{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6307","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":21,"verse_to":21},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: Furthermore, Enoch lived sixty-five years and begot Methuselah, and walked with God. After he begot Methuselah, he lived for three hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters. It is said that he walked with God. He followed God's will and precepts in all things, with God dwelling in him, possessing, and ruling over his heart, he performed good works outwardly, according to that of the prophet: \"I will show you, O man, what is good and what the Lord requires of you: certainly to do justice and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God\" (Micah 6:8). And as Zachariah says: \"I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk in His name, says the Lord\" (Zachariah 10:12). However, it is not said that Enoch walked with God for three hundred years after Methuselah was born, as if he had not obeyed divine commands even before his birth; but rather by this sentence, it simply indicates that he did not serve God with good work for more than three hundred years after Methuselah's birth in this life. But after these years were completed, he followed God to the further joys of life. For it continues:<br/><i>— Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1c8100f65ede6826a69bdd86d6ec057fef0dc3f3db182e4945730274b11a9971","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6307,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b103b1f56e22b95bd2f02c51f346c88e8aad4ffb02add022955be9435a0e5695","translator":null,"work":null}