is an Enoch born to Cain in the land of banishment.  If there is a Jared in

the line of Seth, there is an Irad in the line of Cain, which differs only in

one letter in the original.  Methuselah has a son named Lamech in the line of

Seth, so Methusael has a son of the same name in the line of Cain.  Both

Lamechs have seven, and seventy and seven connected with them.  They speak to

us of the beginning of that parody of truth which Satan has so skilfully

established and maintained, by taking advantage of similar sounding names,

and of the confusion of tongues which we associate with Babylon and

Babylonianism.  (See The Two Babylons, by Hislop).

Lamech, `the sixth from Adam', in the line of Cain, has three sons, one

(Jabal) kept cattle, and so continued in the work of the ground, but Jubal

was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ, and Tubal -Cain an

instructor of every artificer in brass and iron.  It would appear that the

veneer which has spread over the curse, and which is variously named culture,

civilization, progress, etc., today, was originated by the sons of Lamech of

Cain's line.  The Lamech who begat Noah, however, is in direct contrast, he

does not appear to have attempted to evade the weary toil that must be

experienced by those who, by sweat of face, eat the bread that is produced by

the ground that is cursed.  Lamech longed for rest, but he did not accept the

vain substitutes of the line of Cain.  There are many today who, surrounded

by the comforts and inventions of man, would scarcely believe that there is

truth in the record of the curse on the ground.  The products of the earth

and sea are brought to their door, no thought passes through their mind as to

the sorrow and the toil that someone, somewhere, must endure to provide them

with the necessities of life.  Not all may be so crude as the little town -

bred urchin who, when taken for the first time to a farm in the country,

said, `I don't want milk from a Cow.  I want milk that comes from a Shop',

but something akin to this attitude is induced by the multiplication of `push

buttons' in the daily round.  Lamech knew no such deadening influence; the

toil of his hands was hard and wearying because of the ground that the Lord

had cursed.  A friend writing recently gave an unconscious echo of Lamech's

words, saying, `When one, from the back of the land, sees the toil of man and

beast, there comes to the lips no more fitting words than, `Even so, come,

Lord Jesus'.

Harps and organs, however melodious and charming; brass and iron,

modelled and designed into the most wonderful of machines and inventions,

though they may `prove' to the natural man the upward development of his

attainments, afford no rest for those in whose hearts the truth of God

abides.  Rest for them is found in the true Noah, Whose witness and Whose

experience testify of a safe passage through the flood of judgment, of the

resurrection, and of a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth

See the article Atonement6.

`Now' in Acts 26:17.  Most scholars are agreed that the word `now' in Acts

26:17, `Unto whom now I send thee' is a gloss, an addition by a writer who

sought either to preserve or to enforce what he conceived to be the import of

the passage.  Those who deny that Acts 28 constitutes a dispensational

frontier have given undue emphasis to this omission.  The present tense of

the verb apostello, `I send thee' can have no other meaning than I Now send

thee, whether the preposition is included or omitted.  It is impossible to

translate Acts 26:17 :