“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,”
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these people: 'See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones — Jude quotes 1 Enoch 1:9 (or a related Enochian tradition), invoking the authority of Enoch, who was 'taken' directly to heaven without death (Genesis 5:24) and thus represents the most ancient prophetic voice. The allusion to Enoch as the 'seventh from Adam' emphasizes chronological antiquity and suggests that the prophecy concerning the Lord's coming to judge is the oldest revealed truth, predating even the Mosaic covenant. This eschatological framework positions the false teachers within the cosmic drama of God's final vindication, suggesting that their judgment is not contingent but foreordained.
Church Fathers on Jude 1:14
I am aware that the Scripture of Enoch, which has assigned this order of action to angels, is not received by some, because it is not admitted into the Jewish canon either. I suppose they did not think that, having been published before the deluge, it could have safely survived that world-wide calamity, the abolisher of all things. If that is the reason for rejecting it, let them recall to their memory that Noah, the survivor of the deluge, was the great-grandson of Enoch…
Let us omit, then, the fables of those scriptures which are called apocryphal, because their obscure origin was unknown to the fathers from whom the authority of the true Scriptures has been transmitted to us by a most certain and well-ascertained succession. For though there is some truth in these apocryphal writings, yet they contain so many false statements, that they have no canonical authority. We cannot deny that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, left some divine writings,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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