Enoch
historical figure · 6 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages
his great-grandfather · the most ancient prophet Enoch
in the texts
Stromata
Biblical figure introduced as a penitent whose example shows repentance begetting pardon.
Does not God too, after the pardon over Cain, in consequence, not much later bring in Enoch the penitent, showing that repentance naturally begets pardon?
Let us take Enoch, who, being found righteous in obedience, was translated;
De idolatria
Antediluvian patriarch whose prophetic book is cited as foretelling and condemning idolatry.
Enoch had gone before, foretelling that the demons and the spirits of the deserting angels would turn all the elements, all the census of the world—whatever is contained in heaven, in sea, in earth—into idolatry, so that they should be consecrated in the place of God against God.
Therefore the Holy Spirit, foreseeing this from the beginning, foresang through the most ancient prophet Enoch that even doors would come into superstition.
Adversus Judaeos
Righteous man translated without dying, cited as proof of righteousness without circumcision or Sabbath.
For Enoch also, most just, neither circumcised nor keeping the Sabbath, he removed from this world;
In short, let them show, as we have already said before, that Adam kept the Sabbath, or that Abel, offering to God a holy victim, pleased him by the religion of the Sabbath, or that Enoch, translated, was a keeper of the Sabbath, or that Noah, the builder of the ark, observed the Sabbath on account of the immense flood, or that Abraham offered his son Isaac in observance of the Sabbath, or that Me …
De Anima
Biblical figure translated (taken up) without dying, but only with death deferred, not abolished.
Enoch was translated, and Elias, nor was their delay found — postponed, namely.
De Carnis Resurrectione
Enoch, translated from the world without death, cited as candidate of eternity proving bodily integrity.
that today Enoch and Elijah — not yet discharged by resurrection, because not yet having undergone death, yet translated from the world, and these very ones now candidates of eternity — learn an immunity of the flesh from every vice and from every loss and from every injury and contumely:
De Cultu Feminarum
Antediluvian patriarch and prophet, author of the disputed Scripture concerning the fallen angels
If that is the reason, let them recall that Noah, the great-grandson of Enoch himself, survived the cataclysm—who surely, by domestic name and hereditary tradition, had heard and remembered concerning the grace of his great-grandfather with God and concerning all his preachings, since Enoch had enjoined nothing else upon his son Methuselah than that he should hand down the knowledge of these things to his posterity.
But if those same angels who uncovered both materials of this kind and their allurements—of gold, I mean, and of illustrious stones—and handed down the workings of them, and already taught among the rest the very art of the eye-paint and the dyeings of fleeces, were condemned by God, as Enoch relates—how shall we please God, rejoicing in the things of those who provoked the wrath and the animadversion of God thereby?