Enoch

Genesis gives him four verses. He does not die; he is simply gone. Around those verses grew a whole literature: the Watchers who came down on Mount Hermon, the crystal houses of heaven, the scribe who was asked to plead for the fallen and was told no, and at last Metatron, the man made into the prince of the presence, with seventy-two wings. The tradition calls what happened to him translation: taken up without dying.

• 1 EnochOn the shelfThe Watchers, the Parables, the Astronomical Book, the Dream Visions, the Epistle. R. H. Charles, 1917.Read →
• 2 Enoch, the Secrets of EnochOn the shelfThe ten heavens and Enoch’s anointing. Morfill and Charles, 1896.Read →
• 3 Enoch, the Hebrew EnochOn the shelfEnoch becomes Metatron. Hugo Odeberg, 1928.Read →
• JubileesOn the shelfEnoch the first to learn writing, set in Eden to record judgement. R. H. Charles.Read →

• Sergei Bulgakov · Two Cities1) The Book of the Secrets of Enoch, preserved in an Ethiopic translation, the so-called ‘Ethiopic Enoch’, is one of the most important and extensive apocalypses. A version of this book was discovered in a Slavonic translation and published by Mr Sokolov (the so-called…
• Sergei Bulgakov · Two CitiesBut it was then received into the Christian communities and became favourite reading in certain, chiefly ‘barbarian’, churches, in whose languages many apocalyptic documents have been preserved for us, and later also in the Slavonic East (‘Slavonic Enoch’!).
• Sergei Bulgakov · Two CitiesHere it is characteristic, and apparently has not yet received sufficient scholarly attention, that most pseudonyms are adopted as pure conventions, without particular concern for their plausibility, sometimes, on the contrary, with their fictitious and conventional character…
• Anatoly Lunacharsky · Religion and Socialism, Volume IIAuthor’s note 1: We have purely Jewish apocalypses in the canonical book of the prophet Daniel (Pseudo-Daniel, of course) and in the non-canonical but very popular Book of Enoch.
• Enoch (attributed) · The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)1 The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed. 2 And he took up his parable and said—Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw…
• Enoch (attributed) · The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)1 Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him. 2 And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones.
• Enoch (attributed) · The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)3 And I, Enoch, was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers called me—Enoch the scribe—and said to me: 4 ‘Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place,…
• Enoch (attributed) · The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch)s and accomplished all the years of my life, 365 1 This general title appears in B as These are the secret books of God which were shown to Enoch. valuable for critical purposes; but as they do not belong to the original text i have enclosed them in brackets. years.
• Enoch (attributed) · The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch)8 And these™ men said to me: “Be of good cheer, Enoch, be not afraid; the everlasting God hath sent us to thee, and lo to-day thou shalt ascend with us into heaven.
• Enoch (attributed) · The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch)find forgiveness.’ man, that I should pray for angels? Who knows whither I go, or what awaits me: or who prays for me!?”? [Of the taking of Enoch to the third Heaven ".}
• Anonymous · The Book of Jubilees9 And Cain took ’Âwân his sister to be his wife and she bare him Enoch at 190-196 A.M. the close of the fourth jubilee. And in the first year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, houses were built 197 A.M. on the earth, and Cain built a city, and called its name after the…
• Anonymous · The Book of Jubileesand he called his name Enoch.
• Anonymous · The Book of Jubileesers, who had sinned with the daughters of men; for these had begun to unite themselves, so as to be defiled, with the daughters of men, and Enoch testified against (them) all.
• R. Ishmael ben Elisha (attributed) · The Hebrew Book of Enoch (3 Enoch)Metatron is identical with Enoch who was translated to heaven at the time of the Deluge
• R. Ishmael ben Elisha (attributed) · The Hebrew Book of Enoch (3 Enoch)2 He answered and said to me: ” Because I am Enoch, the son of Jared.
