Seth

The Righteous Seth is the third son of Adam and Eve, born after Cain killed Abel. The book of Genesis says that Eve named him Seth, saying that God had appointed for her another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain had killed. Adam was a hundred and thirty years old when he fathered Seth "in his own likeness and image"; in the Septuagint the age is two hundred and thirty.

According to Genesis, Seth lived nine hundred and twelve years and died fourteen years before the birth of Noah. His son was Enos, and from his line came Noah and, later, Abraham. The Evangelist Luke names him in the genealogy of the Saviour. For this reason the Church counts him among the righteous of the Old Testament, the forefathers of Christ according to the flesh.

Other ancient writings, which the Church does not receive, relate that Seth went to the gates of Paradise to ask the oil of mercy for the sick Adam. The chronology of his life cannot be fixed with precision, and the sources we could read do not include an Orthodox synaxarion giving the day of his commemoration.