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Seth

«We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.»
«And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Enos, Seth
«And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: / And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: / And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.»
«And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Abel, Cain, Seth, slew
«And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: / And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: / And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.»
«Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: arrest, astronomy, Cain, plowing, ruling, Seth