• R. Ishmael ben Elisha (attributed) · The Hebrew Book of Enoch (3 Enoch)1 “I seized him, and I took him and I appointed him” that is Enoch, the son of Jared, whose name is Metatron
• Josephus · Antiquities of the JewsHe first of all set boundaries about lands: he built a city, and fortified it with walls, and he compelled his family to come together to it; and called that city Enoch, after the name of his eldest son Enoch. Now Jared was the son of Enoch; whose son was Malaliel; whose son…
• Josephus · Antiquities of the JewsNow he was the tenth from Adam, as being the son of Lamech, whose father was Mathusela; he was the son of Enoch, the son of Jared; and Jared was the son of Malaleel, who, with many of his sisters, were the children of Cainan, the son of Enos. Now Enos was the son of Seth, the…
• Josephus · Antiquities of the JewsHe lived nine hundred and sixty-two years; and then his son Enoch succeeded him, who was born when his father was one hundred and sixty-two years old. Now he, when he had lived three hundred and sixty-five years, departed and went to God; whence it is that they have not written…
• Philo of Alexandria · On the Posterity of CainAfter he had said this he proceeds to say, "And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch." Genesis iv. 17. Is it not here reasonable to raise the question, why Cain knew his wife?…
• Philo of Alexandria · On the Posterity of CainAnd from thence I conjecture that his wife, being known to him, brought forth Enoch; and the name Enoch being interpreted means, thy grace.
• Philo of Alexandria · On the Posterity of CainBut as after Cain had begotten Enoch, one of the posterity of Seth is also subsequently called Enoch, it may be well to consider, whether the two namesakes were men of different or of similar dispositions and characters. And at the same time that we examine this question let us…
• Philo of Alexandria · On the Confusion of LanguagesIs not Cain represented as having begotten a son whom he called Enoch, Genesis iv. 17. and as building a city to which he gave the same name, and as after a fashion building up created and mortal things to the destruction of those things which have received a more divine…
• Philo of Alexandria · On the Confusion of LanguagesFor the name Enoch, being interpreted, means "thy grace." But every impious man supposes that what he thinks and understands is owing to the bounty of his intellect towards him; that what he sees is the gift of his eyes to him, what he hears of his ears, what he smells of his…
• Philo of Alexandria · On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changedBut the race of these persons is rare and scarcely to be found, and one may almost say is unable to exist; and the following oracle, which is given with respect to Enoch, proves this: "Enoch pleased God, and he was not found;" Genesis v. 24.
• Philo of Alexandria · On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abrahamrinciple Moses mentions next in order to Enos, the man who changed from a worse system of life to a better, who is called among the Hebrews Enoch, but as the Greeks would say, "gracious," of whom the following statement is made, "that Enoch pleased God, and was not found,…
• Philo of Alexandria · On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on AbrahamAnd the expression, "he was not found," This is not the translation of the bible which savs " and Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him " is very appropriately employed of him whose place was changed, either from the fact of his ancient blameable life being…
• Philo of Alexandria · On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abrahamgood man shuts himself up, and remains for the most part at home, scarcely going This is not the translation of the bible which savs " and Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him " over his threshold, or if he does go out, for the sake of avoiding the crowds…
• Attributed to Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus · Pirkê de Rabbi EliezerIn the Book of Enoch (Ethiopic) xlviii. 3, the Messiah is said to have had his name named before the sun and the signs were created ; see my Hellenism and Christianity, pp. 15 ft., on the question of the pre-existence of the Messiah, and cf. Assump'.ion of Moses i. 14. that…
• Attributed to Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus · Pirkê de Rabbi EliezerThis tradition is preserved in Slavonic Enoch (A and B) xxx. and in the Book of Adam and Eve (cd. Malan), loc. cit. callcth unto deep at the sound of thy waterspouts " (Ps. xlii. 7).i
• Attributed to Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus · Pirkê de Rabbi EliezerNow we find a parallel teaching in the Slavonic Enoch xiii. 2; “And I saw the six great gates open, each gate having sixtyone stadia.” Thus far Text B. ; see Charles' ed.. p. 15, and cf. Eth. Enoch Ixxii. 2 ff. on the course of the sun. Here also “windows” are mentioned. The…
• The Zohar (from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Latin) · The Kabbalah Unveiled34. (But concerning Metatron) it is written, Gen. v. 22: "And Enoch walked with the Elohim" (because out of Enoch, Metatron is formed). And it is written, Prov. xxii. 6: "Enoch hath been made into a boy, according to his path." (That is, "hath been changed into") the boy…
• The Zohar (from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Latin) · The Kabbalah Unveiled"And he existed not" (longer) under this name (Enoch), because the Elohim took him in order that he might be called by this name. (For this name is communicable unto the angels, and in the first instance unto this chief among them, namely, Metatron.)
