Jude 14-15 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 14. Enoch also, the seventh from Adam ] He was the seventh patriarch, and is distinguished thus from Enoch, son of Cain , who was but the third from Adam; this appears plainly from the genealogy, : Adams Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, Henoch or Enoch , &c. Of the book of Enoch , from which this prophecy is thought to have been taken, much has been said; but as the work is apocryphal , and of no authority, I shall not burden my page with extracts . See the preface . Perhaps the word προεφητευσε, prophesied , means no more than preached, spoke , made declarations , &c., concerning these things and persons; for doubtless he reproved the ungodliness of his own times. It is certain that a book of Enoch was known in the earliest ages of the primitive Church, and is quoted by Origen and Tertullian ; and is mentioned by St. Jerome in the Apostolical Constitutions , by Nicephorus, Athanasius , and probably by St. Augustine . See Suicer's Thesaurus, vol. i., col. 1131. Such a work is still extant among the Abyssinians . Ten thousand of his saints ] This seems to be taken from .

‏ Jude 14-15

Verse 14. Enoch also, the seventh from Adam] He was the seventh patriarch, and is distinguished thus from Enoch, son of Cain, who was but the third from Adam; this appears plainly from the genealogy, 1Ch 1:1: Adams Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, Henoch or Enoch, &c. Of the book of Enoch, from which this prophecy is thought to have been taken, much has been said; but as the work is apocryphal, and of no authority, I shall not burden my page with extracts. See the preface.

Perhaps the word προεφητευσε, prophesied, means no more than preached, spoke, made declarations, &c., concerning these things and persons; for doubtless he reproved the ungodliness of his own times. It is certain that a book of Enoch was known in the earliest ages of the primitive Church, and is quoted by Origen and Tertullian; and is mentioned by St. Jerome in the Apostolical Constitutions, by Nicephorus, Athanasius, and probably by St. Augustine. See Suicer's Thesaurus, vol. i., col. 1131. Such a work is still extant among the Abyssinians.

Ten thousand of his saints] This seems to be taken from Da 7:10.

Verse 15. To execute judgment] This was originally spoken to the antediluvians; and the coming of the Lord to destroy that world was the thing spoken of in this prophecy or declaration. But as God had threatened this, it required no direct inspiration to foretell it. To execute judgment, &c. This is a very strange verse as to its composition, and is loaded with various readings; the MSS. and versions being at little agreement among themselves on its phraseology. αυτων, which we translate among them, is omitted by the best MSS. and versions, and is, in all probability, spurious. Many also omit ασεβειας after ργων, ungodly deeds. Many insert λογων, words or speeches, after σκληρων, hard; and this word our translators have supplied. And instead of αμαρτωλοι, sinners, the Sahidic has ανθρωποι, men. There are others of less note; but the frequent recurrence of ALL and UNGODLY makes the construction of the sentence very harsh.

Dr. Macknight supposes that Enoch's prophecy was common among the Jews; for the first words in Hebrew are Maranatha, and these were used by them in that form of excommunication or cursing which they pronounced against irreclaimable offenders. The doctor forgets himself here; the words Maranatha are not Hebrew, but Syriac. In Hebrew the form of execration begins with arur attah, "cursed art thou;" or mochoram attah: but the Syriac [Syriac] maran atha, is literally, our Lord is coming; see on 1Co 16:22; but here, in the Syriac, the words are [Syriac] atha moria, "the Lord cometh." So it is doubtful whether this fancied analogy exists.