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For that line also of which Seth is the father has the name
"Dedication" in the seventh generation from Adam, counting Adam.
For the seventh from him is Enoch, that is, Dedication. But this
is that man who was translated because he pleased God, and who held in
the order of the generations a remarkable place, being the seventh from
Adam, a number signalized by the consecration of the Sabbath. But,
counting from the diverging point of the two lines, or from Seth, he
was the sixth Now it was on the sixth day God made man, and
consummated His works. But the translation of Enoch prefigured our
deferred dedication; for though it is indeed already accomplished in
Christ our Head, who so rose again that He shall die no more, and
who was Himself also translated, yet there remains another dedication
of the whole house, of which Christ Himself is the foundation, and
this dedication is deferred till the end, when all shall rise again to
die no more. And whether it is the house of God, or the temple of
God, or the city of God, that is said to be dedicated, it is all
the same, and equally in accordance With the usage of the Latin
language. For Virgil himself calls the city of widest empire "the
house of Assaracus," meaning the Romans, who were descended through
the Trojans from Assaracus. He also calls them the house of Æneas,
because Rome was built by those Trojans who had come to Italy under
Æneas. For that poet imitated the sacred writings, in which the
Hebrew nation, though so numerous, is called the house of Jacob.
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