• Augustine · City of Godearth, or rather indeed but three, after one brother slew the other,—to wit, the first man the father of all, and Cain himself, and his son Enoch, by whose name the city was itself called. But they who are moved by this consideration forget to take into account that the writer…
• Augustine · City of GodTherefore, although it is written, “And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Enoch, and he builded a city and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch,” it does not follow that we are to believe this to have been his first-born; for we cannot…
• Augustine · City of GodIn the seventh, however, of which Enoch is the representative, who is recorded to have been translated without death because he pleased God, there is the same discrepancy as in the first five generations, 100 years more being ascribed to him by our mss. before he begat a son.…
• Athanasius · On the IncarnationFor which of the righteous men and holy prophets, and patriarchs, recorded in the divine Scriptures, ever had his corporal birth of a virgin only? Or what woman has sufficed without man for the conception of human kind? Was not Abel born of Adam, Enoch of Jared, Noe of Lamech,…
• Various Church Fathers · The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr and IrenaeusLet us take (for instance) Enoch, who, being found righteous in obedience, was translated, and death was never known to happen to him. Noah, being found faithful, preached regeneration to the world through his ministry; and the Lord saved by him the animals which, with one…
• Various Church Fathers · The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr and IrenaeusThe final stumbling-block (or source of danger) approaches, concerning which it is written, as Enoch says, “For for this end the Lord has cut short the times and the days, that His Beloved may hasten; and He will come to the inheritance.” And the prophet also speaks thus: “Ten…
• Various Church Fathers · The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr and IrenaeusFor if it were necessary, as you suppose, God would not have made Adam uncircumcised; would not have had respect to the gifts of Abel when, being uncircumcised, he offered sacrifice, and would not have been pleased with the uncircumcision of Enoch, who was not found, because…
• Various Church Fathers · The Gospel of Peter, the Diatessaron, Aristides and Origen on John and MatthewThe same parchment which contained this fragment also contained a fragment of the Revelation of Peter and a fragment of the Book of Enoch in Greek. The parchment codex is assigned to a date between the eighth and the twelfth century.
• Various Church Fathers · The Gospel of Peter, the Diatessaron, Aristides and Origen on John and MatthewIt has, in its imagery, little or no kinship with the Book of Daniel, the Book of Enoch, or the Revelation of S. John. Its only parallels in canonical scripture, with the notable exception of the Second Epistle of Peter, are to be found in Isaiah lxvi. 24, Mark ix. 44, 48, and…
• Various Church Fathers · The Gospel of Peter, the Diatessaron, Aristides and Origen on John and MatthewAnd I asked the angel, and said: Sir, who is this? And he said to me: This is Enoch, the scribe of righteousness. And I entered into the interior of that place, and immediately I saw the sun, and coming it saluted me laughing and rejoicing. And when it had seen (me), it turned…
• Various Church Fathers · Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian and OrigenChapter III.—Concerning the Genuineness of “The Prophecy of Enoch.”
• Various Church Fathers · Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian and OrigenI am aware that the Scripture of Enoch, which has assigned this order (of action) to angels, is not received by some, because it is not admitted into the Jewish canon either. I suppose they did not think that, having been published before the deluge, it could have safely…
• Various Church Fathers · Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian and OrigenBut since Enoch in the same Scripture has preached likewise concerning the Lord, nothing at all must be rejected by us which pertains to us; and we read that “every Scripture suitable for edification is divinely inspired.” By the Jews it may now seem to have been rejected for…
• Various Church Fathers · Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, the Didache and the Apostolic Constitutionsbe the last persecutor, and thus prove the forerunner of Antichrist! But we ought not to believe those who, affirming that the two prophets Enoch and Elias have been translated into some remote place that they might attend our Lord when He shall come to judgment, also fancy…
• Various Church Fathers · Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, the Didache and the Apostolic ConstitutionsHe instructed those before the flood by Abel and Sem, and Seth, also by Enos, and by Enoch that was translated; those at the flood by Noah; the inhabitants of Sodom by hospitable Lot; those after the flood by Melchizedek, and the patriarchs, and Job the beloved of God; the…
• Various Church Fathers · Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, the Didache and the Apostolic ConstitutionsAnd those that rest in the earth shall rejoice, for the dew which is from Thee shall be healing to them.” There are indeed many and various things said concerning the resurrection, and concerning the continuance of the righteous in glory, and concerning the punishment of the…
• Hilary of Poitiers and John of Damascus · Hilary of Poitiers and John of DamascusDo you think that His approach could have been heard, had He not assumed the guise of a created being? Is not the fact, that He was heard as He walked, proof that He was present in a created form? I do not ask in what guise He spoke to Cain and Abel and Noah, and in what guise…
• Hilary of Poitiers and John of Damascus · Hilary of Poitiers and John of DamascusBut Enoch and Elias the Thesbite shall be sent and shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, that is, the synagogue to our Lord Jesus Christ and the preaching of the apostles: and they will be destroyed by him. And the Lord shall come out of heaven, just as the holy…
