Concise Church History of the Old and New Testaments

Jared.

...halaleel completing the name from the previous page, who lived to be 895 years old, Genesis 5:17 original: 1 b. Mos. 5, 17; referring to the First Book of Moses. He was the father of Jared, who died in the 962nd year of his life, Genesis 5:20.
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Enoch.

§. 6. Enoch, the son of Jared, was the seventh descendant from Adam. After he had fathered Methuselah, he remained in a divine life and was therefore taken away by God and seen no more, Genesis 5:21. Thus, he reached 365 years of age and prophesied specifically about the coming of the Lord, Jude, verses 14, 15.
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Methuselah.
Lamech.

§. 7. Methuselah lived the longest of all, namely 969 years. His son Lamech, the father of Noah, reached 777 years of age and died 80 years before the Great Flood; he also yearned greatly for the comfort of all nations in their labor, Genesis 5:29.
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Noah.

§. 8. Noah was a pious man and without blemish, who led a divine life in his time; for this reason, he also found grace before the Lord, Genesis 6:8, 9. Amidst the wickedness of humanity—which shall soon follow—he became a preacher of righteousness, 1 Peter 3:19, 2 Peter 2:5. He was preserved as one of eight original: selb achte; an archaic German expression meaning "himself as the eighth," referring to the eight people saved on the ark during the Great Flood, after he prepared the ark at God's command, Genesis 6. He lived for 950 years and became so famous as a father of the second world after the flood that the pagans, according to the most common opinion, called him the two-faced Janus The Roman god Janus was depicted with two faces; scholars of this period often identified him with Noah because he had seen two "worlds"—the one before and the one after the flood. Likewise, they called him Ogyges, Deucalion, Saturn, Prometheus, Bacchus, etc. The author is syncretizing biblical figures with Greco-Roman mythology, a common practice in early modern historical scholarship.
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His names among the Pagans.

The evil generation of Cain.

§. 9. Among the godless was Cain, the first son of Adam, Genesis 4:1. He was an unbeliever (Hebrews 11:4), as well as an envious and fierce brother-
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