And after he had become the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
We have here all that the Holy Ghost thought fit to leave upon record concerning five of the patriarchs before the flood, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, and Jared. There is nothing observable concerning any of these particularly, though we have reason to think they were men of eminence, both for prudence and piety, in their day: but in general, I. Observe how largely and expressly their generations are recorded.
Commenting on Genesis 5:6-20
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. Here the Septuagint version adds an hundred years, as before. And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. Here the Septuagint version adds an hundred years, as before. Genesis 5:13 gen 5:13 gen 5:13 gen 5:13And Cainan lived, after he begat Mahalaleel, eight hundred and forty years,....
Gen 5:3-32 As Adam was created in the image of God, so did he beget “in his own likeness, after his image;” that is to say, he transmitted the image of God in which he was created, not in the purity in which it came direct from God, but in the form given to it by his own self-determination, modified and corrupted by sin.
Commenting on Genesis 5:3-32