• Athanasius · Select Works and LettersFor which of the righteous men and holy prophets, and patriarchs, recorded in the divine Scriptures, ever had his corporal birth of a virgin only? Or what woman has sufficed without man for the conception of human kind? Was not Abel born of Adam, Enoch of Jared, Noe of Lamech,…
• Athanasius · Select Works and Letters5. And thus what Moses taught, that Abraham observed; and what Abraham observed, that Noah and Enoch acknowledged, discriminating pure from impure, and becoming acceptable to God. For Abel too in this way witnessed, knowing what he had learned from Adam, who himself had learned…
• Athanasius · Select Works and LettersFor Adam too, though he received grace from the first, and upon his creation was at once placed in paradise, differed in no respect either from Enoch, who was translated thither after some time from his birth on his pleasing God, or from the Apostle, who likewise was caught up…
• Cyril of Jerusalem and Gregory of Nazianzus · Cyril of Jerusalem and Gregory NazianzenYou may mention Elias the Tishbite who was taken up into heaven, yet he is not greater than John: Enoch was translated, but he is not greater than John: Moses was a very great lawgiver, and all the Prophets were admirable, but not greater than John. It is not I that dare to…
• Cyril of Jerusalem and Gregory of Nazianzus · Cyril of Jerusalem and Gregory NazianzenRemember that Enoch was translated; but Jesus ascended: remember what was said yesterday concerning Elias, that Elias was taken up in a chariot of fire; but that the chariots of Christ are ten thousand-fold even thousands upon thousands: and that Elias was taken up, towards the…
• Cyril of Jerusalem and Gregory of Nazianzus · Cyril of Jerusalem and Gregory Nazianzen27. He also came down upon all righteous men and Prophets; Enos, I mean, and Enoch, and Noah, and the rest; upon Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for as regards Joseph, even Pharaoh perceived that he had the Spirit of God within him. As to Moses, and the wonderful works wrought by…
• John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the HebrewsHe calls Marriott “a character unique, beautiful, and saint-like,” and adds that he “lived quite above the world, and, like Enoch, walked habitually with God.”
• John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the HebrewsA nature of flesh did not prevent Paul from becoming what he was, nor Peter from receiving the keys of heaven; and Enoch also, having worn flesh, was translated, and not found. So also Elias was caught up with the flesh. Abraham also with Isaac and his grandson shone brightly,…
• John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews[4.] ( Ver. 5 ) “By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him.” This man displayed greater faith than Abel. How (you ask)? Because, although be came after him, yet what befell [Abel] was sufficient to guide him…
• John Chrysostom · Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus and PhilemonHow lives he so long a time? In what place is he? Why was this done? Whither was Enoch translated? Lives he on like food with us? and what is it hinders him from being here? Nay, but does he not eat? And wherefore was he translated? Behold how God schooleth us by little and…
• John Chrysostom · Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus and PhilemonChrist was to rise again; see now how many sure signs there were; Enoch, Elias, Jonas, the fiery furnace, the case of Noah, baptism, the seeds, the plants, our own generation, that of all animals. For since on this everything was at stake, it, more than any other, had abundance…
• Augustine · Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the GospelsNeither do I specify here those events which carry us back into the remotest antiquity, such as the translation of Enoch, the destruction of the impious by the flood, and the saving of righteous Noah and his house from the deluge, by means of the [ark of] wood. I begin the…
• Augustine · Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the GospelsFor if He did not visit mankind before the Law, whence was Abel, and Enoch, and Noe, and Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, whose Lord He was pleased to be called? And He to whom all nations belonged, as though He were the God of three men only, said, “I am the God of Abraham, and…
• Augustine · Exposition on the Book of PsalmsAt one time the Church was in Enoch alone: and he was translated from the unrighteous. At one time the Church was in the house of Noah alone, and endured all who perished by the flood, and the ark alone swam upon the waves, and escaped to shore. At one time the Church was in…
• Gregory the Great, Ephrem the Syrian and Aphrahat · Gregory the Great, Ephrem Syrus and Aphrahat7. Yet were there two men (that I lie not) whose names have escaped me in Hell. For Enoch and Elijah came not to me. In all the world I have sought them; yea thither where Jonah descended, I descended and sought and they were not. And though I suppose that into Paradise, they…
• Gregory the Great, Ephrem the Syrian and Aphrahat · Gregory the Great, Ephrem Syrus and AphrahatM., Lo! the humbling of thee and thy fellow, accurst servants! how Enoch trampled on you both, and rose aloft and reigned.—7. D., If so be Enoch made me grieve, yet have I comfort for on Noah’s dust in Sheol, lo! I trample.—8. M., Tremble, O Death, before man, for though a…
• Gregory the Great, Ephrem the Syrian and Aphrahat · Gregory the Great, Ephrem Syrus and Aphrahatn perceive in the Son a Medicine of life; and so it felt desires that He might come in its own days, and then would it taste His sweetness. Enoch was longing for Him, and since on earth the Son he saw not, he was justified by great faith, and mounted up in Heaven to see Him.…
• Thomas Aquinas · Summa Theologica, First HalfMoreover, some say that Enoch and Elias still dwell in that paradise.
