Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.
5. And he died . This clause, which records the death of each patriarch, is by no means superfluous. For it warns us that death was not in vain denounced against men; and that we are now exposed to the curse to which man was doomed, unless we obtain deliverance elsewhere.
This genealogy traces the holy seed through whom Christ came in the flesh. Mark well: man is not his own maker and therefore not his own master; God who made him must direct him. Male and female both bear God's likeness, so between the sexes there is no great inequality as some falsely imagine.
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Commenting on Genesis 5:1-5
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years,.... Not lunar years, as Varro (d), but solar years, which consisted of three hundred and sixty five days and odd hours, and such were in use among the Egyptians in the times of Moses; and of these must be the age of Adam, and of his posterity in this chapter, and of...