Concept

Seth

Overview

biblical figure, third son of Adam

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In some books the names Calmana and Dibora are found as being daughters of Adam; but I know not whether such authors are worthy of any credit. As therefore Seth is recorded as having been begotten a long time after this awful murder, it seems to me very probable that the parents, distressed beyond measure at this monstrous family crime, refrained for a long time from marriage communion. Moses does not indeed touch…
Martin Luther, Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1
States what Seth is; names Seth.
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Such was the condition of those sons of Adam who preceded Seth. In reference to this subject the Midrash says: “During the 130 years when Adam was under rebuke he begat spirits,” i.e., demons; when, however, he was again restored to divine favour “he begat in his likeness, in his…
Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed
States what Seth is; names Seth twice.
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The boy had chiefly kept to the first article of belief. The God who stands in immediate connection with nature, and owns and loves it as his work, seemed to him the proper God, who might be brought into closer relationship with man, as with every thing else, and who would…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Autobiography
Close in meaning to Seth; the term itself is not named.
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