{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6309","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":24,"verse_to":24},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: The Holy Spirit also came down and filled the whole house, where very many were sitting, and there appeared parted tongues as of fire. Good wings of charity, true wings that flew through the mouths of the apostles, and wings of fire that spoke in a purified speech. With these wings, Enoch flew up to heaven when he was taken up.<br/><i>— On Isaac and the Soul, Chapter VIII</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Then the Scripture states that after some time had elapsed, there was a man named Enoch, whose justice merited a singular privilege: that he should not experience present death but should be transported to immortality from the midst of mortals. This incident shows that one just man is dearer to God than many sinners.<br/><i>— CHRISTIAN LIFE 7</i></p><p><b>Clement of Rome</b>: Let us steadfastly contemplate those who have perfectly ministered to his excellent glory. Let us take (for instance) Enoch, who, being found righteous in obedience, was translated, and death was never known to happen to him.<br/><i>— Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 9</i></p><p><b>Clement of Rome</b>: Let us fix our gaze on those who have perfectly served his magnificent glory. Let us take Enoch, who was found righteous in obedience and was taken up without there being a trace of his death.<br/><i>— THE LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS 9.2-4</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: We also find that Enoch, who pleased God, was transported, as divine Scripture testifies in Genesis and says, \"And Enoch pleased God and was not seen later because God took him.\" This was pleasing in the sight of God—that Enoch merited being transported from the contagion of this world. But the Holy Spirit teaches also through Solomon that those who please God are taken from here earlier and more quickly set free, lest while they are tarrying too long in this world they be corrupted by familiarity with the world.<br/><i>— Treatise VII. On the Mortality 23</i></p><p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: Some say that while Adam was looking [at Enoch] God transported him to paradise lest Adam think that Enoch was killed as was Abel and so be grieved. This was so that Adam might also be comforted by this just son of his and that he might know that for all who were like this one, whether before death or after the resurrection, paradise would be their meeting place.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Genesis 5.2.1</i></p><p><b>Gregory of Nazianzus</b>: Thus Enos \"hoped to call upon the Name of the Lord.\" Hope was that for which he is commended; and that, not that he should know God, but that he should call upon him. And Enoch was translated, but it is not yet clear whether it was because he already comprehended the Divine Nature, or in order that he might comprehend it.<br/><i>— THEOLOGICAL ORATIONS 28.18</i></p><p><b>John Cassian</b>: The mind is so caught up in this way that the hearing no longer takes in the voices outside and images of the passerby no longer come to sight and the eye no longer sees the mounds confronting it or the gigantic objects rising up against it. No one will possess the truth and the power of all this unless he has direct experience to teach him. The Lord will have turned the eyes of his heart away from everything of the here and now, and he will think of these as not transitory so much as already gone, smoke scattered into nothing. He walks with God, like Enoch. He is gone from a human way of life, from human concerns. He is no longer to be found amid the vanity of this present world. The text of Genesis relates that this actually happened to Enoch in the body: \"Enoch walked with God and was not to be found because God had taken him away.\" The apostle says, \"Because of his faith, Enoch was taken up so that he did not have to encounter death.\"<br/><i>— CONFERENCES 3.7.3-4</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Then say not thou either, \"I am clothed with flesh, I cannot get the mastery, nor undertake the toils which are for the sake of virtue.\" Do not accuse the Creator. For if the wearing the flesh make virtue impossible, then the fault is not ours. But that it does not make it impossible, the band of saints has shown. A nature of flesh did not prevent Paul from becoming what he was, nor Peter from receiving the keys of heaven; and Enoch also, having worn flesh, was translated, and not found. So also Elias was caught up with the flesh.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON John 75.5</i></p><p><b>Philo of Alexandria</b>: (86) What is the meaning of the expression, \"He was not found because God translated him?\" (#Genesis 5:24). In the first place, the end of virtuous and holy men is not death but a translation and migration, and an approach to some other place of abode. In the second place, in this instance something marvellous did take place; for he was supposed to be carried off in such a way as to be invisible, for then he was not found: and a proof of this is, that he was sought for as being invisible, not only as having been carried away from their sight, since translation into another place is nothing else than a placing of a person in another situation; but it is here suggested, that he was translated from a visible place, perceptible by the outward senses, into an incorporeal idea, appreciable only to the intellect. This mercy also was bestowed on the great prophet, for his sepulchre also was known to no one. And besides these two there was another, Elijah, who ascended from the things of earth into heaven, according to the divine appearance which was then presented to him, and who thus followed higher things, or, to speak with more exact propriety, was raised up to heaven.<br/><i>— QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON GENESIS, I</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Enoch and Elijah were transported hence without suffering death, which was only postponed. The day will come when they will actually die that they may extinguish Antichrist with their blood. There was a legend that St. John the Evangelist was to live till the second coming, but he died.<br/><i>— ON THE SOUL 50.5</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"5910bd8e52f766a07daaea079572eb24202125ca0568e676b7167b266df354d9","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6309,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"faec1f850a0b35aa6faa299775830d58645240cc8f6dfed45bd511e1356722e2","translator":null,"work":null}