Holy Scripture

Genesis 5:3

A church father on this verse
“Christ is the invisible image of the invisible God, just as according to the Scripture narrative we say that the image of Adam was his son Seth. It is written thus: "And Adam begot Seth after his own image and after his own kind." This image preserves the unity of nature and substance common to a father and a son. For…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 1.2.6

Source: Septuagint

Original

3And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth.

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In context

1This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him:

2male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them.

— Genesis 5:3 —

4And the days of Adam, which he lived after his begetting Seth, were seven hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.

5And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

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