to this
end 36-37.

* The creatures given to man for food after the flood were
inferior to those before, and they injured the body more than
nourished it 37.

d. Luther's thoughts on this theme 38.

14. Which is the first or chief branch born from Adam and Eve 39.

15. How long Adam lived after Seth's birth 39.

* The glory of the first world 40.

* The histories of the first world were most excellent, but they
were destroyed in the flood 41.

* Eve's age and experiences 42.

* The age of the first world is called the golden age 43.

II. ADAM AND HIS SON SETH.

V. 1a. _This is the book of the generations of Adam._

19. "Adam," as will be stated further on, is the common name of the
whole human race, but it is applied to the first man more expressly as
an appellation of dignity, because he was the source, as it were, of
the whole human family. The Hebrew word _sepher_, "a book," is derived
from _saphar_, which signifies "to narrate" or "to enumerate."
Wherefore this narration or enumeration of the posterity of Adam is
called "the book of the generations of Adam."

V. 1b. _In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made
he him._

20. This clause of the sacred text has induced the blind Jews to fable
that Adam slept with Eve as his wife in paradise on the same day in
which he was created, and that she conceived in that same day. Fables
of this kind are numerous among them, nor may anything sound or pure
in the matter of scriptural interpretation be expected of them.

21. The intent of Moses, in this clause, is to record the complete age
of Adam, and to number the days of his life from the day of his
creation, and, at the same time, to show that before Adam there was no
generation. Generation is to be clearly