• Thomas Aquinas · Summa Theologica, Second Halfection 2: Elias was taken up into the atmospheric heaven, but not in to the empyrean heaven, which is the abode of the saints: and likewise Enoch was translated into the earthly paradise, where he is believed to live with Elias until the coming of Antichrist.
• Thomas Aquinas · Summa Theologica, Second HalfNow some were borne away to the earthly paradise after this state of life, as is related of Enoch and Elias. Since then the earthly paradise is not counted among the five abodes, it would seem that there are more than five.
• Hildegard of Bingen · SciviasQuod tunc fides Ecclesiae quasi in dubio est praeter testimonium Enoch et Eliae. Quod ante finem mundi testimonio eorumdem sponsus Ecclesiae candidissime fulgebit, devicto filio perditionis et manifestata fide veritatis. Verba David ad eamdem rem. Quod Ecclesia, refrigescente…
• Hildegard of Bingen · Sciviastalum ejus umbrosus est; quoniam a persecutione hac quam fideles a filio diaboli passuri sunt, usque ad doctrinam duorum testium, scilicet Enoch et Eliae terrena despicientium, et ad superna desideria labores suos ponentium, fides ecclesiasticae institutionis velut in dubio…
• Hildegard of Bingen · SciviasSed duos testes meos quos ad id tempus in secreto voluntatis meae reservavi, scilicet Enoch et Eliam; ut ipsi repugnent et ut errantes ad viam veritatis reducant emittam. Qui fortissimas et robustissimas virtutes fidelibus ostendent; quia cum verba testimonii eorum in ore…
• John Calvin · Institutes of the Christian ReligionFor it cannot be denied that this was a prelude, or rather earnest, of the final resurrection for which we hope, such as already existed in Enoch and Elijah, whom Tertullian calls candidates for resurrection, because, exempted from corruption, both in body and soul, they were…
• John Bunyan · The Pilgrim's Progressilgrims then began to inquire if there was no other way to the gate; to which they answered, Yes; but there hath not any, save two, to wit, Enoch and Elijah, been permitted to tread that path since the foundation of the world, nor shall, until the last trumpet shall sound. [1…
• John Bunyan · The Pilgrim's Progressn I saw in my dream that the Shining Men bid them call at the gate; the which, when they did, some looked from above over the gate, to wit, Enoch, Moses, and Elijah, &c., to whom it was said, These pilgrims are come from the City of Destruction, for the love that they bear to…
• Thomas Aquinas · Catena Aurea: The Four GospelsOr the return of Jesus to the land of Israel on the death of Herod shews, that, at the preaching of Enoch and Elijah [see note, c, below], the Jews, when the fire of modern jealousy shall be extinguished, shall receive the true faith.
