Enos

AI summary: Enos matters because the cross references place him at the point where the Sethite line is associated with a renewed public orientation toward God. He continues the preserved line after Cain's violence and becomes part of the genealogy carried through Chronicles and Luke. The note about calling on the Lord gives his generation theological significance beyond bare chronology. Taken together, the material presents Enos as an early patriarch whose place marks continuity, worship, and the slow rebuilding of faithful human life.¹

Man the son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Gen. 5:6-11; Luke 3:38). He lived nine hundred and five years. In his time “men began to call upon the name of the Lord” (Gen. 4:26), meaning either (1) then began men to call themselves by the name of the Lord (marg.) i.e., to distinguish themselves thereby from idolaters; or (2) then men in some public and earnest way began to call upon the Lord, indicating a time of spiritual revival. ³