Enoch (Hastings' Dictionary)

See ENOCH 1 (p. 704''). ENOS (so RV in Lk Z^), the same as EhosB (3■•;^<), the name of the son of Seth (Gn 4*). He was the father of Kenan ; and the length of his life is stated as fiOo years (Gn 5"). It is said in connexion with the mention of his birth, ' then began men to call upon the name of J"' (4^). ' Enosh ' denotes ' man in his frailty and weak- nesis.' The fact of prayer being made to J" first when Enosh was bom, perhaps indicates allegori- c.

illy the belief that men were then first driven by sickness, and by a sense of frailty and dependence, to crv for help to the invisible Creator. The LXX, whicli translates the second clauseof 4" oJtos fj\n<r€v i-KiKoXtiaeai K.T.X., a.s.«ociates Enosh himself with this step in the spiritual life of the human race (cf. parallels 4^ and 10*). Tl-.

e advance thus made by the generation of Enosh the son of Seth is evidentl}' intended to stand as the counterpart to the advance in another aspect of life represented by Enoch — the parallel generation in the line of Cain (4"). It has been suggested that this men- tion of Enosh and of the first recourse to prayer to J" must have been derived from a source of J tradition distinct from that which records the sacrifices of Cain and Abel, inasmuch aa sacrifice would imply supplication to the Deity.

H. E. RyLK.