Gen 4:25 | KingComments | STEP | After the dark painting of ‘the way of Cain’, a ray of hope lights up. We go back in time and hear about the birth of “Seth”. He replaces Abel. Seth means ‘compensated’ or ‘substitute’. Here we can see a general principle: what has been given to God or taken (back) by Him will always be compensated or replaced by Him. Seth also gets a son, “Enosh”, which means “man” in the sense of “weak man” or “mortal man”. From that name appears the faith of Seth. Unlike Cain and his descendants, Seth does not expect anything from man, but everything from God. It is therefore remarkable that precisely in the days of Enosh “[men] began to call upon the name of the LORD”. While there are those who make a name for themselves on earth ( ), there are those who, in the awareness of their own weakness, call upon the name of the LORD (cf. ).

‏ Genesis 4:25

Seth, the Substitute for Abel

After the dark painting of ‘the way of Cain’, a ray of hope lights up. We go back in time and hear about the birth of “Seth”. He replaces Abel. Seth means ‘compensated’ or ‘substitute’. Here we can see a general principle: what has been given to God or taken (back) by Him will always be compensated or replaced by Him.

Seth also gets a son, “Enosh”, which means “man” in the sense of “weak man” or “mortal man”. From that name appears the faith of Seth. Unlike Cain and his descendants, Seth does not expect anything from man, but everything from God. It is therefore remarkable that precisely in the days of Enosh “[men] began to call upon the name of the LORD”. While there are those who make a name for themselves on earth (Gen 4:17), there are those who, in the awareness of their own weakness, call upon the name of the LORD (cf. Pro 18:10).