Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 5:1-32
The Book of the Generations of Adam, Genesis 5:1 to Genesis 6:8. Here begins another of the main divisions of our volume. As observed in the Introduction, (p. 50,) it is not an account of the origin or creation of Adam, nor even of his oldest progeny, but of his posterity through the line of Seth, who is treated as having taken the place of Abel. Genesis 4:25. It is our author’s habit to unfold a series of events connected as in a chain of causes and effects, and then to return and take up one... read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.He called their name Adam — He gave this name both to the man and the woman. Being at first one by nature, and afterwards one by marriage; it was fit they should both have the same name, in token of their union. read more