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Book Of Enoch
The Book of Enoch is any of several
pseudepigraphal (falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed authorship is
unfounded) works that attribute themselves to Enoch, the great-grandfather of
Noah; that is, Enoch son of Jared (Genesis
5:18).
Enoch is also one of the two people in the
Bible taken up to heaven without dying (the other being Elijah), as the Bible
says "And
Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him." (Genesis
5:24; see also Hebrews 11:5).
Most commonly, the phrase "Book of
Enoch" refers to 1 Enoch, which is wholly extant only in the Ethiopic
language.
The biblical book of Jude quotes from the
Book of Enoch in verses 14-15, “Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied
about these men: ‘See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his
holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly
acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly
sinners have spoken against him.’”
The Apostle Paul quotes Epimenides in Titus
1:12 but that does not mean we should give any additional authority to
Epimenides’ writings.
The same is true with Jude, verses 14-15. Jude
quoting from the book of Enoch does not indicate the entire Book of Enoch is
inspired, or even true.
All it means is that particular verse is true.
It is interesting to note that no scholars believe the Book of Enoch to have
truly been written by the Enoch in the Bible.
Enoch was seven generations from Adam, prior to
the Flood (Genesis
5:1-24).
Evidently, though, this was genuinely
something that Enoch prophesied – or the Bible would not attribute it to
him, “Enoch,
the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men…” (Jude 14).
This saying of Enoch was evidently handed down
by tradition, and eventually recorded in the Book of Enoch.
We should treat the Book of Enoch (and the other
books like it) in the same manner we do the other Apocryphal writings.
Some of what the Apocrypha says is true and
correct, but at the same time, much of it is false and historically inaccurate.
If you read these books, you have to treat them
as interesting but fallible historical documents, not as the inspired,
authoritative Word of God.
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