• Thomas Aquinas · Catena Aurea: The Four GospelsRabanus: Or, we may apply it to the last times of the Jewish Church, when many Jews having turned to the preaching of Enoch and Elijah, the rest filled with the spirit of Antichrist shall fight against the faith. So that part of Judaea where Archelaus rules, signifies the…
• Thomas Aquinas · Catena Aurea: The Four GospelsOr the return of Jesus to the land of Israel on the death of Herod shews, that, at the preaching of Enoch and Elijah [Source note: [see note, c, below]] , the Jews, when the fire of modern jealousy shall be extinguished, shall receive the true faith. [Source note: ed. note, c:…
• Thomas Aquinas · Catena Aurea: The Four GospelsRabanus: Or, we may apply it to the last times of the Jewish Church, when many Jews having turned to the preaching of Enoch and Elijah, the rest filled with the spirit of Antichrist shall fight against the faith. So that part of Judaea where Archelaus rules, signifies the…
• Thomas Aquinas · Catena Aurea: The Four Gospelsforward in this way only those more ancient precepts, "Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery," which were promulged of old to Enoch, Seth, and the other righteous men, who does not see that He is here speaking of the Law and Prophets of truth? Wherever He has…
• John Calvin · Commentary on Genesis, Volume 1And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. 17. Cognovit autem Cain uxorem suam: quae concepit, et peperit Hanoch: aedificavitque civitatem, et vocavit nomen civitatis…
• John Calvin · Commentary on Genesis, Volume 1And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: 18. Et vixit Jered duos et sexaginta annos et centum annos, et genuit Hanoch. 19. And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 19. Et vixit Jered postquam genuit Hnoch…
• John Calvin · Commentary on Genesis, Volume 122. And Enoch walked with God. Undoubtedly Enoch is honored with peculiar praise among the men of his own age, when it is said that he walked with God. Yet both Seth and Enoch, and Cainan, and Mahalaleel, and Jared, were then living, whose piety was celebrated in the former…
• John Calvin · Harmony of the Law, Volume 1Ista sunt capita domus patrum suorum, filii Reuben primogeniti Israel, Henoch et Phallu, Hesron et Charmi. Hae cognationes Reuben. 15. And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of…
• John Calvin · Commentary on Daniel, Volume 1Tobit and Papias, the Book of Baruch and the Book of Enoch, are all treated as on a level with the writings of Moses or Tacitus, Justin Martyr or a German Mystic! The public, too, are in danger of being imposed on by a show of learning and by long Latinized words and phrases,…
• John Calvin · Commentary on Matthew, Mark and Luke, Volume 1Who was the son of Methuselah, who was the son of Enoch, who was the son of Jared, who was the son of Mahalaleel, who was the son of Cainan, 38. Who was the son of Enos, who was the son of Seth, who was the son of Adam, who was the son of God.
• John Calvin · Commentary on Matthew, Mark and Luke, Volume 2Perhaps, too, they cunningly and wickedly endeavored to lessen the authority of Christ by bringing forward Elijah; for as it had been promised that Elijah would come as the forerunner of Messiah, to prepare the way before him, (Malachi 3:1; 4:5,) it was easy to excite a…
• John Calvin · Commentary on Acts, Volume 2There were some other whose resurrection went before Christ’s in time; namely, if we admit that the saints of whom the Evangelists speak (Matthew 27:52) did come out of their graves before Christ, which may likewise be said of the taking up of Enoch and Elias (Genesis 5:24; 2…
• John Calvin · Commentary on HebrewsHebrews Chapter 11:5-6 5. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 5. Fide Enoch translatus est ne videret mortem; neque inventus est…
• John Calvin · Commentary on Hebrews5. By faith Enoch, etc. He chose a few of the most ancient, that he might make a transition to Abraham and his posterity. He teaches us that through faith, it was that Enoch was translated.
• John Calvin · Commentary on HebrewsThey ask, what became of these two men, Enoch and Elijah? And then, that they may not appear merely to ask questions, they imagine that they are reserved for the last days of the Church, that they may then come forth into the world; and for this purpose the Revelation of John…
• John Calvin · Commentaries on the Catholic EpistlesJude 14-16 14. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 14. Prius autem etiam de iis vaticinatus est septimus ab Adam Enoch, dicens, Ecce venit Dominus in sanctis millibus suis, 15. To execute…
• John Calvin · Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles14. And Enoch also. I rather think that this prophecy was unwritten, than that it was taken from an apocryphal book; for it may have been delivered down by memory to posterity by the ancients. Were any one to ask, that since similar sentences occur in many parts of Scripture,…
• John Calvin · Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, formerly prophesied of these, saying, “Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints,
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume I: Genesis to Deuteronomy17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. 18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume I: Genesis to Deuteronomy3. His family also was built up. Here is an account of his posterity, at least the heirs of his family, for seven generations. His son was Enoch, of the same name, but not of the same character, with that holy man that walked with God, ch. v. 22. Good men and bad may bear the…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume I: Genesis to DeuteronomyVII. Enoch, ver. 21-24. VIII. Methuselah, ver. 25-27. IX. Lamech and his son Noah, ver. 28-32. All scripture, being given by inspiration of God, is profitable, though not all alike profitable.
