Then men began to call on the name of the Lord
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καὶ τῷ Σήθ ἐγένετο υἱός, ἐπωνόμασεν δὲ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἐνώς· οὗτος ἤλπισεν ἐπικαλεῖσθαι τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ.
ἤλπισεν, "hoped," is a striking, debated rendering: the Hebrew (הוּחַל) most naturally means "began" ("then men began to call on the name of the LORD"), and the LXX's choice of "hoped" reflects a real ambiguity in the underlying Hebrew root, read differently by the Greek translators. What both traditions agree on is the substance: Enosh's generation marks the start of formal, spoken worship. ἐπικαλεῖσθαι, "to call upon," becomes one of the New Testament's central verbs of faith — Paul quotes Joel almost verbatim at Rom 10:13, "everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved," a line whose first biblical instance is this one.
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