builded a citie] After he had wandred about from place to place such a time as God thought meet, for the punishment he imposed on him, he suffered him to set up his rest in a Citie which he built; and he built the Citie (as some compute the time) in the one hundred and fifth, (as others) in the three hundred, or foure hundred yeare of his age, by which time his posteritie might become so populous, as not onely to build, but to people a Citie with inhabitants: and he built this Citie for societie and securitie to himselfe and his progenie, and (as Josephus conjectures) that he might be more able to exercise rapine and tyranny upon others.
after the name of his sonne, Enoch] Rather after his sonnes name then his owne, because his owne was odious and infamous; and rather in his sonne Enochs name then any other of his children, because by this it appeares, he loved him better then the rest; haply because he was worse then his brethren, in being liker in manners and disposition to his father then any of them all; yet for all this earthly glory swelling up to the magnitude of a Citie, the name of the other Enoch of the Line of Seth who walked with God, vers. 24. and had no Citie, is more honourable then the name of this Enoch of the race of Cain with his Citie, though the structure of it were never so magnificent.