And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
God records the lineage of the righteous with care and clarity, setting down their years at length so all can see them, while the wicked are left nameless and forgotten. The memory of the just is blessed; the name of the wicked shall rot. These long lives teach us to number our days, for even centuries are but a quick passage.
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Commenting on Genesis 5:6-20
And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos. Not that this was his firstborn, no doubt but he had other children before this time; but this is only mentioned, because it carried the lineage and descent directly from Adam to Noah, the father of the new world, and from whom the Messiah was to spring; whose genealogy to give is a principal...
And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: (d) He proves Adam's generation by those who came from Seth, to show the true Church, and also what care God had over the same from the beginning, in that he continued his graces toward it by a continual succession.