passed away. In this age war commenced, and brazen 

 arms were used : it probably lasted until about the middle 

 of the period that elapsed betAvixt the death of Adam and 

 the death of Enos, the grandson of Adam, that is, 205 j-ears ;* 

 for in the lifetime of Enos a distinction was made betwixt 

 the children of God and the children of men. Adam was 

 called the son of God, and so were his descendants by 

 Seth ; but the descendants of Cain, who probably abandoned 

 the worship of God, or joined with it the worship of creatures, 

 were by way of distinction called the children of men. 

 This interpretation of the 26th verse of Genes, iv. was first 

 given by Le Clerc, and is now generally received.f- 



The iron age, beginning, as I suppose, at the middle of 

 the period that elapsed betwixt the death of Adam and the 

 death of Enos, and being terminated only by the flood, must 

 have lasted 1121 years; for the space of time that inter- 

 vened betwixt the death of Adam and the death of Etios, 

 was 410 years, the half of which is 205 ; Enos died in the 

 year of the world 1340, which subtracted from theyear of the 

 world 2256, the year in which the deluge happened, leave a 

 remainder of 9l6 years, to which adding 205 years that pre- 

 ceded the death of Enos, we have the duration of the iron 

 age 1121 years. 



During this period Moses relates, Genes, vi. the children 



of 



* Cape], Chronologia Sacra, p. 1. 



t The Septuagint and Vulgate translations are rejected by Rosenrnuller and 

 Datliiu3 ; our English translation is taken from the Vulgate, 



