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hand of God, both made in God's likeness; and therefore between the sexes there is not that great distance and inequality which some imagine.
5. That God blessed them. It is usual for parents to bless their children; so God, the common Father, blessed his. But earthly parents can only beg a blessing; it is God's prerogative to command it. It refers chiefly to the blessing of increase, not excluding other blessings.
6. By giving them both one name, he notes the inseparable conjunction of man and wife. That he called their name Adam. Adam signifies earth, red earth. Now,
(1.) God gave him this name. Adam had himself named the rest of the creatures, but he must not choose his own name, lest he should assume some glorious pompous title. But God gave him a name which would be a continual memorandum to him of the meanness of his original, and oblige him to look unto the rock whence he was hewn and the hole of the pit whence he was digged, Isa 51:1. Those have little reason to be proud who are so near akin to dust.
(2.) He gave this name both to the man and to the woman. Being at first one by nature, and afterwards one by marriage, it was fit they should both have the same name, in token of their union. The woman is of the earth earthy as well as the man.
2 male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called
their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his
own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
The birth of his son Seth, Ge 5:3. He was born in the hundred and thirtieth year of Adam's life; and probably the murder of Abel was not long before. Many other sons and daughters were born to Adam, besides Cain and Abel, before this; but no notice is taken of them, because an honourable mention must be made of his name only in whose loins Christ and the church were. But that which is most observable here concerning Seth is that