Enoch in Smiths Bible Dictionary
(dedicated).
1. The eldest son of Cain, Ge 4:17 who called after
his name the city which he built. Ge 4:18 (B.C. 3870.)
2. The son of Jared and father of Methuselah. Ge 5:21
ff.; Luke 3:37 (B.C. 3378-3013.) In the Epistle of Jude Jude
1:14 he described as "the seventh from Adam;" and the number
is probably noticed as conveying the idea of divine completion
and rest, while Enoch was himself a type of perfected
humanity. After the birth of Methuselah it is said, Ge 5:22-24
that Enoch "walked with God three hundred years... and he was
not; for God took him." The phrase "walked with God" is
elsewhere only used of Noah, Ge 6:9 cf. Gene 17:1 etc., and is
to be explained of a prophetic life spent in immediate
converse with the spiritual world. Like Elijah, he was
translated without seeing death. In the Epistle to the Hebrews
the spring and issue of Enoch's life are clearly marked. Both
the Latin and Greek fathers commonly coupled Enoch and Elijah
as historic witnesses of the possibility of a resurrection of
the body and of a true human existence in glory. Re 11:3
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