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume II: Joshua to EstherScarcely any part of the Old-Testament history shines brighter than this history of the spirit and power of Elias; he only, of all the prophets, had the honour of Enoch, the first prophet, to be translated, that he should not see death, and the honour of Moses, the great…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume II: Joshua to EstherHe would do it, and it is probable let him know of his purpose some time before, that he would shortly take him from the world, not by death, but translate him body and soul to heaven, as Enoch was, only causing him to undergo such a change as would be necessary to the…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume II: Joshua to EstherII. Elijah is carried up to heaven in a fiery chariot, v. 11. Like Enoch, he was translated, that he should not see death; and was (as Mr. Cowley expresses it) the second man that leaped the ditch where all the rest of mankind fell, and went not downward to the sky. Many…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume III: Job to the Song of Solomon1), to which of the saints, but to which of the children of men will you turn? Turn to which you will, and you will find them all of my mind, that the punishment of sinners is designed more for the other world than for this, according to the prophecy of Enoch, the seventh from…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume III: Job to the Song of SolomonIt is granted that there is a present pleasure in religion; for what is it but to delight ourselves with God, in communion with him, in concurrence with him, in walking with him as Enoch did? this is a true notion of religion, and bespeaks its ways to be pleasantness. Yet the…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume III: Job to the Song of SolomonThis prayer is a prophecy, of the same import with that of Enoch, that God will convince sinners of all their hard speeches which they have spoken against him (Jude 15) and will return them into their own bosoms by everlasting terrors at the remembrance of them.
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume IV: Isaiah to MalachiIn the antediluvian period Adam received divine revelation in the promise of the Seed of the woman, and no doubt communicated it in the name of the Lord, to his seed, and was prophet, as well as priest, to his numerous family. Enoch was a prophet, and foretold perhaps the…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume IV: Isaiah to Malachi31, 35. Enoch was a prophet; and by him that was first in prediction which is to be last in execution—the judgment of the great day. Jude 14, Behold, the Lord comes with his holy myriads. Noah was a preacher of righteousness. God said of Abraham, He is a prophet, Gen. xx. 7.…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume IV: Isaiah to MalachiFrom the beginning of time he declared the end of time, and end of all things. Enoch prophesied, Behold, the Lord comes. From the beginning of a nation he declares what the end of it will be. He told Israel what should befal them in the latter days, what their end should be,…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume V: Matthew to Johnn the prophetical style to speak of things great and certain as near and just at hand, only to express the greatness and certainty of them. Enoch spoke of Christ's second coming as within ken, Behold, the Lord cometh, Jude 14. (2.) A thousand years are in God's sight but as one…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume V: Matthew to John(2.) To the eternal judgment; so the judgment of the great day is called, Heb. vi. 2. Though notice has been given of it from Enoch, yet, when it comes, it will be unlooked for by the most of men; the latter days, which are nearest to that day, will produce scoffers, that say,…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume V: Matthew to JohnMany of the ancients, and the Popish writers generally, think, that besides the coming of John Baptist in the spirit of Elias, himself in his own person is to be expected, with Enoch, before the second appearance of Christ, wherein the prophecy of Malachi will have a more full…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume VI: Acts to RevelationSome understand this of a state on this side the end of time; but it is rather to be understood of that end of all things which God hath spoken of by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began; for this is that which Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume VI: Acts to RevelationThis has been the faith and hope of all Christians in all ages of the church; nay, it was the faith and hope of the Old-Testament saints, ever since Enoch the seventh from Adam, who said, Behold, the Lord cometh, &c., Jude 14.
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume VI: Acts to RevelationThey must draw near in all holy conversation, like Enoch walking with God. They must draw near in humble adorations, worshipping at his footstool. They must draw near in holy dependence, and in a strict observance of the divine conduct towards them. They must draw near in…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume IV: Isaiah to MalachiIt seems principally designed to describe the last judgment, for though it follow not immediately upon the dominion of the fourth beast, nay, though it be yet to come, perhaps many ages to come, yet it was intended that in every age the people of God should encourage…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume IV: Isaiah to MalachiTherefore Pharaoh must be humbled, because he has said, Who is the Lord? and has said, I will pursue, I will overtake. Enoch foretold that therefore the Lord would come to judge the world, that he might convince all that are ungodly of their hard speeches, [Jude 15]. Note,…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume IV: Isaiah to MalachiThe judgment-day, that day of the Lord, has all along been looked upon, and spoken of, as nigh at hand. Enoch said, Behold, the Lord comes, as if the Judge were then standing before the do or, because it is certain that that day will come and will come according to the…
• Matthew Henry and continuators · Commentary on the Whole Bible, Volume III: Job to the Song of SolomonThis has been the faith and hope of all Christians in all ages of the church; nay, it was the faith and hope of the Old-Testament saints, ever since Enoch the seventh from Adam, who said, Behold, the Lord cometh, &c., [Jude 14].
