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| Concerning the Genuineness of “The Prophecy of Enoch.”
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Chapter
III.—Concerning the Genuineness of “The Prophecy of
Enoch.”101
I am aware that the Scripture of Enoch,102
| 102 Comp. de Idol.,
c. iv. | 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 survived that
world-wide calamity, the abolisher of all things. If that is the
reason (for rejecting it), let them recall to their memory that Noah,
the survivor of the deluge, was the great-grandson of Enoch
himself;103
| 103 See Gen. v. 21, 25, 28, 29. | and he, of course,
had heard and remembered, from domestic renown104
| 104 “Nomine;”
perhaps ="account.” | and
hereditary tradition, concerning his own great-grandfather’s
“grace in the sight of God,”105
and
concerning all his preachings;106
since Enoch had given
no other charge to Methuselah than that he should hand on the knowledge
of them to his posterity. Noah therefore, no doubt, might have
succeeded in the trusteeship of (his) preaching; or, had the case been
otherwise, he would not have been silent alike concerning the
disposition (of things) made by God, his Preserver, and concerning the
particular glory of his own house.
If (Noah) had not had this (conservative power) by
so short a route, there would (still) be this (consideration) to
warrant107
our assertion of (the genuineness of) this
Scripture: he could equally have renewed it, under the
Spirit’s inspiration,108
after it had
been destroyed by the violence of the deluge, as, after the destruction
of Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming of it, every document109
of
the Jewish literature is generally agreed to have been restored through
Ezra.
But 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.”110
By the Jews it may now seem to
have been rejected for that (very) reason, just like all the other
(portions) nearly which tell of Christ. Nor, of course, is this
fact wonderful, that they did not receive some Scriptures which spake
of Him whom even in person, speaking in their presence, they were not
to receive. To these considerations is added the fact that Enoch
possesses a testimony in the Apostle Jude.111
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