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Gen_5:1 This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Ver. 1. This is the book of the generations.] Sepher, {a} a ciphering of their names, acts, and accidents; that we might know, first, who were Christ’s progenitors; secondly, by whom the Church was continued; thirdly, how long the old world lasted, viz., one thousand six hundred and fifty-six years. {b} Whence some have grounded a conjecture, that the year of Christ one thousand six hundred and fifty-six will bring forth some strange alteration in the world. Others think the world will be then at an end, and they base this on this chronogram, MunDi ConfLagratIo.
In the likeness of God made he him.] This is much inculcated, that it may be much observed, and we much humbled, that have parted with so fair a patrimony; striving as much as may be to recover it in Christ, who being “the express image of his Father’s person,” {c} is both apt and able to renew that lost image of God in us, by his merit and Spirit, by his value and virtue.
{a} ñôã
{b} Alsted, Chron., p. 494.
{c} áðáõãáóìá êáé ÷áñáêôçñ . {Heb_1:3}