• John Wesley · John Wesley's Notes on the Whole BibleHis son was Enoch, of the same name, but not of the same character with that holy man that walked with God. The names of more of his posterity are mentioned, and but just mentioned, as those of the holy seed, Ge 5:1 - 32. They are numbered in haste, as not valued or delighted…
• John Wesley · John Wesley's Notes on the Whole BibleAnd Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah - To walk with God, is to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye. It is to live a life of communion with God, both in ordinances and providences; it is to make God's word our rule, and his…
• John Wesley · John Wesley's Notes on the Whole BibleAnd he walked with God as Enoch had done before him: in his generation, even in that corrupt degenerate age. It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith to swim against the stream, and to appear for God, when no one else appears…
• Adam Clarke · Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the BibleHas a son whom he calls Enoch; and builds a city, which he calls after his name, [Gen 4:17]. Cain has several children, among whom are Lamech, the first bigamist, [Gen 4:18], [Gen 4:19]. Jabal, who taught the use of tents and feeding cattle, [Gen 4:20]. Jubal, the inventor of…
• Adam Clarke · Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the BibleShe - bare Enoch - As חנוך Chanoch signifies instructed, dedicated, or initiated, and especially in sacred things, it may be considered some proof of Cain's repentance, that he appears to have dedicated this son to God, who, in his father's stead, might minister in the…
• Adam Clarke · Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible7. Enoch;
• Adam Clarke · Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the BibleBut, if we apply it to the commencement of time, the sense is still good: Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these things; and indeed the birth, life, miracles, preaching sufferings, death, resurrection, ascension, and reign of Jesus Christ, have been the only theme of…
• Adam Clarke · Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the BibleIt is very likely, therefore, that he means by the celestial bodies such as those refined human bodies with which Enoch, Elijah, and Christ himself, appear in the realms of glory: to which we may add the bodies of those saints which arose after our Lord's resurrection; and,…
• Adam Clarke · Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the BibleUnto men generally, during the course of the present world, not all men as some falsely quote; for Enoch and Elijah have not died, and those that shall be alive at the day of judgment shall not die, but be changed.
• Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole BibleEarly specimens of Hebrew poetry occur; for example, Lamech's skeptical parody of Enoch's prophecy, or, as others think, lamentation for a homicide committed in those lawless times in self-defense ([Ge 4:23]; compare Jude 14; [Ex 32:18]; [Nu 21:14], [15, 17], [18, 27] [Nu…
• Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole BibleThe prophetic gift existed long before the prophetic office was instituted. Thus Enoch had the former (Jude 14); so Abraham is called a prophet ([Ge 20:7]) as are also the patriarchs ([Psa 105:15]). The office was first instituted under the Mosaic economy; but even then the…
• Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible21. Enoch ... begat Methuselah--This name signifies, "He dieth, and the sending forth," so that Enoch gave it as prophetical of the flood. It is computed that Methuselah died in the year of that catastrophe.
• Anonymous (Gnostic) · Pistis Sophia"Of the rest of the lower mysteries, therefore, ye have no need; but ye will find them in the two Books of Yew, which Enoch hath written whilst I spake with him out of the tree of gnosis and out of the tree of life in the paradise of Adam.
• Anonymous (Gnostic) · Pistis SophiaFor even for the righteous, who have never done any evil and have not sinned at all, it is necessary that they should find the mysteries which are in the Books of Yew, which I have made Enoch write in Paradise, discoursing with him out of the tree of the Gnosis and out of the…
• Anonymous · The Kebra NagastAnd Yârôd died, and Hênôkh (Enoch) reigned in righteousness, and he feared God, and [God] hid him so that he might not see death. And he became a king in his flesh in the Land of the Living. And after Enoch disappeared Mâtûsâlâ (Methuselah) reigned. And Mâtûsâlâ died, and…
• Anonymous · The Kebra NagastAnd Enoch and Elias shall come, being alive, so that they may testify, and Moses and Aaron from the dead shall live with everyone. And they shall open the things that fetter her (i.e., Zion), and they shall make to be seen the Jews, the crucifiers, and they shall punish them…