John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 1-4 . Adam, Seth , etc.] These first four verses exactly agree with the account of the antediluvian patriarchs in ( Genesis 5:1-32), the first letter in Adam is larger than usual, as a memorial, as Buxtorf observes, of the first and only man, from whence mankind had their beginning, and whose history the author had undertaken to write.
Ver. 1-4 . Adam, Seth , etc.] These first four verses exactly agree with the account of the antediluvian patriarchs in ( Genesis 5:1-32), the first letter in Adam is larger than usual, as a memorial, as Buxtorf observes, of the first and only man, from whence mankind had their beginning, and whose history the author had undertaken to write.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-27 - This chapter, and many that follow, repeat the genealogies, or lists of fathers and children in the Bible history, and put them together, with many added. When compared with other places, there are some difference found; yet we must not therefore stumble at the word, but bless God that the things necessary to salvation are plain enough. The origina of the Jewish nation is here traced from the first man that God created, and is thereby distinguished from the obscure, fabulous, an absurd origins assigned to other nations. But the nations now are all so mingled with one another, that no one nation, nor the greatest par of any, is descended entirely from any of one nation, nor the greates part of any, is descended entirely from any of these fountains. Onl this we are sure of, that God has created of one blood all nations of men; they are all descended from one Adam, one Noah. Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Mal 2:10.
Original Hebrew אדם121 שׁת8352 אנושׁ׃583
