the son of Seth and father of Cainan, was born in the year of the world 235. Moses tells us (Gen. iv. 26.), that then, "men began to call upon the name of the Lord;" or, as others translate it, that "Enos began to call upon the name of the Lord;" that is to say, that he was the inventor of religious rites and ceremonies in the external worship which was paid to God. This worship was kept up and preserved in Enos's family, while Cain's family was plunged in all manner of irregularities and impurities. Several Jews are of opinion, that idolatry was at first introduced into the world in the time of Enos. They translate the Hebrew thus, "Then men began to profane the name of the Lord." Good men, to distinguish themselves from the wicked, began to take upon them the quality of sons or servants of God; for which reason, Moses (Gen. vi. 1, 2,) says that the sons of God (that is to say, the descendants of Enos, who had hitherto preserved the true religion), seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took them wives of all which they chose. Enos died at the age of 905 years, in the year of the world 1140.