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Secrets of Heaven #485

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485. Seth means another church here than the one previously depicted by Seth, in Genesis 4:25 (see §435 there). Churches whose theologies are different can be called by the same name, as verses 17, 18 of the last chapter show. Two churches mentioned there were called Enoch and Lamech, while two others in verses 21, 30 of the present chapter are likewise named Enoch and Lamech.

  
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Genesis 5:30

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30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: