And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah. Here the Septuagint version adds again an hundred years; and that Enoch had a son, whose name was Methuselah, is affirmed by Eupolemus r, an Heathen writer; and Enoch being a prophet gave him this name under a spirit of prophecy, foretelling by it when the flood should be; for his name, according to Bochart s, signifies, "when he dies there shall be an emission", or sending forth of waters upon the earth, to destroy it,
r Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 17. p. 419. s Thaleg. l. 2. c. 13. col. 88. so Ainsworth.